Oh good lord we’re all gonna die! That’s what half the country is thinking this morning. They might be right. The next four years are going to be exceptionally interesting. The first thing we will likely see is a twitter war between Donald and ISIS. Then when the real bullets start flying I guess we will see if his first response is to launch a nuclear strike, escalating what can only be described an international annoyance into the destruction of civilization. This is pretty much how a lot of people envision the next year.
I watched Donald’s acceptance speech. It was actually pretty good. His speech writer deserves an Oscar. If Don only means half of what he read then we might live through this. Then again, from what the rumors say he’s chosen Gingrich, Mnuchin, and Giuliani for his cabinet. Gingrich and Giuliani are serial philanderers (that got Donald the Christian vote…you know…screw thy neighbor’s wife?), and Mnuchin was an executive for Goldman Sachs, one of the most corrupt financial organizations in the country profiting from not one, but two financial debacles. I’m not really getting a warm fuzzy feeling.
So how did we get here? First is that Donald Trump can play a crowd of red necks like Roy Clark does a banjo. He speaks from the hip, and says it like he sees it at the moment. I don’t think anyone in the current political establishment really gets how important that is to the working class. While it is often light in facts, it resonates loudly because they just “want it straight.” Compare it to the practiced, cautious, careful, and calculated speech of Hillary Clinton, and you’re going to lose out every time. It doesn’t matter to them if all they’re getting is bullshit, they just like how it’s fed to them. It’s like an apple. Hand it to a child and they likely won’t touch it. Cover it in chocolate and 10 lbs of sugar and they’re on it like rats on pizza.
Another part of this is race, and sexism. Is Donald Trump a racist, and sexist. Most definitely yes. The problem is so are all his supporters. I say all because if you voted for him, you support racism and sexism. You do. Look in the mirror and realize you hate anyone not white or sporting a penis. The sheer magnitude of facts surrounding Donald’s attitude toward anyone not rich, white and male would buckle the knees of an elephant. You might as well own up to the fact that you’re deplorable.
The Clinton family’s propensity for controversy didn’t help. You would think that they would know after so many decades of being under a microscope that anything that might look inappropriate would play out poorly in the media. Does that mean that Benghazi, Emails, Vince Foster, or land deals where the Clintons lost money have any basis in reality? Nope. Seriously…if any Trump supporter thinks that anything will come of any of this now that the election is over they are sadly, sadly, and ignorantly mistaken.
I think the last of the reasons we are here is that half of the voters in the United States are just plain ignorant. They think from the gut. That’s why they liked Donald so well. They see themselves in him. The problem is they’re stupid. Donald knows what they wanted to see so he gave it to them. He’s a salesman, and a very, very good one. This is the only way a billionaire who had fed on the weaknesses of unions, minorities, veterans, and women for his own enrichment could possibly be voted into office by the people he regularly screwed.