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But to my surprise, 74 million American voters went
into their polling booths and pulled the lever for Donald
Trump to continue his madness and verbal assault on the
norms and rules of democracy.
You can only make the grim assessment that many of
those voters were inculcated into the Trumpian Madness that
corrupted their ability to see that they were being taken to
the cleaners by an accomplished con and grifter.
Remember when people were aghast about the carnage of
the Jim Jones mass cultic suicides that took place years ago
in Guinea, a coastal country on the continent of South
America?
In that cult, Jim Jones was able to persuade people
that he was the only one that they should look to and follow
and all others were “the enemy” and the enemies were out to
persecute them.
Jim Jones went further than Herr Trump in that he was
able to convince many (some by force, it is reported) that
mass suicide, by swallowing a poisonous cocktail, was
honorable and the only way out of the impending persecution
that was about to befall them in their jungle hideaway.
Over 900 people, including children, went into
eternity based upon the ravings of a nutcase and his
henchmen.
Herr Trump has made claims that his followers should
not believe what they see and hear from “others,” but only
believe him, a self-reported extremely stable genius.
Trump demonized the media, Congress, the courts and
anyone else who spoke up against him or who criticized him
for his lunacy.
Their fear? That for any GOP figure who criticized him,
Trump would fund an opponent against him or her in the next
election, or he would send out deleterious tweets about
them! Yeah, fear of a tweet caused many a GOP politico to
shiver and shake in their boots and to hide under the cloak
room table hoping that they would not face the wrath of Herr
Trump.
Trump’s base (the ones whom Hilary Clinton rightfully
called “deplorables”) chose Donald Trump as their alter ego
and champion of their resentments and their warrior in their
hidden and not so hidden cultural warfare against all things
not white.
Trump, smelling their fear of becoming a minority
grouping in the year 2042, stoked those fears with his
racialized hatred and his total ineptness of the ways and
means of governance and how the Constitution works.
These are the policies and pronouncements his 74
million-plus voter base knew of and yet still desired; and
were willing to have Trump do four more years of the same if
it meant keeping them in power, helped along with the
acquiescence of the spineless GOP leaders in the Senate:
*lies about President Obama
*destroying vital foreign relationship with allies
* building a wall and lying that Mexico would pay for it
* allowing the appointment of hundreds of conservative
judges to the
federal judiciary which could have the effect of decimating
Affirmative Action
and voting rights, income parity, saving the environment and
equal rights under the law
*castigating Muslims
* bashing Black women as female dogs
*making fun of the disabled
*using his office to enrich himself and his family members
*covering up his “crimes” in office to the point that he was
impeached.
*eradicating the guard rails that were in place to prevent
overreaches by
a President
*favoring Vladimir Putin (his puppet master!) over US
intelligence regarding
Russian activity in corrupting US elections
*pardoning or granting clemency to thugs, murderers, cons
and swindlers
*giving open cover and comfort to white hate and white
nationalist groups
*repeatedly speaking disparagingly of women and mocking them
*a daily stream of lying and half truths tweets that were
designed to sow seeds
Of discontent and chaos into both the culture of America and
to call into question the pillars of what constitutes, truth
The above statements (and hundreds of others) were
affirmed and ratified by millions of Trump voters as they
are OK with them; and by their recent record turnout and
vote for Trump, they wanted more of the same!
The crisis in America is not so much with Trump but
with the America we know as our next-door neighbors who are
willing to trash democracy if it means that white political
power survives, and their economic hegemony can be
sustained.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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