The emperor has no clothes.

We are all too familiar with the above phrase from an 1837 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a vain emperor tricked by swindlers into believing he is wearing exquisite, invisible clothes. The emperor’s bootlickers fearing they would seem stupid and disloyal pretended to see them until an innocent child declares the truth, highlighting themes of vanity, social pressure, and collective delusion.

The phrase is aptly applicable today to describe the state of affairs where a false but widely accepted narrative propagated by a political leader not only goes unchallenged but is endorsed with a lot of fanfare. This is generally happening because his cabinet caucus and die-hard inebriated loyalist party members are afraid to challenge his unilateral decision so as to not unsettle their own comfort zones privileged with power, gratification and their fan following.

This self-induced illusion, eluding them in harboring misplaced comfort stems from self-preservation. These men of straw intentionally and willfully, unashamedly allow self-denigration so as to not rock their respective boats and the truth gets put back on a back burner. Ground reality reasoning and dissection are relegated to the dustbins of history. They choose to forget that they are all individually and collectively accountable to the people they represent who had given them a mandate.

When a leader full of hubris under the mistaken notion that he can do no wrong surrounds himself with a flock of “yes” men, it often leads to disastrous and catastrophic results as my thoughts will make an attempt of revealing below.

This is exactly what is happening in the USA right now. The parallel given above has been leaned on by me to describe a situation in which in this case the Republican party loyalists and MAGA are unwilling to recognize, admit and challenge the all too obvious shortcomings, issues, and serious policy flaws with grave fall outs being implemented by their delusional, powerful and seemingly popular (in their eyes alone) leader, their President.

Boot lickers, sycophants and the all too powerful Zionist lobbyists have very successfully crafted an alarmist narrative during the last twelve months into his Presidency. This has been going on for years but in this President, they struck gold in finding a sucker. They have put him in a straight jacketed mental tunnel vision which solely exhibits their long-awaited objectives to be achieved. Neo-con spin masters have to a hubris riddled President continuously fed and embedded imaginary alarmist situations and successfully stitched a weave of dreaded thoughts for him to ingest at regular intervals. They have unfortunately convinced him that what they have stated is visible only to an enlightened and wise one like him and cannot be thought of by those who are ignorant, incompetent, or unfit to understand world politics. They finally convinced him to start walking the talk.

Disastrous press conferences after press conferences with shifting narratives are just the latest examples of how inconsistent and incompetent the President has become. What amazes me is how does he still have so many supporters amongst his flock? They are wearing blinders and not seeing the writing on the wall. Why can’t they see that their President has no clothes (metaphorically)?

The President’s latest dive into military adventurism with Iran at the instigation and behest of Israel and the neo-cons is, in fact, an unmitigated plunge into the bottomless abyss of global instability, pain and suffering for the world at large and Americans included.

Such is the power of crafted illusion that receptive cult members often soak and subscribe to its falsehood, mistakenly assuming everyone else believes in it, creating a “collective illusion”. It is a given that vanity leads to deception. The President’s excessive pride has made him easy to trick, influence and make him deviate 180 degrees from his 2024 election plank promises on which he won. The higher elevation the pedestal his cronies put him on, the fall will also be commensurately painful. But alas this fall will not just be for him but millions of people around the world as the toxic fallout will take humanity into its fold without exception.

Courage in Truth: Only the ones with true grit and a conscience, unburdened by social fear, have the courage to declare the obvious truth, demonstrating that honest, simple observation based on empirical evidence is more valuable than fearful conformity.

I pray that such a child amongst us in any part of the world shows up sooner rather than later to save all of us from Armageddon. Human suffering by now should become a spent force and fossilized permanently after the two world wars.

It is unfortunate that MAGA which stood for Make America Great Again has mutated to Make America Gullible Again.✍🏽