Donald Trump-so obvious now- is not changing the rules of the game, he already changed it: He is bringing his show "The Apprentice" to American politics, he is changing how Americans, arguably, have been since independence over 239 years ago; Trump is bringing to surface vulgarity and rudeness and anger long dropped to pragmatic Americans and making them look cool and fun and things it's ok for children to use and imitate.
Trump is bringing cruelty and at the same time stupidity that America has long dropped since the civil rights movement in the 1960s when America confronted its shameful slavery past and came to reconcile with its presence and gradually but confidently started to correct its history.
Now, it is a new civil rights that America
confronts. By having Trump as the Republican nominee for President of the United
States, America has already brought to prominence a person who attacks
religions, attacks billions of people all over the world because of who they
are and in whom they believe and for their beliefs and a person who gladly and generously taps into human beings worst
instincts: fear, xenophobia, insecurities and prejudices. But also a
person who is attacking others not out of principle but out of demagoguery. Some
might look at him as just a an idiot, a joker, a nobody or somebody who is always
better to have or bring to the surface than having an ideologue who attacks others based on stubborn and rigid twisted
principle or set of evil principles.
The big question today: What if Arabs and
Muslims say ok, let Trump ban Muslims from entering the US and we will ban oil
from going to the US and we will withdraw hundreds of billions of dollars from
American banks and we will shut down the US economy.
What if Latinos stop working in US farms in
Southern states and elsewhere because Trump shows hatred to Mexicans and other Latinos.
What if Americans- White Christians, Arabs, Jewish, Asian
and Hispanic- whom Trump have insulted and patronized one way or the other,
decide to create a task to ask Trump, who is in reality a big Batman Joker, how is he going
to implement all of his idiotic rhetoric, how.
How Trump, the ruthless demagogue, would
answer that big question. He probably will answer the way he has been
doing from start by saying he does not mean
it, circumstances have changed, he did not see it that way then, to the rest of things
demagogues use and say when cornered to answer and cornered to reply and justify.
Until this moment, no one really heard anything substantial from Trump. And
here is the danger, populations of Americans do not care, they just want hate
to be spread and prejudices to be publicized and enmity is broadcasted and
shared.Americans across all ethnic groups long to vent but instead of a revolution, we got Trump.
In reality, Trump neither will nor could he ban
anyone from entering the US; in the same token, Muslim and Arab countries will not
stop oil shipments to America and will not withdraw funds and paralyze the
economy; same applies to Latinos. The reason is simple: Trump cannot and will
not follow through on any of the extreme fanatics and demagoguery statements he made since entering the presidential race and galvanized
angry Republicans and some Democrats and Independent around him.
America is better off than it has ever been,
America is the strongest on earth, international coordination is at its best,
Americans in general and individually are better off, so why the anger.
The only explanation that come to mind is
greed, is wanting more individually without the willingness to pay your dues, moreover, anger over paying our taxes, anger over the need to sometimes work harder and refusing to accept
what we have accepted for decades, which is if you work hard and smart, you
will live well in America. Greed that makes you blind thinking that immigrants
or illegal immigrants are actually obstacles in the path of your success.
Now, for our failures, we are blaming others,
we are blaming Muslims, and Latinos and we are blaming the Democrats and we are blaming the Republicans and we are blaming Obama and we are bringing to surface a
vehicle of demagoguery and hate called Trump to drive us to the unknown, to
take us back, to older darker past, a past that was polluted with hatred and
prejudices.
Americans are blaming their country for their
individual failings or what out of greed is preserved as failings: If your health
insurance has changed, you are angry, if a customer service rep on the phone
treats you bad, you are angry and saying the country is going back: back where,
America in the past was not as kind, but it never entertained the idea of
isolationism and xenophobia so where do you want to go. Is there a
population among us that wishes to live in America in separate islands, in
gated communities with their own kind and looks. How the new generation of
Americans can entertain or accept such thing. The only explanation to Trump's
appeal is greed. How America will respond in November is everyone's
guess, but Trump has a momentum now and although logic defies any possibility
that he could win and becomes president, the possibility cannot be completely
sidestepped and ignored. Logic and politics not always go side by side.
Here is another explanation which is we are tired
of being too nice, too careful, too politically correct that we are as humans
are eager for some nastiness and some vulgarity and rebellion: Basically we need a little trash in our lives, a little Trump running in our DNA.
Trump is inadvertently doing things that could be construed as important: He is making people talking more, bringing things up, people talk more politics, kids are involved more in politics, they know more, they talk about him and about Hillary.It has become a daily topic.
But
the worst part in all of thisTrump fiasco is what he is teaching Americans
and America and the new generations of Americans. Trump is teaching kids, and
they are imitating him, that it is ok to be rude and it is cool actually to be obnoxious
and it is ok to be overboard angry and without reason angry. Trump is teaching
us to be vulgar and inhuman. And that is the worst part of Trumpetism.
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