What we all have been trying to understand is why so many people – good, kind, loving, caring people – are supporting and intend to vote for Donald Trump.
They have seen – as we all have – Trump’s negatives. So why and where does this support come from? We are past the racism, and sexism which has been used to explain Trump. We are looking at and talking to the many who are 120% behind Donald Trump and nothing is coming between them and the “Don”. How come!
His supporters have heard his lies and knew they were lies. They’ve heard how he treats women and know that to be true. They’ve heard about his racism and knew that also to be true. They’ve heard all the hints about his bad temper and thin skin and have seen and heard how he will quickly and viciously insult anyone who he even thinks has insulted him. They’ve heard the hints at the possibility of his being tied to the mafia – both within the United States and Internationally. And they have heard and seen how all of the greats and near greats who are greatly respected in the United States are now falling all over themselves to detach themselves from being seen as even passively supporting Donald Trump.
So why are there so many still in his camp?
Much of this support is coming from people who have been lied to – cheated – who have seen their hard earned money stolen from them by those within the system in what has been made to look like ways supported by our laws. They understand the evils of this system in which we live better than those at the top or near the top who have benefitted from the ugly ways of those who pull the strings for the money to flow from the have nots to a handful of the haves who can then step out into the spotlight looking clean, honest and working for the people. They have lived through some financial horror stories, which most people can’t or won’t believe and which no one is fixing. Given that, it is totally possible to overlook Trump’s negatives and hope that their lives will be better because Trump will fix it.
Let me give you a few examples – real life examples in which we have been involved. Having a Foundation you can use it in one of many ways. One way is to give money to be able to take a 501(c)3 deduction on your income taxes. Or, you can give money, take the deduction – which doesn’t mean a lot to you – but you take away what you really need, which is the feeling that you have helped those in need. (But you have not had to rub elbows with those in need the “Foundation” people have been hired to do that – and even the “Foundation” people keep themselves removed from the actual recipients.) Or, you can get involved, personally with the people your Foundation is working to help and therein lies the path to depression, frustration, disbelief, the death of your idols and the ideology with which you were raised, and for many, your belief in the religious structures in which you function and more.
Let me tie into the Wells Fargo mess and give you an actual example. Put yourself into this one persons’ place and then you will see Donald Trump in a very different light.
A Disclaimer: We are not advocating that you vote for Trump. That vote would only make things worse, because all of this pain and suffering we have seen would be brought into the light and done without the cover under which it now functions. Under a Donald Trump administration the front under which all of this evil operates would be stripped bare and made totally legitimate and we would then have to function seeing evil with nothing shielding us from the seriously infected swamp in which it lives.
Back to WELLS FARGO:
Why fight such a giant? What have they done? You’ve heard the Congressional hearings. You’ve read in the papers how President Stumpf has been forced to give back millions to the company. Lets take a look at the human cost to John and Jane Q. Public:
Assume you have a mortgage with Wells Fargo.
That opens you up to some incredible financial games, created by greed which has created today’s billionaires.
How?
There are many ways – this is just one.
Given your mortgage, Wells Fargo people are now able to open your finances and look in – and from what we have seen, they do just that. What do they have to gain? If they cause you financial trouble across the street, then at home, you will be subject to fees and penalties because they have set up a situation in which you stumble. If you fall, so much the better, they have everything. If you just stumble, that’s not so bad and that’s ok too because their fees are high. They benefit under either scenario.
One other way you are vulnerable to them is through their Wells Fargo Shareowners Service. A seemingly small, innocuous bureaucratic division which seemingly is quite straight forward in what it is tasked to do. A little bureaucratic place in this great giant that you probably don’t realize exists. A little place that interacts with and can control your assets in larger corporations whom they serve.
They are the agents – handling the stock transactions for several large corporations – like Target Stores. So, let us assume you have a Wells Fargo mortgage and you own Target stock. Now, lets assume that stock was purchased through Targets Direct Purchase Plan. What a benefit. You can send the company small amounts of money to purchase their stock. So you establish such an account for your children and over the years accumulate Target stock by sending them just a few dollars each month.
Those few dollars add up to a few thousands of dollars and on and on it goes.
Now comes the time you need to sell that stock. So you contact the transfer agent and ask them to send you the forms necessary for you to sell the stock. They refuse. You call again. They refuse again. And so it goes. What does that do to you? You live your financial life assuming this is an asset you can convert to cash in a matter of days – or at least in a matter of a month at the longest, given the excessive times bureaucracies take to work.
Finally – months later – after much time spent on many telephone calls, you get the forms. You fill them out and spend over $20 sending the forms back to them – the original forms – via overnight mail to insure they get where they are going and so you have a record and can trace anything that might go wrong with the mail. And then you wait – and wait – and wait. But, nothing happens. They received the correctly filled out forms the very next day. How do you know the forms are correctly filled out? Because you took them to a bank and to a stock broker friend and you and the banker and the stock broker filled them out. The banker executing a couple of the forms, as required by Wells Fargo Shareowner Services.
What happens as you wait for your money to be transferred into the account you indicated on your forms? NOTHING!
So weeks later, you call – not Target, but Wells Fargo Shareowner Services. Two large corporate entities tied together via this kind of transaction. These two corporations are also tied to tens of thousands of people with small amounts of money they have accumulated over years of sending their bits and pieces of money to purchase Target stock. There are other large corporate entities so tied together. Without knowing this you would not connect something happening to you through Target, inc. with Wells Fargo.
An interesting fact, but nothing that bothers you at the time – checking out Target to decide whether to continue investing in them at a later date you discover there is no way to contact their Executive Offices. You don’t need to, but it is curious that their CEO is totally enclosed and cut off from any and all people except those close to him. No telephone, no email, no way for the public to reach them. And this is a publicly owned corporation? So you put that aside for later review.
What happens with the stock you are trying to sell? The Wells Fargo Shareowner Services Company knows nothing about you, nor the forms you sent to them, and you have to hold on the telephone for over 45 minutes and insist and prove you sent forms to them while they search for these forms they claim to have “LOST”?
Finally, when you produce your proof of mailing, they find the forms and assure you the stock will be sold and you will be sent the money.
And then? You get a telephone call from someone else from Wells Fargo Shareowner Services days later to say your forms are being sent back to you because they are not filled out correctly. You ask why? The person on the telephone does not know. You hold on the phone and when someone finally comes back – they don’t know either.
So you get the forms back – and your finances are becoming a mess because you were selling the stock for a reason – you need the money. You have a business to expand. You have projects you have started that need more funding. You have people you have promised to help who need the help now!
And then the fun begins. For months nothing happens and you go round and round – sending letters, making telephone calls, getting nothing. And your money is still tied up in Target stock – which you cannot use as money – it is just, at this point, worthless. You can’t even sell the stock through another stock broker because you don’t have the stock certificates – Wells Fargo Shareowner Services holds those and won’t send them to you either.
An interesting side note – Target, inc. comes from Dayton-Hudson, a Minneapolis based corporation. Back in the day, Dayton-Hudson was known to be part of an interlocking directorate with influence and no inhibitions on using that influence to manipulate individuals – among other possibilities.
And remember – back a few paragraphs – your mortgage is being held by Wells Fargo. So, is this accidental with one having nothing to do with the other or is something else operating here!
And then your door bell rings. It is a Chinese Real Estate Agent who is offering to buy your property, claims she understands that you need the money and she has a client who is willing to pay cash – at half the value of the property, in a hot real estate market, where half leaves you a few million dollars short of the real value of the property, but here is the next step in this evil and greed which strips people of everything financially in the end. It is nothing you could conceive in a country which touts itself as good and other countries as evil or at best as not so good.
You turn down the real estate agent – and at first you are mystified as to why she comes to your door with such an outlandish offer. You don’t have financial problems so what is she talking about! The door is slammed with some anger because it is dawning on you that there is a connection between this and what is going on with Target, Inc. and Wells Fargo.
This story has throw backs to Pontius Pilate all throughout. He called for the bowl of water to wash his hands and symbolically wash away his guilt at what will be the unbelievably brutal killing of Jesus. This story is a modern, institutional adaptation of that old, old story which many in this society are experiencing. The symbols of the bowl of water with rag and soap have changed to new 21st century symbols of the same thing.
The realtor reappears in a few weeks. This time, after you have called and written to Wells Fargo Shareowner Services a lot – gotten angry – done lots to get your stock sold so you can move on with your financial life.. None of which was effective, even almost two years later. The Wells Fargo Shareowner Services door is solidly closed. Their refusal to sell your stock is clearly a refusal and violates everything on which this society is built. Wall Street could not function without the guarantee that you could convert your stock into cash within days. So they are violating the very foundation of our economic system and with impunity. Even contacting the SEC hasn’t helped.
You do get one foot in the door – so you think. Wells Fargo has appointed someone to investigate this stock problem. Who? Someone from their mortgage department. And who holds your mortgage? Wells Fargo!
It doesn’t dawn on you what that means. Your assumption is that this is the company process and the person appointed is probably someone they have trained and designated to head such investigations. Dumb dumb – she is with the mortgage department. What you discover in the process is that she does not have access to the people she needs to talk to, nor the records she needs to access to do an investigation. So why was she chosen to head this investigation? You gave her the right to access your records with Wells Fargo Shareowner Services Company in a three way telephone call with someone from Wells Fargo Shareowner Services Department, but months later you are told that was only for that particular telephone conversation. When the three of you ended that telephone call, so did that sham of an investigation. Interestingly, you were not told that during the conversation – a conversation which was the initiation of the investigation. In fact, you were led to believe the opposite – very specifically, that she would continue the investigation and get back to you with her findings.
After this “investigation” came to an end with no results and the mortgage person told you she was in mortgages and had no access to other departments – and you asked why was she assigned to head this “investigation” given those circumstances and you didn’t get a straight answer you realize you have been played. Played to your detriment and the company’s need to buy time to make sure you were becoming more and more financially destabilized.
And then comes the real estate agent again. This time with an elderly Chinese gentleman to assure you there is a “buyer” who is willing to pay cash. And, oh by the way, you are really too old to be saddled with owning such a large house. And, oh by the way, we are willing to pay you half of what the house is worth. And oh, by the way, you should be thrilled because that will allow you a very comfortable old age – you won’t have to work anymore. And for reasons that made no sense – her last ‘oh, by the way’ was did you get out for a walk today, you need to do that, you know. With my mouth hanging open wide enough for bugs to fly in from the shock of this – she went on to say they understand we were having troubles with our mortgage and they came to help. And where did they get this information – you ask? And they answered – Wells Fargo! So you throw them off your porch – because you were astute enough not to let them into your house. And you thank God you were raised to control your anger and not revert to the most primitive kind of violence because this certainly is the point at which that would have happened if your family had not been so tenacious about raising someone who is -on the surface, at least – non-violent.
So the game continues.
Next up – Herb Chambers Automobile Sales and Honda Financial Services.
Because you have been put into this cash flow problem – you have to move assets around to have enough to make up the short fall from the money you expected from selling stock you legitimately own and have been assured, from all the federal statues, the traditions, the law which set in place the Securities and Exchange Commission, that you would be able to sell and settle in four business days. This is now over one and a half years later and even with constant telephone calls, letters, emails, the stock has not been sold.
In the process, your car note falls behind by 52 days because you were foolish enough to continue to expect the stock to be sold so you did not transfer assets needed to get all the things done you planned to do before this mess started. You pay the car note by wiring money into the bank account of the Honda Financial Services Corporation and go about your business. You have, after all, transferred the assets you need. You will be fine for months – although your business will not have the money it needs to grow according to the plans you set for it. You will have to take a little from here and there to make up for the personal financial problems you would have otherwise. So you do that.
And behold, arriving at your door is this huge truck to repossess your car. Surely they are mistaken. You owe nothing and the total balance due on the car note is very miniscule. Well, therein lies the problem. If it were a huge car note owing – no problem and no one would bother you. You would have been charged a $5 late fee, which you would pay happily because you know that was owed, but instead, here comes this truck to take away a car on which you have no monies overdue.
The truck driver is not fazed and does nothing because you have threatened him with theft, criminal trespass, fraud and a whole lot more. So he steps away and waits for his bosses to tell him what to do. He is clear that he is not going to risk being arrested.
As all of this happens you reflect back on a couple people you worked with in the past to help them save their cars from such a problem. The total pictures of what they were going through was lost on you because you still had some trust in the system and how it worked. The greed had not surfaced for you in all of its brilliant magnificence. Even as you see this truck trying to take your car, the greed intrinsic in this still has not manifest itself. This just seems like a bureaucratic mistake.
As this all plays out for you, the realization hits that the people you tried to help and who lost their cars did so because they became too afraid of the car company trying to repossess their cars. And, they never lost the expectation that there was human decency and some honesty in all of this and no one would do to them what ultimately happened. They were so wrong.
What all of the people you helped with their car problems had in common was a very small amount owing on their car and they were over 30 days past due on their current payment. You gave them their note payment, which they made to the company, but they still lost their car even though when they lost it, their car payments were up to date. How could that be? It was a mystery then, but your faith in the system didn’t lead you to tear it apart to see what was wrong. It was all revealed, however, with this experience. The evil is overwhelming. You can see it as it dances around the people with whom you are dealing – it is all bright and gold and shining unbelievably. And you thought only good was bright and shining and full of light. The society that helped raise you taught you that evil was all dark and suspicious and, well like Africans and here you were looking at evil bright and gold and shining unbelievably. What a break through moment!
What was the difference between you and the people you tried to help? You were calling the police to have this repossession guy arrested. The people you moved to help were too afraid to do that and instead put their faith in the goodness of the company. So they lost their cars. And what happened to their cars? With the balance owing on their car being under $3,000 and they having used the money you gave them to bring their monthly payments up to date and the car company demanding that they pay twice that because since they were behind and a repossession notice had been issued, their cars could not be released until the payment they had already made was made again. The fact that the car company had received their cash and put it in their bank account, but still demanded that the amount due – even though it had been paid – be paid again either by bringing cash to the company or sending cash via Western Union’s “Quick Collect” – those car owners were lost. They didn’t have the car payment they were behind – we gave them that. Once that was paid they were too ashamed to come back to us to ask for their car payment twice – they thought we would not understand and would think they were trying to game us.
So, being too ashamed to come back to us to ask for their car payment twice or to tell us what happened – something they didn’t understand and didn’t know how to explain, they just kept quiet and lost their cars. Apparently, Honda Financial Services depended upon that and knew this was the normal outcome.
Once the car payment was made a second time – according to Honda Financial Services employees, – the cash received by them would be refunded, their car would be released and everybody would be happy. Since we had given folks the money to make the car payment, they clearly did not have money to pay it again and were too embarrassed to come back to us for more money so they lost their cars. That part of the story we didn’t know and didn’t understand until now.
What happened to the cars? With less than a $3,000 balance due – the cars were sold in the used car lot for over $10,000 and who made out with a substantial profit? Not the original owner, because title was transferred away from them before the sale was made so they had no right to pay Honda what was due and keep the balance.
So, with no money to buy another car and with the car company having wrecked their credit – the car company experiences yet another dividend. The people so negatively affected could buy another car from the same company – but they would have to pay very high interest and make two monthly payments – one for the downpayment, and one for the regular payment for the car. A couple people we tried to help did that and nearly killed themselves in the process. We lost track of them so we don’t know how that story ended.
But I am getting ahead of myself in this story.
What we experienced from Herb Chambers and Honda Financial Services was a demand for a second payment of the monthly car payment even though there was no payment due. They tried shame; threats; acknowledged they had received the monies sent to them; that the account was not delinquent on any level; but they still demanded the amount due be paid again and even though they had received the cash which brought the account up to date, we would have to either bring them cash for that exact amount or send them a Western Union “Quick Collect” amount. After they received that Western Union money or we brought them cash to their company, they would take the cash they had already received out of their account and, in due time, send it to us as a refund. They claimed this demand was legal. It was amazing! What they were demanding was totally illegal and as of today we have not received a refund nor has the second payment been credited to our account. WOW!
We wanted an explanation as to why they could not keep the money already in their account – why they wanted us to bring them cash so they then could take the cash previously sent to them and received by them out of their account and send it to us as a refund. It is the demand which made the people we helped lose their cars. The expectation was that you would not be able to pay this second amount demanded because you had been late on the first payment. So they were foaming at the mouth looking at a car that they could sell and make a very substantial profit on,for their company, showing they had done an excellent job.
They became so helpful at this point. They would see to it that the car was returned as soon as we notified them this second payment had been made and they would do everything possible to make sure we would not have to wait a moment longer than necessary for the return of the car. When we brought them this second payment they would contact the repossession company and have our car released immediately. What they didn’t realize was that they didn’t have possession of the car throughout all of this because the car repossession guy had gone home without the car. He got the message, did not want to be arrested, because he knew what he was doing was illegal.
We sent the second amount via Western Union because we wanted to follow this through to the end. When we called to verify that the monies had been sent and received by them, according to Western Union, we couldn’t help but notice the disappointment and surprise in the voice of the person from Honda Financial Services with whom we spoke.
When we realized what the people we were helping had gone through and some were still going through, it was beyond belief. It began to dawn on us the extent of the fraud involved and how intimidating the people were who were practiced at this. How many people have so suffered. Most people have buckled under this kind of thing. We tend to be mean and angry so we call out the police, the attorneys, the relevant governmental departments and agencies involved and everyone we know, to attack.
What makes this possible and why is it so widespread? SHAME! People are ashamed even when they are being ripped off
We have no shame. We are outraged. And unfortunately for those trying to rip us off, we were not broke – we simply had a transfer of assets problem and in that situation many are caught unawares that this is what happens to people who are actually in a financial bind. Everything they have is taken away. Stripped away with great glee. It is amazing to see how unprincipled, how greedy, how many lies people will tell to strip another person of their money and assets.
What is even more alarming – the people doing the stripping don’t benefit from what they have ‘stolen’. The company for which they work benefits. And in that company, the people at the top of those companies benefit. Those doing the stripping are simply allowed to keep their jobs and, in the evenings, to sit by the fireplace to watch the flames that will consume them when they die – and they will not even have had the benefits of the ill-gotten gains they made possible for others to enjoy. A very few others, but others indeed.
This has been an experience we are going to push to the limits because this needs to stop. We realize we won’t be able to stop it – its like using a small wooden fence to stop a tsunami, but we are not going to sit by and let that tsunami swamp everything without trying to stop it.
This experience did enlighten us as to why so many people are willing to overlook Trump’s negatives and support him. They are looking for relief from an extremely oppressive system. If you dig into the past of many Trump supporters you will find a situation much more dire than the one I have described to you because at some point, someone in their family has probably been made destitute by these machinations.
As for us – we are supporting Hillary Clinton. Our more sane side has won and we realize that what we described will only be made worse by someone like Donald Trump coming into office. We are sure he has had enough experience to know how to take advantage. What those supporting the “Don” don’t realize is that he has done some of what I described above. Not the same particulars, but in his own corporate way he has made many people destitute – many others have lost their businesses because of his greed and on and on and on. But those who have gone through this kind of thing are looking for a way out and someone to come to their aid and they see that someone as Donald Trump.
Clear your eyes people. He will only make a bad scene worse.
We don’t know where the solution lies, but we are going to continue to move the needle and do what we can to expose and stop these scams – thefts – destructions – horriblenesses of this system out of control. It is time for that 1% to get real and do something to level the playing field instead of stealing all the turf and exposing the swamp underneath.
Wasn’t it an emperor of Russia who had a wonderful life until the peasants revolted? And the king of France? And many others, who were so busy ripping off their citizens that they didn’t realize they had gone too far until the ax fell on their heads wielded by the very citizens whose economic and financial lives they were destroying.
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The United States President = Pathological Liar
Monday, March 6th, 2017It is amazing to see “Mr. President” referred to every day as a Pathological Liar. I have lived through many presidents and not everyone has been happy with the current president, but all of them – except maybe Richard Nixon – have been respected even when one could not agree with some of their policies or beliefs, until now. And even Richard Nixon – who was given some choice names – pathological liar was not one.
To every United States voter who used their vote to help elect Donald J. Trump – you are unequivocally a bigot. Everyone is being nice and dancing around this, but it is time to say it very clearly. You voted for Donald Trump because you thought he was going to bring America back to the racist/bigoted nation it was before the election of Barack Obama – quietly, unobtrusively with plausible deniability as to the bigotry being re-enforced, re-established with examples to make sure the youth of the U. S. are thoroughly re-indoctrinated into the evil that has been a part of the structure of America for hundreds of years.
Two things come to mind when one says the name – Barack Obama: one – he is half African; two – his name brings up Muslim connotations. Isn’t that why Trump is on this anti-Muslim ban? His bigotry as he and his followers are determined to wipe everything off the face of the earth that this half-Black with Muslim ancestors has achieved, turning it all into extreme negatives to fit the negative stereotype that has existed in the U. S. since it was needed to justify slavery. You cannot have this ex-president destroying the negative stereotypes you and your ancestors have spent generations putting in place.
Please understand, I know very well Barack Obama is not Muslim, but his name legitimizes Muslims as first class citizens as much as he legitimizes African Americans as full citizens of this country – totally eliminating the second class citizenry of both. To the bigots in this country that is unforgivable.
To each and every Donald Trump supporter, you can hide behind other reasons that you spurt, but that is the real reason you voted for a man who showed himself to be a pathological liar both before and during his campaign for President; a purveyor of vicious and ugly stories that are lies; who was involved in soft-porn; owner and operator of casinos with rumors of mafia connections; who filed bankruptcy six times cheating many people in the process – without any explanation, without any disclosure of his tax returns, without any substantiating that he didn’t get money from Russia and others of that ilk; who was an adulterer many times over and who paraded it around for all to see and to brag about; who talked about and treated women as though they were sex objects existing for only one reason – who was vile in his comments about women. And for your side bonus, he also called Mexicans and others ugly names to insure that the world knows that in America they are not considered equal to White Americans – or Russians. – You, Trump supporters, didn’t care, because you simply wanted someone who would wipe out everything about Obama and his presidency, creating a lie that it wasn’t right or good and someone to do everything possible to make that seem to be a vile, ugly, horrible time in these United States. If Trump had to lie to achieve that goal – you were right there with him, helping to spread what you knew were lies. If he had to attempt to destroy a woman who spent her entire adult life working so that our lives could be better – so much the better. You got a ‘twofer’ in Donald Trump. He not only lied about, misrepresented, slandered the sitting president of the United States, but Trump worked to destroy an “uppity” woman at the same time. Wow! You really worked hard to make him your president. Who knows when another such opportunity would come, for you to rise up and make your filth, that was poorly hidden all these generations, known to the rest of the world.
You claimed you were voting for him because he was going to bring JOBS back to the United States. Right! A man whose own company and the company of his daughter and family members had outsourced jobs for their businesses to other countries – China, Bangladesh, etc. – has credibility with you to bring jobs back to these United States? He is still crying the same story. You still claim to believe him when none of his companies or his family’s companies including Ivanka’s has made any move to bring their company’s jobs back to these United States. Trump makes an announcement about some corporation bringing jobs back to the United States and he takes credit for that move when he had nothing to do with a decision made long before he became president and no one even asks when Trump is going to bring his jobs back onto these shores.
Ivanka Trump just moved her company’s jobs from China – to where? Back to the United States? NO! To Bangladesh or some other country where the wages are almost slave wages and where people work in sweat shop conditions just to survive. This is no secret. We all are aware of this. Paying sub-human wages to their workers to increase their own profits so they can live a more elaborate lifestyle leaving those working for them beyond destitute! That is the reason most U. S. Corporations move their jobs overseas. Trump and family were just going along with the crowd. And at the same time hitting at others for doing the same thing. It is hypocrisy at its worse. This family’s ethics are in the dumpster and still you cheer. That is the definition of a bigot.
Why do I call you Trump supporters bigots? You elected a man who spent over eight years attempting to trash the sitting president of the United States. He used blatant lies that every one of you knew to be lies, but you voted him in as president, anyway. Not just little lies, but blatant ones that you knew were lies and that you supported in your zeal to be free of equality and justice. You were and are ready to trade a democracy for a dictatorship to maintain your White Privilege – and you are doing it with great gusto.
You knew before you cast your vote that you were voting for a pathological liar. You knew you were voting for a man who had the ethics of a gutter snake. A man who would do and say anything to get his point across and to gain his end goal. In this case, you were casting your vote for such a person to be President of these United States.
You voters for Donald J. Trump as president knew when you cast your ballot that his campaign was a lie from beginning to end. You knew he put together the KKK, the White Nationalists, Breitbart, the neo-Nazi’s and others on that same level with the same philosophy and beliefs to gain the presidency. You knew when you cast your ballot for Donald Trump you were voting for the worse kind of bigot. Yet you voted for him. Why? Because you are like him – bigots together trying to bring the United States back to a pre-1950’s place complete with raising again Jim Crow, complete with your claimed superiority over everyone not like you.
You knew with Donald Trump as president you would not have to swallow your own bigotry. You could come out calling people the -N- word. You knew you could be abusive to minorities. You knew you could let out all of the ugliness you had to swallow during the years of Obama’s presidency and today you are doing just that and enjoying every moment. We are all seeing just how ugly, shallow, violent, rude, vile you can be – that is all on parade for the world to see also.
At some point, it must have dawned on you that your children – born shortly before, during and in the process of the Obama presidency – would not share your hatred for those not like you. You must have realized that children born to the rest of the world would also see a Black man as president of these United States and that changed, modified, mitigated, eliminated much of the racism that you and your forbears spent your lives creating and projecting. The negative stereotypes you projected – from deep within your soul – onto minorities was fast disappearing. You had to do something or face who you really are as a human being, just equal to, without the ‘glow’ of White Privilege covering all of your shortcomings, giving you an identity you did not deserve nor work for, giving you privileges over others which the ‘American Dream’ guaranteed to you, above all others.
America, having created ‘White Privilege’ as its camouflage to maintain slavery and to meld Europeans and others into a ‘race’ of superior beings called White, was changing. It was threatening to you to see your beloved ‘White Privilege’ evaporating into the equality and justice now coming into being in these United States. Late, but better than not at all. This was something you would not tolerate.
Since we have been accustomed to lying to ourselves and saying one thing which was really code for something else, you saw right away through Donald Trump’s code words – Make America Great Again – to what those words really meant – Make America White Again. We are also beginning to realize your dumping on the media means the “Liberal Media”, which means what you consider the “Jewish Media.” We saw the need for you to eliminate the “Liberal Media” you could not control, but your actions are showing ever more of where you are coming from and where you are going.
The media conspired with its 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign to the elimination of all but 5% of its coverage given to others running for President of these United States.
So what now Donald J. Trump supporters? You are faced with supporting Russia – since that is apparently who had to help you elect Mr. Trump. There are not enough of you to constitute the overwhelming majority that Mr. Trump needed to become president. Most Americans reject your beliefs and the bigotry by which you justify your existence. Are you going to move into that place of being enemies of your own country because that is what the continuation of your attempts to re-establish a bigoted nation requires?
I can imagine how fulfilling it is to look at Russia and see only White Northern European faces – even if it does mean pushing the definition of Northern European a bit to fill this role. You are doing that quite admirably. Not even many women – a few here and there, but not so many they are equal to those White men we constantly see pictured from Russia. And certainly, Vladimir Putin’s sexism is very satisfying to you, I am sure, as you see that he is just as much a womanizer as Mr. Trump. Warms the heart to see those old values still in ascendancy with the hope that you can leave the world in tact for your children coming along, who won’t have to live under equality; won’t have to worry about justice being ‘blind’; won’t have to be truthful in their dealings with others – they will be able to lie to gain the goal of maintaining this bigotry because they will have been taught and have been given a role model who does just that.
So what now all of you Donald J. Trump supporters. Some of you are hiding. You supported and support him, but you don’t want your friends and co-workers to know because you know it is your bigotry leading your brain and you know it is wrong to give your support to such a person.
You and your young children had as a role model – Barack Obama. A man who was principled in his dealings with you and the rest of the world. Whose family is down to earth and accepting of all of us – including you and your family. You have now been instrumental in giving your young children a role model – Donald J. Trump – of a pathological liar and of a man who has cheated, lied and stolen from others without any remorse and who continues to do just that. This is the role model your children now have and what a follow-up to Barack Obama.
Don’t be surprised when the crime rate sky rockets – don’t be surprised when the murder rate increases exponentially – don’t be surprised when corporate America takes away from you whatever they want in the name of major profits – don’t be surprised when you see the worst of humanity in your leaders because gradually that is what is happening and you know that. You may be bigoted, but you are not stupid. Because your current ‘leaders’ are expensively dressed, that indicates their wealth not their character.
Don’t be surprised when your children catch on and start giving you denials to their missteps; when they start justifying going on drugs to escape reality; when they start mistreating you as well as their friends; when they start taking whatever they want from whoever they want to take it and feel justified in the doing.
When you give your children a role model such as Donald J. Trump, they follow it just as they started to follow the role model of Barack Obama. Who do you want your children to follow – to want to be like? Because rest assured that the ethics of this country – its character – is gradually being changed to follow the character of its leader. That is the human condition.
When your children have business relationships will they follow the six bankruptcies of Donald Trump? Will they justify their bigotry – which is assuredly going to grow – by claiming that Barack Obama, as President of the United States was fooling the people and was really not born in these United States – by claiming that Obama was lying to the American people and was really born in Africa? In other words, Trump was trying to set up the argument that the United States has never had a legitimate Black president. Isn’t that behind the lies Trump told constantly about Obama? With the unspoken knife twist implying Obama’s lack of ethics to be able to do such a thing?
Will you delight in seeing your children, as some of you did, portraying the president of the United States and his wife as apes in the jungle, dressed in animal skins and acting as though they were totally stupid, violent, terrorists? Because that is the example you have given them as a good example by your vote for Donald Trump as president. I could go on for pages, but you know the history and you know what you have done.
And now you have the ‘surprise’ of Donald J. Trump claiming Barack Obama had his phones “tapped” in Trump Tower as some kind of attempt to gain the presidency for Hillary Clinton. How many more of these pathological lies are we going to sit still and absorb? For this country they are like body blows. And we can’t sustain too many of those. The surprise to me is that having listened to Donald J. Trump lie about Barack Obama for over eight years as he was campaigning for president and his years as a sitting president, when Trump claimed that Obama was not born in the U. S. we are now taking this additional lie of Donald Trump’s seriously. It is horrendous and should result in his removal as president, in spite of the support and delight of his bigoted followers rejoicing in ‘their President’s’ still being the horrendous liar that he has always been to them and very willing to promote the horribleness that finds its way onto the pages of Breitbart and other such publications.
You, Donald J. Trump voters, have violated your responsibility as citizens of this country because you valued your White Privilege above everything else. You sold out your country so you could feel better than many others – who are probably better than you, at least ethically and as patriots. Your patriotism was for sale to whoever assured you that they would make it possible for you continue to feel better than, covered in White Privilege and they would make sure that the law and government would keep you on top because they would “Drain the Swamp” of those swimming in the waters of equality and justice and working to bring about the equality and justice that the voters for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to give to all of us. You let Donald Trump turn the metaphor of Amos’ – let justice roll on like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream into Trump’s “Drain the Swamp”.
All you wanted, all of you Donald J. Trump supporters, was to put that White Woman in jail because she dared to think she was good enough and equal enoughto run for president of these United States and everybody knows women have a place and it is not equal to men. All of you knew that could not happen if you were to maintain your feeling of superiority and your White Privilege in the face of its being torn down by people like Hillary Clinton and her followers. You attempted to turn a God-fearing, hard working woman into a murderer and worse. Well, you have your murderer as president; you have succeeded in electing your pathological liar as president, you have your mafia tinged president who many claim sold all of us out to Russia and whoever else would pay him the big money, and now you have to live with the result. You could very well have voted in the end of this Republic and the beginning of a Russian style dictatorship.
Your actions will assuredly send you to the hottest corner of hell. And what now are you going to do to rectify this situation? Live in the muck you have created? Or do something to get Russia out of the United States government and work with all of us to move this country into the greatness promised by its founders? Into a country where justice, equality and more of the same are really the American way! It is not an easy way because we constantly annoy and disappoint each other, but it winds up to be a pretty good place especially if it is without all of you bigots creating a swamp you then don’t have a clue as to how to move across into the beautiful, clear flowing waters.
And no, I am not a Democrat.
Get those white sheets and pointy hats and that Nazi symbol out of here!~
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