Deprivations in our morals? Trump and/or The Ruler of Hell is Somewhere Close

I look around at the various headlines in the world and I can't help sighing.

• Donald Trump's presidency has had a "major impact on how the world sees the United States", a large new study says.
  
• The survey, by the Pew Research Center, interviewed more than 40,000 people in 37 countries this year.
  
• It concluded that the US president and his policies "are broadly unpopular around the globe".
• The survey shows only two of the 37 countries have a better opinion of Mr Trump than they had of his predecessor Barack Obama: Israel and Russia.
  

But the thing is what we actually want in UK is for him to stay out of our way.  The invitation Trump got to visit the UK has been put on indefinite hold.

We've got more important things to think about. 

And let's face it I think Trump doesn't really need other people to praise him - he's got his cabinet to nauseatingly praise him.  If you want to watch something makes you throw up, watch the American cabinet praising Trump.

His approval rating at home is, apparently, very low  so he's needs something to boost his ego.

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Whereas back at my home, I and my family's been reorganizing the house.  Just like many other people. 


Plus we've also been demonstrating our incredible attraction to Doctor Who.  (We went to Cardiff and saw the 'Doctor Who Experience'.)

Can you see a incredible similarity between this Doctor Who picture and the one I have shown you immediately above with Trump's cabinet?  Not that I'm suggesting anything.

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I'm now back at home and have been looking at the very significant things in the UK as well.   We recently had awful the tragedies of bombs, shootings, knife attacks and vans been driven to kill people.

Plus there's also being the repercussions from that disastrous general election we've just had.

PM Theresa May has had to negotiate with the DUP from Northern Ireland to continue her party's control of government.  (And already people are expressing a great deal of unhappiness about that because the UK government is supposed to be separate from any interactions in Northern Ireland.  It'll all work out in the end I hope as long as Theresa May behaves herself.)


As a side-note I am using my computer to translate my spoken words into the writing here.  Bizarrely my computer just thought I hadn't said "it'll all" just above.  Instead it thought I'd said 'Hitler" - I think it's still being preoccupied by the issues around Trump and his cabinet.

Now I'm not going to compare Trump with Hitler but some people might do.  Like the dictator making sure the population doesn't have much education so they're easily manipulated (and so winning another four years).  Not that I'm warning Americans you understand.

I am not American thank God.

Now I'm not religious but I have already warned Americans about what is written in the Bible about the Devil trying to make people like him by lying.  (I'll get into mentioning my novel The Ruler of Hell: The Devil's Sister in a minute.)

Anyhoo...

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So back onto talking about the UK.  It was commented that:

• As government became utterly shameless, people stopped trusting it. Yet at an individual level shame is seen as a relic of an outdated moralistic age when people were told how to behave. In fact, our era is intensely moralistic. It’s just that what is disapproved of has changed. Anyone rejecting an ideological shibboleth is vilified as racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, climate-change denier and so on.

This is from an article written by Melanie Phillips who highlights how moral viewpoint is actually very strong.
She wrote about how a Muslim community in Birmingham took peaceful but effective action against prostitution and drug use in their area.

The local police were initially afraid of their actions were leaning to some form of vigilantism but found that these people active in their community actions were intensely anti-violence and moral.  Such that they were appointed Special Constables.

Phillips how's expressed how people do not take responsibility for needed actions in their community.  I've seen this lazy lack of responsibility so often it's almost like "It's not my responsibility (even though it was actually my fault)"   She expresses (and I do as well) this responsibility  is not being violent, it means caring for where you live.  Phillips writes:

• Increasing compartmentalisation has enabled a culture of serial buck-passing (which is almost certainly behind the erosion of fire-safety standards we’re only now discovering).

She does have a point. 

(And I think perhaps the Americans might benefit from this view as well.)

But let's make the UK "great again" in the meantime.

In the meantime read my novels which are all about what we see around and what we think they mean.

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