Sunday, May 14, 2017

Why not?


I talked to a person who voted for Trump and I heard his barely repressed anger with the world as he sees it. An otherwise intelligent man who thinks Trump might shake things up and make everything fair again.

I guess it is his rage at the unfairness of a world that is not rewarding him for all the hard work he has put in over a long lifetime of trying to always do things right, that blinds him to the reality of Trump.

But he's going to find out that unfairness hasn't even begun to surface in this world he voted into being.

He's willing to overlook all of the grotesque racism, bigotry, misogyny and plain old hatred and lying, because he's only seeing it through a good old boy's redneck eyes.

He doesn't have a clue that there are really people who think letting people die because they can't get the medical care they need is a good thing.  How else can they legally kill the poor, the sick and the infirm and save themselves the annoying prospect of letting them use social security as they age?

And gun laws?  Let's let every lunatic conceal and carry.  After all the very rich can hide behind their walled in estates and security guards.

And why not let Trump break laws, commit treason, brag about assaulting women because he's rich, if he can stir things up?

A little vigilante justice was okay in the small towns of the past. It kept the derelicts off the streets and kept everyone safe, right?

Except he will soon discover that he is considered one of the derelicts if he isn't in the top three percent. 

And then it will be too late.




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