We know that whether you support Donald Trump or don’t
support Donald Trump you have very strong feelings about him. It is hard to
find too many people that don’t have an opinion about him.
Some feel his narcissism is very dangerous for this country.
Others feel this is the way he is and that his strong personality is why they
like him. If you read this blog regularly you know I am far from a fan. Yet, I am getting tired of certain left-wing
media groups, organizations, or even individuals who have built up a cottage
industry of sorts patting themselves on the back every time someone says
something derogatory about Donald Trump.
You see the headlines such as so and so destroys Trump in
one tweet. So and so has the perfect response to Donald Trump. And they are the
most ridiculously inane statements. There is no real punch to the actual
statement. They did not take down Donald Trump. They do not prove anything, nor
do they offer any solutions or alternatives to what Donald Trump said, proposed
for policy, or did. It is banal rhetoric. Still we get headlines that do
nothing for anyone.
I do not want Donald Trump to be my President. I think he is
the worst President in our history and this includes such luminaries as
Coolidge, Hoover, Cleveland to name a few regularly bad Presidents. These same
people living off this narcissistic criticism of him, though offer nothing in
return. They lump all his supporters into Clinton’s infamous deplorables group
not realizing most of the people that voted for him were/are angry at the
Washington establishment. There are racists and alt right fanatics that support
Trump, yet they alone do not make up the tens of millions of people who voted
for him.
I am borrowing this analogy. What all these self-righteous left-wing
media fanatics do not seem to realize is that Donald Trump is the actual realization
of the 1980’s movie where the newscaster tells everyone to go to their window
and yell out into the night that I am not going to take it anymore and the
movie shows people all over the nation screaming out their window. Solved
nothing, but in the movie, it gave everyone the impression they did
something. Fast forward to 2016 and people
couldn’t take it anymore and voted for Trump instead of yelling out their
window. Unfortunately, Trump is
incapable of rational governance by himself. And he surrounded himself with
others incapable of rational governance. A few people have since tried to bring
about some rational attempt, but we are nowhere close to where we need to be.
The many people who voted for Trump that were basically
yelling out their window though are not deplorable people. They are hardworking
individuals who felt cheated by what has happened in Washington D. C for the
last few decades. Republican leadership
has been running policy that benefits what is now known as the one percenters.
Many working and middle-class people who are basically moderately conservative
saw their lively hood slowly taken away. Their children suffered with weaker
and weaker education levels decade after decade so the children as adults are
easily swayed by the anger created by other elements in our society. The Democrats have not done any better by
playing to the far left and adopting social pathways that scare away these same
moderate conservatives or create policies that benefit the country as a whole.
Take for example all the bathroom bills for transgenders. It
sounds so wonderful to say everyone should be treated equally and we need to
make sure all these disadvantaged groups need to go to the bathroom like the
way they feel. Simplified example yes,
but what many on the far left do not realize that it is more than a bathroom
bill, it is pushing envelopes this group of people are not ready to have shoved
down their throat. And that is the way they feel. Many people just aren’t
comfortable with the thought of a grown man because he thinks he is a woman
walking into a bathroom with their 12-year-old daughter. That is much more than
they can accept, partly because this is happening fast; partly because
education levels have been diminishing and ignorance makes change harder;
partly because some are intolerant people; and partly because this scenario
scares the crap out of them. This does not give the right for the left-wing
media though to talk down, berate, bully, etc. because they think they know
more than everyone else. Quite frankly, they don’t.
For all their criticisms, what have they given us to help us
move forward. They no more have any ideas than Donald Trump. Trump at least
spits out inconsequential rhetoric that appeals to his larger base. He made
promises. He is not or can not keep them, but he made them. He spoke to their
anger. The left-wing media fuels this exact same anger. Middle America, or what
some call the fly over states care, they care deeply. Many have deep rooted
value systems they see Washington has lost.
They see the left-wing media enhancing this loss of values by supporting
issues that make no sense to them.
I am not talking about every media outlet. I am talking
about a significant amount of verbiage coming from a segment of what might be
called the establishment media, a certain one percenters of elitism that is
based on their own self-importance. This is not all of the liberal media.
It is enough to anger people who truly believe in family
values and hard work. The people who have believed in the American Dream their
whole lives and have watched it slip away for their children are angry. These
are not deplorable people. They are angry people. There are some deplorables
who do support Trump, but they are fringe and dangerous elements of our
country. The angry are middle America who went to the voting booth and voted I
am not going to take it anymore.
The quasi-intellectualism from certain aspects (one
percenters) of the liberal media is doing just as much harm to this country
with their self-righteous denunciation of Trump supporters. They are fueling
their anger, pushing them further into the arms of the dangerous fringes of our
country; and making it more difficult to bring this country together if and
when Trump may be impeached or at the very least charged with crimes he must
answer. Their narcissistic attitude of
we know more than everyone else and we are going to flaunt it in your face is
just as dangerous as Trump’s self-absorbed narcissism running this country into
the ground and ignoring that he is President of something very special; our country
and our constitution.
If we are to move forward, we need to focus on finding
solutions to our problems and proposing these solutions to the whole country
and get to work. The current leadership of Republicans and Democrats have not
been able to do this for decades. They have created a monster of electoral survival
that created the Trump monster people believed was going to drain the swamp of
this same establishment. No amount of Trump bashing will turn this tide. The
more we ignore the real work facing us, the faster our demise will approach us.
Russia didn’t win because Trump won, Russia is winning because we are
infighting. So, my named one percenters of left wing media need to look in the
mirror and ask themselves why are they better than Trump. They haven’t done
anything more than Donald.
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