In fact I think I think that this
terrible man with zero self control who despises the poor, tramples over anybody
in his path, misrepresents his wealth, trashes women, quotes Mussolini, does
not denounce the KKK, stirs paranoia, racism and hatred, embraces conspiracy
theories, lies pathologically and has positive support from one foreign
leader—Vladimir Putin—actually has quite a good chance of being America’s Next
President.
I wonder what Hitler looked like to the masses when he was on the rise and before
he gained absolute power. Possibly not that dissimilar to Trump at the moment.
Apart from giving racists and bigots permission
to voice their hatred he gave ordinary people permission to voice their frustration
and they’re the ones he cleverly manipulated and who ended up handing him his
power on a plate. But how many of them would have supported him if they had
known the trajectory he was on? Probably not so many. The signs were there but
they didn’t want to look. And they were carried on the wave of his peculiar
kind of personal power. Look how that ended, for Jews, for the world. And,
let's not forget, for Germany.
Trump is telling his supporters to raise
their right hand in salute to him. He has a vitriolic hatred for poor people,
is a pathological liar and a misogynist, encourages racism and bigotry, whips
up anger, promotes violence, calls for curtailing freedom of the press, permits
and even encourages the beating up of protesters, is running on an anti-Muslim
platform if you can call what he's doing a platform. Now he's anti-Islam. It’s
beyond believable.
No, beyond believable is that he had
brought a bunch of his Trump Wine and Trump Water and Trump Steaks to one of
his rallies. He made a big deal about the steaks. But Trump Steaks doesn’t
exist as a business anymore and those steaks were from Bush Brothers’ Provision
Company. Oh the irony.
How can a single thinking adult in the
world support him? I decided to write to all the delegates who have endorsed
him so far and beg them to see the reality and think long and hard about what
they’re doing. Wiki has a page on Trump's delegates.
I started with Jeff Sessions, US Senator
from Alabama. From his photo on Wiki he looks like a sensible guy. Then I read
a little.
Ah. On February 28 this year he endorsed
Trump. On March 3 Trump picked him as chairman of his National Security
Advisory Committee.
And not such a sensible guy after all. Jefferson
Beauregard Sessions III was born in Selma in 1946. He doesn’t appear to have
been much moved by Civil Rights activities. He referred to the NAACP and the
ACLU as communist-inspired and un-American because “they forced civil rights
down the throats of people”. He also called African-American Assistant US
Attorney Thomas Figures “boy” and said “be careful what you say to white
folks.”
He said once that he thought the Klan was
okay until he found out they smoked pot. He was joking of course. The Klan is
something to joke about?
He was a big Bush legislation supporter,
including for the 2001 and 2003 tax cut packages. He’s against same-sex
marriage and opposed the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Act. He also voted against
adding violent acts based on sexual orientation and gender identity to federal
hate-crimes law.
He’s anti-immigration reform. And he voted
for expanded construction of a Southern border fence. Of course he did.
I guess I won’t be writing to Jeff
Sessions. Not much point. Moving along, the next guy on Wiki’s alphabetical list
was former US Senator Scott Brown.
He looks like a nice guy too. I looked him up on Google
images. Oh. Very nice guy. Once a model, he posed nude for a centerfold. Not
surprising, given that body. His story is pretty moving, though. He had a
difficult childhood. His parents divorced when he was a year old and his mother
lived on welfare, then he was abused by his stepfathers and a camp counselor who
threatened to kill him if he told anybody. He got into politics and not everything he did was bad. A moderate Republican, he was the first GOP Senator to support a federal ban on assault weapons after Sandy Hook..
I could write to him, I thought. I looked
for more about him and found an article on abcnews.go.com.
He said “I know all of the candidates and I
respect the hell out of each and every one of them” and that he endorses Trump
because “I know he’ll surround himself with people who want to do it for the
flag. But, no disrespect to any of the other candidates because I truly love
them. Chris and Marco? I love them like brothers from another mother.”
Cross Scott Brown off the list. Two down
and four hundred odd to go… Maybe it was a bad idea. But I tell you what’s a good
idea, and that is to read Trump:
An American Presidency by seasoned journalist Steve
Majerus-Collins.
“A fictional oral history of the administration
of President Donald Trump. The book examines what might really happen if Trump
were to come out on top in November. Would he build his wall? Defeat ISIS? Make
America great again or destroy it? It's a quick read but one that offers some
perspective on a candidate like none before.”
The introduction is amusing and I thought
great, I’m in for a riotous read. I was. But it was one of those books where your blood runs cold while you’re
laughing because the picture the author paints should just be
absolutely fantastical but it isn’t; it’s absolutely and horribly possible.
This gem of a book is only 99c. Buy it because you're worth it! Trump:
An American Presidency. I hope not. For the sake of America. For the
sake of the world.
