The Divided States of America
It wasn't enough that Trump deliberately sought to divide whites from blacks by "accusing" President Obama of having lied about being born in the United States and refusing to refute the racist rioters one of whom killed a protester in Charlottesville, Virginia as well as other racists threatening or perpetrating violence.
It wasn't enough that Trump's first election "rally" deliberately sought to divide Mexicans from others by accusing them of being rapists and murderers, and that he's since imprisoned thousands of Latin Americans at our southwestern border for the "crime" of seeking asylum.
It wasn't enough that Trump deliberately sought to divide people of other religions or no religion from Muslims by accusing all Muslims of being terrorists and seeking to ban Muslim entry into the U.S.
It wasn't enough that Trump deliberately sought to divide heterosexuals from the LGBTQIA+ community by banning transsexuals from the military and and depriving them of medical coverage.
It wasn't enough that Trump deliberately sought to divide women from our own lives by taking away funding for women's health care.
Now, Trump has pulled the previously-unthinkable stunt of weaponizing a pandemic, turning people who believe in science against those who prefer to cling to the fantasy that COVID-19 will simply disappear without any effort on the part of anyone. In the process, he has divided the states even more than they were divided during the Civil War, forcing individual states to compete against one another and/or to band into regional groups to try to protect their own residents.
As if all of that weren't bad enough, Trump has done everything within his power to turn the police and the armed forces against American civilians, encouraging the use of weapons against peaceful protesters, and has made every effort to turn Americans against the truth itself, insisting that any journalist who disagrees with him is a liar and that any news organization that disagrees with him is promulgating "fake news." Trump has made it clear that he has no interest in supporting the First Amendment.
"Divide and conquer" seems to be Trump's chief, or perhaps only, strategy in seeking to gain and stay in power.
Trump is destroying his own country from both within and without, and he doesn't care.
I am a 71-year-old American citizen born and raised in the United States, and despite having lived in the U.S. my entire life, I've never experienced anything like what is happening to my country. In the roughly three and a half years since Trump's election, my country has gone from being a world leader and one of the great democracies to an international laughing stock and a candidate for dictatorship, from a leader in the fields of science and medicine to a death trap. I'm in shock and in mourning for what we once were.
It wasn't enough that Trump's first election "rally" deliberately sought to divide Mexicans from others by accusing them of being rapists and murderers, and that he's since imprisoned thousands of Latin Americans at our southwestern border for the "crime" of seeking asylum.
It wasn't enough that Trump deliberately sought to divide people of other religions or no religion from Muslims by accusing all Muslims of being terrorists and seeking to ban Muslim entry into the U.S.
It wasn't enough that Trump deliberately sought to divide heterosexuals from the LGBTQIA+ community by banning transsexuals from the military and and depriving them of medical coverage.
It wasn't enough that Trump deliberately sought to divide women from our own lives by taking away funding for women's health care.
Now, Trump has pulled the previously-unthinkable stunt of weaponizing a pandemic, turning people who believe in science against those who prefer to cling to the fantasy that COVID-19 will simply disappear without any effort on the part of anyone. In the process, he has divided the states even more than they were divided during the Civil War, forcing individual states to compete against one another and/or to band into regional groups to try to protect their own residents.
As if all of that weren't bad enough, Trump has done everything within his power to turn the police and the armed forces against American civilians, encouraging the use of weapons against peaceful protesters, and has made every effort to turn Americans against the truth itself, insisting that any journalist who disagrees with him is a liar and that any news organization that disagrees with him is promulgating "fake news." Trump has made it clear that he has no interest in supporting the First Amendment.
"Divide and conquer" seems to be Trump's chief, or perhaps only, strategy in seeking to gain and stay in power.
Trump is destroying his own country from both within and without, and he doesn't care.
I am a 71-year-old American citizen born and raised in the United States, and despite having lived in the U.S. my entire life, I've never experienced anything like what is happening to my country. In the roughly three and a half years since Trump's election, my country has gone from being a world leader and one of the great democracies to an international laughing stock and a candidate for dictatorship, from a leader in the fields of science and medicine to a death trap. I'm in shock and in mourning for what we once were.
Labels: Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic
posted by Shira Salamone at 5:49 PM
6 Comments:
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Charlie Hall
I grew up in the 1960s. The country was as badly divided then.
Shira Salamone
Maybe so, but in the past, we've had a president (Richard Nixon) resign when faced with impeachment, and a presidential candidate (Al Gore) give up fighting the results of a botched election because he thought it was more important to unite the country. Trump obviously doesn't care about being impeached, and I have no doubt that he'll fight the election results in court, possibly for years, if he loses. In short, he's the first U.S. president I've ever known who doesn't give a hoot about the welfare of the U.S. The only way to get him out of the White House will be in handcuffs.
From Facebook:
Charlie Hall
Nixon was every bit the sociopath that Trump is. But he had about 40 more IQ points.
Charlie Hall
Add Nixon's pathology to Harding's incompetence and you get Trump.
Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall Except that no President ever has been so corrupt.
Charlie Hall
I grew up in a county that Trump won by 30 points. And I was not surprised. We thought that racism had been put down. It wasn't. The elites made it socially unacceptable and this is the backlash.
Charlie Hall
And that is why the most dangerous people in America today are the leftists and liberals who won't vote for Biden. Biden needs every vote from everyone who doesn't like Trump. Because the Trump cult will show up and vote for Trump no matter what. All of them.
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