The collapse of liberalism

In 2016, Trump enthusiasts took over the GodlikeProductions.com message board. The mood turned grim, much as it had fifteen years earlier, when Fortuyn fans flooded the IEX message board. This time, I stayed as I had missed something important. Given my possible future job, and my supposedly being Adolf Hitler reincarnated, not comprehending fascism was no excuse, so I familiarised myself with the MAGA crowd. Hanging out with people helps you to understand them. And it served as a reality check. God’s plan for the New World Order seems to turn the world into one happy family, a global multicultural society. So, one people, one nation, and one leader. It is where fascism comes in. So what stands in the way of peace and happiness? The former Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende offered a suggestion: norms and values. That answer fell short. We also identify with groups. Our identities stand in the way of becoming one people.

If you hope that MAGA people are misogynistic, hateful of LGBTQ people, and racist, you will not be disappointed if you visit Godlikeproductions.com. Maybe that makes you feel superior, but we all play our part in the human race’s failure. I also followed the feed of r/BlackPeopleofReddit, which features stories and footage of MAGA people harassing blacks or scoulding them with racist slurs. Racism is widespread, but it is not why fascism is seeing a revival. Some hope for a race war to kick out all non-white people. Yet, most fascists worry about crime, fear the future, and want migration to stop. As MAGA enthusiasts point out, the violent crime rate among blacks in the United States is six times as high as among whites. Some immigrant groups in Europe are in the same league. Yet, most immigrants and blacks aren’t violent criminals and have jobs. So, should good people suffer for the deeds of bad ones?

Shared values and norms, and their enforcement, are the principal requirements for a good society. What truly makes a society good is social trust, which allows you to trust strangers and the government. Yet, there is more. The foundation of our societies, from where the authority comes, is myths such as religions or tales about the founding fathers. We fight over these myths because we don’t all believe in the same myths. Last but not least, we are staring into the abyss because Western culture itself is suicidal. It is the problem that led to the other problems. The pursuit of money ruins its moral foundation, turns Earth into a wasteland and promotes a rat race that will terminate humanity. And it drives migration. Also, on the GodlikeProductions.com message board, I was cautious about expressing my opinions. I wasn’t quick to judge. God wrote the script.

Turning humanity into a happy family will require unorthodox methods of an unimaginable kind. Yet that seems to be what the Kingdom of God is about. Even though it seems impossible, if God wants it to happen, it will. The multicultural societies in the West have progressed the furthest socially. The problems we are seeing could be a learning experience for the future. Yet, Paradise will never come from the interplay of social and political forces. It must be an act of God. Humans are a failed species, or to frame it as Christians would, sinners not worthy of God’s grace, and in need of a messiah. GodlikeProductions.com could ban you for no reason, only to let you back in later. It made me use Reddit as well, where you can hang out with other groups, like a fly on the wall.

Flies on walls like Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel can arrive at profound insights. Hegel had figured out how God’s plan would unfold over the next 200 years as a struggle between ideas, leading to social progress. Hegel observed what happened around him, looked back at history, and reasoned from there. It appears that social progress has come to an end, and it may be up to us to figure out what to do next. We are facing a mass extinction event, which makes our fights look like a brawl on the deck of the sinking Titanic. The idea of social progress developed in the West under pressure from social justice activists, and it seems central to God’s plan. Yet we are running into the limits of human nature and would gain more by bringing the rest of the world up to that same standard. So, having a quota for women in management is of lesser importance than ending child brides. The first Trump presidency was not a clean break with the past, as his cabinet featured several old-order Republican figures. They kept The Donald in check.

The second Trump administration became a different ballgame. Trump went unhinged after he had surrounded himself with sycophants. His erratic and spiteful caprices became a spectacle so hilarious that even Monty Python couldn’t have made it up, with Trump naming buildings after himself, declaring his birthday a public holiday, going after his opponents in the most unclassy fashion while claiming they lacked class, and numerous other self-aggrandising acts. It was hard to see a plan behind his actions, so he must be a genius playing five-dimensional chess, his cult claimed, and if you don’t see it that way, you suffer from a terrible affliction called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). His economic policies included raising tariffs on Swiss imports because he didn’t like how the Swiss leader spoke to him. Then there were his brazen lies, his self-enrichment and that of his family members by abusing his office, eclipsing all previous corruption by US presidents, his pardoning of criminals, and his divisive Christmas message.

Also noteworthy were Trump’s war threats against Denmark, for, among other reasons, not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, which he blamed on Norway. Then he went to war with Iran while negotiations were still ongoing for enriching uranium after he had torpedoed the previous nuclear agreement with Iran because Barack Obama signed it, and Bibi Netanyahu told him it was a bad deal for Israel. Later, he agreed to an even worse deal, leaving the rest of the world to pay for the disaster that war caused, including famine due to a lack of fertiliser. Meanwhile, the Trump regime was already eying an attack on Cuba. As a Swedish newspaper put it, ‘This is the problem with having a giant baby in charge of the free world.’

No doubt that the second Trump administration will go down in history as the greatest joke in the history of government as a lasting monument of God’s sense of humour. Many of his followers believe that God sent Donald Trump. And they are right. The name Trump means trumpeteer, and the noise of trumpets would herald the end times. The word ‘trump’ also means to outdo or overcome the competition, which Donald Trump did in politics like few ever did. And the word ‘trumped-up’ refers to the fantasy level of Trump’s statements, in which the connection to reality is often remote at best. And finally, I live in the former Tromp family residence. That name is the Dutch equivalent of Trump. As I may come to replace him, that could be a prophetic coincidence.

By 1 January 2025, it was already clear that the second Trump administration would be very different from the first. Trump had ousted those who might rein him in, so his erratic conduct could destabilise the world, or so I guessed. My preparations were not yet complete but seemed good enough should the time come, and were close to the moment when additional preparation would make little sense, which I estimated to be around 1 April 2027. I further surmised that the job would start before Trump’s second term ended. My new deadline became 1 January 2029. Things will not return to what they were before. The liberal world order has ended. Normally, the end of an order would herald a dark age, but the liberal order was never ideal to begin with. Yet, a poor order is better than none.

Liberal states have long had an edge because of capitalism and science. When the Soviet Union collapsed, liberalism seemed to have won. Yet, it is better to say that our consumption addiction has won. The communists had given up on their project because they had promised their workers more stuff, while everyone knew that workers in capitalist countries had more stuff. The modern consumer is not much unlike a drug addict busy committing suicide by overdosing, wanting his dealer to bring on more. He has no survival skills and is hooked on a system he can’t survive without. The merchants of death, selling us all that merchandise, are like drug dealers selling opioids. Liberalism was yet another fairy tale. It has just collapsed in front of us, but liberals have yet to catch on.

We are at a turning point in history. A crucial pillar of Western civilisation, social progress, is falling apart. Civilisation is just a thin veneer to keep the beast within us in check. Liberalism was an attempt to achieve a good society through a social contract, giving all groups in society a suitable place based on the idea of a fundamental equality of all individuals. That is only possible if we all share these same liberal values and adhere to these same liberal norms. That begins with the myths we believe in. They give our lives meaning, and we derive our values and norms from them. Myths also divide us, so we keep fighting over them. That is not going to end well. And if you think that the ICE deportations are bad, in South Africa, citizen vigilantes are hunting down illegal immigrants. We are at the end of Hegel’s ride. We may either see the end of civilisation or the completion of our journey to Paradise.

Peak bullshit

In the early 2000s, I had a hunch that we would soon see Peak Bullshit, the era when nonsense couldn’t reach higher levels, after seeing that the Internet is an ideal medium to spread misinformation like climate change denial. Social media didn’t exist at the time. Yet bullshit is everywhere and has always been. We need myths to cooperate. We need to agree rather than be right to collaborate effectively. Even in science, there is bullshit, so many people don’t trust science, including climate science, and see it as a hobby for progressives. We can measure temperature and relate it to CO2 levels, so there is little doubt about climate change. Yet, Woke ideology has affected science, either by narrowing the range of subjects open to investigation or the range of acceptable conclusions.

A high-profile case in the Netherlands was Wouter Buikhuisen’s research into the causes of criminal behaviour. Buikhuisen concentrated on biological factors. Could genes affect conduct, and could you identify criminal genes? Leftist opinion makers attacked him, claiming that the modern capitalist society and authoritarian upbringing cause behavioural issues like crime. Buikhuisen had to deal with personal attacks portraying him as dumb and evil, as well as disturbances during his lectures, some of which were violent. Partly due to the upheaval and its effect on Buikhuisen’s private life, the research project eventually faltered. The myths we believe in relate to our political preferences.

The left has long dominated the social sciences because, through science, we might achieve social progress, an idea that appeals to progressives. Humans are programmable but also constrained. Progressives focus on us being programmable, while conservatives focus on the constrained part. Going against human nature does more harm than good, they think. The profit motive also affects research topics and acceptable conclusions. So, can you trust the vaccines Big Pharma profits from? The COVID-19 vaccines weren’t harmless, but they have prevented millions of deaths.

The insanity of the fascists outdoes that of the lunatic left, and that is quite impressive. The spread of vaccine misinformation may have caused 200,000 fatalities in the US alone. And if you read headlines like, ‘The British government can sentence concerned parents for five year to prison for protecting them from the influence of LGBTQ propaganda,’ that probably is in the case they beat them up to rid them of their gay and trans feelings. And not being allowed to beat up your children for such frivolous reasons means that the state owns them, these fascists reason. They think they own their kids and can do with them as they please. With Donald Trump lying more than any politician ever did, to the point that even many of his followers get fed up with it, we may finally have reached Peak Bullshit, and the Day of Truth may be upon us.

Mediocre vision

Humanity’s lack of collective intelligence implies that a single leader with the right vision will do better, provided that this individual has unlimited authority, like a messiah. Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ You can save yourself by following me and accepting that what I say is the truth. That makes having the idea of being the messiah an uneasy predicament for any sensible person. What if people believe me, and it turns out that I am crazy? You can’t have that, do you? I have been wrong many times. It made me question my views. Yet, if something goes wrong because of a choice you make, the alternative can still be worse. If the captain had saved the Titanic but made an error that caused 200 fatalities, his actions would still have saved 2,000. Those who disagree with me are morons who are part of the collective suicide cult.

What I write is the truth as I see it. I may have to revise my views, but the truth I present to you may be the truth that saves you. You may find older writings of mine, but insofar as they contradict my current ones, the latter reflect a greater deal of experience-based realism, not a fundamental change of view. God isn’t going to change human nature, or so I gradually came to assume, and human nature is more problematic than I previously thought in my naivety. It also took me fifteen years to realise that I had to become a dictator and endure a leadership cult. That is far worse than my worst nightmare. And so, it took time to accept it and find peace within. Whatever will be, will be. Every perspective is to some degree arbitrary, as is every order. Yet, I must tell you what to think because the collective intelligence of humanity is less than that of a single worm.

Learning history is one thing, but experiencing it is a different ballgame. The Dutch culture of the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries formed me, just as first-century Jewish culture shaped Jesus. The Netherlands is an agreeable place to live in, a paradise, maybe. Yet, progress comes with drawbacks and losers. Feminism came at the expense of conservative men. If they can, they will reverse women’s rights. You don’t have to doubt it. Conservative men rewrote the Bible to that end. And so, you also don’t have to doubt that the winners write history, or rewrite it, as MAGA tries to do with slavery.

I must rewrite history once again by focusing on the underlying mechanisms and human nature to show that culture is the decisive factor in building an agreeable world society. Of course, I believe I am right, but if you aren’t the winner, you can’t write history, and there is no point in being right. Luckily, might makes right. And as faith can move mountains, we can make the rest of the world a better place. God’s plan seems to be that Europe has been the battleground of ideas, so the Hegelian dialectic has progressed the farthest there, and the outcomes of this grand experiment should guide our future. We face fundamental disagreements about the direction we should take, leading to an authority crisis and a moral crisis. As Judgement Day approaches, it seems no coincidence that the International Court of Justice is in The Hague, the Netherlands.

If the world is to become one society, it will be multicultural. It is an intermediary phase, as cultures will gradually give way to folklore, because we will live by the same standards and myths and know that we share a common destiny. We must find out what the future requires of us, and from there, define acceptable conduct. None of the major cultures currently in existence meets the requirements, so the change will be hard on everyone. Yet cultural differences remain the last obstacle to the unification of humankind. And that can be fixed. The Danes descend from the raping and pillaging Vikings. The Viking raids ended soon after they had become Christians, so beliefs shape cultures.

Only a brutal truth exercise that spares no one can save us now. These are shitty issues, and you can’t fix them without getting your hands dirty. Coming from a family of farmers, I am not afraid of shit. The starting point could be the separation of the good and the evil ones, so the sheep and the goats, so it will be the Day of Judgement. You either fit in God’s Paradise, or you don’t. It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is what you do. If we care about the world, we can’t have those who don’t care ruin it for us. There is no place for excuses. And you can’t have people believing in other myths because we will fight over them until we are all dead. Those who don’t fit in can’t live among us, and have to go to brainwashing centres to clean up their minds or to prison labour camps to repay their debt to society. Most will probably return to society at some point.

Make America Go Apeshit

A 2013 poll indicated 26% of Americans believed that Barack Obama is the Antichrist or might be.¹ Most of these people later voted for Trump. Compared to Obama, Donald Trump is a jackass. No woman has accused Obama of sexual misconduct, nor did his name pop up in the Epstein files. Racism plays a role here, but it is not the entire story. The introduction of public healthcare insurance has infuriated conservatives. Barack Obama once gave the following Easter message, ‘Michelle and I wish you a joyful holiday filled with the enduring power of faith and hope.’ And Donald Trump, ‘Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell. Praise be to Allah.’ Why some think that Obama is an evil genius, and a Muslim, while the Allah-praising Trump is the best choice for Christians, is a mystery for those who don’t comprehend America.

The hatred of progressive presidents has a long history. John F. Kennedy faced the John Birch Society’s Wanted for Treason campaign. The John Birch Society had found that Kennedy was a communist and that communists had infiltrated the highest ranks of the US government and were conspiring to create a totalitarian one-world government. The supposed proof for that was the US administration’s attempt to prevent the spread of John Birch Society propaganda. To American conservatives, the expansion of government or international cooperation like the United Nations smells like communism. These are collectivist organisations. And communists oppose and repress religion, so it is Satan’s work as well, in their view at least. That goes a long way in explaining these sentiments.

If he had them, Kennedy did an excellent job of hiding his communist sympathies. After, like a true puppet of the Military Industrial Complex, having grilled his opponent, Eisenhower, during the election campaign for neglecting America’s defences, making Eisenhower warn of the influence of the Military Industrial Complex at his farewell speech, he risked World War III with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those geniuses at the John Birch Society saw through all that and found Eisenhower to be an even more dangerous radical leftist lunatic extremist. While conspiracy theorists, with their eyeballs glued to their computer screens, were busy analysing every move by every secret society and imagining countless others, the John Birch Society has taken over the United States, with a little help from Russia’s secret services, by making people believe these conspiracy theories. If that was the plot to destroy America, it has succeeded marvellously.

The system is as corrupt as that of France before the revolution of 1789, and it only grew more corrupt until conservatives finally had enough, gathered behind Trump, and threw out the old order Republicans. Now, liberals and conservatives hate each other’s guts. To illustrate the point, on 31 December 2025, someone reposted a RealDonaldTrump social media post on Reddit headlined ‘Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!’ It featured a photograph of a dead bird, not a bald eagle, near a windmill in Israel, so not the United States. I reacted jokingly, ‘At least, Donald Trump was real.’ These were unmistakably his words, and he posted them as RealDonaldTrump. That was the joke. The post was downvoted. It is impossible to say whether Trump haters or Trump lovers did it, because both groups lack a sense of humour, but something is wrong with those who found it offensive.

Conspiracy thinking is more widespread in the United States than in the Netherlands. Conspiracy theories often relate to the facts, but if you investigate them, much remains unproven, inaccurate or wrong. Conspiracy theorists don’t adhere to strict logic. Pizzagate may be a fabrication, but they claim the Epstein files prove it. If you call conspiracy theories hunches, they make more sense. We don’t know what’s going on, so getting the direction right is already a success. And if you remove the crap, the New World Order conspiracy theory has a lot going for it, as does the belief that Jews run US politics. Worse yet, the conspiracy theorists aren’t paranoid enough by far, as the scheme is much more elaborate than their wildest imaginations. These secret plots are all part of a greater plot that seems to include the ultimate psyop: undermining trust in US society to make America go crazy and ready for the messiah. So, MAGA could stand for ‘Make America Go Apeshit.’

Idealism and realism

A good society is based on social trust, which requires everyone to be trustworthy. There are always people trying to take advantage of others, but when there are few of them, most people keep their end of the bargain, and social trust is high. If you believe that others are as trustworthy as you are, and you are trustworthy, you are willing to contribute to the common good. It also works the other way, so degenerate morals become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Rewards and punishments can help to make people obey the rules and keep the group focused on the common good. It is why we have prisons and fines. As we are nearing an apocalypse, we face a global collective action problem. We can only save ourselves if we do it together. That would normally be impossible because tribalism and money are both stronger than any moral system, except in fairy tales.

Only one of the disciples betrayed Jesus. That already proved fatal. Judas must have witnessed God’s power, if we are to believe the Bible on the matter, yet he betrayed Jesus, either out of patriotism or greed. He may have hoped that Jesus would oust the Romans to establish a Jewish state, and grew disillusioned, or the lure of money proved stronger than his fear of God. And only one Indian patriot sufficed to murder Mahatma Gandhi. Since then, India and Pakistan have been one step away from a great patriotic war with nukes. It is why we may be incredibly lucky to be simulations, with God controlling the script, and thus have a chance of success. Without a script, being a messiah is a losing proposition, with zero chance of success, not worth entertaining for rational individuals.

Muslims are no better than Christians. Money also turns their religion into a hollow custom. Where the oil money flows, the rich flaunt their excessive lifestyles, leaving their less fortunate Muslim brothers to toil in misery. A few might generously donate to religious charities helping the poor or funding nutters who blow up things and murder infidels in the name of God. Yet they are more interested in building the tallest skyscrapers. And Jews? We don’t even have to discuss the Jews. So, what about the Dutch? Yeah, what about whataboutisms? It takes one to know one. So, if economic growth and competition are killing us, then trade and money are the problem.

Not all merchants are evil people. Many are not. It is the system we work in. How to deal with that problem comes next, but solving it begins with identifying the cause. We can’t do without trade and money, so the odds of religion defeating money in a realistic scenario are zero at best, for their corrupting influence is hard to contain. The privileged never have enough. And those who have the money decide what happens, and you need money to make money. Greed will prevail unless brute force ends it. That force must be truly brutal, as even the communists weren’t up to the challenge. And they have tried very hard indeed, and they had an impressive stash of weapons, so you can’t blame them for not trying hard enough. You must be willing to murder billions of people and have the means to do so, like God, to frighten us to the point that we stop listening to the merchants.

As for the question I asked myself as a teenager, ‘Is it possible that communists had good intentions?’ If you know how deep the problem runs, you can only appreciate their effort. If there is no God, as the communists believed, we, the little people, are on our own, against the superior force of money and tribalism, and religion blinds people from these brutal facts, so there is no chance at all that we survive. The elites will play us out by sowing divisions with religious and nationalist fairy tales. They make others toil for them so they get rich without working. It will end in destruction, albeit it will be creative, economists assure us, so that our suicide will go down in memory as a form of concept art.

The elites fund think tanks that tell us fairy tales about individual freedom and make us fear collectivism, so that we will not unite and overturn the order in which they are our masters, and we are their serfs. And we, the gullible people, need myths to believe in. The communists faced that brutal truth and tried to stamp out nationalism and religion. Maybe for that reason, they named their newspapers ‘The Truth’. Only communism doesn’t change human nature, so their economic system performed poorly while a new class society with an elite of party bureaucrats arose.

Moral pragmatism is getting by and hoping that God will save the day. Moral idealism is not waiting for God and trying to create Paradise on Earth. A sizeable group of Christians holds the latter view, but also atheist progressives, ranging from communists to liberals. The cynical view is more prevalent among conservatives. Whether we try to make the world a better place or not, human nature makes the apocalypse a done deal. Humans are a failed species, and only God can save us. As Christianity points out, we are sinners and need a saviour. We must leave our cynicism behind and care about other people and nature, while understanding that everything is interconnected, so our actions affect others and nature, and transgressions that disturb the balance in Paradise are heinous crimes.

Since the Hegelian dialectic is how God sees social progress, and the West has progressed the furthest, the West will lead the way. My reason for focusing on the United States is that Americans are pragmatic, get things done, and are the most eager to receive the messiah. Many are literally begging for the Second Coming, so I am not going to criticise them, as only God can save us, and God wrote the script. Compromising with the old, corrupt order is a dead end. We need a spiritual rebirth, must break away from the system run by merchants and usurers, ground our society in ethical principles, and make humankind live in harmony with nature. Europe will probably be next, and the rest of the world will follow. That is my guess for now. Things hardly ever go the way I foresee. Yet, they go precisely according to God’s plan.

Central planning of every detail doesn’t work. The communists have tried hard enough for us to know that trying harder wouldn’t have helped. And you cannot design a society on assumptions alone. Luckily, history provides plenty of insights. And you have to think abstractly, in terms of systems with parts, properties, and relationships. Experienced software engineers design, build, test, start small to see if it works, correct errors, scale up, and fix bugs until the system operates smoothly. That is, unless changes are required. Then, you have to do it all over again. Small changes can have a dramatic, unexpected impact. It is why the absence of further changes is the single most crucial success factor in this endeavour to build a world society for the coming 1,000 years. Future generations must resist pressures to improve if things were okay to begin with. Things were okay in Eden, and the improvements that followed since then only made matters worse.

Selling versus convincing

US politics is also corrupt because moral corruption in the United States is a cultural issue. In that sense, Americans have the government they deserve, as it reflects the spirit of their nation. America has a tradition of moral pragmatism, in contrast to Europe’s idealism. You convince Europeans, but sell to Americans. The difference is not just in the wording. It reflects a cultural divide. I have heard Brits use the phrase, but in a negative sense, meaning getting scammed. It is more common in the United States, where it has a more neutral meaning of becoming convinced. The United States is a nation of salespeople. Markets have no morals, and the ethic of the merchant is no ethic at all. And salespeople lie as much as politicians or even more. A typical American book is Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, and its cover claims it is the book you need to succeed.

To have success, you have to be ‘genuinely interested’ in other people, the book tells us, so you can sell to them and get rich. In other words, the ‘genuine interest’ of Americans in you might be fake, and you can check by looking for dollar signs in their eyes. That was what I felt when visiting the United States more often than at home. If a Dutchman shows interest in you, it is genuine, or politeness, so usually not with personal gain in mind. And so, the Dutch may appear to be jerks, as they show less ‘genuine interest’ in you. On message boards, I found Americans to show as much genuine interest in me as the Dutch. Carnegie’s book also tells us that people can’t handle criticism and that we should praise rather than criticise them. That is why this world turns to shit. Telling suicidal morons that they are morons doesn’t make them see the light.

So, if an American likes your argument, he buys it as if it were a product. It is a different idea of truth, and a corrupt one. It sheds some light on why religion and climate change denial are more widespread in the United States than in Western Europe. It is part of the American success story. Money is power, and bullshit sells. We are religious beings who need myths to believe in. The typical American phenomenon, less seen elsewhere, is the confidence man, the snake-oil salesman, the grifter who sells you a dream, or stuff you don’t need, for which you go into debt, and pay interest to the usurers. A bit of corruption greases the wheels of industry. It contributed to America’s success. And the United States is not the most corrupt country. Yet, compared to North-West Europe, it is more corrupt.

You may not buy the science of climate change because you don’t like taking public transport or cutting back on meat. And so, you buy into climate change denial. That makes you morally corrupt, but no problem, you can buy the story that Jesus died for your sins, and believing that will get you into heaven. That Jesus died for our sins is pretty unbelievable, and if you had been honest and truthful, you would have questioned your faith, which Western Europeans do more than Americans. Americans believe something because they want to believe it, not because they think it is the truth. That is how salespeople’s minds work. So when the truth about Santa Claus came out, my sister said, ‘I continue to believe in Santa Claus as long as he brings me presents.’ And she became a saleswoman. It also relates to the religious climate in the United States, which differs from that in Europe, most notably among Protestants.

Moral corruption particularly affects some denominations of Protestantism, such as Evangelicals. Protestantism emerged in response to corruption within the Catholic Church. Protestants take moral integrity seriously and make it a matter of personal responsibility. Catholics merely followed the Church’s lead. Yet, Protestants also take the scriptures seriously. It is why there are so many branches of Protestantism differing on the correct interpretation of the scriptures. It opened the door to a different form of moral corruption. You can find a justification in the Bible for evil deeds if you pick selectively. What the Bible says is right and wrong is not always objectively so. But if you, as an American moral pragmatist, make it a matter of popular sentiment rather than of objective moral reason, as idealists in Europe tend to do, you may end up on the side of evil. Paul condemned homosexual acts in no uncertain terms. We don’t know Jesus’ opinion on this matter, but he said not to judge and that he who is without sin should cast the first stone.

There is no objective moral reason to condemn gays and lesbians or deny them the right to marry. It became a contentious issue for Protestants, who take both scripture and moral conscience seriously. When you follow the scriptures on this matter, you shut down your moral conscience, which makes you evil. And if only faith can save you, you don’t have to do good works to compensate for your misdeeds, so you can be evil and still be saved. That is a nice package that you can sell. Who does not wish for a free pass into heaven? Catholics merely followed the Church’s lead, and Catholics must do good works to compensate for their sins. That, at least, was not pure evil.

This morally corrupt Protestantism also existed, but didn’t prevail in North-West Europe. Many of the least corrupt countries are there, while LGBTQ rights in these countries remain uncontested. Meanwhile, Catholic priests lived the good life, which the Dutch call ‘het Roomse leven’ or the Burgundian lifestyle. Jews, as Karl Marx observed, are amoral merchants, and this, rather than racism or religious bigotry, stands at the root of today’s anti-Semitism. Jews are often the merchants and usurers who buy the American politicians. It makes the moral corruption in the United States a sensitive issue, most notably because anti-Semitism has led to the Holocaust. This particular account also demonstrates the ubiquitous nature of culture in our conduct and that the harm we do to each other is often a cultural phenomenon. Now we are at the bottom of the manure pit.

The appetiser Donald Trump

I have been incredibly fortunate to have lived a peaceful, prosperous life in Western Europe during its most agreeable era. For most of my life, I have barely realised it. The situation you live in looks normal to you. It is not. Living in post-war Western Europe is like winning the lottery jackpot of history and geography. The welfare states of post-war Western Europe have been among the brightest spots in an otherwise bleak history of humankind. I wish that everyone could live a life like that, but you can’t have a paradise if not all the right things are in place. They hardly ever are. Barring a miracle, things aren’t going to stay pretty. The European paradise is fading due to war, resource shortages, environmental degradation, political instability, migration, and technological change.

Paradises don’t last. Due to competition, we live in a ‘dynamic environment.’ Competition is a destructive force, even though a creative one, as economists assure us. Donald Trump recognised that. Tariffs are a measure to reduce competition. The Soviet bloc survived because it had irredeemable currencies, hampering trade with the rest of the world. Had they chosen to do so, the Soviets could still be there, mired in stagnation, as North Korea still is. If the United States continues on that path, it will become more like the Soviet Union. Yet, if we don’t halt the competition, we need artificial intelligence to keep up with our rivals, and humans may soon become useless.

For an engineer, there are systems, relationships, variables, inputs, outputs, actions, their consequences, humans with properties, groups with properties, how they interact, and where all that leads. We are cogs in a system, doing our acts, not unique, wonderful, deserving individuals, as many people would like to think. If we were, we would all have been like Mahatma Gandhi, and humanity would have done fine. Gandhi was truly one of a kind. My ethical standards do not come close to his. And I should be your saviour? Yet, as an engineer with far more data at my disposal, I confidently claim that the system will lead us to our destruction. What would otherwise be the point of being a messiah? For me, unlimited authority would be a tool in the engineer’s toolbox, nothing more, nothing less.

Being like Jesus is not enough to succeed. Mahatma Gandhi might have been even more morally pure. Gandhi did what he did purely because he believed it was right. Jesus did what he did because, like me, he was in love and saw no way out. God suggested that I was also Adolf Hitler reincarnated. You can’t fix the world’s problems if you don’t have the guts to do whatever it takes, as Hitler had. Jokes helped deal with that inconvenient truth, such as imagining coming on stage after an introduction by a lady in tight stockings and a hairdo like Helga from the comedy series Allo Allo, who would raise her hand to give the Hitler salute and scream, ‘Our Great Leader!’ Then, I would come up and say, ‘Oh, it’s me. Shame and scandal in the family.’ My mother wasn’t my mother, and she didn’t know.

Donald Trump hurts people’s feelings, but you may soon forget that Donald Trump was such a jerk. You are a bunch of delusional morons busy committing suicide, and I must tell you that. I have worked on a concept plan for the future of humankind that may last for 1,000 years. Such a plan can only lack in detail, but it must set out how to address the most relevant issues we face. The plan is a scary jump into the unknown, also for me, but not making that jump comes with a near-certain fatal outcome. I don’t think that God is on my side. Jesus made that mistake. I play the role I am supposed to play, thinking that failure is worse than death. As the Dutch say, ‘Death or the gladiolas.’ Success or death.

Donald Trump has acted as if he were above the law. A messiah must be above the law. The joke is on me as it would be a l’état-c’est-moi situation, a term that the bureaucrats at my secondary school coined a long time ago, or as the former Dutch minister of immigration, Marjolein Faber, once put it, ‘I am policy.’ A messiah has the divine right of kings, or as the Chinese would say, the mandate of heaven. That is an absolute rule no one should question. It can provide political stability that enabled the Chinese to administer a vast empire and survive as a nation for over 2,000 years. That would require a stable situation, as change will upset the balance. A strong state made that possible. Europe became dynamic because there were no strong states in the Middle Ages, so merchants could take over. That is why we are facing the apocalypse.

Kicking off a revolution

Many, perhaps most, US politicians are corrupt, but Donald Trump tops them all, even though, unlike ordinary politicians who accept bribes to finance their campaigns, he and his entourage exploit the office for personal gain.² There appears to be insider trading preceding Trump’s social media posts.³ So much for draining the swamp and ridding US politics of corruption. By his own admission, Trump is a pussy grabber who would ‘do’ his daughter had she not been his daughter. At least 26 women have accused him of sexual misconduct.⁴ Dutch television once aired a fragment, probably because it was hilarious, of a preacher standing in front of Donald Trump, with Trump putting up his best sanctimonious face. The preacher thanked Trump for ‘saving America from Satan.’ Then my wife, Ingrid, said, ‘Look! There you have him! That’s Satan!’ She meant Donald Trump. She was joking, but that can only be funny if there is some truth to it.

My wife doesn’t dislike Trump as I do, and tends to look on the bright side of what he is doing, and forcing Ukraine to accept a bad deal? That’s fine with her if it ends the war. Taking out Maduro? Things were bad in Venezuela already. He ended the Gaza war, sort of, at least. Invading Greenland? She didn’t express an opinion. Bombing Iran back to the Stone Age? They shouldn’t have a nuclear bomb. My wife’s feelings didn’t form that opinion. At the very least, the orange madman is impulsive, vindictive and unwilling to listen to others. When I later recalled the moment, my wife said the preacher had said ‘Antichrist’ rather than ‘Satan.’ His lambasting of the pope’s peace efforts, while portraying himself as Jesus, and the religious display by Donald Trump and his inner circle in the Oval Office, give him a strong shot at the title of Antichrist, who is just a boogeyman, only mentioned in John’s first epistle. And so, you shouldn’t make too much of it.

Trump being a jerk is why people voted for him. When order falls apart, we revert to gangsterism and choose gangsters as our leaders. As a result, the Trump gangster regime and MAGA have become the world’s first and foremost problem and the gravest threat to world peace. The US regime threatened to attack Denmark to secure security guarantees it already had, tore up a deal with Iran, and started a war with Iran to acquire a worse deal, while leaving the rest of the world without oil and fertiliser, thereby triggering possible famines. The regime’s next war could be against Cuba after the corporate Supreme Court ruled that Exxon should receive damages for the Cuban nationalisation of its assets. That ruling means corporations run the world, not governments, and that the US regime can attack Cuba, make the Cubans borrow to pay off Exxon and pay interest to the usurers forever. Also, not particularly helpful is the US regime’s stance on climate change, which is wrecking the planet as we speak.

And so, the United States has lost its right to exist as an independent nation. If the messiah comes, he will put an end to the nations and their leaders, so that is to be expected. Donald Trump should face trial in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. The United States can’t give him a fair trial. Liberals may want to hang him, while conservatives might want to give him a pass. Whether trying to overthrow a legitimate election result constitutes treason may remain a matter of contention but that Donald Trump and his pal Bibi Netanyahu violated international law and committed crimes against humanity by starting the Iran war cannot be in doubt, as the world’s ultimate expert on murders committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law, Vladimir Putin, called the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei a murder committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.

On 15 May 2025, precisely 8647 days after 11 September 2001, former FBI director James Comey posted a photo of seashells on social media spelling ‘8647’, a code for removing Trump from office. That drew the ire of the Trump regime after the MAGA movement had previously sold hats with ‘8646’ on them, calling for Biden’s removal from office. The Trump regime now considers writing the number 8647 an act of terrorism. There is no evidence suggesting that Comey intended that 8647-day interval, but he could have. Yet, the incident is also part of the 11 September 2001 coincidence scheme, which is beyond the capabilities of human conspirators to organise.

I hadn’t thought about how to oust Trump, but God, in Her great and eternal wisdom, provided me with an idea. In April 2025, I dreamed of being part of a crowd in The Hague during the NATO summit scheduled for that summer. The leaders of the NATO member states were all there. When Trump passed by in his car, I began to scold him in Dutch, ‘Hij is een hondenlul (He is a dog dick).’ It is an offensive slur that football fans sing when disagreeing with the referee’s decision. For a moment, there was absolute silence. Bystanders were shocked, making me fear that the police would round me up. But then the crowd joined in, and the singing grew louder until it became a thundering chant. It made the news worldwide, and in every football stadium, it became the chant. From then on, no one called him President Trump anymore. Everyone called him dog dick.

Play time is over. Adults should run the world. If I am Adam reincarnated, I am 6,000 years old. There may be no one else left to save you. If you are a suicidal moron, you probably do not like my message and my plans. So, let me be very clear. I don’t need you. You need me. If you don’t want me to be your leader, that’s fine with me. I never wished to become the overseer of the lunatic asylum called humanity. And if you succeed in murdering me, it will be your problem, not mine. You will have to live with it, even though that may not be for long, but then you may be lucky if you are among the dead. I don’t know, but if I am the messiah, that is plausible. So maybe you can grow up, leave your infantile beliefs behind, and sing along with the opening chant of the End Times, ‘Donald is a dog dick’.

Latest revision: 3 July 2026

Featured image: AI-generated

1. One in four Americans think Obama may be the Antichrist, survey says. The Guardian (2013).
2. The Corruption Chronicles: Donald Trump’s profiteering from public service, by the numbers. Kei Chin, Michael Beckel, and Oliver Ni (2025). Issue One.
3. The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump’s presidency. Nick Marsh (2026). BBC.
4. The 26 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Eliza Relman and Azmi Haroun (2017). Business Insider.