Opinion/Editorial
INTENSELY POWERFUL IMBECILITY
Sixty-seven years ago, there was a science fiction television show called The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling was its brilliant creator and director. The half hour show I am referencing, in attempting to interpret the extreme oddity of the current President’s ability to stay at the pinnacle of power, despite severe damage and behavior caused by early onset senility, and to do so with relative impunity and even almost the entirety of the U.S. national media seeming to avoid the subject ad try to explain away his deadly damaging, and vengeful behavior. The show was aired in 1961 but did not get much notice simply because there was no world leader to embody the kind of behavior and effect the planet’s most powerful leader might inflict on his ‘subjects’ around him, and even those not closely surrounding him. The ‘gifted’ child in the show is Anthony Fremont from the classic 1961 The Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life”.
Portrayed by child actor Bill Mumy, Anthony is a six-year-old boy with immense, God-like mental powers that allow him to read minds and alter reality at will. Because Anthony is essentially an emotionally stunted, spoiled child with unimaginable power, he holds his entire isolated hometown of Peaksville, Ohio, in terror. The townsfolk, including his own parents, are forced to constantly praise him and think “happy thoughts,” otherwise Anthony will turn them into grotesque monsters or wish them away to a dreaded, mysterious void he calls “the cornfield”. Since airing and the rise in power of the current American president, the premise of this show, and therefore the show itself, has become one of the most quietly famous in history.
It can be very difficult to logically explain why this leader does so many things that are not only bizarre (like the Arch, the reflecting pool, the Kennedy Center for the Arts, the ballroom and even the Cage Fighting venue erected on the lawn of the White House, but logic does not extend into being able to explain the mean-spirited and punishing attacks this man attempts to bring down on the heads of anyone who he feels has either turned against him, insulted him or spurned him in any way. Anyone, whether their actions are admitted, real, or living only inside the president’s very damaged brain.
People like Bondi, Noam, Gabbard, and even Jim Comey (who, as director of the FBI, helped get the president elected by illegally letting out the information on Hilary Clinton’s emails…which turned out to be nothing, just before the election).
Everyone is frightened to death of this man, not because of their own sins and their discovery, but because they have no idea what this man is going to damage or kill next, or whom. Countries themselves are frightened in their entirety, as Greenland, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Iran, Mexico, and even Oman have attested to, and cowered away from the U.S. and this leader just as quickly and far as they can get. This adult version, sitting in the White House or more comfortably in Mar-a-Lago, is also the only single human on earth who can launch nuclear missiles at will without anyone to stop him. All other nations that possess such weapons (there are currently nine nuclear bomb possessing countries in the world, with about 12,000 out there, and where the U.S. possesses about half of them). use groups of people to decide to use them, but the U.S. depends only upon one man, the president, to authorize launch and select what targets to hit. Iran was threatened by this imbecilically damaged man only last weekend by being told by this nuclear bomb leader that they would be bombed if they did not sign an agreement for peace.
There was cage fighting at the White House to ‘celebrate’ the damaged leader’s 80th birthday. Thirty cage fighters have died of blunt force trauma to the head, as the nation gets to conflate its coming 250th year celebration with would-be gladiators, and these fighters, fighting for no cause but the pleasing of a would-be Roman dictator ruling a frightened population laid out before him. If this man launches a nuclear weapon at another country, do not expect that he will be forced from office or imprisoned. As with the portrayal in the so definitive and predictive science fiction show, which was set in a small town in Ohio, those most frightened of this kind of damaged killing force are those closest to him.
The damaged leader announced that the war he started in Iran was over as the first cage fight began on Sunday. Like, there’s a chance of that, what with Israel and Lebanon and Iran still going at it. The U.S. will go back to where it was, in worse shape with Iran than before the war, except for the over twenty billion dollars it has cost to go through it. If this imbecile is telling the truth, which is extremely unlikely, as it gives every appearance that he is unaware that he lies anymore. The national news organizations will carry his statement about the end of the war as if it were fact because of their constant fear of this character, and then, when it’s proven to be wrong, will ignore what he said altogether.
