Let’s make sure we understand that not every Trump follower, especially in the beginning, is an alt right fanatic, Russian troll, long time anti government conspiracist, or racist. Many actually were hard working Americans whose lives had turned been turned into shams by the one percent supporting Fox News.
Fox News spent years telling their audience that there were hundreds of people out to get them. After years of watching, well it does start to seep into the synopsis of any brain. They started watching because “main stream media” had been talking down to them for years. They were looking for someone to remind them they were worth something. Fox News cultivated these Americans convincing them that supporting corporate America’s agenda was the best thing for them. They called it conservatism and convinced them that people who attacked this version of conservatism were un-Americans and eventually they became the enemy. The Fox News Audience didn’t get to hear a contrarian voice, it was all anyone who didn’t support our agenda was anti everything good about this country.
Around 2010 or 2011 Trump started making appearances on Fox. He unfortunately started striking a chord with people on the fringe of these hard working Americans and they gave Fox the feedback loop they needed to continue to support Trump through the birther lies. And then Trump found out people believe his crap and they loved it and therefore him. He ate it up.
So he runs for President with a small groundswell of Americans looking for a hero to save them from the horrible people in D. C who didn’t understand them. (this last part was true, the two parties at the national level had lost touch of main street many years beforehand) and then add in emboldened nuts and racists to create enough votes to elect Trump.
Now most of you already know this abbreviated history. And you know they continued for the first three years to keep going further and further down the rabbit hole with Trump. Now we are left with the ultimate questions. How deep down this hole will they go? Or is there still enough daylight in the hole that can reach down to help the majority of these people find their way back up?
We are at the crossroads of the question does the paid rebels storming state capitol buildings, the talk show hosts, and all the conspiracists block out the daylight for the average Trump supporter that they fall too deep into the hole and this wonderful experiment of representative government suffer for years? Or will something happen and daylight breaks through the cover and we pull enough back up to save our country? Yes, we are really at this point.
Yes Barr working to get Flynn off is bad, the EPA being decimated is bad, the paid actors storming capitols is bad, people dying from COVID 19 is horrible, and I hate making these deaths less important than the one fact that if we do not stop Trump and everything he is doing to this country then the last 250 + years of slow evolution, even with setbacks and crimes throughout our history we were slowly evolving into something special as a nation. All this is about to be thrown into a new swamp of the complete denigration of the human experience. And it will be virtually impossible to drain. Lets be positive and say it can, but the work to drain this swamp will be enormous.
We are facing a new evil. Mankind has conquered evil before, but this time it has permeated the very people who would help defeat it and the mask covering this evil is very good. Too many people are deceived. Many times people are downtrodden so it is hard to fight off the evil. This time the mask covers the horror unfolding before us to some people. And the rest of us who see this happening are not doing enough to stop this madness.
We need to speak out in mass. We need to create our own virtual storming of the capitols to show we are aware of what they are doing, but we are also smart enough to take care of ourselves. Show the government that reason and common sense still mean something to the masses. And more importantly that we will not be fodder to demagoguery, greed, hate, ignorance and we expect us has humans to be better.
And I have thought of cute ideas to protest with so to speak. I thought people should all go to their State Capitol lie down 6 feet apart from each other with a rose or other flower all at the same time. And hopefully thousands or ten of thousands would show up and circle the building, then spread out throw the streets of their capital city all lying down for a designated time protesting both the unnecessary deaths of COVID 19 because we are opening up too early and the coming death of democracy if our government lets the small overly vocal extremists become the voice of this country.
The extreme are a tough lot to beat. They are more dedicated than the average person who worries more about food on the table and education for their children than protesting against extremism. Yet these are the people who are needed to make a statement more so than ever. People from all walks of life could come and lie down for the cause.
Yet I am no social influencer, no celebrity, no politician, no extremist for moderation to know how to inspire people to show up. Our voices need to be heard in dramatic ways or we are about to go out with a resoundingly quiet whisper and along with it the best government humanity has manufactured so far.
Four years ago Trump won because people thought he was going to change the country, unfortunately he is, not just the way most of his average supporters understood. Now we are struggling to bring back the very type of leadership that the Trump supporters wanted to change. Well they were right, we need change. The change though needs to be a dynamic overhaul of our way of thinking, not our way of life. It is the 21st century and we need to dive deep into the future to move humanity forward. We cannot sit on our laurels, we need to make more one small steps for man and giant leaps for mankind. We need to dream, explore, educate ourselves, embrace culture, and we need to care about each other. This should be the change we make in the 21st century.
Time to move forward. Time to find new leadership that looks forward. There are thousands of new ideas to make this a better planet and most of them can even bring jobs and prosperity. Innovation has always been mankind’s best way to enrich mankind. Time we set into place the mechanism of government that allows each of us in our own small ways to flourish, not divide us or separate us . Government should not rule us, but guide us by us electing the right representation for the whole of the country. No one man or party has all the answers. All of us have some of the answers and then putting it all together makes us whole.
As I always say, we need new parties because Trump v. Biden is us heading in two different wrong directions.
Cheers
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