According to a CNN article today, “Trump divided America as a candidate. So far, he’s doing the same as president,” voters say president Donald Trump is moving quickly to keep promises and he is far more active and visible than his predecessor.
In the case of Trump, neither of those are good things, though a lot of MAGA minions continue to think so.
“Trump is being bold and thinking big,” they quote Republican Betsy Sarcone, Des Moines, as saying. “How refreshing it is to have someone who says what they mean and can coherently answer questions.”
Huh?! Ooh … you’re still convinced he hears you and cares! Silly you!
MAGA such as Betsy are in the majority of the cult at the moment, but Trump’s actions in his first week back at 1600 Pennsylvania, as I predicted, are raising the concern. People … American people … yep, even conservative Republican Americans … are opening their eyes to what Trump is doing as opposed to what he’s, saying.
Unlike Betsy, they’re beginning to see what happens when Trump says what he means.
Though far from perfect, Americans are intrinsically a fair minded people, a people who look up to those of us who do the right thing, especially when doing right is the harder choice. In “normal” times, we most often stand up for those being belittled, those being kicked when they are down.
We protest inequity, yet we don’t usually blame or cast down the institution, only those who violate the trust we grant. We don’t take justice into our own hands, but do our best to trust the laws we elect our legislators to enact, to trust the executive to execute those laws, to trust the judicial to arbitrate, to call fair from foul.
Yet we are all susceptible to promissory blandishments … to hearing “I deserve better, I am owed more. I am better.”
According to the Declaration of Independence, that is false. We are equals, each of us endowed equally with unalienable rights endowed by our creator, to life, to liberty, to the pursuit of happiness.
So let’s examine how white Christian men in the United States came to assume they were superior. And for the sake of logic, let us assume that all people believe equally in the God they were born to worship.
For a time in our history, white Christian men thought they “discovered” America. Those who rowed to these shores in 1492 knew nothing of germs or pandemic. They met a few people on the shore, visited for a bit and sailed home. It didn’t take all that long for the germs they’d left to go coast to coast. It’s estimated that when the English settled Jamestown in 1610, the New World “Indians” had, in a 118 year span, lost about three quarters of their population to a few viruses to which they had no immunity.
The settlers of Jamestown welcomed the first shipment of slaves in 1619. Those who survived the 80 day cruise, chained below decks, sold out quick!
The practice of slavery lasted until the first Republican president called it ended so as to bring an end to the Civil War January 1, 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation.
The last Indian War against the U.S. took place right here in Bonners Ferry in 1974.
Before I go further, I invite anyone to disprove any of the above.
… anyone? You sure? Come on, now — I wouldn’t want to discover I do any of that diversion, equity, inclusion stuff!
I don’t think I do — Like slander or libel, there is one and only one defense, and Trump knows not the concept — truth.
I mentioned above that Americans are intrinsically good people. In large part, they brush their teeth before they go to bed, wash their hands before they eat and after they go tinkle, they obey the rules and they fight fair. They take pride in doing good work and being good neighbors.
They believe in truth, justice and the American way. They intercede when someone kicks one who’s down.
They won’t long abide a liar. They dislike bluster, see through braggadocio. They will soon see that Donald Trump has nothing else to offer.