in the distance, the trump of doom
Mar. 16th, 2016 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowlightDear people in the future: it's getting pretty volatile back here in 2016. Donald Trump's still running for president, winning most of the Republican primaries. I hope you're laughing at that, in the future, ("as if that lackwit would've ever won the general election!") but I don't have that luxury, the schadenfreude of watching the Republican Party Elephant have to decide if it'll tear itself in half or let its disobedient ass march it backwards off a cliff. Where I'm at, the low-information voters only know what's on tv and the tv news only cares about easy ratings and quick answers and Trump's got his supporters beating up protesters and blaming the victims for starting the fight. He's on the record, (national tv, his own words) as being in favor of rounding up people of certain races or religions and putting them in internment camps, on the record, admitting he gave other politicians campaign contributions because he expected favors in return. He's got the media eating out of his hand and all the violent racists and neo-nazis are crawling out of the woodwork to support him.
We say in this country, that we don't like bullies, but the bullies are everywhere. I got heckled last October, just walking down the sidewalk. Bullies are congealing into roving gangs on the internet, given global reach by lightspeed communication. The bullies in Congress can keep a sitting President from doing his job for seven years so far and we just watch it happening. helpless. Hey, if the Leader of the Free World can't get a senator to do his job, what chance do we have? Who's voting these corrupt jackasses into Congress in the first place? How does a voter get so stupid you can tell them war is good, healthcare is bad? that the President who was elected by the Supreme Court because of glitchy ballots in one state is the undeniable victor (Respect the office, support your President in a time of war) but the one that was actually elected by the people is somehow illegitimate, ineligible, not just disrespected but un-respectable, even in the time of the same war. How does anyone fall for that?
We say in this country, that we don't like bullies, but the bullies are everywhere. I got heckled last October, just walking down the sidewalk. Bullies are congealing into roving gangs on the internet, given global reach by lightspeed communication. The bullies in Congress can keep a sitting President from doing his job for seven years so far and we just watch it happening. helpless. Hey, if the Leader of the Free World can't get a senator to do his job, what chance do we have? Who's voting these corrupt jackasses into Congress in the first place? How does a voter get so stupid you can tell them war is good, healthcare is bad? that the President who was elected by the Supreme Court because of glitchy ballots in one state is the undeniable victor (Respect the office, support your President in a time of war) but the one that was actually elected by the people is somehow illegitimate, ineligible, not just disrespected but un-respectable, even in the time of the same war. How does anyone fall for that?
