The
Republican Party is the party of the rich and powerful, though they maintain
their base of working white men with the distraction of God, guns, gays, and racism. The Republican aim of ‘Small Government’ is to
eliminate all social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Obama Care, and
government assistance programs, to lower taxes for the wealthy and deregulate
any restrictions that hamper big business.
Regan said it out loud: Trickle Down
Economics. Make the rich richer and the
rest of us can survive from the crumbs of their tables.
The Republican Party did not foresee the takeover of the MAGA movement.
The seeds of
MAGA started when the mega-rich Koch brothers organized and financed the Tea
Party, bussing large groups of easily manipulated people into D.C. to disrupt
and prevent the election of the first black president.
Unbeknownst to
the Koch brothers, the inmates would take over the asylum.
Trump is a phenomenon
that came along at the perfect time to cement a movement.
P. T. Barnum
said you don’t have to be smart to be a con man. You just need to be smarter than the rubes
you are conning.
MAGA
1. White supremacist
2. Q-Anon
3. Militia insurrectionist
4. Science deniers
5. Christian Fundamentalist
6. Fox News devotees
7. People feeling undervalued
8. People easily manipulated
9. And people who don’t like the
Democrat Party.
Many of my
neighbors are MAGA and the best people you could know. They would be the first to show up if I had
an emergency at home. In most cases,
we have different opinions about politics, but basically, we are alike. However, I am puzzled that some have drunk
the cool aid, to the point they seem to have a mindless, almost cult
following of Donald Trump.
I do not understand what they see or don't see when they listen to Trump.
It is beyond
me how any x-military could support Donald Trump. He denigrated John McCain and
belittled POWs saying “I like people who weren’t captured.”
Trump has
called military dead suckers and losers according to General Kelly, and he
refused to attend the Marine cemetery at Bella Woods because it was raining and
his hair would get wet (according to his aides.) He told his Chief-of-Staff never to have a
wounded veteran at any of his speeches because it didn’t make him look
good. This from a man who dodged the
draft for Vietnam.
I also don’t
understand how any working man can identify with Trump. He is the son of a billionaire who was given
every advantage possible. He was a playboy who had unlimited money. He went to private schools. He was given the equivalent of six hundred
million dollars (in today’s money) when he graduated from college and he
quickly parlayed that into five bankruptcies. He has accumulated billions of dollars in
property and debt and lived in a gilded luxury apartment in Trump Tower where
he pooped in a gold toilet. Trump talks about the price of goods at the
supermarket, but it would be a safe bet that Trump has never entered a
supermarket in his entire life.
It puzzles
me how any regular person would look back on Trump’s four years of Presidency
as anything but a disaster. Remember the
refrigerator trucks parked outside the hospitals because the morgues could not
handle the number of dead? The only
thing memorable that Trump accomplished was a three trillion-dollar tax cut for
the mega-wealthy, and he ran up the national budget by eight trillion, higher
than any president in history.
Women for
Trump? When you are famous you can grab
them by the pussy. I alone was able to
get rid of Roe vs Wade.
It would
bother me to be identified with a group that included white supremacists, and
the militia insurrectionists of January 6. I would feel uncomfortable around religious fundamentalists
claiming Trump is anointed by God to bring about a new world order. Then there are some outright nut cases in
the MAGA cult, like the few hundred people who hung around Dallas Texas for two
weeks waiting for JFK to come back to life and run as Trump’s Vice President; not
to mention that Trump advised the NIH to look into the possibility of drinking
bleach and shooting up with disinfectant as a cure for Covid-19. Now it’s Haitians are eating your cats.
I am exhausted
with Trump. I like my neighbors, but the
name Trump is a poison pill to relationships and I dare not mention his name. Yet we have more in common, just trying to live
our lives and get by in an economy that has never served the middle class since
Regan introduced the trickle-down economy.
the Ol'Buzzard
