Revulsion

     Carl Jung wrote of the Shadow.  Inside each person is a dark personality manifesting sometimes in dreams, but in waking life this figure reveals itself in moments of bad behavior, ill temper, and in the freedom bestowed upon it by drug-induced mental states, such as violent actions towards others when one is drunk.
     I used to wonder if I am the dream of my dream.  If, too, I am a fictional character thought up by my fictional characters.  I don't believe this is the case, it's an exercise for my imagination.
     Inspired by Jung's Shadow idea, I've imagined actual people displaying their interiors, their Shadows, their real dark personas, in public--on camera in press conferences, while hosting cable news programs.  Presidents and other politicians saying exactly what they mean.
     In the last decade I created a character called President Bush's Asshole.  While President Bush himself sticks to avoidance of truth, to clumsy attempts at putting sentences together, President Bush's Asshole speaks abruptly, concealing nothing about U.S. foreign and domestic policies.  "He" is as real as the diarrhea blasting out of your ass when you feel gut sick.
     President Bush's Asshole revels in the establishment of torture as government policy.  President Bush's Asshole expresses contempt for everyone gullible enough to believe in Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.  President Bush's Asshole is a fucking asshole, but an honest one.
     I suppose I could add to this executive menace a character called President Obama's Soother.  This character covers what's really happening with beautifully uttered words on the death and destruction wrought by the Drone War.  President Obama's Soother makes liberals feel good about the targeted murders of two American citizens in Yemen.  President Obama's Soother makes the surveillance state he strengthened palatable.  President Obama's Soother makes American war criminals respectable even while it's now obvious he refused to prosecute Bush era war criminals because he wanted to avoid future prosecution of himself for war crimes.
     The two eight year presidencies of Bush and Obama provide much to research, ponder, and write about.  January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2017, represents a major span in world history, significant largely for its warfare.  No nation has committed more war crimes or waged more illegal and aggressive warfare during that period than the United States of America.  It should not surprise anyone that President Donald Trump carries on with the destructiveness of this war.  He is not condemned by corporate news media for this.  Instead, his fictitious allegiance to Vladimir Putin has received a great deal more coverage than his never failing operation of the controls running the U.S. mass murder machine.
     Trump is regarded by the "liberal" press as someone criminally irresponsible worthy of impeachment for committing the kinds of white collar crimes we should expect a shady billionaire to commit.  He is not condemned by the same press for bombing Afghanistan, for ordering a botched Navy Seal raid in Yemen that killed an eight year old girl, for ordering missile attacks against Syria, for supporting the detestable actions of the land-stealing mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu, for assisting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as those two nations annihilate the Yemeni people in a war supported also by Obama.
     Mass murder of innocent people is fine with the U.S. corporate press.  They are thus complicit in crimes against humanity.  This same press has spent two years conspiracy-theorizing about Trump's alleged collusion with Russians to steal the 2016 election.  Now that the Mueller Report has definitively destroyed this theory called Russiagate, revealing it to be fiction, the corporate press continues to play with the theory's damaged threads, weaving new "possibilities," new avenues to explore, promising us that this will "go on for a long time."
     Ratings, money, war profiteering, Trump as a gold mine for the propaganda arms of corporate America.  Meanwhile, he continues to kill, just as Obama killed, as Bush killed.
     America wears its Shadow on the outside.  My countryfolk should take a good look at it.

                                                                                Vic Neptune