Geoffrey R Skoll
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

It continually amazes me how rational arguments like Caitlin’s so quickly devolve into partisan statements about The Donald. I did not vote for him, but I knew that voting for Hillary would help put me ‘On the Beach’ a novel set in Australia, of all places, after the nuclear war. Nor did I vote for anyone else on the presidential ballot. I vote for Karl Marx for president ( having the advantage of being dead) and the rest of the Marx family (Chico, Groucho, Gummo, Harpo, and Zeppo) for all other major offices. As Emma Goldman said, ‘if elections changed anything they would be illegal.’ Or as Uncle Joe Stalin observed, ‘It’s not who votes that counts; it’s who counts the votes.’

The Donald is the embodiment of the county’s Id. Obama (the most effective evil) was the embodiment of the country’s Ego (the ultra rationalist, kind of like Reinhard Heydrich ( SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei as well as chief of the Reich Main Security Office [RSHA, Reich Sicherheitdienst Haupt Ampt, compare to ‘Homeland Security’ (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD).

So, who, you might ask, is the country’s Superego (i.e., its conscience)? It is, as always, the people in their collective might. It’s time we started reining in the rampant Ids and Egos.

    Geoffrey R Skoll

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    Semi-retired professor in social science, revolutionary, abolitionist