After last night’s devastating results, half of America was left shaken to it’s core – media and politicians included, while the other half celebrated the nomination of Donald Trump as our 45th president. The electoral college created to protect us from a demagogue failed us. Hillary didn’t just lose, civil rights lost, civil liberties lost, mother earth lost and the fundamental values on which this country’s “greatness” was founded on was lost. Hate crimes in the name of Trump are already spurring abound. To get respect, you have to give respect; I refuse to respect someone whose disrespected I and millions’ of others entire existence. Someone who’s disrespected fundamental, core American values and morals. The Statue of Liberty weeps -”give me your…”. Excuse me if I refuse to board the sinking Titanic ship that is America and sing kumbaya with the orchestra that is establishment Democrats.
Democrats everywhere are pleading for unity – unity precludes sharing a belief system or at least compromising. Compromise precludes accepting facts as facts then arguing about solutions, as well as not viewing half of the country as subhuman species. Sadly your President-elect (I just got acid reflux), is the impetus behind anti-intellectualism and facts. Deny the unemployment rate? Check. Say it’s actually twice as high as it was during the Great Depression? Check. Deny the scientific consensus behind climate change? Check. Say it was a hoax created by the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive? Wait what? We’re venturing into new Republican territory here. It’s the fringe corner of conspiracy nut-sery, and you’ve elected it’s leader as president. Regrettably, your President is the driving force emboldening white supremacism by deeming minorities as subhumans. One side lives in an echo chamber ground by nothing but Trump’s baseless verbatim. Don’t get me wrong, I respect opposing views, I think opposition is vital to intellectual discourse and advancement; what I don’t respect is bigotry and unadulterated ignorance.
While it is Obama’s job to ensure the peaceful transition of power, saying “we’re actually all on one team,” is ludicrous. (That’s understatement for reasons also stated above.) I’m not on the team that wants to turn back the clock on equality and expand our oligarchy. I’m not on the team that unabashedly hates brown people. Did they do that for you Barack? For the past 8 years, did they “meet you halfway?” No, they treated you with utmost contempt and created the most vicious and far-fetched rumors about you in order to discredit your accomplishments. All for being the first black president. These angry, sick individuals didn’t work with you and they don’t want to work with ‘us’. If they did they wouldn’t have created – and won – the most divisive, nasty campaign by alienating and scapegoating every minority in the book. So if you’re clutching at your pearls because we’re using such a bold mantra, you’re a hypocrite. Democrats are simply playing your game, except this time we’re not saying rejecting the president-elect based on fears of our “guns being taken away”, FEMA camps, and fear that he’s a Muslim and will enact sharia law like your crowd full of loons did. People aren’t even rejecting him because they dislike conservative ideology they’re rejecting him because they fear for their lives.
Compromise in the face of the oppressor means siding with the oppressor. Playing with the devil makes you complacent for whatever evil he manifests. Therefore, I can not, and will not, meet Orwellian demagogues who want to track human beings like animals “halfway.” Bernie Sanders said it best, ““if you ask for a half loaf, “you’re gonna get crumbs.” Let’s also not forget that being a true centrist masked under the paper-thin veneer of progressiveness cost Hillary Clinton the election. That must be some kind of stockholm syndrome, feeding the hand that slaps you down, and I refuse to partake in it.
What’s at stake is very real. Marriage equality is in jeopardy, the economy is in jeopardy, Americans’ health is in jeopardy, voting rights are in jeopardy, women’s rights are in jeopardy, the environment is in jeopardy, and our relationships with other countries are in jeopardy. Oh and don’t get abortions rape victims, it says it in the bible…wait what’s that Trump’s being a thrice married sexual predator makes him an adulterer? WRONG! To top off this looming Idiocracy , Muslims, Latinos, and black people genuinely fear for their lives. Barbarian Joe Arpario style racial profiling will spur abound because fear mongering has won. In the echo chamber, facts don’t exist remember. A rampant misogynist, politically illiterate, war-crime and dictator loving, a professional scam artist with a cavalier attitude about nukes has won and we all lost – whether we know it or not yet.
“B-b-but democrats have taken the white working class for granted, we’re gonna have our jobs back!” We’ll you’re in for a ride after Mr. Eliminate-the-$19-Trillion-Dollar-Debt, defaults it (ah his signature Chapter 11 move!), prints out more money, lowers minimum wage, gives $7 trillion tax cuts to millionaires and $5 trillion to corporations and leaves you hanging while economic growth stagnates. Trickle down economics doesn’t work people. Your messiah Reagan was disastrous. I fear for the way he’ll run America like he runs his businesses 6 bankruptcies and all. These fools fell for a crony who doesn’t pay taxes (bb-but it’s those Mexicans) and should be in jail for it. The working class savior is a rotting pumpkin who outsources all his jobs, lays off thousands in careless bankruptcies, scams contractors, and preys off financial crisis such as the one in 2000.
-The aftermath of a Trump presidency would be: 3.5 million fewer jobs, unemployment rate rises to as high as 7%,the average American household’s after-inflation income will stagnate, and stock prices and real house values will decline.
You see, Trump told them Obama ruined the economy and he will keep jobs in America. Just how he pretended illegal immigration isn’t net negative, the undocumented are not simply overstaying their visas, and crime hasn’t gone down as immigration has gone up. Create a problem, and provide a false solution – it’s simple republican politics 101.
Not only can all his preposterous 3rd world proposals be enacted with the republican Congress and soon to be Supreme Court, but the beast he has awakened provides a more imminent threat. We don’t even have to look at the fact that REPORTED hate crimes quintupled after Brexit in the UK as an example – it’s happening here. These white supremacist terrorists have been emboldened, becoming open about their bigotry. They’re celebrating the death of the “PC police,” feeling validated for hating minorities, and they’ve taken action. Here are the galvanized deplorables Hillary accurately weighted:
-They took no time to hesitate and clearly shouted “Kill Obama” at his concession speech while Trump didn’t even flinch
-”Fu*k Ni**ers’ & ‘Whites Only’ graffiti scrawled in school restroom
-Make America White Again in Wellsville with a Nazi sign on a building
–A Muslim prayer room door was defaced with the word “Trump!” at NYU
-White people are going around dressed up in black-face flouting black students
-Crowds shouted “build a wall” in Royal Oak Middle School at Latino students
-‘Go back to Africa’ was written in a restroom stall at Maple Grove Senior High
– “Black lives don’t matter and neither does your vote“ was writing on Durham, North Carolina walls
-A gay man was beaten and told by attackers “We have a new president, f*ggot.”
And much, much, more. But for the sake of preserving some sort of brevity I’ll refer you to this compilation post. I mean the KKK said it best:
“The success of the Trump campaign just proves that our views resonate with millions.” Let that sink in.
I’m moving on now to talk about a phenomenon that actually affects privileged white people, ( hate crimes committed by neo-nazis is just – oh – small potatoes!) I already covered just why isn’t a working class savior let me just make it clear that Tsar Trump’s brain lacks the capacity for nuance or problem solving and won’t even deliver on the ‘other’ issues what he promised you right-wingers. How will he defend the unborn? How will he fix veteran affairs? How will he take care of the military and its generals that he disrespects so much? How will he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS in 30 days when he doesn’t even know who the hezbollah and hamas are? He has no plans, no substance, nothing. Have a little taste of a Trump presidency here:
–He insists he has a genius, foolproof plan but he can’t tell anybody because it’s a secret for months. Then admits he has none:
Lauer: So, is the plan you’ve been hiding this whole time asking someone else for their plan? Trump: No. But when I do come up with a plan that I like, and that perhaps agrees with mine — or maybe doesn’t — I may love what the generals come back with… Lauer: But you have your own plan? Trump: I have a plan, but I don’t wanna..”
His plan for ISIS – or lack thereof – is just the foolproof Donald Trump way of making money enacted on to policy. Announce you have a foolproof plan, get people to invest in the risky idea and if it works, he pays out. If his risky idea fails, Donald Trump declares bankruptcy. Sadly running the country isn’t like running Trump University or running a casino.
He doesn’t have a plan to revive the economy (and we already covered how economists almost unanimously agree that he’ll drive us into the greatest great recession.): Take this excerpt from CNN. ”Another voter pressed him on whether voters should simply believe that he will revive the economy based on his last name, or whether he has any specific plans to address economic challenges. “I think they should,” Trump said of voters electing him based on his name, adding that he would renegotiate trade deals involving the U.S. and bring jobs back. “But how?” the 21-year-old college student and entrepreneur asked again. Trump didn’t get more specific beyond explaining that he plans to lower taxes and renegotiate trade deals.
–Doesn’t have a plan for his proposed mass deportation: That’s why in the first debate he was totally devoid of substance: Let’s look at another perfect excerpt from CNN. “Trump didn’t explain exactly how he would deport the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S., simply pointing to his managerial skills.”
What a GUY! This explains his terrible debate performance. “How will you stop money from influencing politics?” “Defeat Crooked Hillary!” “How will you ISIS?” “We need to be vigilant!” “How will better the education system?” “I love education tremendously!” This is who you elected, oh how the mighty will fall.
These masochists didn’t “stick it to the other side,” they stuck it to the human race as a whole – themselves included. An experience-less imbecile will turn us back 50 years by repealing all progress and having his teahadist SCOTUS nominee help strike down every court ruling ensuring of rights and liberties. His anti-science/facts/reality goons, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, and John Bolton will ensure this, and his sociopathic authoritarian dream team will be complete.
Furthermore, people will die once he “repeals medicare”, will suffocate in ‘Gyna’-like smog once he gets rid of the “Department of Environmental” (sigh..he means the EPA) and Climate Change Agreement, our children will become more illiterate than the people who voted for him due to cuts in education, the economy will plummet, war crimes will be committed , and the death grip corporations have on America will proliferate. This isn’t simply about party lines, Mitt Romney was an honorable, informed, and well-prepared man, this is about authoritarian tendencies, bigotry as a norm, and a total disregard for facts. So don’t tell me we’ve “been through this before.” America really reared it’s ugly head, showing they’d rather have open suppression of brown people, than retain basic civil rights and a growing economy. If you’re not terrified you’re not listening.
Trump voters, don’t cry after 11/9 marks the denigration of the world power as we know it, you were an architect of your own misery.
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