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http://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/opinion/tn-gnp-me-richmond-20161118-story.htmlDonald Trump supporters
An open letter to Trump voters
Well, you got your way. The people have spoken. And your guy won. I mean, he won by attracting support from well below half of those who actually voted long live the electoral college but still. A win is a win. No shutting down of a freeway in protest is gonna change that. So congratulations.
I have never been more wrong in my life than I was in predicting this election. I didn't think there was a chance in holy heck that Donald Trump could actually become president of the United States. Life will surprise you, though rarely like this.
It will probably come as little shock that I'm pretty upset about this whole thing. Actually, crushingly depressed is a better way to describe it. You know, I'm one of those arrogant liberal elites blinded inside my blue bubble who likes my presidents classy and competent. Crazy, right?
But I digress.
My purpose of this letter is merely to give you a heads up as to what exactly you have voted for here in going with your gut rather than your rational mind. To my mind, you have sided with unvarnished stupidity and hatred.
You've chosen a man who applied for a demanding job he knew nothing about and had never served in political office. Go back to when you were 16 working your first gig at Carl's Jr. and recall all of the mistakes you made. Now magnify that times 50 million in terms of pressure and difficulty and with the entire world watching. It's on-the-job training with the country serving as your shake machine.
Another thing you did is vote into office a person who flaunts without an ounce of self-awareness or irony the most buffoonish, disgusting trappings of American consumption and conspicuous wealth, a man who believes everything can be made exquisite if encrusted in solid gold. The world's enduring image of America is now Richie Rich.
While you can feel secure in the knowledge that you voted in lock-step with the evangelical community, it seems the purportedly devout have profoundly lowered their standards in backing a xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, fear-mongering, hate-spewing serial violator of women. But hey, nobody's perfect, right?
The thing is, you too knew all of this stuff and voted for Trump anyway. You rationalized it with every fiber of your being. You figured the media had it out for him and did everything it could to make him look bad. Plus, all of those women who accused him of sexual harassment and worse were making it up, weren't they?
Your guy may have said he could grab females by the you-know-where, but come on, can't a guy joke around? Anyone who objected was just being politically correct, which in this case meant overly supportive of diplomacy and decency.
You voted for a guy who promised to build walls rather than bridges and launch immigration squads to cleanse the United States of imaginary Muslim terrorists. Because there are already too many foreigners here anyhow, right? And they're taking our jobs, dammit!
So let's again just be clear about what you've elected: A middle-school bully with no respect for humanity or tolerance for anyone who isn't white. You chose to conveniently, willfully ignore or perhaps applaud Trump's belief that it's virtuous to use loopholes to avoid paying taxes and even more righteous to entirely shield your returns from public view.
Your choice for president was transparent in his embrace of a fascist dictator named Vladimir Putin and supportive of Putin's influence on the election through hacking and leaks. And here is another news flash: If you're working class, your hero has no use for you. In fact, he thinks you're a sucker.
You know what you've done? You've rolled the dice and endangered all of the social progress we've made in this country over the past 50 years. Congratulations.
Sore loser? Oh you bet I'm a sore loser. The sorest loser ever. So let's get a few things straight:
I'm not interested in unifying for the good of the country any more than you were for President Obama.
I don't want to hear your complaints when your revolution flops on arrival, given how you've chosen the worst imaginable man to lead it.
Don't ask me to heal, accept, embrace, reassess or chill. It's you who screwed up. It isn't my responsibility to cushion the blow.
Good luck. We're all going to need it.
Ray
spanone
(135,818 posts)global1
(25,241 posts)The theme would be a daily post that illustrates how they shot themselves in the foot by voting for Trump.
I'm confident that there will be daily examples of just how bad Trump and his administration will be for this country and how what he or his administration does will come back and bite the very people that supported and voted for Trump.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)Nicely written, though!
babylonsister
(171,056 posts)but I liked it and will shove it in the face of anyone defending this POS.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)to find someone who can read it to them, because, you know................
Martin Eden
(12,863 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)Like their master..
barbtries
(28,787 posts)says it all. though i would quibble with the characterization of drumpf as middle school; by my reckoning he hasn't made it to kindergarten yet in terms of emotional maturity.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)with him" to the donald "finally someone as racist, misogynistic, and ignorant as I am"
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)brer cat
(24,559 posts)K&R
mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)he will bring about Armageddon. There are a whole bunch of them that must cream their pants thinking about the prospect of the end of the world.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)don't give a shit, as they're mostly relatively wealthy pro-war, pro-business assholes and will probably benefit from the Trump presidency.