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Donald Trump is a canary.
9 years ago
Donald Trump is not the problem.
Yeah, go ahead and point and laugh, talk about how dumb I must be to believe that.
Donald Trump is not the disease.
Donald Trump is a SYMPTOM.
He is a racist. This has been established over and over again.
He is a sexist. Good lord. From the sexual molestation of women to the locker-room comments, this is 100% a thing.
He is xenophobic. Blatantly discriminatory against Muslims, immigrants, and myriad other groups.
He is a narcissist. Sues anyone who disagrees with him, wallows in self-aggrandizement, the works.
He has no experience. He has never been a part of the public service sector before.
None of this is a mystery. I'm nobody special. If I knew about all of this, pretty safe to say that everyone else did as well...or at least, everyone who has any interest in politics. Hell, he went out of his way to make it known enough times, I'd have to be pretty thick not to pick up on it (and somehow able to avoid media in all its forms).
Here's the trick. Knowing all of these things, WE ELECTED HIM AS OUR PRESIDENT. AS THE FACE OF OUR COUNTRY. WE'RE TELLING THE WORLD, "THIS IS WHO WE ARE."
And it wasn't particularly close. It's not like he squeaked ahead by five or ten electoral votes. Right now, CNN is showing him as being about 70 electoral votes ahead. He crushed her. And in doing so, he's performed a great service to this country before his presidency even begins, probably completely unintentionally.
Wait, what?
Even if Trump had lost the election - even if Clinton had defeated him and taken the White House - the fact that it would have at least been a close race reveals that this country has devastatingly huge problems. It reveals that the issues that have plagued us throughout our history are as bad as ever, maybe even worse.
The fact that a racist, sexist, xenophobic, inexperienced narcissist should do so well in our system, the fact that the messages of fear and hate and intimidation that he spread so publicly should cause him to actually claim victory instead of being metaphorically run out of town tells me that the sentiments that he preys upon - those of fear and hate, of division and anger - are in control of enough of our society that his false promises of being freed from those negative emotions are not only accepted, but are enough to secure for him the leadership of one of the most powerful countries in the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have been played. Our weakness has been used against us. If it hadn't been Trump, it would've been someone else. This is like blaming the gun for the shooting death. The answer, then, is not to turn away people like Trump. The answer is to use him as a mirror. Realize that he is not showing us anything false; rather, he is showing us an uncomfortable truth about who we have chosen to be.
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." - John F. Kennedy
It's too late for this election cycle. The die has been cast, and maybe for the better. Maybe it's better that we should slog through four years of misfortune, that we should see the results of our behavior. Like stubborn children who refuse to accept responsibility, maybe it's important for us to see that choosing to be weak HURTS us in the end.
We need to become better than this.
We need to defeat the demons Fear and Hate.
We need to learn to stand up for what's right.
We need to take our lumps, understand what we did wrong, and fix it.
2020 isn't that far away.
This speech rings true.
Yeah, go ahead and point and laugh, talk about how dumb I must be to believe that.
Donald Trump is not the disease.
Donald Trump is a SYMPTOM.
He is a racist. This has been established over and over again.
He is a sexist. Good lord. From the sexual molestation of women to the locker-room comments, this is 100% a thing.
He is xenophobic. Blatantly discriminatory against Muslims, immigrants, and myriad other groups.
He is a narcissist. Sues anyone who disagrees with him, wallows in self-aggrandizement, the works.
He has no experience. He has never been a part of the public service sector before.
None of this is a mystery. I'm nobody special. If I knew about all of this, pretty safe to say that everyone else did as well...or at least, everyone who has any interest in politics. Hell, he went out of his way to make it known enough times, I'd have to be pretty thick not to pick up on it (and somehow able to avoid media in all its forms).
Here's the trick. Knowing all of these things, WE ELECTED HIM AS OUR PRESIDENT. AS THE FACE OF OUR COUNTRY. WE'RE TELLING THE WORLD, "THIS IS WHO WE ARE."
And it wasn't particularly close. It's not like he squeaked ahead by five or ten electoral votes. Right now, CNN is showing him as being about 70 electoral votes ahead. He crushed her. And in doing so, he's performed a great service to this country before his presidency even begins, probably completely unintentionally.
Wait, what?
Even if Trump had lost the election - even if Clinton had defeated him and taken the White House - the fact that it would have at least been a close race reveals that this country has devastatingly huge problems. It reveals that the issues that have plagued us throughout our history are as bad as ever, maybe even worse.
The fact that a racist, sexist, xenophobic, inexperienced narcissist should do so well in our system, the fact that the messages of fear and hate and intimidation that he spread so publicly should cause him to actually claim victory instead of being metaphorically run out of town tells me that the sentiments that he preys upon - those of fear and hate, of division and anger - are in control of enough of our society that his false promises of being freed from those negative emotions are not only accepted, but are enough to secure for him the leadership of one of the most powerful countries in the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have been played. Our weakness has been used against us. If it hadn't been Trump, it would've been someone else. This is like blaming the gun for the shooting death. The answer, then, is not to turn away people like Trump. The answer is to use him as a mirror. Realize that he is not showing us anything false; rather, he is showing us an uncomfortable truth about who we have chosen to be.
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." - John F. Kennedy
It's too late for this election cycle. The die has been cast, and maybe for the better. Maybe it's better that we should slog through four years of misfortune, that we should see the results of our behavior. Like stubborn children who refuse to accept responsibility, maybe it's important for us to see that choosing to be weak HURTS us in the end.
We need to become better than this.
We need to defeat the demons Fear and Hate.
We need to learn to stand up for what's right.
We need to take our lumps, understand what we did wrong, and fix it.
2020 isn't that far away.
This speech rings true.
That is all.
The money knows that people are pissed, they're oppressed, they're being crushed by the establishment. So they put forward Trump or someone like him who can flap their gums angrily and get the media spotlight on them and away from anyone who has any real agenda.
Like every other politico, He is not about to do anything for the oppressed (i.e. Middle) class except tax them into submission, erode the education system still further, until there are only two Castes in the USA. The support caste (i.e. minimally paid slaves) and the ruling caste. It's what they've been working for since Reagan, and it's what they will succeed with until the body revolts and vomits up the toxins corrupting it.
No, Trump is not the problem... he's just the distraction from the pain and the ointment to ease a few symptoms while the toxins poison the body.
Not quite true; Trump won most of the electoral votes, but Clinton was slightly ahead of him in the popular vote. (Clinton 47.7%, Trump 47.5%, error 4,8%) So you're actually pretty evenly divided over this election.
But you're right that Trump is only a symptom of the real problem. I don't know if it's fear or hate or a political system that bows to he rich and ordinary citizens can't influence at all, or straight, white, ignorant males wanting to hold onto their privileged status and just not seeing or caring that it's not fair and they really don't need it anyway. Maybe it's all of that, or something else, but it sure as heck ain't nothing! Whatever your problem is, I guess you do owe Trump a debt of thanks... nothing else, just thanks... for exposing it.
Incidentally, just our of curiosity I ran some numbers. Assuming Trump and Clinton should split the error equally and the difference between them in the popular vote really is exactly 0.2%, that's 637,800 Americans, (assuming a population of 318.9 million, which is probably a bit low.) That's enough for about six armies!