General
John Kelly, current
(but maybe not for long) White House chief of staff,
is reported to have called his boss, the President of the United
States of America, one Donald J(ackass) Trump, an "idiot."
Kelly denies it, calling the reports "bullshit."
Rex
"Big Oil" Tillerson, the former Secretary of State who
Trump fired via Twitter so the whole world would get the news before
Rex did, was reported to have referred to Trump as a "fucking
moron." Tillerson repeatedly refused to confirm or deny saying
it, a tacit confirmation that he had
said
it.
Which
man is right?
Let's
look at definitions. An idiot is:
1.
Informal.
an utterly foolish or senseless person:
If
you think you can get elected president, you're an idiot!
2.
Psychology. (no longer in technical use; considered offensive) a
person of the lowest order in a former and discarded classification
of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years
old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
Whereas
a moron is:
1.
Informal.
a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
I
wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to the presidency.
2.
Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a
person of borderline intelligence in a former and discarded
classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient
of 50 to 69.
Under
the discredited psychological definitions, it is clearly worse to be
an idiot than to be a moron.
Trump
clearly lacks good judgment. On the other hand, he seems to have
excellent shark-like instincts. Socially, politically, and in terms
of the psychological manipulation of others, he is brilliant,
unfortunately for us.
And
while he says
utterly
foolish and senseless things, it is hard to conclude that he IS
utterly foolish and senseless.
What
he is is a pig-headed bigot, a man with a closed-mind who doesn't
like to learn and who has strong prejudices about the world. Now he
has U.S. government power to try and impose his beliefs about the
world on
the
world.
But
George Bush was the same. Just not as outré.
And
in regard to using U.S. power to bully, that's what U.S. power has
been used for since the U.S. was created in the 18th century.
Trump
is rather like the Roman Emperor Nero. Or the Russian Tsar Ivan the
Terrible. Or Vlad the Impaler. He
is a particularly noxious ruler of a
noxious system. People who think "the problem" is Trump
ignore the fundamental reality of the existence of this system. They are
laboring under the false consciousness of U.S. nationalism, which
blinds them to the evil reality of the system. Of course it is no
accident that the Democratic
Party, its political hacks, the establishment media, and the secret
police agencies, ignore that reality. They are pillars of this system,
and they work assiduously every day to perpetuate it.
More
disappointing are their fellow travelers among the "alternative"
media and putative "progressives." Useful idiots, they are.
(That would be Lenin's definition of idiot.)
Shaking hands with an idiot.
Fired by a moron: Oh Boy!
