There’s a thing I
gotta say. Ad I gotta say it here because number show no one is listening here.
I don’t want to start a family feud or split my group of friends.
I was watching The
Daily Show, John Stewart hosting because it’s Monday night [3/11/24]. I take it
with a grain of salt because I know he leans to the left but he’s still funny.
As usual they were taking
on Donald J. Combover and I was shocked by persons claiming blind allegiance to
The Don. One basically said “If he wants to be a dictator, let him be a
dictator.” Another said “He could commit a murder on the White House steps and
I would still be with him.” [Never mind that murder is not only a crime but is
one of the No No’s expressly forbidden in The Bible, that other document besides
the Constitution that these same people seem to believe so deeply in. Mr. Trump
will have immunity – he hopes.]
The sad and
scariest part was that these people were not joking. The fact that 60 % of the “Republican”
Party still think that the 2020 election was stolen from “Them / Donald Trump”
says a lot about something. Unfortunately, I think it says that Mr. Combover
has tapped into a pool of ugliness and hatred deeper than any Saudi oil
reserve, cloaked it in an American Flag and “patriotism” and “taking back the
country” and “making America great again” and a whole lot of people bought it
hook, line and sinker.
The sadder part is
that the rejection of Hillary Clinton that brough Mr. Trump into the Oval
Office was taken as a mandate by the Bible thumping, God fearing prigs that
they spoke for Everybody. And when Everybody spoke in 2020 and Mr. Trump lost as
fair and square as he won, suddenly the game was rigged.
I voted for Trump
in 2016 because I dd not want Mrs. Clinton as the President. But after watching
Mr. Trump in action for four years, I would not have voted for him if he was
the only candidate on the ballot. Nor did I vote for a lot of his friends and
people he endorsed. I did not like the way the country was heading. If that
makes me “Un-American” and a traitor in the eyes of some people, so be it. I exercised
my right to vote as guaranteed by the Constitution you all claim to love so
much.
I will concur with
Mr. Stewart on this point [I paraphrase]: “If you want to pledge your allegiance
to Mr. Trump, if you like what he says, go to the rallies, buy his shoes, sing
his praises and vote away – but please don’t call it Patriotism.”
Don’t tell me he is
the only person who can “save” America or make America “Great” again. America
will be fine once we get over bickering over every petty little thing and
reunite in the things we share. When we see our neighbors as people again –
maybe with different ideas, traditions and values but people none the less.
Once we remember that compromise is necessary and not everything is “my way or
the highway.”
Four more years of Donlad Trump may turn into
the biggest bloodbath on American soil since the Civil War. I do not for a
moment believe that Mr. Trump has any interest in leading or legislating any
longer. I think he is blinded by the thought of taking revenge against those
who stood against him – which means everyone who was not blindly loyal to him.
And unfortunately, the Republican Party which once stood to unite the country has
become a party of divisiveness who can be the biggest uptight prig on the
planet.
History tells us
that this swing to the hard right will eventually swing back toward the middle
and that this great national anger will dissipate. I hope to see that but I do
not expect it anytime in the near future. Meaning any time this decade.