Evert is a writer-performer. He grew up in apartheid South Africa and was raised to be an elite Afrikaner fascist. However, something went terribly wrong in his choice of teenage reading material, and between Darwin, Freud and Bertrand Russell, he ended up rejecting his nation, his religion and his family. When a riot of white cops vs. black protesters sent a teargas canister rolling into the lobby of an ad agency heʼd just started, he thought about emigrating. Then the apartheid regime banned his first play A Very Butch Libido, and he took off for the freedom of America. He continues writing plays, novels, poetry and songs, and attended the OʼNeill Playwrights Conference in 1993 with a play about torture. In advertising, his work on the Absolut Vodka campaign rocketed the brand from nowhere to the #1 import in four years; it's now the longest-running campaign in advertising history. He performed his one-man show How to Cook a Man on three continents. His rock group, the Dingbots, created the rock opera Kidd Radar, available on iTunes and CDBaby.com; their video The Obama Karma Song is on YouTube. A semi-legend on the 1990s slam poet scene, he won the 1997 National Poetry Slam, and starred in the PBS documentary Slammin'. His poetry is anthologized in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and collected in Suck My Poem from Lulu.com. He's working on his first musical, Cinderella and the Empire of Chocolate. Email: evertcilliers [at] yahoo.com
by Evert Cilliers aka Evert Eden It was the most riveting TV of the 21st century. And why? Because we saw two American faces under the greatest strain. Something you only see acted out in the final moments of some grand fictional drama. Something Eugene O’Neill might’ve written. But here it was for real: an…
by Evert Cilliers aka Evert Eden When it comes to evil, nobody beats Hitler. He committed the biggest mass murder of innocent humans in all of history. Six million Jews, and that’s not even mentioning all the people who died because Hitler started the Second World War. But Hitler is not the only mass murderer…
by Evert Cilliers So our pussy-grabbing porn-star-banging supplier-stiffing majority-vote-losing Mexican-Muslim-hating Charlottesville-excusing family-separating racist Liar-in-Chief goes to Europe and trash-talks our allies. But when he summits with Vlad the Journalist Killer (50 dead so far), Trump goes softer than a marshmallow on a stick over an open fire. A weak bully. Trump’s up-sucking to Putin was…
by Evert Cilliers The freer the market, the more people suffer. Look what happened after Bill Clinton signed the two bills that deregulated Wall Street with the repeal of Glass-Steagall (the firewall between regular and speculative banking) and the removal of derivatives from all oversight: Wall Street tanked the world. And who got bailed out?…
by Evert Cilliers There are the Bill Cosbys and Harvey Weinsteins and Matt Lauers of this world, and then there are the Al Franklins and the Aziz Ansaris. There are those who need to be in jail — Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Bill O’Reilly, Russell Simmons, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump — and those…
by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash I'm currently living in an Ingmar Bergman dreamland of cinematic ecstasy, because I'm watching 43 of his films in a retrospective at Manhattan's premier arthouse, Film Forum. Bergman would've been 100 this year, and this retrospective will be shown in some other cities in America and the world. Bergman…
by Evert Cilliers Hitler and Mussolini came to power because they were freely elected by their people, with the complicity of many in the established political class. Can the same thing happen in America with the freely elected President Trump, who is being coddled by our established political class in the GOP? After all, in…
By Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash Democracy is supposed to be OK. It's supposed to reflect the will of the people. So how come our government has just passed a big tax reform bill that most of us don't like? How come we've got a president whose approval rating is totally meh? A president who…
by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash When President Trump took the office of President in the year 2017, few Americans could have predicted the huge changes to come under the rulers that would follow him — changes inspired by his unprecedented example. And few could have predicted that this man, who started with an approval…
by Evert Cilliers (visuals by David Thall) 1. Actor Kevin Spacey: "All my life I've gone around groping other men, or falling on them bodily when I was drunk. And I never got into trouble about it until Harvey Weinstein blew it all up for us sex harassers. Now they've gone and canceled my series…
by Evert Cilliers (original visuals by David Thall) I want to suggest a new fault line that runs through the American psyche. It's not about race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ideology (conservative or liberal, feminist or sexist), geography (north or south, east or west coast) or any of the attitudes about these basic differences. It's…
OK, so here we have a racist bigot, a sexist serial assaulter of women, an utter crook, who had to settle the fraud of Trump University for $50 million bucks, a braggart who cheats in his golf game, a man devoid of morals, a fat lump of loathsome excrement, and he is our president.
At least now, with the theory of Trump As The Deeply Wounded Man, you are reading something about Trump that you have never read before. I don’t think his father cared much about him as a young boy — or rarely showed it when Trump was say twelve or younger. And that explains Trump.
Will Trump make us normalize inhumanity?
You can’t fight Trump unless you forgive the folks who voted for him.
You call this a democracy? The American government does not represent the American people.
Just you wait: the Donald Trump presidency is making an Elizabeth Warren presidency inevitable.
By now, it is firmly established that the kindest thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he is a sexist, racist, serially lying, up-his-own-ass narcissistic, sexually assaulting, short-fingered douchebag deluxe pussy-grabber.
Hillary is wrong: ALL Republicans are in a basket of deplorable (not just half of Trump’s supporters).
1% of humanity are psychopathic, and Trump is a shining example of this horrible disorder. Clinical psychologist George Simon has said that Trump is “so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example of his characteristics.” He conducts lectures and seminars on manipulative behavior exhibited by narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths. “Otherwise, I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes. He’s like a dream come true.”