https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-100-days-approval.html#permid=141592235

I am a communist. I like the sense of distance here in terms of stepping back, carefully. The background of the piece is telling me to be very wary because instability is unpredictability. The human brain is a predictability machine. It assesses risk. Here’s one: I predict summer. The prediction risk is low. Summer usually pulls its slow length along. Prediction #2. Summer will burn. The heat will exacerbate heat for the sake of heat. I lied. There are more predictions. #3.) Something bad will happen. This is a big safe bet. No one knows what the bad thing will be. But we all know who we fully intend to blame. This year alone, I have literally faced hurricanes and big forest fires. It’s not coming for you. It has you. Just look at the politics after any disaster. I am sick and tired of it. Something bad has happened, and it’s called the Deviant. Deviants deviate. It’s that simple. Prediction #4. Predictions matter. When we already know what we have just gone through, we can assume some predictability that it will happen again unless you start building real infrastructure. Real infrastructure means trust. We have all lost trust in America. It’s totally corrupted and run by criminals. America is an idea. When we substitute ideas for courts, the idea of a republic, where other humans, other than yourself, vote on the issues brought before them. Like income distribution. I am only a communist in the sense of common decency serving as a venue for what is fair and equal.