Yesterday must mark the beginning of the end for the 45

There is an old saying that a person never reveals their own character more clearly than when they are describing someone else's. I suspect that a very important line has been crossed. Even the most partisan supporter of the 45 must have secretly groaned in despair yesterday when he finally revealed his true character. They may have welcomed his open racist hatred as it reflects their own, but must also have realised that words not only carry consequences, consequences that may well impact on the United States as a nation, but reveal much about you yourself, again perhaps on a national level. In addition, they must recognise his craven moral cowardice as he lies through his teeth by denying ever saying what he says in front of numerous witnesses. He is incapable of facing the consequences of his own words and actions. He is a truly despicable creature. Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes how people can lose the essence of humanity and become something else, he describes them as taking the step into the bottomless pit and freely giving up their humanity. The most common cause of such a descent into inhumanity is being poisoned and blinded by ideology. As Bob Dylan cautioned us, don't follow leaders and watch for parking meters.

What is also depressing is the number of American politicians who are being asked if they think the 45 is a racist, but dodge giving an answer and significantly refuse to say 'no' they don't think so. They are devoid of the moral courage to simply say yes and take a similarly cowardly refuge in gobbledegook. I wonder what it will actually take for hard right Republicans, and indeed British Tories, to finally say enough is enough? By their support and even by their silence, they are not only condoning, but actually encouraging, the worst type of politics that will eventually destroy whatever small vestige of democracy is left in the US and Britain. The Mayhem has been deafening in her silence, but then she is probably too thick to realise what has happened. What however is positive is the genuine disgust by what appears to be a majority of American people and commentators. I am heartened by the reaction and the coverage of CNN and its contributors. The American ambassador to Panama has resigned in protest, and that is something no craven British lackey from any of our major parties would ever do. The British elite and its political class are devoid of the capacity for shame or self-respect that would allow them to do that. I am reminded of Edmund Burke's observation that all that is required for evil to prosper is for good people to do nothing, but there are no good people in the pigsty. Thinking about this political situation I was reminded of something John Stuart Mill wrote in his Representative Government. In ch. seven he writes

"It has been seen that the dangers incident to a representative democracy are of two kinds: danger of a low grade of intelligence in the representative body, and in the popular opinion which controls it; and danger of class legislation on the part of the numerical majority, these being all composed of the same class."

That perfectly sums up the situation in the UK; we embody the very nature of both these dangers. I will leave American readers to reach their own conclusions as to how it fits with their own situation. Never in my lifetime have we had a British governing class of such low grade intelligence. Never in my lifetime have we had such a venal, immoral, and depraved elite. This is the result of a dominant venal, immoral and depraved ideology. This governing body of semi-literates governs with respect only to the ill-informed and racist popular opinion as defined in the Brexit saga. However, we are also cursed with the most class-based political order in the civilised world. As I repeatedly tell you, Britain is an exclusive society in that the ruling class spend more time and energy excluding as many people as they can from meaningful participation in the society than on any other activity. This is seen in education, health, work, politics and all meaningful sectors of British society. As the Blessed Margaret frequently admitted, British society is seen through the ideological prism of 'them and us' those were her words, and its no use getting all indignant with me because of it. Thus, Britain has become a nation, ruled exclusively by social class, that admits as many imbeciles as can be accommodated to its highest positions irrespective of ability, intelligence or rational criteria, as long as they come from the right families and went to the right schools. The inevitable result is The Spider, May, Gove, Farage, Rees-Mogg, Brexit, division, racism and the destruction of the national normative and value system. In the US it is the 45.   

Both Britain and the US are at a very perilous crossroads in their history. I am confident that the US will finally say enough is enough and that the 45 has decided his own fate. I have no such confidence in the British electorate or its institutions. However, as you will know, the more I am sure of something, the more likely I am to be wrong. We shall see, but again I conclude, that you have been warned

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