Although I'm very heartened by the reaction on the Net to Trump's racism...
In the back of my mind, however, I know that the people who are on the net only represent a portion of the nation. It's not everybody.
There are people out there who aren't being heard at all, and a lot of them are motherfuckers who support Trump, not only in spite of what he says, but BECAUSE of what he says.
And they're going to vote for him next year. There's nothing that he can say that will stop them from casting a vote for him. We can't delude ourselves into thinking that he's turning off his voters with his own rhetoric.
I don't care how badly he's doing his job as president, my biggest fear is that he could be reelected. And polls, polls that say he's trailing behind Democratic candidates? I don't care about polls. I really don't trust them.
My worry about the fate of this country is the fact that I know that it's pretty much full of reprehensible assholes who are brainwashed to hate people of color. They fear us and they're being fed a steady diet of that fear from the most powerful office in the world. There's mini-series on SHOWTIME, "The Loudest Voice," with gives us a step-by-step demonstration of that very brainwashing. It's scary shit, because it still continues to work.
These are people who KNOW that they shouldn't express their racist biases in public, but many of them will verbally attack people for speaking in languages other than English, will call the police on black people who have the temerity of basically existing within their proximity, will cheer the caging of human beings, will disregard the deaths of children in custody, will tell people who have only known a life in a America to "go back where they came from," they'll be triggered by the slightest push back against white supremacy and will vote for Donald Trump because he's a racist.
He expresses what they're afraid to express. To these people, his expression of racism is what makes him an American. And in a way, they're not wrong. Because America was founded on white supremacy and the entire narrative of this country has always been the struggle to overcome what America was founded on.
They want to turn back the clock. "Make America Great Again" has always meant "Make America White Again."
They are willing to justify Russian interference in our elections and our political process. They'll do it because that interference helps to elect Trump. It helps to keep Republicans in power, when demographically, they're actually representing a political minority.
They will invent enemies in their own heads, because it justifies all of their biases. They will defy logic, because logic runs counter to their beliefs.
A significant portion of the government is made of of irrational people who cannot be reasoned with.
What we must do is transfer the outrage against this incompetent and corrupt, demagogic fascist running the country into the ground into activism and votes.
And it's going to be a hard fight to win, one that we cannot fail TO win.
Because GOPrs will cheat in other to remain in power, through gerrymandering and suppressing the vote. They will turn a blind eye to the Russians helping them. They will attack our diversity, which is our strength. They will mitigate the white supremacists who openly support them and they will attack any Democrat who tries to protect the sovereignty and dignity of egalitarian American existence. They will justify selectively racist the abuse of defenseless people by government agencies. They will smear people of color with racist tropes. They will deny that they are racist.
They're cult now, The Republican Party a cult of personality that's been devoid of American principles for the last forty years.
These people represent an existential threat to the nation.
So, all I'm asking is, who of you can talk me down here? Am I making too much hay out of this scenario I've painted?
Please let me know.
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