About that "Survival of the fittest thing." Trump ain't the fittest.
There's a reason that human beings are at the top of the food chain on this planet.
We aren't the strongest or fastest life form. We can't fly or remain submerged indefinitely without our machines. Our day and night vision can't match many lifeforms, our senses of hearing and smell are far beneath that of most living creatures, and we don't have built in radar like bats do.
So what is it that puts us at the top of the food chain? Our brains. We have the ability to think and learn which far surpasses all other life forms with which we share this planet.
And the abilities of the human brain is what will defeat Donald Trump. Human beings have the ability to acquire vast amounts of knowledge, store it, learn from it, and pass it on.
Donald Trump's ability to learn and store knowledge is seriously lacking if not totally absent. He is among one of the stupidest of our species. And given that these traits are what make humans the "fittest," Trump is near the bottom of what may be called the human "club." It ain't something you can buy your way into.
Human traits such as narcissism, greed, selfishness, lack of sympathy and empathy, and a deficit of knowledge, puts Trump very low on the scale among "the fittest." And most of the "enemies" he so often decries are near the top of that scale.
Slyness, maliciousness, malevolence and ruthlessness have put him in a position of power. But it takes far more than those traits to keep him there. He can hire people far more intelligent than himself. But he often chooses incompetent people. And when he hires competent ones, he comes to resent them, rebels against their counsel and advice, and most often, gets rid of them fairly quickly.
To put all of this as simply as possibly, he is an accident of evolution. He is not among "the fittest." And this is why, in the long run, he can't "win." Over time, brain power beats stupid every time.
Donald, perhaps someone will read this to you. When it comes to "survival of the fittest," you are sadly lacking. You are, what you yourself would call a loser.
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He is someplace he clearly doesn't belong entirely due to his inherited wealth. Without that inheritance he would be digging ditches someplace or selling insurance to fools.
Naomi Klein of "Shock Doctrine" wrote a recent article about "the growing political and economic role of inherited money in the United States":
Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, and the Rule of Pampered Princelings
(unfortunately posted at the Intercept).
I fear things may get worse as more (increasingly unearned) fortunes are inherited and used to buy power and fame without having to actually earn or prove anything, leading to more incompetent/unfit "leaders" and "decision makers" and "stars" like Drumpf. Somewhat encouraging is that more people seem to be waking up to the need for a "paradigm shift." I think that's pretty much what Occupy Wall Street, Brexit, Yellow Vests in France, and similar movements have been about.
