One Hundred Points of Fear

100 Points of Fear (with a tip of my hat to Egon Bondy and the Plastic People of the Universe and the Czechoslovakian “Velvet Revolution”)

Trump is afraid.

1. He is afraid of journalism.

2. He is afraid of reporters.

3. He is afraid of editors.

4. He is afraid of fact checkers.

5. He is afraid of pundits and columnists.

6. He is afraid of bloggers.

7. He is afraid of pollsters and polls and even of Poles.

8. He is afraid of science.

9. He is afraid of meteorologists.

10. He is afraid of biologists.

11. He is afraid of physicists.

12. He is afraid of astronomers.

13. He is afraid of social science.

14. He is afraid of political scientists.

15. He is afraid of economists.

16. He is afraid of historians.

17. He is afraid of sociologists.

18. He is afraid of information and truth.

19. He is afraid of books.

20. He is afraid of research.

21. He is afraid of statistics.

22. He is afraid of philosophy and logic.

23. He was afraid to go to Vietnam.

24. He was afraid to protest the Vietnam War.

25. He is afraid of bacteria and viruses.

26. He is afraid of venereal disease.

27. He is afraid to shake hands.

28. He is afraid of the law and of courts.

29. He is afraid of judges and lawyers.

30. He is afraid of juries and their verdicts.

31. He is afraid of international treaties.

32. He is afraid of the United Nations.

33. He is afraid of diplomacy and diplomats.

34. He is afraid of the European Union.

35. He is afraid of the Russians and of Vladimir Putin.

36. He is afraid of the Chinese and of Xi Jinping.

37. He is afraid of Mexico and Mexicans.

38. He is afraid of the Democrats.

39. He is afraid of the Republicans.

40. He is afraid of the Libertarians and the Greens.

41. He is afraid of Hilary Clinton.

42. He is afraid of Bernie Sanders.

43. He is afraid of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.

44. He is afraid of John McCain.

45. He is afraid of Lindsay Graham.

46. He is afraid of Ted Cruz.

47. He is afraid of John Kasich.

48. He is afraid of Marco Rubio.

49. He is afraid of his own Vice President.

50. He is afraid of the right, of the center, and of the left.

51. He is afraid of the educated.

52. He is afraid of the uneducated.

53. He is afraid of Islam.

54. He is afraid of Christianity.

55. He is afraid of Judaism.

56. He is afraid of non-Abrahamic religion.

57. He is afraid of Atheism and Atheists.

58. He is afraid of that which he does not understand.

59. He is afraid of that which he does understand.

60. He is afraid of his own ignorance.

61. He is afraid of people who think he’s ignorant.

62. He is afraid of undocumented immigrants.

63. He is afraid of documented immigrants.

64. He is afraid of American citizens.

65. He is afraid of foreign citizens.

66. He is afraid of Gay people.

67. He is afraid of Lesbians.

68. He is afraid of Bisexuals.

69. He is afraid of Transgender people.

70. He is afraid of Intersex people.

71. He is afraid of straight people.

72. He is afraid of art.

73. He is afraid of books and poems.

74. He is afraid of theatres and films.

75. He is afraid of CDs and DVDs.

76. He is afraid of writers and poets.

77. He is afraid of actors.

78. He is afraid of painters and sculptors.

79. He is afraid of musicians and singers.

80. He is afraid of dance and dancers.

81. He is afraid of the free flow of information.

82. He is afraid of foreign literature and papers.

83. He is afraid of technological progress.

84. He is afraid of letters.

85. He is afraid of telephones.

86. He is afraid to let people out.

87. He is afraid to let people in.

88. He is afraid of changes of the ruling clique in Moscow.

89. He is afraid of his own security force.

90. He is afraid of the Secret Service.

91. He is afraid of the FBI.

92. He is afraid of the CIA.

93. He is afraid of American spies.

94. He is afraid of foreign spies.

95. He is afraid of today’s evening.

96. He is afraid of tomorrow’s morning.

97. He is afraid of each and every day.

98. He is afraid of the past and of the future.

99. He is afraid of jokes, satire, and honesty.

100. He is afraid of freedom and democracy.

So why the hell are we afraid of Trump….and as Madonna spoke truth to power, FUCK YOU!

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