Donald J. Trump is not a threat to our country. He is a morally bankrupt man who decided early on in his “career” that he preferred to trade in duplicity, theft, chicanery, exploitation, and an unabashed manipulation of media, our justice system, and the general public in order to further is personal enrichment. There are hundreds to thousands of people who are just like him, which is why we have the Prison Industrial Complex. Sadly, those places are filled to the brim with men who are marginally to resoundingly better than men than who is Donald Trump, but not wealthier.
The threat to our country is ourselves, specifically Americans who are fundamentally and even unknowingly terrified of the unknown, scared to death of “those people”, and are illogically or erroneously convinced that they are selected to receive, are entitled to, and even due, a providence above others who either do not look like them, and EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, THINK LIKE THEM, AND AGREE WITH THEM CULTURALLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN DEFINING CULTURAL BELIEFS AS THEISTS, WHICH THEY BELIEVE CORRECTLY INFORMS ALL POLITICAL DISCOURSE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF CONSERVATISM AS A MAINSTAY FOR DEMOCRACY AT BEST, AND BEYOND THE BLURRED LINES OF AN AUTOCRACY, AT WORST.
Pushing these people in ways that are irrelevant to electing a new president in 2020 is a waste of time. Stop quarreling with Conservatives and Republicans who support Donald Trump. The more you shove them into a corner, the more they dig in their heels for Trump. It could be anyone other than Trump, it doesn’t matter. They are scared. They are getting older, some are approaching the ultimate unknown: death.
They hold steadfastly to bad ideas because at least they are familiar with loss on their own terms, rather than success or humane, practical solutions offered on the terms of “that formerly disenfranchised, powerless other” (e.g., the ACA offered by a man they not only didn’t vote for, but certainly didn’t need pity, handouts, or alms from).
Linked below, is one of the best interviews I’ve read, explaining the core motivations behind men and women who will repeatedly and consistently vote against their own personal welfare, their actual safety, their economic security, and the future of their own children, and ultimately, against the general good of our Republic.
You want to understand ride or die Trump supporters? Now you can. 👇🏼