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Monday 7th December 2015

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I am pretty sure democracy is fucked. The problem with giving people the vote is that people are stupid. And self-centred. And do what they think is best for them. But are too stupid to be able to see the bigger picture and so it isn’t even the best for them.

I am not sure how this hasn’t been spotted before. After all Hitler was voted into power democratically and that should have been enough to make us all pause for thought and say, “Maybe this isn’t the best system after all.” You wouldn’t run a business by letting everyone have an equal say in all the important decisions. Because they’d all raise their pay and lessen their hours and you’d go broke. 

It’s utterly incredible that we’re in a position where Donald Trump is one of the front runners to become the next President of the United States, because he appeals to idiots who like tough talking and hate immigrants. Those idiots will all be killed alongside us in the inevitable World War that would result from him being in charge. Which would be fine if all the non-idiots didn’t die alongside them.

Today Trump declared that he would bar all Muslims entry to the United States because two Muslims shot some people last week. Never mind all the Americans shot by non-Muslim Americans this year, or the fact that machine guns are available to buy at gun jumble sales, because some of the terrorists in the world identity themselves as Muslim (even though the vast majority of Muslims believe in different, less murdery values) a man who wants to be President thinks that this means banning Muslims from his country is the answer. As if that was even possible to do. 

I think that doesn’t go far enough. As religion is such a broad church (literally) and one Muslim can believe the opposite values to another, then I think the only real solution would to bar and expel all religious people from America. It’s the only way they can be safe. That and providing a free sub-machine gun to every man, woman and child that is left.  All those terrorists were religious. I don’t understand why all the religious people aren’t apologising for what has been carried out (ostensibly) in the name of religion. They all believe in “God”.

By turning America into an anti-Islamic State, ironically enough Trump would just be doing the work of the Islamic State and creating what is essentially an non-Islamic Islamic State. Although finally a few people have dared to call this anti-Muslim policy, unAmerican, what astonishes me about the West’s reaction to the terrorism of IS is that pretty much everything we’ve been doing is what IS want us to do. The reason they carry out their attacks is to try and create Holy War, so surely the only rational response is to not give them what they want. All these pro-West and pro-America people seem so insecure in their fantastic cultures that they think IS can do anything to harm them. That’s pretty unAmerican.  I am not that patriotic (and even with my deep concerns about the efficacy of democracy) but I am still pretty much convinced that our society is way, way fucking better than Islamic State. I am also confident that 99.9% of the Muslims living here know that. I am not worried about Islamic State defeating our way of life. Even if certain aspects of it could do with defeating. We are better than them, even at our worst. Though Donald Trump is pretty close to parity.

If I was in charge I wouldn’t be spending money on bombs or fostering hate speech or doing IS’s work for them. I’d spend the money on TV sets, computers, medicine, blue jeans, kindles filled with books, all marked with the flags of our nations and bomb Syria with those. It would be cheaper and might make us more popular. Also strictly speaking, it’s the Christian thing to do. The terrorists are trying to drive a wedge into our society in which everyone is allowed to believe whatever fucking nonsense they want. I think they might actually succeed, but the only way to stop them is to be more welcoming and friendly and to not do what IS want (and what they’d do) and fight each other and talk about expelling certain people or locking them up in special camps or gassing them to get them out of the way. 

Obviously no one is going to do my idea, because they are unChristian, unBritish and UnAmerican and would rather fulfil the aims of ISIS. Who I think have just learned their tactics from watching superhero films and realising that the authorities always do the work of the baddies and play into their hands. But we don’t have a superhero to save us.

Donald Trump and people like him are working for IS and yet they have to do something essentially Hitlery before anyone says anything and even then he might still be President. “You’re working for ISIS!” The rest of us need to shout that out loud whilst doing our best to not work for ISIS or believe that a few hundred or thousand terrorists represent the 1.6 million Muslims on the planet any more than the KKK represent the Christians. 

No one’s going to though. Cos you’re all working for ISIS, you pricks.



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