Monday, August 15, 2016

What are we going to do If/when Donald Trump loses ?

What are we going to do If/when Donald Trump loses ? 

Seriously. What can we expect the roughly 20% of the American population who're die-hard Donald Trump fans to do when the Duke of Orange loses ? Right now, there's roughly 20% of the population (about 40% of the republican voters ) who are angry. They've been fed bollocks for so long that the truth looks like falsehoods to them. They've been told by the far right that the Government (all government) is evil and must be done away with. They've been fed the myth that the Confederacy wasn't at all bad, and certainly had nothing to do with slavery, they just wanted time to deal with the slavery issue at their own rate, and most certainly would have gotten around to freeing those slaves sooner or later. (the fact that they had since 1789 to do so and still hadn't by 1860 notwithstanding)
The crowning lie they have been fed is the notion that they too can be billionaires if they'll just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get to work! They get told that government never does anything right or good, that anyone who receives government assistance is a conniver, lazy and a crook. Then they get fed the divisive horse crap that *those people* are a bunch of crooks, liars and (gasp!) potential terrorists. It doesn't matter that *those people* (whoever they might be) are mostly ordinary people who just want to live their lives in peace, they have committed the deadly sin of being different ! They are dark skinned, or have strange customs or speak a different language. But all this is not really important.
  The GOP have promised a return to a mythical good old days for 30 years, and they keep promising that knowing full well that they'll never deliver. After all this time, the people who believed those promises, who bought into those myths, have become frustrated at the lack of such things happening. They were told that a state of affairs would result wherein they had good jobs, *those people* would be put in their place and kept there, and none of those pesky GLBTQ types would bother them. Things would be swell, just like in Leave it To Beaver. Except, they don't seem to realize that Leave It To Beaver was never real. It was a falsehood. The Cleaver house existed only on a studio backlot. So, having had to put up with the foreigner Barack Obama for 8 years, with a woman set to win the office of President of the United States, what are they going to do ? The way Trump's talking, using thinly veiled violent rhetoric and already claiming that his opponent has rigged the elections, what will happen when the say, 50 to 100 or so really angry nutters decide that Hillary Clinton isn't going to be their President, and she isn't going to be anyone's  President. Or what if it's worse than that, and a few thousand decide to take up arms ? Can the Union survive another insurrection ? I confess to being a bit worried. But then, I thought some lunatic fringer might go after President Obama also, and that hasn't happened. Perhaps things will be all right after all.

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