Let me be crystal clear: I despise Donald Trump.
Millions of Americans do, but to be fair, millions love the man.
They see him as their hero, the savior of the United States.
Which he may just be, if you’re looking for someone with his qualities.
A vile, lying, racist thief. A raping, wife-cheating clown capable of convincing many that he is the best and brightest of us all. A con-man extraordinaire.
Trump is the epitome of an American--if you know the real story of America.
He thinks he can take what belongs to others, treat them with malice, abuse their women, lie about who committed the crime, and then bad-mouth them all while the people--stunned into silence--believe HIM!
This is truly an American tale.
Europeans came here and did the same thing to the Natives, making treaties only to break them, stealing the land, calling them "savages" and using their Bible to justify taking everything they had, all while the so-called "Christians" watched in stunned silence, only later to cheer when we declared we were all about liberty and justice for all.
America created Trump: we gave him every historical reason to act like the vile scum he is.
Americans who refuse to study the past are not only ignorant, they are determined to return to that past through the one man they see has all the characteristics of that ugly history: Donald Trump.
After pushing the natives off the land here, after enslaving millions to work that same land, our forefathers wrote a constitution that stated this:
Really?
Justice has been denied so many for most of the history of the United States. Even now, the wealthy—like Trump—can get permission to stay out of jail while they throw derisive comments at the court.
Domestic tranquility? How was that ever going to be established while slavery was permitted and even condoned—by the church! Sick!
Secure the blessings of liberty?
I guess I should have read the rest of the sentence…”to ourselves and our Posterity.” In other words, to those of us who are wealthy, white landowners and our offspring.
Fuck the rest of y’all.
But hey…America loves Trump, because, well Trump is America.
At least the America that was.
If you're standing with Trump, you're standing with pure evil. He is a man who not only assaulted women--and admitted it--but he had sex with a porn star while his third wife was home caring for their new infant son. He then paid that porn star to keep quiet so the whole world wouldn't know he is a philanderer.
In addition to his endless lying, his stealing from citizens who gave him money for charities or pilfering money he said he was raising for Veterans is beyond the pale. But he hates Veterans too, because--unlike others who served honorably--Trump lied about bone spurs to avoid serving, then called Veterans "losers," and stole money from them.
Even getting to the White House didn't change Trump; he couldn't accept defeat, so he attempted to overthrow our democracy to soothe his own sick ego. Then he stole nuclear secrets.
Trump is a rapist, a liar, a thief, a traitor, and a clown. On top of it all, he fools people into believing he loves God. But Trump is an anti-Christ—doing nothing that God commands—and if you follow him, you are hopelessly lost.
America made Trump: he is fashioned out of our own history: the deep, dark ugly history of how America was built. Built on the backs of slaves working land stolen from the natives.
We indoctrinated our children into believing we were a good people, that we built this nation as a beacon of hope for all the world, when in truth, America was contrived by religious zealots who came here to practice their own religion freely then denied that same right to the “savage” natives. Even the zealots were pushed aside momentarily by the rich, who told the citizens their “unalienable rights” had been denied to them by their King: anything to get the poor to fight a war. It was only after the poor fought the war that won freedom from that tyranny did the wealthy whites deny the poor, the women, the slaves, and yes—the natives—those unalienable rights.
From one tyrant to another.
If you want to understand why so many love Trump, it is because so many have been raised on the lie that is America: free, just, and blessed.
We are none of these until every citizen enjoys them all.
And there are simply too many who love the idea of going back to the America where only a few—the rich, the powerful, the greedy liars—rule.
AMERICA: What did you expect? When you build a nation on this foundation of evil and hatred and lies, it produces Donald Trump.
We have the ability to change course, but seeing how America is currently supporting the same type of “invade-and-claim-the-land” behavior in Israel, it doesn’t seem likely the United States has changed.
We may just get Donald Trump again. And we will deserve it.
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