Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

If Trump goes, the hate won’t go away …

Democrats and the left hate Donald Trump.  They hate the man.  They hate the way he acts. They hate the way he talks.  They hate everything about him. 

He is evil incarnate.  He must be destroyed.  They’ll tell you that. 

It’s completely irrational. There’s really nothing he’s said or done that warrants this. It’s a visceral hatred of the man himself; it’s certainly not because of his policies. 

In fact, many of the positions he’s taken echo Democrat positions from only a few years ago. He’s actually more like a traditional moderate Democrat than the classic Republican. 

The weirdest part of all this is the amount of projection going on.   

They claim he’s divided the nation along racial, ethnic and gender lines. Yet he didn’t do that – they did as a craven political strategy. They have for years.  And they continue to do it.

His stance on illegal immigration – and creating a barrier on our southern border – is practically identical to that of Bill Clinton, then Senator and later President Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and other prominent Democrats back a few years. Only most of them then wanted to spend much more money and cover much more of that border than he does. And they supported this largely for the same reasons as Trump – because illegal immigration suppresses wages of citizens, increases crime, aids and abets human traffickers, and drains resources from programs for legal citizens. 

But that doesn’t matter. Trump’s a bigot who hates immigrants. That’s the difference.       

They claim he doesn’t care about the poor, minorities, or working families – but it was their social and economic policies over the past 40 years that have hurt the poor, minorities, and working families. Their misguided policies and subsequent failures are a big reason Trump was elected. 

Everything he’s done in two short years has helped all three of those groups – there are fewer people on food stamps, unemployment is at historic lows in all groups including minorities, wages are up, families have more money in their pockets and the economy is booming.

He’s even pushed for and signed sweeping criminal justice reform. That’s something Democrats and the left have supported for years but never accomplished. He got it done.  Yes, Trump did.    

Despite this, Trump the man will always be the target of their hate.  It’s personal.  Nothing will please them until Trump is driven from office in disgrace.  Sooner the better.    

When Trump leaves office will they stop hating?  No.

That's because it’s not just Trump they hate.  They hate everyone who voted for him. They hate anyone who supports anything he does, anyone who says he might have a good idea from time to time, even when it's something they've always supported. 

In short, they hate about half the citizens here.  While most of us cringed when Hillary did her “deplorables” speech, they thought she was dead on. They truly believe half of all Americans are beneath contempt – racist, homophobic, xenophobic, whatever.

They agreed with Hillary wholeheartedly.     

They hate anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Anyone. Even their usual friends.    

Let someone in the media, typically their ally, or some Democrat break ranks ever so briefly to concede Trump deserves some credit for doing something good. They’ll descend on them as if they were heretics worthy of burning at the stake.  The outrage is vicious and way off the charts. 

Wishing people death, or at least a long, painful illness, isn’t unusual.  Women they dislike should be brutally raped. Children of politicians they hate should be kidnapped and abused by pedophiles.  They’ve said all these things.  Seriously, they have. 

In perhaps the height of hypocrisy, they claim the only way to stop hateful rhetoric and divisiveness in this country is to restore them to power. 

Sure.  That will work.  Look how they’re acting now.  Imagine if they were in control again.  Imagine if they had the power to use the FBI, the other intelligence agencies, and the courts to pursue their enemies without restraint.   

If that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, I don’t know what will.  

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