Trump is NOT a Good Person

The FBI, CIA, NSA, the special counsel, and the Republican-controlled senate have all stated that Russia meddled in our elections in 2016 to benefit Trump.

They all agree that the Russians are at it again.

On top of it, the intelligence community is unanimous that white supremacist terror groups pose a clear danger.

So logically, supporters of the president have re-evaluated their position and decided to vote American.

Uh uh.

Instead, the president is focusing on a group of African Americans with a clear grievance. Who held protests after a horrific murder as being enemies of the state and planning a coup.

This is the same president who tried to sow fear about caravans of brown people invading our nation. He claimed it was such a dire threat that he called out the military. Of course, there was no threat, but you believed him.

If you believed the invasion was real, and you believe that BLM is a dangerous insurrection movement, you are choosing to believe the single man, who surrounded himself by convicted criminals, who has demonstrably lied (lied, not differences of opinion) over 20,000 times in office, who uses those lies to drive wedges and hate between different interests in the country, whose handling of COVID has clearly been the worst in the world (most of his actions have made sense only in the context of someone trying to kill Americans), yet who passes the blame to everyone else, is cozying up to completely unfounded conspiracy theories, whose campaign has provably worked with an enemy of our nation to help him get elected, who has practiced breathtaking nepotism and allows his son in law, a security risk, top secret access, who dozens of people have testified under oath of his misdeeds, while he and his family avoid sworn testimony, who retaliates against people who give sworn testimony that he doesn’t like, pardoned convicted war criminals, and people who LIED UNDER OATH TO PROTECT HIM, and he’s crippling the post office going into an election during a pandemic (for purposes of interfering with an election). Hatch act, emoluments, 200,000 people, birtherism, racial divisiveness. He is continuing to try to knock down insurance for people with pre-existing conditions IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, while claiming that his non-existent healthcare plan will fix it. On top of that, Donald trump is an international laughingstock who has supported our enemies and betrayed our allies.

On top of that, he calls veterans losers and suckers while refusing to challenge Russia on bounties to kill soldiers. He is “Individual 1” in numerous lawsuits. The only reason he is not being prosecuted is his job and a bad justice department policy.

These are all proven and happening in plain sight.

Now there are reports of atrocities, crimes against humanity, occurring under his administration in concentration camps in the name of the United States.

Trump has broken the government and done everything in his considerable power to reduce our faith in government and the press. His alternatives are OAN and QAnon. This is literally the plot of 1984.

Of course, if you want to vote for Trump, that’s your right. Perhaps you are aware of all of the above but like his style or positions on other matters. That’s cool. We disagree, but you are informed and your value system has different weights than mine. You most likely think I have “drunk the deep state/fake news  Kool-aid.”

OTOH, if you are refusing to believe the above, you are either choosing to be ignorant, you have been duped by a con man, or you are rationalizing--voting for trump with a stated reason like “take down the deep state” or “child abduction by Hollywood, Joe Biden, and the Democrats,” or “because BLM is going to take down our nation and he is the law and order president.” You should look hard at your values and beliefs. You’re believing something that goes against all evidence, and is based on lies and speculation. It doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it means you have an emotional or intellectual bias that is controlling you and exerting itself as confirmation bias or possibly cognitive dissonance.

I know it’s possible that I am the one being hoodwinked here. That there may be a giant left-wing Hollywood Demoncrat Clinton obummer pedophile conspiracy that includes BLM taking over all three branches of the government and the armed forces.  I’m pretty sure I’m not, and if you look at yourself, you probably don’t believe it either. If you can’t vote for Biden for some reason, fine. Don’t vote then.

Donald Trump is not a good person. He is a master manipulator with the full force of the US Government behind him, with no shame or regard for our national political traditions to restrain him. History will look at this election as our finest or our darkest hour. Choose America over fear.

One last word on moderation. Do NOT respond with that exhaustive list of trumps “accomplishments.” I have examined those lists. They’re full of Obama accomplishment that carried over and things that look good (TAX CUTS) that were both self-serving and had a significant downside (bass-ackwardly increase deficit during a recovery). 

This post is not about Biden. Not interested in “Democrats started it.” I will determine whether comments are ones I want on my wall. If you are respectful, avoid name-calling and stick to actual facts, I’m pretty lenient. If you want to post an opinion or “fact” that is not part of the mainstream view, please link to the source. Saying liberals believe, or conservatives believe is an auto-delete. You are not a mind reader, and I will not support your delusion. Unless a response is inflammatory, name-calling, over-generalizing, or attacking, I will generally ask for clarification.