The Election Trap

Can we escape?

Mike Meyer
6 min readMay 16, 2024
Voters caught in a spider’s web of illusion — Bing CoPilot Designer [AI still can’t do fingers]

Like the great majority of people, I’m sick of having to think about Donald Trump in a world stumbling into multi-levels of disaster. While he is the worst election evil we face, the entire process is deceitful. We have far more significant problems that will soon overwhelm us.

There is no reason to waste time on what Trump says or does, as that is a sociopathic trap. Anyone who has managed organizations for long enough has had the unfortunate experience of dealing with generic-type narcissistic sociopaths.

To put it simply, they constantly alternate between manufactured schemes or, if you have to work for one, abuse and accusations that waste time and produce emotional stress.

The entire process is meaningless unless you believe any of their confabulations. In that case, you are hooked and will be played like a fish until you are exhausted and discarded. The pattern never changes, as we incidentally see in detail in Trump’s first election interference trial in New York.

We have been subjected to this nationally with Trump for almost ten years. His dementia is destroying his ability to think and communicate, so the question is how long he will last. There is now a sizeable neofascist organization behind him so that he will be kept on display until November at least and January 2025, in…

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Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/