...there is an entire industry devoted to keeping these people in their bubble and keeping reality out.

As long as there are "others" to blame they will never, ever have to face reality.

Religion is an Illusion too yet rationalists are a minority.

How many must suffer before the "truth" comes out and people believe it?

From the fall of Rome to the Enlightenment was several hundred years. Can you wait that long?

..I believe the fall of Trump will be relatively short. Too many activities that will be proven.."illegal"

I'm very afraid of what Spanky is going to do to my dreams of being able to retire anytime soon, he's going to crush the economy and I'll be screwed. And that's just me, there are millions more in this country without adequate healthcare who Spanky will gladly hurt just to erase one tiny bit of President Obama's legacy.

And my fear is the cost of dragging people kicking and screaming from their bubble of delusions will be akin to WWII or worse. Here's hoping it's more like the downfall of McCarthyism and Nixon.

the cult of Hitler seems alive and well in 2018 in spite of the millions who died in its wake. Some skulls are too thick to ever be penetrated; they are helmeted with hatred and desperation.

ingrained mind-think. They are hard-wired for it, no choice. It's pretty much reflexive reactions combined with cult tribal behavior. Trump falls in that mindset too for many, and then there are those that see great money opportunities and power by being Trump sycophants. Trump has tapped into the hatred in the US and has reinforced that hatred into political action. It's dangerous times in the US. If the GOP Trump Cult still maintains congress after the mid-terms, the US is going to decline even more rapidly.

The Republican Party spent 50 years developing this cult. It won't go away anytime soon.

did incalculable damage to both Europe as a whole and Germany itself.

We can't wait for reality to do the job "eventually." We have to get it done a lot sooner than that.

disbanded and returned to being citizens. Some fled or were patriated to other nations, as in Argentina or even here in the USA. True believers lived to fight another day and to teach another generation.

says will eventually happen to the Trump movement and his cultists.

And is still going strong and in the third generation.
Reality is not always an efficient disinfectant.

Lots of institutions are based on illusion. Religion for example. Did Mohamad really fly off to heaven on a horse? Did Jesus really float off to heaven after his resurrection? Did winter suddenly turn to spring the day Kim Jung Un was born? Illusion is a strong and lasting force.

The guy created new taxes on the middle class, tripled our national deficit, sold weapons to our enemies, and conspired with terrorists to keep American imprisoned. He put Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussies on the US payroll. When will the facts of life catch up to the St Ronnie fucks?

Not only do all Republicans believe the gospel of St. Ronnie, I'd say half of Democrats (especially many who we actually elected) do as well.

and he was a criminal and gay hater - denied AIDS epidemic for well over a year. And still repugs jerkoff on the temple of Saint Ronny.

hell.

Nowadays some Americans are actually living in that bubble of fake news and fake lifestyles. This is why Faux News exists - to feed the bubble.

every dollar the working people have into the bank accounts of the ruling rich. Maybe that will happen in another 20 years.

hope you are right but I seriously doubt it.

...indicate it should happen. Remember the internet bubble in the 1990s, Henry Blodget and all of that? Those that shorted lost their shirt. The reason why is because for some it is easy to tell when you are in a bubble, but it is impossible to time its ending.

You are right, there is a Trump bubble, they are stepping away from reality, but assuming that reality is a regulating mechanism is unfortunately not true. The economy, and the political economy, is not truly as efficient as many make it out to be. We experience "market failures" all the time. As an infrastructure economist I see this all the time...

or like an addict they have to hit bottom before they end in prison or dead.

HOW many years have people believed that an all-powerful sky daddy arranged his son's death so that he could get over making us the way he supposedly made us?

nitwit.

All twitler's flunkies can see how the stink wore off of li'l bush's flunkies -- now we're listening to busheviks' opinions on the tube. Their opinion is that twitler sucks, to be sure, but even a toddler could understand a power dynamic like this.

So current trump mutant operatives can see the cushy landing, though they're not quite as astute as the average add afflicted toddler.

...but those who want to believe in illusions will always be with us.

Most every sacred belief or strongly-held philosophy around the globe is based on illusion. The structure of nation-states, economic systems, political parties, and family and social structures are constructed from illusions, built out on illusory foundations, and buttressed by illusions.

Trump will be gone, hopefully sooner rather than later, but his cult will live on long past his (fingers crossed) brief time in the office. I fully expect the motherfucker to be a folk hero to the Right for a generation or more.