“Modern politics in the US have nothing to do with ‘the constitution’, ‘the rights of the people’, ‘law’, or ‘the mandates for which the House, the Senate and The Supreme Court’ were established.

Nothing.

And they haven’t, much, for a very long time. In some climates, a bit more, in others a bit less. It’s a bit like someone painted a bird on the side of a wolf. They remember painting the bird there, but the last time it flew as a bird was either very long ago… or »never.

Modern politics in our country are actually »about gaming whatever shreds of the system remain partly-functional. The difference between the present President, and the rest of the ragtag group of parasites that surround him is simple: they wish to sustain the illusion of the mandates that founded the systems they inhabit.

The President, in a way, far more honest than they, simply ignores that, and plays the system for everything it can possibly be played for. He’s a gamer, actually. And quite successful at such games. If that’s not obvious, try to explain how this person could possibly become the President of the US, not once, but twice. While ‘under indictment’ for a variety of serious crimes.

This POTUS has realized that the tattered remnants of what »has always been about currying power, privilege, and ‘favor trades’, is an ecosystem of largely parasitic figures that masquerade as ‘caring’ or ‘concerned’, or ‘representatives of those who elected them’, when, in fact, each one of them is playing multiple other games. Often for private or personal benefits.

And those ‘other games’ are what politics in the US are »actually about.

From one angle, Trump’s games are entirely pragmatic.

The problem is this: the games presently at play involve the history and future not merely of Americans, but the entire planet. Its ecologies. It’s survival. Putting a single ‘superiority’ gamer in the driver’s seat of that is like tossing all that depends upon it into a meat grinder, ‘just to see who gets the meat’ at the end of a single phase of this ‘game”.

Politics in the modern United States have »nothing to do with the faces the comprising structures portray to the common people.

That was largely illusory to begin with (because: money and power), and became more illusory as it became easier to complexify the ways it could be taken advantage of, and this process ‘ambiguated’, and thus obscured.”

— infraheard