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Don’t kid yourself,
naďve citizen. Herr Trump is calculating and he is betting
the farm that you will tire of it all, deflate and call it a
day. That will allow his entourage of professional liars to
rule the day which could allow Herr Trump to see another
four years of infesting the White House with his obscene
political swagger.
Also, don’t kid
yourself as to Herr Trump being an outlier of a personality
or just a one-off politico.
Unless you are
willing to pull up the rug and see the dirt beneath it, you
will always be puzzled as to how America came to this
perilous crossroad of the truth being re-defined as
alternative facts and how national news can be transformed
into national opinion sodden with lies and half-truths.
Herr Trump is the
singular, most visual, personality that is emoting on the
national scene; his moral sheddings have infected the
national consciousness.
The sobering reality
is that America, and especially white America, championed
this political buffoon and did not clip his wings when they
first had the chance to do so.
White America by
feverish acclamation and by lazy and lax moral default, has
allowed this perp to shovel his manure around the willing
“news” media outlets and he thus struck a homogenized chord
with the underbelly of the estranged voting public.
Herr Trump smelled
the putrid air of hatred, discontent and dissatisfaction
with the corruption in Washington, D.C. and like a blood
hound to the scent of a cornered possum, he stuck his knife
into it and greedily gobbled at the open carcass.
Yeah. America
allowed, condoned and permitted Herr Trump to live and
survive in this toxic political landscape that was littered
with racism, capitalism gone amuck, phobia of “others”,
hatred of women, mind-boggling stupidity and willful
ignorance of all things pertaining to the US Constitution
and respecting human rights.
Herr Trump was the
proverbial Pied Piper who caught riffs of the ugly and
nascent tune of bitterness and angst in the American politic
and he played his odious song until his lungs gave out and
then he blew some more…and it worked!
The so called “deplorables,”
the disenfranchised fringe groups, right wing conspiracy
nuts and those who trade in alternative facts, who are the
maestros at mis-directions of the truth, came together and
swore their allegiance to all things Trumpian!
When historians piece
together the bits of cloth that were knitted together by
Herr Trump and the like-minded persons that he placed in
power, America will have to repent of its evil in giving any
deference to this coalition of miscreants and not calling
them out for their flagrant violations of wholesome norms.
If you sow into the
wind, you will reap a whirlwind and America has and is now
reaping the poisonous seeds that it sowed and did not repent
of since the founding of America.
Slowly and surely as
a virus mutates and spreads its sickness among both the well
and the not so well, this Trumpian madness has made fools of
so many people whom on a normal day would be respectful,
think with a sound mind and would oppose his madness.
But these are not
normal times. Not anymore. Once Pandora’s Box has been
kicked open, the demons inside will fight tooth and nail not
to be confined again but rather, like the released and
unchecked human spirit that has no good intents, will seek
out similar spirits, and chaos will reign.
Can there be a
reckoning so that this course that we are on, a course that
leads to further shame, angst, loss and polarization, can it
be reversed?
For the time being,
no. The cancer that has infected American politics and which
has metastasized over into relations with one another, will
be stanched but not cut out until the body of American
politics is willing to purge itself of a known virus and
takes those painful steps to renounce Herr Trump and the
like-minded minions that cheered him on and enabled him to
act like a wannabee despot.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
tolliver@juno.com |
