America...It’s Gonna Take A Lot Of Glue To Fix A Country This Broken

You don’t see as much it here on beBee but I spend a lot of time going after Donald Trump, editorially speaking, on Facebook, where I have a number of American friends.

I Hate The Idea Of Donald Trump

Not the person, because I have no feelings about him whatsoever. Because there is really nothing to feel...only observe.
He is just another rich greaseball with garish tastes and absolutely no class. He is an almost total screwup as a business person. He is narcissistic in the extreme. He is a racist, a bigot, a sexist pig, a sociopath and a chronic liar. But I don’t hate that.
His arrogance and sense of entitlement is off the charts. He believes he is God’s gift to well, just about everything. But I don’t hate that.
I don’t hate any of his shortcomings. Because we all have shortcomings.
What I hate is what Trump has come to symbolize in America.
What I hate is through his limited skills, the ideology he represents has managed to mesmerize millions of people into thinking that he would actually make American great again. And that he would actually make a great president and leader of the most important country in the world.
I hate what that represents, which is a huge step towards fascism in the United States. And as a genuine freedom loving person, you can’t help but despise any system that’s based on oppression and bigotry.

I Know How Great America Used To Be

I grew up in Canada, in a border town, and spent a lot of time in America, simply because that was where the stuff I liked to do was happening. I had a lot of American friends and knew a lot of well-to-do Americans at the golf course where I worked.
These were great people. Full of life and hope for the future. They were my vision of America. They were go-getters and opportunists in the most positive sense of the word.
But I watch this man, this Trump person…so full of hatred and anger, and yet clever enough to cloak it all in the opaque fabric of patriotism, just spew lies and innuendo night after night, protected by the political process.
And I watch the electronic media eat it up. Cover the hell out of this downward spiraling movement and by doing so, bring people into the fold who are gullible enough to believe that because someone is on TV a lot, they must be worth paying attention to.
I hate what America has become because of Donald Trump.
A lot of people ask me why I attack the Trump movement so vigourously. And I tell them it’s because anything big and bad that happens in America, usually finds a way to happen in Canada as well.

One Damn Murder After Another

Every day there are stories of violence and hatred that emanate directly from the right wing extremism that Trump preaches.
Young black men being killed by cops for no apparent reason other than that they were black.
Young women drugged and raped. Rapists getting off with a slap on the wrists because their parents can afford lawyers with clout.
Fanatical people with easy access to guns, lashing out and taking dozens of people with them.
A huge rise in anti-black, anti-hispanic, anti-Muslim, anti-gay lesbian transgender sentiments. Domestic gun violence off of the charts.
This isn’t all happening because of some unhappy confluence of planetary alignment. It’s happening because right wing extremists are preaching it, and because they are shouting it loudly. And because the results that this shouting produces are all deemed newsworthy, the media covers the hell out of it and keeps the cycle of prejudice and violence rolling along at a breakneck pace.
This week, two young black men were assassinated by police officers. They were posing no deadly threat. They were simply murdered. There’s no other word for it.
And you have to ask yourself what switches the toggle in a cop’s head that turns an ordinary citizen, or even a citizen with some sort of police record, into an enemy who needs to be put down with completely uncalled for lethal force?
Well, one theory is that the sum total of everything that is being fed into their heads by the American gun culture, by the TV shows they watch, and probably, most critically, by the fanatics they listen to and the violence they see played out over and over and over again every night on the news.|

My Most Recent Facebook Rant

“Honest to God, America, I can't understand most of the shit that's going on in your country right now. How many young black men have to die before cops start getting charged with murder?
You are screwing up your own lives by letting guns define your culture.
You are playing right into the hands of everybody who hates you, and creating incredible division within your own borders...and for what...hatred, racism, sexism, capitalism?
You have no idea how crazy the rest of the world thinks you are because your news media is glorifying all the shit you are doing to yourselves 24/7.
Stop shooting people who don't need to be shot. Stop believing that every Muslim is a terrorist. Stop listening to the assholes whose only goal is to divide you. Start understanding just how many different races of people make up your country. Start thinking for yourselves like you used to. Quit defining yourself by what bigots preach. Grow up. Take your country back, and make it what it used to be. Because it used to be great. Now it's just a freakin’ mess. Get rid of Trump. Pull your socks up. Just do it.”
Donald Trump is not likely elected president. I just don’t think the majority of voters in America are that stupid or brainwashed. But the division that he has created in that country is deep and wide. And it will take a long time to heal.
Certainly there is a lot of stuff wrong with America. And from what I have seen, a good deal of it could have been fixed if there was a better relationship between the President and the congress. But anybody who thinks that a radical shift in government, especially to the right, is going to  alter that, has their head somewhere where the sun don’t shine.
And anybody who can’t tell the difference between fascism and democracy should really try living in Russia or North Korea for a while.

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