Some People Are Their Own Worst Enemies

When I was a little kid, I heard my mother talking to someone…okay, I was eavesdropping as I did… and I heard her saying that someone, I don’t remember who, was ‘her own worst enemy’.

When you are a little kid, some concepts miss you.  You can’t get an understanding of what that could possibly mean.  You think about it, but you don’t have enough information in your little kid brain to make sense of the term.

Maybe the next day you ask your mother, or another adult, what an enemy is, and you try to get a grip on how a person could be the enemy of themselves, and you just can’t grasp it.

Then some how, maybe you get angry, so refuse to eat food you really like, or go where you want to, as if your parents would suffer if you didn’t go to the park.

And then you realise what it means to be your worst enemy.  To punish yourself in some twisted concept that somehow your deprivation has a devastating effect on some one else.   But the only one to suffer is you.

If you are intelligent, if you ‘get it’, you won’t perform that masochistic dance.  You will not perform an act that harms yourself.

As you get older you learn about ‘politics’.   Maybe it is during a class election.   You learn about voting.  You learn how people vote against themselves.

As you continue to grow and learn you see ‘how it is done’.   You see how people can be played.  How they can be manipulated to act against their own interests.

You see how ‘everyone’ doesn’t like Tim so anything that Tim says is opposed.   The organisation will spend bags of money instead of listening to Tim.

It seems shocking, the first time you see it.   To see a group of people who are told they don’t have to pay this money because of legal breaches, but because Tim is the one who spoke and Tim is the Scorn, they pay the money.

If you have a few Machiavellian traits, you learn how to create a Scorn and how to insure the Scorn gives the best advice, knowing the group won’t take it.

So Machiavelli is selling rotten meat. Having made certain that Tim is the Scorn, has someone tell him that the meat is rotten.   Then Machi offers to sell the meat to the group.  Tim objects.  The group slaps aside what Tim says, and buys Machi’s rotten meat.

This ‘voting’ against one’s best interest is how Trump came into power.

It wasn’t just white Christian men who voted for him.

It was stupid women who, if the camera was off, Trump would do his famous ‘p grab’, because women are dirt in his world.   He buys women, and if they don’t please him, he throws them out and buys another one.

It was intellectually twisted Black men and women who thought by pleasing ‘Massa’ he’d make them house slaves.

It was whacked out Muslims who thought, for the same reason, that they would be protected when other Muslims were being deported.

The only people who would benefit from Trump would be wealthy white men, business partners, those who had something to get from tax cuts, oil deals, and new ways to exploit workers.

Sure, if you are a guy who wants to run a pipeline and pollute rivers and the air of some city where you don’t live because you can make millions, you vote for a guy who will help you do this.

You don’t want anyone who cares about the environment, who talks about ‘renewable energy’, you want a good ole boy who’ll let you profit from other’s pain.

But if you are a working stiff, a guy who needs Obamacare and some help to get through the day, to vote for Trump was to prove that you are your own worst enemy.