An alternative reality to start off the year.

It is only a matter of time before he is thrown under the bus. This new president of the so-called free world. And when it happens, it will be the greatest show on earth.

Of course, the show will all be smoke and mirrors, directed from behind the colorful curtain. The puppeteers will nimbly maneuver and the carney barker will distract the audience and all the while the tent will be burning.

This Donald Trump is not a republican. He is not a democrat either. Although he has proclaimed affiliation with both in his life. Nor is he an independent. No, the current president of the United States is an avowed trumpinocrat. This is the party of Trump and this Party does not pay homage to the country, or its citizens, or its constitution, or its laws, or even its politicians.

It pays homage to whoever will aid in the accumulation of wealth and power for the Trump. The Party guarantees the right for Trump to make money, create personal power, and above all – win the game. It is really quite a party. The best.

The Republican Party however, never wanted this man to represent them. They fought him. I could say “tooth and nail” but that would be an alternative fact. The Party of the Trumpinocrats beat the weak and sickly republicans at their own game. So badly that they have had to eventually accept him as their leader for a while. A humiliation they endure as it is the better of two evils for themselves. God forbid a democrat won again! How humiliating!

Ah, the rich with all their Parties and Games! What fun it is to be playing with other people’s lives using other people’s money! But even the wealthy and powerful must answer to someone.

That “someone” is those with even MORE wealth and power than they have. They are the ones who finance all the parties and all the games. They must be paid back, with interest, for their investment into the politician and the Party and the government itself. They are not human these financiers, or if they are, they hide behind their non-human henchmen. Robots built to execute orders and given equal “rights” under the “laws” as humans.  They are, discreetly know in some circles as, Legal Entities.

So the republicans will bide their time, massaging the ego of the little boy who grew up to be king. All the while getting him to dismantle their enemy piece by piece until they have repaid their debts. They are very aware that the trumpinocrat will kick and scream and fight them, demanding to have his way. They will acquiesce some because they know what is about to happen. They know the chaos lever is about to be moved from midway into the full ON position.

They know the economy will fail. The markets will fail. The currency will fail. The Earth and its climate will fail. Relations with other superpower nations will fail. Public opinion will fail. The domestic state of law and order will fail. Even the next war will fail.

And when it all does, the republicans will have a Get out of Jail Free card. They will have an ace in the hole. They will have themselves a wonderful scapegoat who will work very hard playing his role to perfection. The Grand Poohbah of the trumpinocrats will actually lie down in the road so that they can roll him under the bus with the ease of one swift kick.

And penceforth, the republicans will have all the tools at their disposal to pay back their financiers and increase their own wealth and power.

For a few years at least. Because behind the scenes, the weak and sickly democrats will become more beholden to their financiers (who interestingly enough are some of the very same ones the republicans use) and soon will need to stage a battle to win the right to make their own payments and increase their own wealth and power.

And the goat? If he lives, he will become the one in the high tower, watching the film reels of alternate realities he created through the years. And if he bears the burden of the ultimate sacrifice? He will enjoy his martyrdom from the highest tower…the one at the airport they name after him.

~ Vince Green

January 2017

The author is an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, who finds it interesting how with supernatural regularity, the fiction and fantasy that comes out of the minds of human beings ends up becoming their reality.