Donald Trump is an evil man, but his political enemies are evil, too

By David McElroy · January 3, 2021

I question the judgment of anyone who has ever supported Donald Trump in any way.

Trump was a liar and a fraud as a businessman. That was plain to anybody who honestly listened to him for many years, far before he got into politics. He has no ethics. He has no principles. He has no moral compass. If you understand narcissist personality disorder (NPD), you know he’s mentally ill.

That doesn’t mean I support any of his opponents, of course, because they are simply different brands of evil. Just because Trump is a mentally ill fraud and liar, that doesn’t make the more mainstream politicians any less evil.

Anyone who can keep supporting Trump at this point is being willfully blind to his unique brand of evil. He is like a mafia crime boss who will do anything — tell any lie, break any rule, cross any line — to hold onto power.

But even with all of this said, the truth is that it is a waste of your time and energy to debate about Donald Trump or Joe Biden or any of these other charlatans. Your future is going to be determined by the decisions you make — not who wins political power struggles.

If you are focused on Trump and Biden — or if you see any politician as your savior — you’re laying the foundation for your own destruction.

I don’t like to write about politics anymore. That’s partly because whatever I say is going to anger a lot of people who are unwilling to rethink what they’ve been taught, but it’s mostly because all of this is such an incredible waste of time.

I spent more than 20 years working as a consultant in state GOP politics. I turned against the entire system for deeply philosophical reasons, but even if I still believed the civic-minded propaganda which I grew up believing, I can tell you without reservation that both sides are just as evil.

They have different rhetoric. There are surface-level differences between the two sides. But under the surface, the vast majority of them are the same sort of power-hungry charlatans who want your money and want their egos stroked. And the more successful they are, the worse they tend to be, no matter how well-mannered they learn to act in public.

(I was once one of them. I wanted power, too. I know what it’s like to be seduced by this darkness.)

Most of you have bought the evil notion that you are required to choose one side or the other. Even if you agree they’re both evil, you believe it’s your duty to choose the lesser of the two evils. But this is insane, especially in the long run.

What you see around you today is the result of choosing “the lesser of two evils” for generation after generation. It’s not getting better. It’s getting worse. And every time “the other side” seems to get more evil, most of you think that justifies you supporting a more powerful evil on your own side. And then you turn a blind eye to the evil which you have enabled.

All this means is that you are actively supporting evil. What’s worse, it means you are wasting your time and attention on something which you can’t control — and you’re wasting your opportunity to make decisions and take actions to prepare your own life for the disaster which politicians have created for us.

It didn’t matter who won the 2020 presidential election. It doesn’t matter who wins the election in four years. The fiscal situation is so bad and the cultural rot is so deep that this society is doomed to some form of collapse — political, social, economic — no matter who is in charge.

Worrying about who is in charge right now is like fighting over who mans the bridge of the Titanic after it’s already hit the iceberg. The ship is going down. The best thing you can do is focus on saving yourself and your family. You are wasting your time, energy and effort to fight old battles which have no significance.

There’s still time to make decisions about saving your own family and finding places where you can escape the dark days ahead. But time is running out.

When Noah started building an ark to escape a coming flood, everybody thought he was crazy. They all kept living their normal lives, both the most decent people and the most sinful people. But once the rain started, only those who had been prepared were able to escape the awful flood. The rest of them — both good and bad — were killed by the flood.

In a metaphorical way, that is where we are today.

If you keep watching television news and reading angry posts online — fighting with others about who is right and who is wrong in Washington — you’re not going to notice when it starts raining. You’re going to be so focused on people who are all going to be washed away that you will lose your own life, too. And your negligence is going to doom your children as well.

It’s time to ignore the evil politicians who want to control our lives. We can’t stop them and it wouldn’t make any difference anyway.

You had better start building your ark, because some of us know that it’s already starting to rain — and there’s a terrible flood coming when we least expect it.

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On a live awards show Sunday night, one man made a joke about a female celebrity. The husband of the celebrity was offended and hit the man who made the joke. Or maybe it was staged for entertainment. Who knows? Who cares? Social media is full of discussion — and even arguments — about this idiocy today. This baffles me. Let’s assume for a moment that the event happened as reported. People have been having such idiotic fights ever since there have been humans. Half the bars in the world see such brief dustups regularly. It simply doesn’t matter. The fact that so many people believe they need to talk about this — or even need to have opinions about it — is more evidence of the bizarre media brainwashing that convinces many to care passionately about brain-dead trivia. Your life will be happier and saner if you focus on yourself, your family and your friends, not on whatever scripted (or spontaneous) bilge that the media wants to pipe into your home.

I’m in the middle of migrating this website to new servers this week. This means you might encounter some unexpected behavior until I get all the bugs worked out. Clicking on my links (including this one) might cause your browser to give you the message that it’s a site without a current security certificate. It’s not actually unsafe, but there’s something which isn’t yet set up for the security certificate. I apologize for any such errors you might encounter while the process is going on. If you notice any problems with content which didn’t migrate properly, I would appreciate you letting me know the details at davidmcelroy@mac.com. Thanks for your patience.

I often wonder what animals think when they look at us and consider the society we’ve created. Yes, I know this is fanciful and unrealistic, but what if they could? Would they be astounded at how we treat each other? Would they be disgusted by the ugliness and pettiness which fill so many of our daily interactions? The truth is that I’m feeling pretty disgusted with humanity tonight. I made the mistake of reading some online interactions that I should have avoided — and it sickened me. The people involved appeared to be vile and stupid and arrogant. I wish I could pretend they’re a tiny minority, but I know better. It’s times such as this when I most need to escape much of “civilization” and disconnect from their world. If humans are going to be worthy of “ruling this planet,” we have a lot of growth to do. And I fear that growth is nowhere in sight. So my buddy Thomas, above, and all of his friends would be right to judge us harshly — and to think, “Why do you folks get to be in charge?”

I should have expected this, but I honestly didn’t. The article I wrote last week about disagreements over treatment for autistic children brought me angry emails. You could almost call it “hate mail.” Of the five emails about it so far, two have been to tell me that I’m wrong to even listen to critics of the most popular therapy for autistic children — and the other three tell me I’m wrong for not condemning the treatment as the “obvious” abuse it is. If you read the article, you know I didn’t take a position on the issue, because I simply don’t know enough to have an opinion. But by talking about the issue, I stepped into a heated controversy. The emails from the two sides convinced me of nothing. But they did give me even more empathy for the unfortunate parents who have to figure out for themselves where the truth lies for their children.

Have you ever had what you thought was a new idea — and then discovered that “old you” had the same idea years ago? I had that experience tonight. And it’s been wonderful. I came up with an idea tonight for a very short satirical film that would be a promotion for a fictitious college. The point is to make the college promote — as good things — everything which is actually terrible about most modern colleges. Then I remembered a fake college that I invented back when I was in college. I had created student recruitment brochures and various newsletters back then, so I decided to call my “new” college by the same name I’d invented years ago: Ochita College. As I searched my computer for any old material I might still have about Ochita from the past, I discovered an email I sent to someone in 2009 — outlining essentially the same idea which I came up with tonight. Since I didn’t remember writing that, it felt like magic. So my next film project just might be this one instead. If all goes well, you might soon see “Ochita College: Your Future Starts Here.” This should be fun.

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