by: Marceline Donaldson 2016
No more calls, please. I will give you my final say. You probably won’t like it, but here goes:
What do I think about this election? It told me much about myself in relation to the United States of America’s citizens and structures.
I am a minority and the laws of these United States have that written into them. What is that? Me – and those like me – are less than.
Laws have been challenged, changed, made, amended, but there are always more because slavery was a part of the founding of these United States and that structural inconsistency is a part of what we have inherited. And before slavery, the laws that enslaved Africans were based on the marriage laws – so sexism also plays a part. That is why the Constitution must be a living, breathing, changing thing – and – that is why the bigots in this country want it to be set in stone. To tell the truth is powerful. To be able to hear the truth and respond is even stronger.
White Supremacy Ideology was developed during slavery to justify one group over another -better than another – which allowed that slave holding group to go to Church on Sundays and participate in life as though they were good people. Before that, WHITE did not exist and it was clearly not a race. These newly named WHITES demonized, demeaned, destroyed the lives of many to be able to be slaveholders and mistreaters of women and other minorities and still sit in the pew they paid for with what felt to them like a clear and clean conscience and to exercise their prerogative to be lazy. Lazy how? To import “immigrants,” who then were called “slaves” for the sole purpose of doing their work to achieve their goals of building this country.
That White Supremacist Ideology has maintained even into today and even though some slavery has been abolished. Slavery involving Africans – stealing African citizens from their country and “importing” them into the United States. That slavery is now illegal. We have moved on because as technology develops and all of what has come from the Industrial Revolution morphs and changes, this society does not need that kind of physical labor anymore. We now resort to “emotional slavery” – using women, dogs, other animals, etc. – but that is for another time.
Jews were “Blacks” and “N*****S until the Black Civil Rights Movement came along and then gradually they became “WHITE”.
East Indians – the same.
Today Latina’s are “Blacks”, but some are gradually taking on new racial identities as “WHITE”. And so it goes.
We won’t even begin to include American Indians – foreigners on their own land.
This election has said clearly that I may be an American citizen because my family has been here from the beginning and my family has been added to with “immigrants” who have been here for several generations, but that does not make me free and equal.
My vote, for example, is only worth a percentage of what other peoples votes are worth. If I lived in the “countryside” instead of in the city, my vote would count as one plus – the plus coming from what was taken from other United States Citizens to make sure that my unequalness would remain wrapped into the institutional structure of this country. Those not as equal cannot vote as equals and those ‘better than’ have their better-than-nes institutionalized in the structure of the country in which they live, contribute, and more.
The one vote lie that we tell United States citizens and others is just that – a lie. Since I live in the city, I do not have “one person one vote”. That lie has been told to me and mine for generations. And since most minorities – with very few exceptions – live in the cities – another way to discriminate, that has been around for generations, has now come full circle and created a tyranny to maintain the bigotry which is still in our structures. Its maintenance has shown up when Whites most needed it – when they are about to become the “Minority”, but the structure is doing its best to maintain them as a “Majority” which dictates how everyone else shall live and how they shall maintain their White Supremacy.
That is what brought Donald Trump into office. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over one million votes – 1,000,000. If you are still saying 200,000 then check your figures, they are wrong.
Having won the popular vote, Hillary should be president of these United States. What happened! Why did she “lose”.
- She is a woman.
- She is a woman who identifies as a feminist.
- She is a woman who is well known in the African American and other minority communities because she has been there for all of us. From the beginning of her career in law when she stood with Marian Wright Edelman working to bring about positive change for many children – who, but for, would have had a very different and much more difficult life.
- Many in the media were bribed by Trump with weekends in MaraLargo and other amenities and they then talked Trump 24/7. Apparently there are no checks and balances to make sure that kind of bribery does not happen and it was given free range in this Presidential Campaign. It doesn’t matter what you say as long as you keep saying it about me 24/7 with hardly a comment about my competition and that comment, when made, is negative – and I will win any election in which I take part.
- Donald Trump viciously called out those who said anything, even slightly negative about him or his and so people became more reticent and more careful with what they were saying.
- Our own FBI through its head – Comey – interfered with the election of President of these United States to make the election come out in favor of their candidate Donald Trump. A vicious turn and a total sell-out of what that Director of the FBI took an oath as to what he would and would not do.
- Wiki Leaks did all it could – went way above and beyond to elect Donald Trump over a woman. When this happened and I saw how viciously they were going after Hillary, I began to believe the charges of rape against Assange. This was certainly sexual abuse by an organization – Wiki Leaks. It was rumored that he did these deeds hoping Donald Trump would give him asylum. An immigrant from Sweden, after all, would be much more acceptable than those from Muslim countries, from Mexico and more. (It will be interesting to see if he is prosecuted for hacking into computers without the permission of the owners of those computers.)
- Since Hillary Clinton supporters came mostly from the cities, clearly the percentage of one vote that each one had determined that this election would go against her. Handicapping her voters and lying to them in the lead up to this election. “Your vote counts.” One person one vote”. etc.
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MAJORLY, Donald Trump “won” because he is the first candidate to come right out front to say he was a racist and sexist and made no bones about it. In fact, he emphasized that fact by having racists and sexists – well known – along with their organizations up front in his campaign for the presidency of the United States. We are a racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-semetic/anti-immigrant and more country. We are a country in which bigotry reigns and has reigned throughout our entire existence. We have covered over that fact with denial, blaming the victim, pointing the finger at other countries to deflect from our own misconduct, using code words to cover what we actually are saying and mean and more. To achieve the small gains we have achieved, over the generations, has taken many people giving their lives for this to happen. It has taken multi-millions more to have given up their futures to take less financially and otherwise to fight for the rights of everyone. It has taken enormous courage to stand in the face of bigotry and fight for its elimination.
- When faced with the possibility of electing a woman who was anti-racism/anti-sexism/anti-all of the other isms, there is no way we would do anything other than elect the racist who was running against her. Why? Because this country was set up to make sure that would happen. The people in the country side who are, generally – with some exceptions, determined to live in a racist/sexist country cast votes worth more than those in the areas where minorities live. They had more than one person one vote and it is not the only time that has happened in this country. When it happened a few years ago – please notice we did not change the system. We did not have a movement of any depth and breath to attempt to change the system to give one person one vote. If that had happened Hillary Clinton would be president.
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To maintain the Electoral College and all that it brings in its wake is a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitc things to do and our Civil Rights laws need to come into play as we move to eliminate this Electoral College and bring into this country a truer democracy with an actual one person one vote ethic.
- the way this is set up today, it violates the intention of my rights under the Constitution of these United States, which was and is that all people are created equal. To make some more equal by conferring upon them a larger vote just because of their geography – the place where they live – is not understandable under what the United States of America claims to be to itself and to the rest of the world.
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Donald Trump did not appeal to the “working classes” he appealed to the bigots – the racists and the sexists. That was made clear through the button Donald Trump supporters proudly wear – the NO to Political Correctness button – which is simply another way of saying “Yes, I am a bigot and proud of it.”
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Donald Trump spent a few years setting the stage for this Presidential Campaign so he would not be misunderstood. Years during which he called Barack Obama many ugly names, encouraging his followers to go even further. Donald Trump insisted Barack Obama was an illegitimate president because he was not born in the United States and more. Donald Trump was the “Mouth piece” for the birther movement and gave it breadth and depth. Given those years of campaigning before the campaign, it was not possible for anyone to misunderstand who he was and from where he was coming.
Many in the media are looking for the code words to use that will satisfy those of us who are angry – very angry. The interviews and panels and other forms of media forensic dissecting of this election has been about everything but the truth and the truth needs to be told. At best, it has only been hinted at, except for a very few of these propaganda shows.
Listen to what people are saying and how they are twisting themselves into all kinds of contorted figures to say they are relived that a racist white man who sees women as sex objects has won and they voted for him because the demographic in these United States is on that precipice of change where it is going to roll over in this country from the majority being “White” to majority being “Minority”. Their hope and their vote went to Trump because they think he will be able to stop and change that process or put something in place that mitigates and keeps “White” on top in spite of the fact that their numbers will be in the minority.
Need I go on? I think that says it all. The looking for ways to recast this so the United States of America can continue in its place where it is supported by hypocrisy – lies – and more needs to stop. Truth needs to be told or America will never be great again. Especially never great in God’s eyes.
The slogan – “Make America Great Again” is one everyone understands. It comes from Ronald Reagans campaign where it meant then what it means now “Make America White Again” and that needs to stop.
TELL THE TRUTH AMERICA AND STOP THE BS. IT IS TIME – UNLESS YOU WANT A COUNTRY RAVAGED THE WAY GERMANY WAS RAVAGED UNDER THE NAZI’s. THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN WHEN JEWS WERE IN THE GHETTOES. THAT HAPPENED WHEN JEWS STARTED TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN GERMANY AND STARTED MOVING OUT OF THE JEWISH GHETTOES INTO THE WIDER SOCIETY. THE SHOCK AND ANGER OF THAT SET GERMANY ABLAZE.
We either learn from history or we are condemned to repeat it. As it sets up today – the first government to come out to meet Donald Trump is Japan.
TODAY, You are looking at the first people being nominated by your new so called “President Elect” Chris Christie is out because it is rumored that he put Donald Trump’s son-in-laws father in jail and their disagreement finally erupted and ended in Christie’s ouster. True or not that could be symbolic for the rapists, thieves, thugs and assorted others now taking their place at the top of American Governmental circles.
You are looking at others who have compromised their values and ethics and are now running into Trump Tower because they are power hungry and are explaining away why they took the stands that they did when Donald Trump was running for President. They clearly took those stands, not out of their beliefs, values, great moral character, but they took those stands because they thought Donald Trump would lose and they wanted to clear the deck so they could be appointed to a big position by who they thought was the new incoming President, Hillary Clinton. That was all cast, by them, as decisions coming out of their “character”, ethics, etc. Was that really the case? Because they are now showing their real character, ethics, etc. as they seek power, money and position and are backtracking to get in line in front of Donald Trump to kiss the ring.
God acts in mysterious ways and this is one. We can now clearly see our so called “leaders” and we know exactly where they are coming from. This time does not come around often. More often than not our “leaders” are covered in their hypocrisy. Today, the cover has been stripped off everyone and they are standing before you naked. Take a good look and learn the lessons being taught.
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TRUMP: An Analysis
Monday, November 14th, 201611/14/2016
We have all had quite a week. We put out two petitions asking you to sign them. The blog before this one has the URL which you can copy and put into your address line to get the petitions. We also put out a petition through Groundswell. These petitions ask that a Special Prosecutor be appointed to investigate this Presidential election. Something that is as big a shock to the entire country as the result of this presidential election, by definition, is flawed.
All of these folks can’t have been wrong in their expectations. We also received several communications with information which the sender asked we give to the Special Prosecutor. We would like to receive that information, but we also strongly suggest you send any information you have to President Obama and U. S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. I doubt that either one is interested in naming a Special Prosecutor, but given the involvement of the FBI and its head Comey in moving this election in Trump’s direction with Comey or one of his underlings, apparently having given a heads-up to the Trump Campaign that information hurtful to Clinton and helpful to Trump was going to be released shortly before the election so the Clinton Campaign would not have time to react, this says such a Special Prosecutor needs to be named and soonest. It is going to take a lot of pressure put on both Obama and Lynch to name such a Special Prosecutor.
We were asked to give an analysis of what we think happened. We have our own resident seer who refuses, so after many conversations, this is a group effort as we try to fathom what happened.
What seems to be clear to us is that Donald Trump played the entire country. We are not a country accustomed to the kind of lying, cheating and stealing that happened during this campaign. How did he do it? By divide and conquer. A method of management which is as old as scripture. As old as the Scriptures held sacred by all religions. What Trump did is what Scripture from many religions seems to have been written to prevent and/or warn its adherents against falling into this particular trap of Satan. It is a way of control and conquer as old as humanity itself. Power, greed, jealousy are some of the fuel which powers this management method.
To carry out a divide and conquer strategy on the scale it was carried out by Donald Trump and his campaign, to us, is the essence of evil. It is one thing to engage in hypocrisy and to bend the truth for some small gains. It is quite another to carry out this kind of grand scheme which is always attributed to whoever the evil one is in different religious bodies.
The race haters were called up and given a kind of acknowledgment, exposure and acceptance that they have never experienced before. They reveled in all of the attention and the possibility that their way of life would become the American way of life. At last, they would have their moment in the sun.
The civil rights fighters and those who have spent their lives trying to work within the system to bring America closer to achieving the dream of equality as they tried for generations to make real the promise written in the statue of liberty – ‘bring me your tired,……… They were also played by Trump and his campaign.
Besides the divide and conquer, we believe Trump worked through – or rather Vladimir Putin worked through Trump and his forces to help bring about the downfall of America – or at least to mitigate its power. Both Trump and Putin were quite successful. Let’s not forget China as we bring together the foreign powers that helped the Trump victory become real. When Trump talked to the president of China as he called to congratulate Trump, the President of China was talking to a man who promised the American public he would bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States. True Trump made a few negative comments about China during his campaign, but what China saw was a Trump who bought his steel from them in great quantities and whose daughter, Ivanka, has her clothes line made in the sweat shops of China.
That was easy to discover. What is not so easy to discover is why the race haters and those who were wishful about bringing back a Colonial past were so easily manipulated by Trump and his group into thinking that a man, who gave his business to China and other countries, when that was his choice, would bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. This defies all logic. A man who refused to give his tax returns to the American Public so they could see what was his involvements. Where did that trust come from which convinced them that this man could be trusted when he said he was going to bring back to America jobs that had been outsourced to China and other countries? What was it about this man that allowed the Evangelicals and other supposedly strong Christian to suspend their faith and belief to put it all in Trump. This was a man who totally fit the description of those Jesus threw out of the Temple, whose money tables were overturned, and in the end when the sheep and the goats were line up on their way to eternity – his eternity set-up was called hell for an eternity.
With the United States being on the cusp of those considered ‘Minority” now becoming the “Majority”, all of those middle to upper middle-class folks (male and female), whose identity is fixed in the way this country is and the way it uses racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamaphobia, anti-semitism, anti-everything else except Northern European, to maintain their unearned identity, the fear of that event seems to be what motivated John and Jane Q Public who don’t want to be equal. Why be equal when you have been “better than” for generations.
Maintaining their identity as “better than” is something they were born into, accepted, and were as skilled as Alcoholics in denial and finding excuses and pseudo reasons as to why things should not change. Or better still, why they are changing, but it has to be a very gradual to no movement change.
All of this was sitting out there and Trump wrapped it all up in his campaign.
Lots going on in this election.
Trump played all of those forces and did it beautifully. He weakened America while preaching the gospel of “Make America Great Again”. Weakened America to the point of moving into the future with America being a country which would trail Russia and China in strength. Many in these United States have been so wrapped up in fighting each other, no one was looking at this movement which was actually making the 1% stronger and everyone else weaker and poorer. That includes the race haters and those who have dreams of being on top again – the kind of on top countries were when Colonialism was the currency of the day. Seeing America as an empire and them moving into the upper-classes is a dream that moved many people into the Trump camp.
What will Trump’s movement produce? The serious reduction in regulation. The regulators will be lining up at the unemployment office by the dozens. The rich can’t get much richer without reducing the Regulation that has been set in place. Think of what will happen when they cancel Dodd.
Serious reduction in health care to the point of having many millions of people unable to get health care or needing to go back to losing everything they have acquired if they are hit with a serious illness is what lies behind the canceling of Obamacare. If folks have to struggle with serious illness without hospital or doctor care in their families, they won’t be much interested in what Trump and his colleagues are doing.
Racism, etc. is not an economically viable way to run a country. One reaches the point the United States is now reaching where super large businesses will take over and governments will be symbolic and do things which are adjuncts to what will be sanctioned by the state religion. Evangelism turns into State Churches.
White Churches, with a sprinkling of minorities will gradually change until they all have flags in the sanctuaries and they are clearly appendages of the state. The state officials will become awesomely like priests, ordained by god.
The mastermind behind all of this is Donald Trump. Only he doesn’t realize that already he is being moved aside. He isn’t even inaugurated yet and his time of being relevant and necessary has already passed. He can keep his golden palace for a little while, but eventually even that will be gone.
If he had been a younger man he would not have been entrusted with such a ‘revolution’. But an old man – with an extremely fragile ego – and something wrong with his sexual functioning that he needs to constantly build his sexual prowess up with his talk and womanizing and more was an ideal foil around which to bring about this major growth of the 1%.
What is most amazing is that those who worked for and voted for Trump to become President with the hope and belief that he would make their condition better are soon going to discover he is making the 1% better, which means – by definition – the rest of us are going down the slide to a much lower economic place, because the 1% needs automaton workers, not those moving on up.
Surrounding himself with men who are in the same place as he is and women who see themselves as only having worth as sex objects, Trump has gathered around him a group that cannot take over and do a great job with the ship of state. By the time they have paid attention to their fragile egos and to their images, there is nothing else left to do the work of the state.
Moving downscale and marrying women who are steps beneath the last wife – both younger, which means more child like with less experience and less ability to function as an equal with no other redeeming education, experience or anything else not dependent upon Trump and those like him you have the 40% plus who voted for Trump and are going to be worthless except as consumers. They will be shortly cast aside into the pit with the rest of us, working to maintain the very shallow and artificial lifestyle of the 1% and where is the redemption.
Is this the point at which we realize that we have all been working to set the stage for the Second Coming?
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