The other day, Adrian Walker The Boston Globe reported The story of Mike Slaterwho survived four service visits as an American army office in Iraq and Afghanistan. After suffering from the SSPT and in rehabilitated by the VA, he started working at the Veterans Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, serving other veterinarians. Last month, as a thank you of his country, Slater was informed by e-mail that his work was dismissed, graceful of Doge’s orders.
We can delight hundreds of thousands of these stories. In the USAID, people who have spent their careers to relieve human diseases and famine are licensed by SMS And asked to clean their desktop on a two -day notice.
Soon, there will probably be much more cruelty and suffering, because needy people lose health coverage under a reduction in Medicaid, because more and more families are broken by ice raids, and more and more immigrant workers stop winning a payroll for fear of being stopped and expelled.
It is not surprising that Trump’s signature is cruelty. This is an artist, after all, who has become famous with the line “You are fired!” Trump has always identified with the winners. People suffering, in Trump’s sick psyche are losers.
But it was reality TV. It is reality.
In reality, television The terms, the ultimate winner of the apprentices of celebrities is Elon Musk, which even competes by Trump in the human damage he does.
Other Republican presidents have presided over human suffering. Ronald Reagan has eliminated millions of people in well-being rollers and cut a multitude of social programs that preserved a dignity measure for low-income Americans.
But Reagan disguised cruelty with his pure kindness and his false political rationalizations that these cuts were for the good of people by forcing them to obtain a work ethics.
Trump, on the other hand, revels in cruelty. His pleasure in pure cruelty was exposed last Friday when he did his best to humiliate Volodymyr Zelensky. The fact that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia resulted in immense human suffering was nowhere on Trump’s radar. Trump’s fence comment was “It’s going to be a great television. “”
When he considers Gaza, Trump does not see the dead, human trips and mutilated children. He sees underdeveloped real estate.
When someone crosses Trump, this person must not only be dismissed, but destroyed. Trump declared in an article on Truth Social that General Mark Many, the former president of the Chiefs of Staff of Trump, deserved execution.
This is not exactly the news that Trump is a sociopath. The definition of a sociopath is someone who has no capacity for human compassion or remorse. Trump goes beyond that, to pure sadism.
But most Americans are not sociopathsAnd much less sadistic. Most Americans are nice to their neighbors, support charity organizations, identify with compassion with human suffering. So why is there not a much greater outcry against Trump’s pleasure in cruelty?
It is a more complex question than it first seems.
To begin with, as the Nazi era has shown, when the government is based on fear and other people are suffering, it is too easy to avoid your eyes. To paraphrase the famous warning of Pastor Martin Niemöller, they came for immigrants but I am not an immigrant. They draw civil servants but I am not an official.
Where is the Christian? Jesus of Nazareth not only taught compassion but experienced it. And he preached against the hypocrisy which relaxed among the religious leaders of his time. But the religions established in his name have often been citadels of hypocrisy.
Trump is purely transactional. The religious leaders and their supporters who support Trump according to his opinions on abortion, but ignore his dissolved life, are also purely transactional. Jesus cried.
There is also the problem of resentment and lack of solidarity. Politico interviewed Trump voters in South Texas. A woman, named Nelda Cruz, was questioned on the cups to come in Medicaid. “”I do not qualify for Medicaid, so well with me“She said. “Now they will feel what I feel.”
A frightening, angry and divided people can become inserted to wickedness. I would like to believe that America is better than that. Trump can still meet his fall. But it would be so much more encouraging if the cause was not the price of eggs but a mass repulsion against the sadistic cruelty of Trump.