Worse yet, not one Republican elected official is voicing that Trump is lying, even when Trump's lies involve them doing something they never will, or is actually impossible for them to do. The Republicans are giving their lying leader the free rein to spew whatever lie he wants and they are silent.
And where are the voices of the minority opposition? What are Schummer and Polosie saying publicly about Trump's lies? What have they done to fight back against Trump's actions? They simply gave in to Republican judicial appointments without any debate. At least Clinton wrote a long editorial in the "Atlantic" exposing Trump's character and moves, but that got little coverage to the American people.
Recent polls show Trump's popularity is up, which means the American people are believing Trump's lies. Recent polls show there is no slant one way, or the other to the election two weeks away. There is no blue wave.
Trump is lying to create fear and Trump is trading on fear to win over the American voter and it is working. I cannot explain why the American voter would believe Trump's lies, or be fearfull of Trump's lies, even if they think they are true.
When good people sit back and do nothing that's called apathy. When good people actually help instill lies as truth that's enabling and abetting the destruction of a government and a society.
"First they came ..." is a poem written by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It is about the cowardice of German intellectuals following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
Niemöller created multiple versions of the text during his career. The poems words have been changed many times to highlight whatever cause some group wants to highlight as being complacent to allowing oppression to win over a society.
This is an expression of more than just apathy, or complacency, but the inaction that allows evil to win over good.
Evil and lies are certainly winning over good and truth in America. We took the first step when we elected Trump as our president. Trump is using lies and fear to suceed at the next step. A second term as president and the numbing acceptance of the American people of his lies becoming American truths.
For the damage to be complete Trump has to get the American people to accept illegal, immoral actions as legal and acceptable. He has already done that to a large extent and the damage to our financial health is already complete.
The revolution against Trump's evil empire is strong in spirit, but weak in ammunition. As a famous saying goes, "Only now at the end do you understand."
I thought a couple others were before but this election may very well be the most important ever.
ReplyDeleteI hate these evil bastards I really do.
I hope most Americans agree with my conclusion that Trump is a congenital liar.
DeleteI'm sure many will disagree with my invoking Niemöller's poem and comparing our situation to the Holocaust, but the only thing missing is the murder of innocent people, which Trump has already done through some of his policies.
Trump said he will stop the caravan march with soldiers at the boarder. How? Will he fire on them? Will he shoot those innocent people? That's the same question Geraldo Rivera asked Sean Hannity last night.
I think Trump is fully capable of firing on those people. And what would Americans do? Sit and watch the talking heads on TV debate the immorality of that act and, yet, do nothing, but accept the excuse that they were law breakers and deserved to be shot.
Homerun.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't argue against that for a second. None of it. You saw where he said he was a Nationalist. These people truly are White Supremacists/Nazis. That is not a stretch anymore!