Welcome Back Donald!

As we shuffle forwards once more towards dystopia and death camps.

And dear old Donald couldn’t have come back at a better time, when all over the world extremist politicians are on the make, and Tech Oligarchs ride as horsemen of the apocalypse.

I am weary of making the point, but someone has to rub it in: human history is endlessly repetitive. No points for telling me who had a similarly tedious and terrifying agenda in the 1930s.

Greed and lust for power and possessions.  Back then every country in Europe was targeted as lebensraum.  This latest madman has his eyes set on other treasures but the motive is just the same.

Make America Great Again, for ever and ever. A thousand year realm.  Heard it all before?

It’s always good to stoke up the discontented.  Tell them all their ills are due to the greed of the Jews. Or the immigrants.

Promise the MAGA fools in their red caps and animal heads that theirs is the new order. You will see them right. The trains will run on time and their righteous cup will overflow with milk and honey.

Suck up to Franco, to Farage, to the new Fascists in Germany and elsewhere. To the ghost of Mussolini, still strung up by wire on  a lamppost somewhere in the depths of Hades. Bang the drums, sound the horns of battle.

What lemmings we humans are. At a time when new technology proffers the chance of a truly dramatic improvement of our lot, it looks as if we may once again be heading for the slaughterhouse. 

How is it that killing and subduing and locking up those we fear always seems to be a vote winner?  How is it that the fools who vote for such people are unaware that no better world will emerge, can emerge, from such behaviour?

Enough really. I have said my piece.

Perhaps Donald is just a bad old pussycat and none of it will come to pass.