In 2016 Donald John Trump received just slightly more than 62,894,000 votes for President. Those people will tell you they voted for Trump for a myriad of reasons.
Some of them will tell you they voted for him because he had been a successful business man. He had a business record that was there for the world to see. He had driven multiple business ventures into the ground. From airlines to casinos he had managed to fail magnificently. In spite of these failures he claimed to be worth 10 billion dollars. No one ever asked him to prove it they just accepted the word of an habitual liar.
Some of them will tell you they voted for him because he didn’t care about being politically correct. Hold on to that because we’re going to come back to it.
Some of them will tell you that they voted for him because of his christian values. That one really strikes me as funny because #Dearleader wouldn’t know a christian value if it bit him in the azz.
Then there are the ones who voted for him because he promised them that he was going to build a wall on the southern border that Mexico would pay for. I think we must have gotten stiffed on that one or heaven forbid it was another Trump lie.
Those Trump voters will give you a ton of reasons for voting for Trump but not one of them will say that he appealed to them because he is a racist. They won’t tell you that he is a xenophobe or intolerant of non white people. They won’t acknowledge Trumps racism because to do so they would have to acknowledge their own bias.
Today not one Republican Senator would comment on Trumps threat to unleash troops on US cities and US citizens. Not one Republican Senator would comment on Trumps inability to deliver a healing message to the country.
Today I still saw Americans commenting on how the election in November would change things. I’m perplexed and amazed. I’m perplexed because in the face of a facts that have the President of the United States doing everything that he can to prevent states from making voting by mail available on demand. I’m perplexed because the President has made it abundantly clear that the only thing that matters to him is winning. Winning at all cost. I’m amazed that even with a mountain of evidence to the contrary that people still cling to the belief that we will have a free and fair election.
We are in the midst of a global pandemic that has taken over 108,000 souls. The POTUS no longer even makes a pretext of having a plan. We are shipping ventilators to Russia as though we have nothing else to worry about. I guess it’s don’t worry be happy time.
We have a national crisis regarding racial unrest brought to a boil by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. This may well be Americas longest and most far reaching experience in domestic upheaval.
The Presidents response is threat based. Not conciliation. We are sitting on a tinderbox with a third rate grifter with a chip on his shoulder holding the matches. Yet people still cling to the belief that an election will right the ship. There is no Knight riding in on his charger to save us. We do it ourselves or it’s a wrap. I am perplexed and amazed.
THINK!!
EYES WIDE OPEN!!!