WASHINGTON DC: Abuse and cuss words do not add meaning to any conversation. In the world we have been raised in, invectives and expletives are often conversation killers. I am the last person to use slurs against anyone, let alone advocate for them. However, during my travels across the US over the past month, amidst witnessing a historic bloodless revolution, I could not help but notice that the offensive language used by both Trump supporters and critics carries a deeper significance.
After the massive violence and devastation of WWII and the creation of new states, the world quickly embraced politeness in speech and manners. It seems people wanted to forget the ugliness of human slaughter and move forward with hope for peace and joy. To avoid conflict, political correctness became a crutch. But in prioritizing niceties, the world—especially democracies—became pretentiously peaceful on the surface while seething beneath. Over time, this facade turned farcical, with everyone able to see the suppressed rage hiding behind the polite veneer. Politeness to the point of caricature becomes a lie. Those lies have taken a toll—psychological, financial, economic, and social. People have come to care more about image than reality, investing more in appearing good than in doing good. The world now prioritizes veneer over substance, to the extent that many prefer comforting lies over brutal truths. Some even admit they avoid the truth because they fear the mental toll it would take.
This environment has been ideal for the superstate, the globalist elite, the deep state, their legacy media stooges, and entertainers. For too long, they have benefited from people’s disinterest in the truth and their fear of confronting facts. They exploited societal politeness, political correctness, and individuals’ hesitation to express themselves. They understood how societies behave like herds and how the obsession with a “good image” gripped the world after the horrors of mid-20th-century wars.
So, they maintained a tight grip on what was deemed appropriate or inappropriate, politically correct or incorrect, and what lines could or could not be crossed. Like myself, those who refused to toe the line faced penalties and demotions. The consequences for anyone daring to use abusive language were even graver.
When President Trump, during his first term, began using offensive language to counter his opponents, he disrupted the biggest matrix—the narrative. He broke the code and triggered a chain reaction. By tearing down the wall of politeness, he empowered the previously silent to find their voice. He planted the seeds of revolt against a pretentious, ostentatious world. In turn, his critics responded with abuse, vitriol, and even violence for eight years. Yet, they, too, shed their masks of politeness and superficial kindness. One could argue he brought out the worst in his opponents, but it marked a shift away from fake decency.
In human history, never before has abuse been so democratic, and never has dirty laundry been aired on such a scale. With Trump’s comeback, this new culture, with the help of Elon Musk and his platform X, is solidifying. Politeness and formalities are no longer required. I see the wall of lies crumbling. I see the plaster of pretence cracking. I see the obsession with maintaining a good image being dismantled. People are speaking freely—this is democratization at an unprecedented level, free from fear of reprisals. The many lies and secrets carefully guarded by the superstate are now on the verge of exposure. Even those who didn’t want to know and don’t want to hear the truth are being confronted with it. It is bringing people up to speed. It is courage thrust on humanity. It is lending a hand in our journey on this planet.
This is real freedom of speech, and this is what makes a nation truly great. Americans have always valued this freedom but since the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963, many seem to have forgotten what this freedom meant to begin with.
As victims of manipulated censorship driven by their political correctness and exploitation by the deep state, they, along with the rest of the world, remained in a fog of ignorance until last week. After taking office, President Trump, among a series of executive orders, signed one approving the declassification of three significant assassination files—those of President John F Kennedy, his brother and presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
This is extraordinarily historic, as few nations, including India, have shown the courage to publicly unveil their dark secrets and murky wrongdoings since WWII. What these files reveal may not be palatable to many American audiences. However, Trump’s actions, first through his use of provocative language and now with the release of these files, have served to toughen his citizens, preparing them to confront offensive truths rather than remain fragile in the face of offensive realities.
The bitter truth, as nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr. wrote after Trump’s bold decision, is that for decades, American intelligence officials have relied on a strategy of deception, secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation to obscure critical truths about JFK’s assassination. This approach, Kennedy noted, has since been applied to other major crises — including the assassinations of MLK and RFK, the Vietnam War, 9/11, the Iraq War, and COVID — each contributing to the erosion of democratic values and strengthening the influence of the Military/Medical Industrial Complex, pushing us closer to authoritarianism.
It is not easy for those who have believed in the US deep state’s propaganda about its greatness to accept the reality that the US deep state may not be the epitome of virtue and goodness. But Trump’s shock therapy has demonstrated that America, as a nation and society, has a tremendous capacity for introspection. It can break free from stagnation, adapt to changing realities, and prepare itself well in advance for the future. Trump has begun to make America great again on that front.
