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Seventy-Four Million Americans Want More!

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column

     Never I have ever witnessed such gluttony for the intentional infliction of mental and emotional harm and distress as I watch 74 million voters affirm to the world that they were more than willing to suffer another four years under the delusional and chaotic rule and reign of Herr Trump.

     You would think that if a nation suffered such incomprehensible damage to their collective psyche due to the machinations and the dysfunctional administration of Herr Trump, that voters would be falling down their stairs in order to get to the polls and vote out this political rube.


Lafe Tolliver, Esq

 
     But to my surprise, 74 million American voters went into their polling booths and pulled the lever for Donald Trump to continue his madness and verbal assault on the norms and rules of democracy.

     You can only make the grim assessment that many of those voters were inculcated into the Trumpian Madness that corrupted their ability to see that they were being taken to the cleaners by an accomplished con and grifter.

      Remember when people were aghast about the carnage of the Jim Jones mass cultic suicides that took place years ago in Guinea, a coastal country on the continent of South America?

       In that cult, Jim Jones was able to persuade people that he was the only one that they should look to and follow and all others were “the enemy” and the enemies were out to persecute them.

       Jim Jones went further than Herr Trump in that he was able to convince many (some by force, it is reported) that mass suicide, by swallowing a poisonous cocktail, was honorable and the only way out of the impending persecution that was about to befall them in their jungle hideaway.

       Over 900 people, including children, went into eternity based upon the ravings of a nutcase and his henchmen.

       Herr Trump has made claims that his followers should not believe what they see and hear from “others,” but only believe him, a self-reported extremely stable genius.

       Trump demonized the media, Congress, the courts and anyone else who spoke up against him or who criticized him for his lunacy.

     Their fear? That for any GOP figure who criticized him, Trump would fund an opponent against him or her in the next election, or he would send out deleterious tweets about them! Yeah, fear of a tweet caused many a GOP politico to shiver and shake in their boots and to hide under the cloak room table hoping that they would not face the wrath of Herr Trump.

     Trump’s base (the ones whom Hilary Clinton rightfully called “deplorables”) chose Donald Trump as their alter ego and champion of their resentments and their warrior in their hidden and not so hidden cultural warfare against all things not white.

      Trump, smelling their fear of becoming a minority grouping in the year 2042, stoked those fears with his racialized hatred and his total ineptness of the ways and means of governance and how the Constitution works.

      These are the policies and pronouncements his 74 million-plus voter base knew of and yet still desired; and were willing to have Trump do four more years of the same if it meant keeping them in power, helped along with the acquiescence of the spineless GOP leaders in the Senate:

*lies about President Obama

*destroying vital foreign relationship with allies

* building a wall and lying that Mexico would pay for it

* allowing the appointment of hundreds of conservative judges to the

federal judiciary which could have the effect of decimating Affirmative Action

and voting rights, income parity, saving the environment and equal rights under the law

*castigating Muslims

* bashing Black women as female dogs

*making fun of the disabled

*using his office to enrich himself and his family members

*covering up his “crimes” in office to the point that he was impeached.

*eradicating the guard rails that were in place to prevent overreaches by

a President

*favoring Vladimir Putin (his puppet master!) over US intelligence regarding

Russian activity in corrupting US elections

*pardoning or granting clemency to thugs, murderers, cons and swindlers

*giving open cover and comfort to white hate and white nationalist groups

*repeatedly speaking disparagingly of women and mocking them

*a daily stream of lying and half truths tweets that were designed to sow seeds

Of discontent and chaos into both the culture of America and to call into question the pillars of what constitutes, truth

     The above statements (and hundreds of others) were affirmed and ratified by millions of Trump voters as they are OK with them; and by their recent record turnout and vote for Trump, they wanted more of the same!

     The crisis in America is not so much with Trump but with the America we know as our next-door neighbors who are willing to trash democracy if it means that white political power survives, and their economic hegemony can be sustained.

Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com

 

 
   
   


Copyright © 2019 by [The Sojourner's Truth]. All rights reserved.
Revised: 12/31/20 12:07:14 -0500.


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