TRIGGER WARNING! I’m going to be using the word President in combination
with Donald Trump and Obama. I will also be using the words Republican,
Democrats, Hillary, Clinton, immigrants, Gypsies, liberal, sexual predator, conservative
and variations of all these words. If your mind is made up either way about the
current and ongoing crisis with our government please avoid reading this.
We approach the world from our own
history and perspectives. They are unique to us. I certainly have mine.
Sometimes through personal enlightenment, experience or education we change our
approach or ideas. Screwing up, and I mean seriously screwing up, is also a
great teacher.
And sometimes we have to rise above our
personal beliefs and/or experiences.
Now obviously
I am going to be talking about President Trump because he is the current
leader, and I use that term loosely, of our nation. (This sentence is one
reason I provided a trigger warning at the very beginning.) I will only mention
Hillary Clinton in passing. (Again remember the trigger warning and go to your
safe place.) She’s gone. She’s outta’ here. Not going to be President. Not
happening. That’s the way it is. Okay? Bernie neither.
Watching the
current train wreck of government would be easier if it was some other country
and if it weren’t for the fact that we’re on the train. We have witnessed what
is currently taking place in the United States in other countries. I am old enough
to remember the Soviet Union coming apart practically overnight. I would not
have said that was possible then but it happened.
In the latest
credible poll I read that 85% of Republicans still support President Trump.
Eighty. Five. Percent. I thought to myself how in the world is this still
possible after nine months of failure, corruption, chaos, pettiness and failed
leadership on multiple levels. He’s a President that has both completely
reversed himself on campaign promises and been incapable of delivering on his
promises. At least this same 85% would have called for the impeachment of
President Obama for even the smallest fraction of misdeeds that Trump has
committed.
How is this
possible?
“I could stand in the
middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.” –Donald
Trump
That’s the
answer. Trump provided it during the campaign. It’s as true today as it was
when he said it then. From then on he never meant any of it and meant all of
it. It was an easy con.
He’s their man
in the White House. Period. He’s white. He doesn’t like Mexicans, Muslims,
black people, gays, immigrants, the disabled, Puerto Ricans, poor people,
Democrats, Republicans, our court system, public education, the environment, etc.
unless they’re working as servants at one of his resorts or hotels. He also has
a good-looking white wife. (You can see naked pictures of her if you want. He
helped with the photo shoot. BTW How many male world leaders have looked at
those?) He likes insulting and making fun of people. He’s vulgar. Lying is as
easy as breathing for him. Not only is he ignorant about world affairs he couldn’t
care less, and they like that because they would just as soon stay away from
the rest of the world anyway. He finds fault but doesn’t accept blame. He’s a
white nationalist. He isn’t a President that is interested in the truth.
Neither are his supporters. Simply put: they don’t care if the President lies.
Now I don’t
base these statements on the news. They’re based on watching actual videos of
him and listening to actual audio files of him speaking. The internet is full
of videos of him lying. In one of the earliest videos of his campaign he said
without equivocation that he would release his tax returns. No excuses. No ifs,
ands or buts. Just straight-forward look a person in the eye statement.
Obviously that was a lie.
Is Hillary
Clinton in jail? Nope. But that doesn’t matter. He said that he wanted her in
jail. They didn’t believe he would put her in jail anyway, just as they didn’t
believe all the things that he said that he would do on the first day. It turns
out he has plenty of time to golf. Plenty of time to tweet. Plenty of time to
blame others. No time to govern.
It has taken
me awhile to understand that it is absolutely immaterial to the majority of his
white supporters what kind of man and President he is, what he has or hasn’t
accomplished. They aren’t in denial. They admire what he is. They aspire to be
like him.
He is them.