President Trump’s recent derogatory comments
about Immigrants from shithole countries like Haiti and from Africa who should
be left out of America for good, while we open up our doors for all the white
folk from Norway, are just the most recent in a series of comments and actions
over the course of his lifetime proving beyond any reasonable doubt, that we
elected a good ol’ fashioned bigot to be President of, what used to be, the
greatest country in the world.
It used to be that people around the world
looked up to us as a beacon of hope and an example of what they could aspire
to. In America, they used to say, it
didn’t matter who your were or where you came from or the color of your skin,
if you were smart and worked hard, the playing field was level and you could
succeed.
Now those same people around the world look at
us and they see our president, and they listen to his words and their emotions
vacillate from shock and dismay ...to sadness and disappointment ...to anger
and hate. They now conclude that
everything they once believed about America, all of it, was just a lie.
The goodwill and moral authority built up by
America over almost two and half centuries by real American patriots of all
political persuasions has been eclipsed in the blink of an eye by a
self-centered real estate mogul who has pulled the curtains back and showed the
world, this is the real America, this is who we really are. We are a country
which believes that we are superior to the rest of the world, that we know what
is best for all of you, that if you follow us, you will be lucky enough to pick
up our crumbs.
I don’t believe that mind you, I don’t believe
it all. But sadly, it is the perception
which emanates out from the Oval Office on a recurring basis. And in this day
and age of 24x7 news and social media, now more than ever, perception so easily
turns in to reality.
Yes, President Donald Trump, consummate
salesman that he is, is selling the world on his image of America. And he thinks it great.
But that’s not the real bad part.
The real bad part is the rest of the
Republican Party is fully complicit with his sales pitch. They will do anything to further their own
goals. Oh sure, a few will release statements
denouncing the President’s most recent comments, or any one of the many more
sure to come, but it won’t change their actions. They will continue to tolerate
his unacceptable behavior, because they have their eye on their own individual
prizes, be it tax reform to benefit their ultra-wealthy supporters, or the
installation of conservative justices at all levels of the judiciary, or the
introduction of legal steps advancing voter suppression or entitlement “reform”.
When will we see one Republican in Trump’s own
Administration, in his own cabinet or in Congress stand up and say. “I will not
tolerate the actions of this evil man. I will not do anything to lend credence
to the falsehoods he spreads, and the only way I can do this today is to resign
my position, effective immediately”.
When will a few good Republicans jump on the
metaphorical hand grenade and sacrifice themselves for their mates, and for
their country? When will a few good
Republicans stand up for the ideals that still make this country great, despite
the fact that mad man at the top of the heap wants desperately to mold the
country in to his own sickening image?
The truth is you won’t see this, ever. Those Republicans are long gone. Those Republicans were from another
generation and sadly, they have either died off or are too old and weak to make
a difference any more.
And the Republicans who now remain are all too
willing to sacrifice the image of America for their own personal gains. Because
you see for this generation of Republicans, it was never about America, like
Donald Trump, it’s always been about them.
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