I first posted this right after watching Trump's rally in Bethpage N.Y. after his loss in Wisconsin, and I didn’t know the "poem" were the lyrics of a hit song from the 1970 by Al Wilson. Anyone can look it up, but I’m not linking it, as the only venom that interests me is that spewing from Donald Trump, and accepted by a good chunk of the American people
Reciting this poem is a regular part of trumps gig, his using at least once before, but the similarity is with something else. I couldn’t watch his live speech, but I did watch the immediate video afterwards, At a given point without any introduction to the massed crowd, he took out a envelope and started to read what we will call a poem. I’ll give it a title since he didn’t, “The Snake of Evil.”
It starts describing an innocent young woman seeing a snake that was freezing outside of her home in a rural setting that could have been somewhere in Europe. She sees its frozen skin, and has compassion, brings it inside and sets it in front of the hearth for it to survive, for the frozen skin to recover.
The poem was in meter, perhaps rhyme, with a feel of being from the 19th century. A cautionary tale for children. When the girl woke up the next morning and went to see how the snake had done overnight, it had revived, and she embraced it with happiness.
And the snake then spoke, with hatred in his heart. “You saved me but you didn’t know I tricked you. I wanted you to bring me into your house. I wanted you to feel sympathy, but now I’m going to bite you with my poisonous fangs. The horrified girl just listened and when she begged for mercy, the snake laughed, and said, “It’s your fault you are going to die, as you should have known who I am, A SNAKE”
The Trump phenomenon has goaded me to understand not only the man, but those who adore him. I’m a realist, and a student both of history and human behavior, and this is important, a member of an ethnicity who faced a rapacious hatred that almost wiped us all out, including many distant cousins who where born when I was, whose earliest realization was learning they were to be buried alive*.
I recognized Trump’s poem, no longer a novelty song written for entertainment by Al Wilson, as the presentation of the words have now been seen by probably tens of millions of Americans and a multiple of that around the world. I recognized it from a document that is still considered by some as an expose, with the title: “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” with this link to Wikipedia for those not familiar with it.
But Trump would have had the words that he used from someone who reads different references, like this one on the subject from Metapedia, a Wikipedia-like reference except there is little attempt at balance among their readership, but reading the article of the "Protocols" there will show just how Jew hatred is alive and well in the world. Wikipedia concludes that the Protocols is a fraud, while Metapedia leaves it's legitimacy as an open question.
Here’s the analogy of the section from the “Protocols” that I see as reflecting the spirit of Trumps use of the Al Wilson song. “The Snake of Evil" is from one of the many translations, PDF pp12/100 continued on for several pages.
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The Symbolic Snake of Judaism.
Protocol III opens with a reference to the Symbolic Snake of Judaism.
In his Epilogue to the 1905 Edition of the Protocols, Nilus gives the
following interesting account of this symbol:
According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other
According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other
Jewish learned men already, in 929BC, thought out a scheme in theory
for a peaceful conquest of the whole universe by Zion.
"As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and
completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question.
These learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for
Zion with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to
represent those who have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish
administration, and the body of the Snake to represent the Jewish
people—the administration was always kept secret, EVEN FROM
THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated into the
hearts of the nations which it encountered. it undermined and devoured
all the non-Jewish power of these States.
It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until
the course which it has to run is closed by the return of its head to Zion
and until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round of Europe
and has encircled it—and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it has
encompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish by using every
endeavor to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL
CONQUEST.
"The return of the head of the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished
after the power of all the Sovereigns of Europe has been laid low, that
is to say, when by means of economic crises and wholesale destruction
effected everywhere, there shall have been brought about a spiritual
demoralization and a moral corruption,…...----------—
Donald Trump is beyond redemption. Certainly, he loves his Jewish daughter and grand children, but his hatred is not towards Jews, but rather those human beings who can be thrown away in the service of his manic quest for power. The poem/song that he incorporates into his message, of the naive child-woman who was so easily tricked by the essence of deceitful evil is a universal; it is the Devil, the Jew, all Muslims, all Mexicans — their pervasive danger all around us. He is ruthless, willing to torture anyone who is our enemy, because that is the way the world really is, he tells us.
Of course we all know that the world is dangerous, and for many terribly cruel, that some Muslims can not resist the violence of those who believe in Jihad; so Trump is fomenting his own Crusade-Jihad—his cleansing of "others." Now he has a poem that says it all, a paraphrase of the core canard of delusional Jew hatred that he has now made his own. It is not as paradoxical as it seems at first blush that Trump embraces Jews, promises to defend the state of Israel against all who oppose it, and uses the classic tome of hatred against this very group to illustrate his point.
And if any effete egghead, any of his enemies call him on this he will sneer back, “Hey it’s just a song by pop singer Al Wilson, just good clean fun.”
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* description of this is from the book, "Bloodlands" by Tim Snyder, how children on their way to being shot feared being on the bottom of the pits, and dying from suffocation. I could not read further.
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