See, people don't "get" severe mental illness...
They believe that there is a continuum of behavior: that an individual doesn’t “have” to do what he or she “chooses” to do and if one just reasons with them, then, well, things may well “improve”.
Sorry. Nope.
The remarkable plot element in the film The Terminator is that this machine cannot be reasoned with, it ABSOLUTELY cannot be dissuaded from carrying out its mission, in that case to kill Sarah Connor before she can conceive and give birth to the leader of the future Resistance.
Since the police and others have not dealt with this kind of situation before and do not fully understand that because they refuse to believe that this possibility exists and what this implies, they are helpless against it. Adding the fact that the monster cannot be physically damaged or destroyed via conventional weaponry is an additional element. But the authorities remain skeptical of the facts until they themselves are annihilated.
And thus we have Trump. Yes he is mortal but aside from that he is The Terminator. He cannot be reasoned with, he has a mindset which has absolute priorities of enriching himself, striking back at his enemies, and destroying the mechanisms which establish order and corporate and governmental morality, such as it is. This mission is relentless and will not stop, will not be stymied, the mechanisms effecting this are complex and for the purposes of this discussion are irrelevant.
In the film the Deus ex Machina was literally that: a stamping machine which crushed its head. Because that is the only manner in which we have the possibility of escaping this maelstrom of insanity. Many people use the phrase in their wishful-thinking mode: God provides.
Well, I’m waiting….
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This is my POV, since I don't believe in any deity.
So what do we do about TFG? No idea. It's horrifying, we say. Surely there is something.
Better minds than mine must step in to save the day.
