Donald Trump is an admixture of an ignorant know-it-all, someone whose thinking process and ability to express himself have become more and more incoherent over the years. His love of hearing his own voice seems more like a self-pleasuring behavior on his part. And then, there is his pretend godfather like speech cadence that attempts to seal his public persona.
He is also a pathological liar and a sociopath. He will flip the switch on what he says in a heartbeat. He doesn’t give-a-damn about how his words and behavior will impact the needs and feelings of anyone else. Other people’s needs and feeling do not matter to sociopaths.
He loses an election and calls the Georgia Secretary of State to have him change the vote count of the people of Georgia so that he can win the state. He is also dumb enough to do that bidding over a recorded phone call. He holds on to the belief that he really didn’t lose to Biden because of the ‘corruption’ that was present during the election. He consistently projects what true for him onto others. In truth, his battle with Biden was the most uncorrupted Presidential election in our history
He reminds me of the ten-year-old who constantly does things in public that are unpleasant for others to be around. And, when he is called out about his misbehavior, he denies doing what he has done, and when the adult world reinforces their displeasure with his behavior, he cries out about being the victim of others always ‘pick’n on me.’ With Trump he is never the cause of others’ accusations about him, he is always the one who is treated unfairly. His whole idea about being the ‘retribution’ for his and others mistreatment, his identification with Jesus and Nelson Mandela are all about of his sense of being the one who is always treated unfairly and the champion of retribution.
Trump is unable to see the cause-and-effect relationship between what he says and the consequences that follow from what he has said and done. His is a scatter gun approach to saying things and his inability to appreciate the consequences that follow what he might say. He likes tariffs, for example and fails to realize that ultimately a tariff is a tax to be paid by the citizen who is making a purchase. With Tariff’s the price goes up for the customer. The question to be asked is, do we want someone like Trump running our economy.
His faulty reasoning was also on display during the COVID pandemic. In a speech, Trump said that one way to cut back on so many people testing positively for the virus would be to do less testing. His convoluted reasoning was that with less testing there would be fewer individuals who would be shown to be carrying the COVID virus. He lives in a world of make believe. This was during the time that he also suggested that the injecting of bleach might also help those who have come down with the virus. His thinking process has become viewed as limited and quirky. Again, the question to be asked is, do we want someone like Trump to oversee our health care system, or our Social Security, Medicare or any other system that people depend on for sustaining their lives?
Trump also has strong biases against those who are not white. He claims that ‘immigrants are poisoning the blood of America.’ His black and Latino prejudice was demonstrated in his calling out of the Central Park Five where four black fifteen-year-old males and one Latino male were wrongfully charged and convicted of raping a woman who was jogging in New York City, in April of 1989. Trump wrote in the New York Times demanding the execution of the Latino group member. In fact, all five of these young men were exonerated of violating the young woman.
His is an attempt to rid the United States of all but the whites. His support of the White Christian Nationalist group sets the tone for his biases and prejudices. He wants to go back to a time when women were subservient to men. His is a regression on the course that that we have been on as a nation where we have equal rights as citizens of the United States. Instead of making America great again, he wants to return America to the time when the rights of Americans were predicated on their skin color and the sexual distinction of being male or female.
His notion about removing immigrants from ‘the land of the Free’ is classic example of his scapegoating of minorities, and it is a classic example of his pathological lying. At first, his administration was going to round up those undocumented immigrants who are the killers and rapists, those who have been convicted of heinous crimes and have gone to jail. Instead, he casts all immigrants as ‘poisoning the blood of America.’
His administration and his masked bulling ICE thugs are going to places where immigrants work, earn a living for their families and contribute taxes from their labors. Places like the fields where they pick crops that we all eat. Where they provide home care for those who are elderly or infirmed. Where they provide labor to build roadways and buildings. Where they work at a Home Depot and have made a career of providing retail services to members of their community. Where they provide hospitality services in hotels. These masked bullies will even go to the courts where immigrants are dutifully filling out the required paperwork in a timely fashion and arresting them on the spot. They go to public schools, churches, and medical facilities. And these gutless bullies ignore the reality of an individual’s ‘due process rights.’
It has become painfully easy to label immigrants as being expendable by a sociopath like Trump. In truth our immigration system is in the shambles. It takes years for an immigrant to go through all of hoops of gaining citizenship. There are not enough trained people to process those who come to America in a reasonable time frame. Often it takes years to finalize the immigration process. In addition, there are not enough immigration justices to be able to process those are going through the immigration process.
And so here we are. We have required governmental procedures that need to be met for someone to become an American Citizen and we don’t have enough people to do the job in a timely fashion.
We allow a person who is disregarding of other people’s needs and a pathological liar to reside in the Oval Office. We have yesterday’s realities attempting to address today’s confusion, dysfunction, and disregard of others. Today’s needs require our going back to the basics of what makes the United States the special place that it can still be. We only need to select people who are committed to our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Due Process, our three but equal branches of government. We need to select people who are regarding of other’s needs and feelings. We need to be able to learn to live with our differences and trust that we have the will and commitment to work out our differences…then, we have the chance of not repeating the mistakes we have made during Trump’s attempt to destroy everything that defines who we are as an American Family.
The Dali Lama is someone who has been instrumental in my own understanding of what makes it possible for people to grow as individuals and as members of a community. He has written ‘compassion and love are not a luxury; they are essential to our existence. Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. If we are to survive, human beings must develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind.’
I am committed to sharing life with others by treating others as I would want to be treated. It is simple way to begin to connect with someone else…
Namaste.
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