Yee-Ha!
The white supremacist redneck revolution is upon us! And I’m not afraid. I surprisingly do not have the doom and
gloom that I had when Bush Jr. was elected. And yes I know he’s not a junior. How can Trump trump Bush, who Nostradamus prophesied many
years ago would be the village idiot who started WWIII, taking America from a
balanced budget to owing trillions to banks and other countries (check that
Armageddon move off of the list.) and who initiated the most un-American
policies, the dreaded Patriot Acts, another great move? The one thing that brought me some
relief is that we don’t have to worry about the rednecks storming the gates, as
some of them said they would do if Trump lost the election. We don’t have to worry about this
Armageddon event because the people who decided not to vote in states like
Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina gave them the key. And I hate to say that the election
boils down to the bigger responsibility of folks in swing states, but it does
because, unfortunately, our often-flawed electoral system does not always represent
the popular vote.
However, the one thing that Trump will likely be able to
trump Bush at is at having a lower IQ.
Bush slaughtered the English language, something that uneducated white
voters do not seem to care about, and Trump is exactly the same in that regard,
if not worse. And Trump may be the
king of the use of mantras, which are in his case repeated jargon to empress
tabloid media viewers. He is the
king of tabloid media, again a mainstay of uneducated voters. And when I say uneducated, I do not
mean those who do not posses a college degree, although that is likely the
case; I mean those who have no interest in learning and fill their time with listening
to hate mongers on tabloid radio and television. To these people, Trump is their idol and king.
His campaign goes to show that a little recitation goes a
long way. The republicans have become very astute in that game. They realize that if they recite
something enough times, uneducated white voters will believe it and
respond. “I’ll end NAFTA and get
your jobs back.” They believe this in Michigan, but unfortunately the factories
are gone or lying in rubble never to return. “She’s a liar!” They believed this one too, never even
considering that the man they believe in lied to countless small and large
contractors and businesses in his bankruptcies. He told them repeatedly, “Don’t worry. I’m Donald Trump;
you’ll get paid.” And then, not once but sixteen times, he filed for
bankruptcies, leaving a trail of lies and billions of dollars of debt behind
him. This is the man
disenfranchised white voters have put their faith in.
The day after the election, the stock market plunged;
uncertainty is a dangerous game to investors, and, in one pull of a curtain’s
evening, many of these disenfranchised white voters lost thousands and years of
investments. The stock investors
realize that we face an uncertain future, and perhaps that is how it always has
been; however, this time a little less than fifty percent of the American population
has put their faith in a man who does not represent their touted religious
values or their ideas of simplicity.
But what they resonate with may be that he speaks their language, the
language of hate. And I hate to
admit that about my fellow Americans, that so much hate must reside within
them, hate directed towards anyone not male and not white. And yes many women obviously voted for
him; they are the wives of the white supremacists.
This is not the roar of the American people that I had hoped
would one day happen. This is more
a case of the clash of the titans.
In this case the titan is Trump and the disabled people and veterans and
anyone not white and not male are his potential victims. His idea of a great
America is from another time, a time of racism and sexism and hate that we are
still reeling from and, I’d hoped, for most of us, a time we were eager to
leave in our wake behind us.
But the real reason I woke up with some tiny morsel of hope
is that Trump has been a registered Democrat for much of his life and had
actually contributed to Hillary’s first attempts at the presidency eight years
ago. I wondered for a moment if
this television personality, who knows nothing about politics, but knows very
much about how to fool people, has actually duped the republican
disenfranchised white male population into believing into a false idol.
And even if he is that horrible and may be politically
incorrect when he travels to visit foreign leaders and dignitaries, ultimately,
we still have a congress and a senate, who, because they are a majority
republican, will follow his lead mostly, but may actually do some thinking on
their own. Thinking is what is
always a dictator’s enemy. So even
if he is that horrible, I dare ask, how horrible can he be? I also considered what if he just wants
the prestige of being president because he’s just that egotistical. As Bush did, he may leave a lot of the
real work to his vice president, which, as in the case of the Cheney Saw Massacre,
may not be such a good possibility for us after all. However, at least in Bush’s case, he was a two-term governor
of the state of Texas, so he came to the presidency with some experience. In Trump’s case, he has no experience
in being a diplomat, nor a states-person.
But because of Trump’s mostly failed attempts at comedy and his shady
past, hardly any, if any at all, note-worthy republican politicians dared to
even be in the same room with him for fear of ruining their political careers
or just because he disgusted them that much, and this too gave me some hope
even though he apparently won the election.
About the only noteworthy republican that openly supported
Trump would be the FBI Director James B Comey, the man who re-opened the witch
hunt against Hillary in the last week of the campaign and only admitted to
finding no new evidence two days
before the election. Hillary
Clinton has never actually been charged for any of the crimes that Trump and
many of his supporters had accused her of. However, the FBI has spent millions in taxpayer dollars in
one investigation after another. The mainstream media publicized the
investigation, but neglected to properly show that this again was yet another
witch hunt, a witch hunt that likely stole valuable energy away from her
campaign via her staff’s and her own attention and time.
I’m not a Hillary lover. I voted for Bernie in the primaries. However, she has the ability to behave
presidential and to be the states-person this country needed. She is a world different in class. Yet, in my opinion, she did not rebuff
his personal attacks effectively during debates. She might have simply responded with her programs and plans,
ignoring his childish remarks. I
know she did do some rebuffing, but I wish she’d done more. And I wish that the moderators had
targeted their questions towards policies and plans and had not allowed so much
of the rude behavior of letting him constantly interrupt Hillary. It was their job to control the debate. And to the dismay of some viewers, they
failed at it horribly. However, I do realize that because of the nature of at
least one untrained participant, Trump, their job of monitoring two trained
professionals became nearly impossible. And some viewers must have hooped and
hollered after every time he ignored a question and just yelled, “She’s a
liar.” I see characters like Beavis and Butt-head sitting on their sofas, “Yeeeahhh man. She, she, she’s a liar.”
And I wish that in her campaign commercials, she’d shown
clips of him calling Americans stupid and acting like a disabled person in
order to make fun of disabled people and the many other video clips floating
around in the now tune of thousands, but democrats like to play fair even when
the other kids on the playground are bullies.
Still there are ways to stand up to bullies, but in the end;
I don’t think I could have done any better. In fact, I’m sure if attacked the way she was, I would have
responded with much less diplomacy.
Republicans have personally attacked me during political debates many
times. In these situations, I
usually try to bring the conversation back to the issues, but then the other
angry person returns to name-calling, a personal attack on my character. And the situation usually accelerates
to verbal violence. When someone
begins to yell and lie about my character because he doesn’t like my views on a
political issue, when provoked repeatedly, I have stabbed back with words that
are truthful to the attacker and cutting and very hurtful to him because they
ring true. I have harmed
relationships with members of my family in this way. Even if others choose to
follow the bullies of the world by name-calling as a device to win an argument,
yelling a truth or some flaw about the other person’s character or credibility
is not always the best way either.
And I do not think discussing the miles of Trump’s
atrocities in a debate would have benefited Hillary’s position either, but
pounding the airwaves with the truth about him would have been very beneficial
since he was making cartoon images of her as advertisements. The truth is that he is a cartoon
character, no artist needed to draw that portrayal. It was already there.
And just for clarification, name-calling in an argument is a tactic
called an ad hominem, a word that sounds like the title of a cartoon, and in the
world of logic and reason, this fear-based tactic is a logic fallacy. To evade answering important questions,
or in Trump’s case, to avoid revealing any real plans he might have as
president by attacking all of his opponents with his tabloid primitive tactics of
spewing insults, as in “pathological” in the case of Ben Carson, is more than a
logic flaw, it is bullying behavior, something that is evidently endorsed by a
little less than fifty-percent of the voting population.
I say less because, apparently, for the fifth time in a
presidential election, the electoral votes did not go to the most popular
candidate since Hillary actually received more of the popular votes. For the honor of winning the popular
vote and not the electoral votes, the actual election, she is preceded by
Andrew Jackson, Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, and Al Gore. And we all know how loosing that last
name turned out for the country, not very well at all. Will the ballot boxes float back to
shore this time also? Since Trump kept screaming voter fraud, I wonder if he
had his had in that cookie jar too.
I know from experience that whatever bullies say about others is usually
actually about the bully himself.
However, this may not be the case at all. It may simply be the case of an imperfect system in an
imperfect world. And even though the electoral system we have adopted may not
be necessary any more, Hillary winning more popular votes, in the population as
a whole, doesn’t explain what happened in the yellow states, which actually
should be called purple for the mix of red and blue. And unfortunately, very soon, these voters will likely feel
bruised when they realize that none of the boisterous claims that Trump made
hold any truth. They will feel
like the investors and contractors that he lied to and left with billions of
debt.
I do, however, understand the idea of many citizens feeling
angry about their circumstances.
Perhaps they have lost jobs or have had to accept much less paying jobs,
or perhaps they have health problems because they eat so unhealthy but lack the
knowledge to help themselves or think eating healthy is too lefty or hippy
dippy, so they refuse to believe the brainwashing of eating more vegetables and
less saturated fats made from hormone and pesticide filled animal products,
which of course we know is not brainwashing but common sense. Or perhaps they lack the fortitude to
take care of themselves in getting back into the maze of finding new jobs and
learning new skills because they’ve always relied on a corporation for a job,
and change is very scary to them.
As in Who Moved My Cheese by
Spencer Johnson, the little people known as the Haws will eventually get back into
the game and leave the scared to change little people, the Hems, behind, hoping
that the Hems will join them because the cheese has been moved and waiting for
it to magically return is a recipe for insanity and failure.
And yes, I have called him names, but
unlike his name-calling of every potential candidate and especially Hillary,
there are volumes of video evidence to back up his un-presidential,
gesticulating foul-mouthed cartoon persona.The media, unfortunately, also worked on Trump’s behalf by
giving him enormous free publicity. I suppose his antics made reporters’ jobs easy. He is the king of the carnies, a
constant over-the-top exhibitionist that his Apprentice followers and now his
apostles have grown to love. His
racist and comedic gesticulations inspire them I suppose. The media served up every grunt and
scream, and scene of his personal attacks on both republican and democrat
politicians; He was even repeatedly captured on video acting out slap-stick scenes
in his performances, which could have been on Tom and Jerry. And yes, he is Tom. 
He is a performer.
Americans have become used to being entertained by reality television
comedic tomfoolery. I wonder if
some Americans actually despise fact-checking and discussions of actual topics
that are of importance because none of his performances actually discussed any
policies or proposals he might have as president except for bombing other
countries for oil and Muslim deaths (to protect the Christian right), building
factories in the rust belt, (which he will not do) and, for his big trick,
building a wall around our Mexican border for which Mexico will pay (He forgot
to mention that to the president of Mexico in their meeting). I call these
performances because it’s a stretch to call his name-calling, shenanigans
speeches. Speeches usually rely on
the foundation of argument; they have a point other than to call an opponent a
liar or to make fun of veterans. And
on the rare occasions when a moderator at the debate actually asked him a
policy question that took more than a reply of “I’ll bomb em,” he would say
check my website; it’s all there.
He said this because the few policies he does have, he didn’t actually
write and can’t actually explain them.
What president in history could say, “Grab em by the pussy,”
on a recording, and still be elected?
What president could have not one but two ex-wives with which he
committed adultery? Who would be elected after saying, “I could stand in the
middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters?” He said
this in the primaries. What man could win the heart of the religious right and
be the same man who would encourage his wife to pose naked for a magazine? He
is nothing that his constituents have ever stood for or voted for. He goes against everything that they
profess to hold valuable. Touché!
His plot to win them over with rhetoric has won, and he should be commended on
his success in fooling so many people.
He has fooled these uneducated white voters thus far, but I
wonder how he plans to read and comprehend the many bills that will soon cross
his desk. On President Obama’s
first day in office, he not only read the bill he was about to sign out loud but
also translated it into laymen’s terms because bills are written in highly
formalized legal speech, which is difficult for the average person to
understand. And since Trump
usually has a trainload of lawyers to deal with such inconveniences as actually
reading documents, how will he handle having to read and understand documents
on his own accord? Americans have
elected a man who not only does not speak standard American English, but who
campaigned by not allowing none-white people to attend his conventions, and who
may not be capable to actually comprehend and do the task of being president,
which is to be a respectful states-person, representing everyone in our country
- who we are to the rest of the world.
And if we have elected a buffoon who can barely finish a sentence, what
does that say about us?
However, he won with less votes than John Kerry when he lost
to Bush and than Mitt Romney when he lost to Obama. Were the democrats in the swing states so angry that their
candidate Bernie Sanders wasn’t nominated that they stayed home? And how many voters saw the two,
Clinton and Trump, as both substandard, so that they just opted out of the
system as a way to show that they will not vote if they are not given viable
choices? I can see these
arguments, but what I wrote to my friends, who thought this way, is that the
alternative was unconscionable.
Hillary was a viable choice, not amazing like Bernie, but presidential,
intelligent, well spoken, experienced in politics and actually concerned about
other people. And now we are living an unimaginable reality and will be living
it even more in the next few months and years.
A white supremacist, cartoon buffoon, may be unimaginable to
me, but he is not unimaginable to many Americans. The one thing that Trump must have in common with his
supporters is that he is openly racist.
He threw out every African American who tried to attend his rallies,
even the one guy who actually was a Trump supporter. Does almost fifty percent of the American population agree
with and support racism to that degree?
I thought that there was no way this clown could possibly be elected,
that Americans were made of solid stuff, not the fluff of hate, created by the
propaganda of the white supremacists, who I thought were an extreme minority in
this country. On November 8th,
we found out that uneducated haters are not an extreme minority but an almost
majority.
He called Americans dumb many times during this campaign,
and he proved it on November 8th. Again, he was right. He said he’d win, and he said that
Americans were dumb enough to vote for him. Sadly, he was right.
And I blame
myself. I was busy going to the theatre while I should have been in
Florida campaigning, being the educator that I am, inspiring folks to think by
asking the important questions. I’m
sure I am not alone in my democratic guilt. And now we will all have to pay the
price for our collective selfishness.
Dumb Video
“I could shoot someone.”
His one black supporter, he mistakes for a thug and throws
out of the rally.
Student’s who purchased tickets were thrown out. How did he know they were
protesting? All they did was
stand-up? Oh, they were
black.
Grab em…Video
What is left for us to do?…Be brave.
Misha Collins Video
Who Moved My Cheese Video
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