What Kind of America Is This?
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by Joy Green
I know many tend to focus on the crazy things that come out of Trump’s mouth. We stand back in shock, then react to his garbled statements. To many of us (here in the US and around the world), he sounds ridiculous and crazy. It’s fun to watch the late night hosts skewer his latest blunder.
Some think this is some huge coordinated plot by Hillary to lock in her presidency. Others think his rise to power is because of all the extra media he gets. Trump himself says we’re all just misinterpreting him. We really don’t “get” him.
The truly terrifying truth, though, is that Trump is doing something that really hasn’t been done for so long. He’s exposing the dirty underbelly of America. What he has revealed in this giant, unexpected social experiment, is that this ‘dirty underbelly’ is HUGE, much larger, I think, than any had expected.
I mean, I always knew about the crazy uncle who loved to listen to Limbaugh all day and then would regurgitate that hate speak to anyone within hearing range… or that guy who just loves his ginormous pickup truck complete with a waving confederate flag and bull nuts hanging from the hitch, or the large contingent of people eating up Fox news stories with frenzied relish. I really didn’t know that nearly half the country actually believes the lies that Trump and his ilk regularly generates or the bigotry he spews.
It makes me seriously wonder – about our future, about how so many can be so easily deceived, and how I will ever bridge that gap to try to understand this mindset. Because apparently, we’re surrounded by people who really think a guy like Trump is “the answer”. What kind of America is this?
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If this guy is such a great businessman how come he cant hire decent campaign people? Another major shake-up today. He seems to be running Maxwell Smart’s arch nemesis. KAOS. Spelling might be slightly different but I doubt his followers would notice.
I gotta say the author is spot on with this. Nice job.
This is a good article. It’s right to the point and reflects how I feel exactly. Good work Joy. I would love to see more from you.
I live in Alabama and believe it or not I am foolish enough to discuss the political race with some of my neighbors. I try, in vain of course, to point his stupidity and they just look at me like I am from another world. I will vote in November but there is little doubt that this idiotic state will be going for Trump. There is simply nothing he can do that is a bridge too far.
Bill that’s one of the reasons I left Georgia. Same thing in most, not all, but most cases.
I live in Ohio, and just yesterday I saw my first Trump yard sign. It was small, about 12×18, and, had I not been watching a deer run across that yard I would have missed it. What surprised me is it was a really nice house, not a mansion, but well kept, neat and clean. Not what one would expect. I have seen one or two Trump bumper stickers and a couple of Clinton stickers. This is nothing like I’ve seen in earlier elections where signs and stickers are everywhere.
Lots of the trucks you describe down here in South Florida and I’m not seeing any Hillary stickers either. Of course those can get you into trouble or at least rear-ended.
The notion of this being a put-up job with Trump as a shill seemed ridiculous to me yesterday, today no so much.