We really didn’t want to spend time or space on the blog talking about Mr. Trump. However, we have had telephone calls asking why we haven’t posted our opinion. So in response to those calls:
We sent out our holiday greeting to members of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community.
The end of it shared with them our mantra for 2016. We share it with you —-
Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
and
Politics without principle.
Please note especially “Politics without principle.” That totally sums up what we have seen from Mr. Trump as he attempts to run for President in the Republican primaries.
As far as the people who are supporting him? Racism and Sexism are virulent amongst them and we ask that they look inward and carefully at the reasons they find Mr. Trump and his candidacy so appealing. From our experience he makes Strom Thurmond look like a liberal. It is old-time southern-style racist politics revived and Mr. Trump is on his way to totally being the parallel of the beginnings of Hitlers run for office in Nazi Germany. Quietly, deceptively, appealing to the racism which most of its citizens did not surface within themselves, but who needed the identity lift Adolf Hitlers campaign and rule in Germany gave them.
There were other more acceptable ways to achieve a restoration of one’s sagging identity, but that isn’t the road Germany took at that point in time. The same thing seems to be true in America. Is the ‘Browning of America’ the same kind of threat to us today? Is that where we are headed? To some form of that kind of dictatorship? Because we cannot accept being equal? We have “better than” so structured into our society and our class system that equality looks evil and something that is robbing us of who we truly are and our ‘god given rights’ and greatnesses alongside others inferiority? Is that the legacy of slavery or is something else operating here!
It is without question that Mr. Trump has totally characterized how he would be president. When one looks at that – Mr. Trump’s kind of presidency is not a democracy, but a dictatorship. Is fascism raising its head in America and finding some of its citizens very receptive to that kind of government?
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