mardi 29 août 2017

Trump is a plant to start a civil war

I have had two separate people express to me their belief that Trump is a plant designed to start a civil war in the country. I didn't get to ask who this secret group actually is, in fact I think my exact response was "uh... OK."

However, it is surprising to me that two separate people expressed this conspiracy theory view to me. One was a Democrat, and one was a Republican, but they both shared the view that it was "suspicious" how incredibly terrible he is at his job. With all of the cascading mistakes he has made, they were dubious that he could have purposefully be causing so much damage to the country at home and abroad unless he was trying to purposefully fail at the job, or someone put him in his position knowing how catastrophic he would be for the US.

First of all, I don't think that Trump is even close to smart enough to pull off such an intricate ruse. Trump has never shown a level of serious mental competency his entire life, and he would have to have hid a savant level of intelligence from everyone he has ever known, including his family, while playing the role of clueless buffoon for many, many decades. Therefore, Trump would have to be unaware of his role as a incompetent saboteur in chief for this plan to work. However, I also don't see what benefit any group in the US would get from a civil war.

Which really just leaves Putin. Sabotaging the US in order to gain increased worldwide economic and geopolitical leverage would definitely be in line with the goals of the former KGB agent. But I don't think Putin thought that far ahead when he sabotaged the US election in order to get Trump elected. Trump owes an immeasurable debt to Putin, and it is clear from his intense deference to the goals and will of Putin that he is at least partially under Putin's control.

However even though I think Putin's main goal was a more resigned and non confrontational US, Trump is not an easily controlled puppet, and I doubt even Putin realized how out of touch his is with reality. He is so devoid of basic logic and reasoning that Putin could never really fully rely on Trump to do anything except to do damage to America. It is a risky move since it also comes with the risk of Trump nuking the world.

Has anyone else heard the "Trump plant" conspiracy and/or the "Trump put in place to start a civil war" conspiracy? Also relevant to the discussion is whether Putin helped put Trump in power because of his positive overtures to Russia, or if he really knew how bad the worst President in history would be.


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