The Pied Piper story fits Trump's followers today, "a person [Trump] who induces others to follow or imitate him or her, especially by means of false or extravagant promises." They are followers and not doers or questioners. Weak people are easily led, it is a reason they cling to their guns, it gives them a false sense of security.
From the era of slavery to the rise of Donald Trump, wealthy elites have relied on the loyalty of poor whites.
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"Cold, grasping, bleak, graceless, and dull; unctuous, sleek, pitiless, and crass; a pallid vulgarian floating through life on clouds of acrid cologne and trailed by a vanguard of fawning divorce lawyers, the devil is probably eerily similar to Donald Trump—though perhaps just a little nicer."
Forgive me for simply laying out a sequence of random thoughts (on a single theme) that occurred to me a few hours ago, as I was swimming around in...
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