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Seems so, if one listens to the Main Stream Media and any number of Hollywood personalities and lefty politicians. The outcry after the Jussie Smollette incident- before the facts came out, painted Trump with that brush. At the Oscars the other evening, where Spike Lee, picking up his golden doll for his movie, “BlackKklansman” mentioned “Let’s all mobilize, let’s all be on the right side of history, let’s choose love over hate, let’s do the right thing…” A direct jab as Trump the Hater, and so forth and so on.
\nSeem VoV has been thinking about this, and jotted those thoughts down. Here they are:<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s a racist?<\/strong><\/em> One of my recent viewings involved a gentleman who was incredulous while reviewing Trump\u2019s recent commentary about the wall and how the narrative changes. He seemed unable to understand how his base could support him in spite of the broken wall promises. The hosts on CNN let him ramble on in this vein for sometime and when he was done they asked him, \u201cWhy do they support such racist policies in your view?\u201d<\/p>\n Now this gentleman had for the eight years of the Bush administration complained incessantly about the \u201cillegal\u201d wars in the Middle East, the unnecessary deaths of our troops and how Bush did nothing to get the troops home, but during the Obama years this very same gentleman lost all of his anti-war fervor and almost orgasmed on himself nationally when Obama won the peace prize, this gentleman never once questioned how a guy who had done nothing and would spend his entire presidency at war every day while adding to the number of countries being bombed and the number of people to be killed by drones could possibly win the Nobel Peace Prize. During the eight years of the Obama presidency this fellow never mentioned the war again and was so adoring of Obama he was practically giddy during interviews with President Obama. But, he opined, how anyone could feel great about Trump was something he couldn\u2019t understand\u2026the level of lost irony here is probably \u201cexpert\u201d along with a pro or semi-pro level lack of self-awareness. He was astonished these people elected leaders that didn\u2019t fulfill their promises and then kept supporting those leaders.<\/p>\n As many of you know I\u2019m not Republican or Democrat and I often wear it as a badge of honor if I can piss of liberals and conservatives in the same day with some uncomfortable observations about their tribes and their elected representatives. One thing I\u2019ve never done is a cast a vote for a leader, my votes are cast for people I hope will represent me to some degree. I don\u2019t need a leader, I need someone who understands what it\u2019s like to pay taxes, to underwrite college for four kids, to build a decent life from very humble beginnings and then understand what I don\u2019t need is someone who thinks they can run my life better than I have already done.<\/p>\n Which brings me, once again, to the politics of division. To the tribalization of the electorate, and the resultant discourse currently on display in the media, on social networks and in our streets. The politics of dividing a people into so many segmented components all concerned with single issue politics they are all completely ineffective at doing anything in unity to direct the actions of the government. My tribe is better than your tribe sounds like a grade school game, except it\u2019s currently the reality of existence in our nation where \u201cOrange Man Bad\u201d has a little more than half the electorate unable to posit a salient argument in favor of any program that might benefit the nation beyond being in opposition to anything Trump might suggest.<\/p>\n It\u2019s created an interesting situation where a nation that has historically low levels of unemployment, historic levels of workforce employment for blacks and Hispanics, and a stock market that will no doubt start to regain even more lost ground when China and the US finally finish their trade war (with favorable concessions for US markets), considers the man making this all possible to be the biggest racist in the history of the United States. So me, being me, I consider what factual evidence I can find. Is Trump in fact the most racist president we\u2019ve ever had or is this another aspect of the Cult of Personality gone round the bend for the Orange Man Bad crowd? Trump has had some mistakes in this area to be sure, but were they mistakes of commission or mistakes of omission? Because that matters, or at least it should matter to anyone who wants to honestly review the reality. For me Trump isn\u2019t very good at being an actual racist, after all what racist wants blacks and Hispanics to succeed by making sure they have more jobs than at any other time in our history? And what racist dates a biracial woman for a couple of years as Trump did almost twenty years before running for president. That biracial woman, by the way, said during that entire two year period she never once heard Trump say a single disparaging thing about anyone based on their race. She could make a shit ton of money if she said Trump said racist things all day long even while dating her and yet she\u2019s never done that. The blacks in his inner circle have all said they would never have stayed with Trump had he proven to be a racist and everyone of them enjoys the work they\u2019ve done with Trump while also stating unequivocally that he never says racist commentary around anyone.<\/p>\n Like I said, seems like he\u2019s not very good at being the worst racist ever\u2026<\/p>\n Sure, we have a president who doesn\u2019t always tell the truth, who isn\u2019t always a very faithful guy, who certainly has a world of flaws we can all see, and to which he has confessed at various times, doing a pretty decent job of fixing a lot of broken aspects of our nation but is still considered to be far worse than reality indicates.<\/p>\n It should make honest people on the left and on the right, wonder what the hell is going on. Who wins when we the people are always divided? Who benefits from a government that is fairly dysfunctional and gridlocked? I know I do to some degree as a government that isn\u2019t making new laws is a government not taking more of my hard earned cash for some supposed benefit that won\u2019t actually ever benefit me or anyone I know. But I don\u2019t benefit to a degree where I find it useful to be so angry every day I unfriend people on social media or randomly yell at some kid in a red hat. I am not so angry I need to break some poor small business owners windows and set some police cars on fire.<\/p>\n I have some ideas on who benefits from the discord, or who thinks they might benefit but I\u2019m not convinced it\u2019s going to go exactly how they envision it as their last round of regular public derision over the \u201cdeplorables\u201d who wanted to vote for Trump went somewhat awry on Election Day 2016.<\/p>\n To be fair, Trump has employed more than a little division in his own commentary, and reaped a benefit from creating an Us Vs Them reality around his supporters and those opposed to the President and his ideas. Trump\u2019s use of pejorative commentary to describe his political opponents during the primaries, his phrasing regarding his national election opponent and a host of other examples of divisive speech to have something to rail against and unite those behind him has long been on display thus leaving him without clean hands in the politics of division. But I would add that it\u2019s perhaps not an unrealistic Us Vs Them because \u201cThem\u201d were the people calling Trump\u2019s supporters names and laughing in derision about those deplorable people.<\/p>\n So is it one party specifically or is it incumbents in general who understand nothing works better for (re-)elections than getting your base pissed off at the other guys?<\/p>\n I\u2019m thinking some of you have a few ideas on the politics of division and I think those ideas should be shared. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n I may have an opinion on the issue, but I’ll wait until some other members have had their chance to opine. Another thought provoker, V. Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nAs a daily routine I tend to watch a lot of \u201cnews\u201d programs (I\u2019m sure that\u2019s not surprising to some of you) and I watch news offered by what appear to be partisans from both sides of the aisle, so perhaps modern news is less about news and more about directing political thought while tossing in some information about the weather, national disasters and the occasional human interest story about a puppy being saved by a cat or some such horse shit.<\/h3>\n
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