Why Does Trump Like Conspiracy Theories?

When I lived in Berkeley in 1976, my next-door neighbor was an old gent who came out to California from somewhere in the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s, then got a job in an East Bay ammunition factory during the war, worked a double shift, bought a little house and was now sitting there happily drinking a couple of beers every day.

I once asked him what it was like where he lived before coming to California. He thought for a moment, then said, “Lots of folks was starving out there.”

The United States had famine in some places during the 1930’s. Famine isn’t what happens when you don’t have enough to eat. Famine isn’t what they like to call ‘food insecurity’ today. Famine is when everyone starves to death.

Famine occurred in China during the 1940’s and was the reason why Chiang and his gang ran off to Formosa in 1949. Famine happened in India in 1947 and forced the British to pull out. Today, famine breaks out in places like Somalia, Ethiopia, and Sudan, not in the USA.

Trump got clobbered in 2020 because he had to use government authority and resources to respond to a major calamity and he failed. This was the first time we needed to respond to a famine-like catastrophe since 1933. Other than the Covid-19 Pandemic, life has been nothing but the usual and normal ups and downs for the last ninety years.