YOU MOTHAFUCKAS ARE SLEEPING
LISTEN WHEN A QUEEN SPEAKS
PUT YOUR DICKS UP AND LEARN TO FOLLOW
A REAL LEADER
I'm not a leader. I'm just looking at the big picture. Anyone can see the path we are on is not sustainable if they simply take a moment to consider our history and what is happening in the world and likely outcomes of certain actions and behaviors. If A happens then B happens. If B happens then C happens.
Just like Trump. We knew he had a history of racist behavior from not renting to black folks to the central park 5. We knew his daddy was a klansman. We knew he had said he didn't want blacks handling money in his casinos, that black staff were disappeared when he was on the premise, his behavior toward black Beauty contestants. His racist rhetoric on the campaign trail.
All public record.
All which in and of itself should have been enough to vote.
Then we saw who he was aligning himself with. Jeff Sessions, an early supporter who was so horrible Coretta Scott King had written a letter to congress when he was being considered. Stephen Miller whose racist history is public record. Steve Bannon whose publication promoted itself as catering to the alt right.
We saw who was supporting him. The KKK. David Duke, whom while we have video of Trump condemning in the past, when Trump didn't want to disavow his support claimed he didn't know who he was. A racist being happy over anything is never good news for us, and Trump thrilled ALL of them.
We knew Trump knew nothing about government. We knew the only area he might know about was economics, but we also knew he had 3-4+ bankruptcies. We knew he only wanted the presidency for show. We knew he wanted to be hands off when he approached Kasich and others offering them the VP, saying they could run everything and make policy they wanted. They would basically be in charge.
I made this argument over and over before the election. Trump had no guiding doctrines other than doing what he can to stay in the spotlight. We needed to know who he would surround himself with, because they would be the puppet master pulling his strings and with a vision of an all white nation or a medicare free, Medicaid free, healthcare free, entitlement (earned benefits) free government. They want low wages so they get higer profits. They want private prisons to make money off incarcerating us and monetizing black suffering.
So what do you get with a known white supremacist, surrounded by known white supremacists, who got elected by energizing a base using racist dog whistles and bull horns, (who if not white supremacists, were receptive to or seduced by the imagery, or at the very least did not see racism as a deal breaker) now in a position to make laws that affect the people they don't want living in his country?
We have an uptick in racial crimes, mostly directed toward women and children, but we have also had more that one mysterious hanging. There is no fear in outing themselves as racists, we had hundreds marching hoods off by day and torchlight by night where a church had to sneak members out to keep members safe. They are comforted in their racial hate, affirmed as a right feeling, validated with one of their own out and open in the presidency, after years of being underground and made to feel shame. Some have had personal consequences, but the majority is just becoming more assured their way of thinking will become the norm.
The fact he was a shitty person and known serial liar with no concrete plans, who treats women poorly, with a creepy obsession with his daughter was icing on the hate cake.
Everything that has happened was inevitable and obvious when you add 1+1. Some said folks needed to wake up, but now we are all in a national nightmare.
Unless we vote these people out we will continue to have a known racist, surrounded by known racists with the power to make laws and affect for the worse the lives of all the black and brown people they hate.
Then we will have fallout and still be on guard from all the angry people who still want to go in that direction, emboldened by the taste of unfettered hate they got to immerse themselves in.