"Christian"; "Peace"; "Mercy"; "Goodwill"; "Hope".
At first glance it seems surreal that an individual who is a war-monger abroad, who is content to allow food banks to replace benefits at home,
who is presiding over the slow voluntary holocaust of the disabled as cuts drive them to despair and suicide, for whom the very act of government itself is merely the administration of our transition from a nation of citizens to an accounting unit of abject corporate chattels, should utter these words.
Is it a joke?
Or does he really not actually understand the meaning of words. Is his disconnection from reality so complete he finds their semantic content as slippery as an eel that eludes his grasp.
Why does it seem to us that he deploys words such as "peace" and "hope" in a way that is not just inaccurate or insincere - as politicians often are - but in a way that is somehow unnerving?
It is the sincerity of the psychopath that unnerves us. He means what he says to the extent possible for someone who doesn't know what the words he says mean. We are receiving lectures on colour from the colour blind.
As ever, there is some sort of psychopathic algebra of language at work here. Words do not carry meaning for David in the same way they do for you or me. They are like cards in a game, with symbols written on them that have no intrinsic meaning, but which must be shuffled and dealt according to some arbitrary rules in order for him to succeed.
That is why the word "peace" is offered here when "war" was played so successfully a few weeks ago. All that matters to the psychopath is the cards on the table now, and these make "peace" part of a winning hand on this occasion.
The psychopath has no ideology, which makes being a "Christian" when required all the more easy. "Mercy", "goodwill" and "hope"? We are all just beads on an abacus that David's handlers in the City toy with as they calculate our futures.
There is a Christmas message David could have given that rings true.
But condemning the massacre of innocents in Syria? Advocating the expulsion of money lenders from the Square Mile? Finding somewhere to stay for homeless people in the middle of winter when there is no room at the inn? Gathering kings from distant lands to commit themselves to a message of peace?
These are ideas that convey a contemporary relevance only accessible to those who know what the original words meant in the first place.
You're all missing the point entirely.He's not talking to YOU, he's talking to middle England and that's exactly what his pollsters and advisors have told him to say.
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