They're angry, frightened, and resentful. They've been watching their nation and their way of life being destroyed for decades and they're looking for a savior. They're looking to be empowered. And unfortunately they're looking to the very people that are destroying everything because those are the people with the power. It's a sad thing to witness the end of an empire. Because they're rarely brought down by some great conquering army or the uprising of some alternative empire. They're eaten away from the inside by their own undue privilege, greed, and stupidity. And Donald Trump is the poster boy for undue privilege, greed, and stupidity. So are all his idiotic cohorts and sycophants in government and media.
When people are being abused, some of them will choose to serve their abusers, hoping to be spared by them. Or they are imagining that they have gained back some semblance of empowerment by helping their abusers to abuse others. It's a very common theme, and it's what is fueling all this animosity and hatred coming from a third of our population toward, basically, everyone else. They feel powerless because they are powerless. They feel abused because they are being abused. Their lives keep getting worse and they have little hope for a future. And unfortunately, their response is to serve their abusers in some sad and misplaced effort to maintain some sense of holding onto the control and position that they once had before they were subjugated and enslaved, and so abused.
Civilizations fail because the people in them allow the worst among them to gain the positions and levers of power. And of course once they achieve this power and control they abuse it, selfishly, and subsequently destroy the very systems that allowed the civilization to occur, and to thrive in the first place. And this is where we are now in the U.S. We have allowed the worst among us to gain the position and levers of power and they are using them to destroy the systems that enabled the civilization to grow and thrive. The undeserved privileged rich are deliberately creating economic bubbles and monopolies so they use them to price gouge everyone else for as much wealth as they can possibly take. And they couldn't care less about the consequences to anyone else. And of course those consequences are the destruction of the very systems that enabled civilization to occur, and to thrive.
And so now our civilization is dying. Disintegrating right before our eyes. And we all know it. And a lot of us are reacting badly to it because that's just how a lot of people react when they find themselves being victimized. They look to victimize and blame someone else. Hoping to feel empowered again. And these are the people who follow Trump.