It is interesting, because it is very to say whether Trump and his people are truly evil, or just stupid and greedy. It is truly hard to decipher whether this is malice or incompetence and greed.

And I find this to maybe be the most unsettling reality of this all. Because stupidity can be countered by rationality (it usually does so automatically, like you be a damn food staying weird things, but the second you start hurting yourself or others you must be stopped by intervention. Think children when they dont know better, offenders when they go from thought to action, bosses, politicians etc.). Stupidity usually gets stopped.

Malice on the other hand, does not. Unless a clear unified majority views you as malicious. Think courts, society, and so on. Because of its neatly and intentionally orchestrated nature where the possible rational factors are understood, accounted for, and worked around is key, it might be hard for a consensus to arise because things are planned, not spontaneous, alternative realities and explanations get spread and misinformation or contradictory views gets innermixed with what is actually happening. This in turn makes it so hard to decipher what is truly going on and what to feel and think about the things. Often because people are so held down by chaotic (but neatly executed) nature of malice. You get deceived, lied to, and you feel fear. These days many are hypnotized by ideologies, where true values are completely lost at worst, or told to be very individualistic (everything must benefit YOU).

The scary thing is that greed and evil know no boundaries. We almost sacrificed the whole world over nothing but ideology in 2 world wars. And I fear malice is the driver of Trump and Co. That this time the bloodshed might not just be an American civil war thing, but it can very quickly turn global, and even nuclear very fast.

It truly feels from a rational, best case scenario point of view that it is not hyperbole to say in the very least that these times and tendencies we are witnessing do not just threaten the democratic state of America as a whole With its brutal, bulldozer-like economic and religious forces that we all can now see clearly, in real time on social media and internet, do potentially pose a very grave threat to humanity as a whole at this very moment.

America as a superpower is like a cognitive and physical supervirus we might not have the ability to cure the world of. It might b3 the cancer that kills us. All.