The Darkness Of The Days Which Lie Ahead

Voters, Logical Conclusions, And Inevitabilities
For Extra Newsfeed and Seattle Planet Magazine
By Baron Casey Evans

Casey Evans
Sep 1, 2018 · 6 min read
Photo Credit: Casey Evans.

I remember back in the day when I cared very much for issues and yet no one could be bothered to get involved.

Now, Trump has turned every post on Facebook into a political one. And I’m just thinking, my God and Gods above, you people know this is all just bullshit anyway, right? And the problem actually stems from the fact that the guy sold himself as a bully, an asshole, a guy who proudly judges people by race and nationality, and who psychotically believes his country to be supreme over others and very plainly intended to enforce that with laws and soldiers before he got into office, and in the past, candidates would usually have done better if they hid those sentiments during the election, but instead, he marched in the gestapo pride parade and you guys voted for him anyway.

In any democracy, the biggest impediment to good governance are the voters themselves, more often than not.

I spent seven years of my life studying voters, learning how to win elections, market candidates, and shovel you shit while making you think it was sugar when you were forced to swallow it.

Everyone upset about Trump is justified in being so, but not because of any wrong doing, but that you’re horrified and in denial as the realisation has finally begun to set in that you realise, finally, that it’s the country itself that you take issue with; and rightfully and justifiably so; as you realise that the system you believed in so strongly didn’t fail, but instead, worked precisely as it was always supposed to work, and that this was the inevitable logical conclusion.

Don’t mourn America, because the America you thought you knew, the one that you believed in, was never really what you thought it was.

Part of the reason I revere the Crown is that it is unchanging, eternal, and above that which made this current situation you’re so upset about come to be.

But even when you have a new president, you may not sleep easy knowing that it is an inevitability that someone worse than Trump will one day arise. The voter base for him is large and cannot be persuaded by facts, reason, logic, nor emotional appeal. They cannot be counted on even to depend upon their own interests as voters to be their primary motivation for voting.

And a larger chunk of them than any other person of my generation or younger wishes to admit are young, meaning, they aren’t going to go anywhere, and theyre going to become more hardlined about their current beliefs and dig in further and deeper as they age.

It may not make you sleep easy knowing that Donald Trump is just the first of many to come. And the divisions growing deeper and wider until what was never really a United states of America makes actionable splits, and conflicts arise.

But that’s a near inevitability at this point, that’s not what bothers me.

What bothers me is that even when that happens this false idea of America that you all have been conditioned to believe in from the time you were old enough to recite your ABCs will still cling to some of you. You will, even amidst the darkness of the days which lie ahead, try and hope and try and try and try for something that, at its best, wasn’t what you thought it was, and at its worst, is a fraud, committed against you. Some of you will never admit that the Republic doesn’t work.

I have a Crown to bow to, so I’m good, personally. But the reason it bothers me is because for some of you, I don’t know if the Trump base is more deluded or if you are. It’s a hard one to tell.

But both of you are insane if you think there won’t be another one like this one. Give it a decade. As demographics change, technology continues to morph you in the most inhuman ways, and personal weapony (for lack of being banned as it should have been) gets deadlier and more advanced and more available, the fabric that holds your flag together is only a strand or two away from sundering as it is.

Don’t delude yourself into thinking that the next Trump won’t come. Germany understood that the voter base meant that the next Hitler could easily arise and wisely they banned Nazism in all its forms and vigourously prosecuted Nazi war criminals. To this day, you cannot voice support for Hitler or for the Nazis or do what those “patriot” people do in America in Germany because you’ll be arrested.

That isn’t because Germany doesn’t care about free speech, because they do. That isn’t demonstrative of the “beauty” of America, that all people can speak freely about blah blah blah, because I assure you there is nothing beautiful about Nazism.

Germany did that because they were there at Ground Zero when the first one rose, and so terrible was it that they made an exception to freedom of speech, which they wish that they didn’t have to do. But even the most ardent of free speech advocates in Germany would likely tell you that the ban on Nazism was, and perhaps remains necessary. Exceptions are granted for exceptional circumstances.

When the next Trump comes., and he will come, your precious Constitution that you believe so much in is going to be used as a weapon against you.

Don’t laugh at that idea, or the idea that maybe black voters may only count for three fifths of a vote, or that only men will be able to serve in government (it does say “he” a bunch), becuase although today, those notions are ridiculous, tomorrow they may not be, horrifyingly. Wait for some “originalist” to come along, to “make america great again again” or who “wants OUR America back”, and then, with Trump as the example, even if only in private, the power grabs come, except this one isn’t a buffon like Trump is, in love with his own mirror. This one is smart. This one has game.

We all laughed at the notion that anything like Trump would have ever arisen at all, let alone for the first time, when he announced for president. We all also, earlier than that, during Obama, and even during Bush II, never thought nor would have ever given credibility to anyone who would have said that Trump and what he has done would come to be anything more than a B-movie nightmare, or the bad guy in a dystopian, campy, and over the top alternative universe that, surely, “could never actually happen”, like the bad joke Biff-In-Charge timeline from Back to the Future.

We’re in that timeline right now. And now, no one’s laughing, are they?

So, like I said, just wait until black votes only count for three-fifths.

Maybe then you might start to think you should have knelt down for that anthem. Or maybe something even crazier, like, “My God, maybe Casey was right about that whole monarchy thing.”

Because at his absolute worst, King Charles III will NEVER be Donald Trump. And until the day come when he ascends to the throne, God Save The Queen.

But America you shouldn’t be as eager to save: Because even at IT’S best as you remember it to be, even the America you thought you had, but really didn’t, on IT’S best day, still… wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.

It’s time you should start considering other options for your future, and perhaps smaller autonomous nations to divvy yourselves into.

Because if America as you know it has even seven years of life left of it, I’d be absolutely fucking shocked.

The Baron Casey Evans, is a writer, monarchist, and tea snob with Seattle Planet Magazine and Extranewsfeed. He reports and offers commentary on life, culture, politics, and spirituality. He is based in Seattle, WA.

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