4 November

Everything is ideas. Right now with Trump we’re seeing the endgame of our ridiculous ideas about democracy. That it’s just about the ‘people’. It isn’t, the people have only a tiny role to play in democracy. Most of the work is done by their representatives and the institutions that service them (that’s where all the knowledge and expertise is). That’s the part of democracy that’s been under attack for decades, there’s no faster way to win an election than to attack officials. Politicians used to not go there, they knew it was hugely destructive. The ultra conservative church types though don’t care, they want the State destroyed. They’re the ones who devised these strategies 50 years ago. Church vs State has never gone away, but we’re not seeing it.