Trump has, unintentionally, taught us something

[Cyrano]

He's taught us that Republicans don't actually believe all that super-patriot/"anti-Commie"/God/Country/"family values"/flag-waving/"I'm a better American than you are," shit they've been feeding us for so many years.

Many of us never bought their self-righteousness to begin with. But now, elected Republicans and all those who vote for them, have openly and publicly shown us who they really are.

Everyone knows the quote "Patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrel." Well, turns out it's also a dark cloak behind which Trump and his hordes are destroying us piece by piece. Every hour of every day since this horrible beast took the oath of office, we Americans have lost another part of who we are supposed to be.

Add some "God is a white Christian American" to this crap, and you've got a toxic stew that is destroying our country and our way of life. And, given America's power and world-wide influence, these barbarians might just end up crippling and/or destroying the concepts of freedom and democracy.

[byronius]

1. Yes, out in the open now.

They seem proud to be revealed, probably because it's been consequence-free.

They need consequences.

[Girard442]

2. The Evangelicals don't believe any of the stuff they push either.

I used to puzzle over how seemingly rational people could believe the things they said they did, but it wasn't until Election 2016 that I finally saw the answer that had been staring me in the face all along.

They don't.

[lame54]

3. you mean he re-affirmed it

[RockRaven]

4. Sadly, 1/3 or so of Americans believe deep in their bones that Repubs JUST ARE righteous

and no amount of counter-evidence is going to change that rubric in their minds. No amount whatsoever. They even go so far as to say out loud "I don't believe my lying eyes."

[Leith]

5. They Don't Believe in Economic Responsibility, Either

All that deficit, debt, and "balance the budget!" talk is nothing but a weapon to use against Democrats while we try to clean up the mess they leave behind.

[Cyrano]

8. Paul Krugman has implied we could end up in another Great Depression

For most of us, the Great Depression of the 1930s was something our parents, grandparents, or great grandparents lived through. It's something we can't really grasp.

Try reading John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath."

Try talking to someone who lived through it.

Try to imagine all of your savings and your home disappearing.

Try to imagine a life in which getting the next meal is a problem.

None of this seems very real to most of us.

(Tearing children from their mother's arms, and shipping them thousands of miles away, didn't seem like a possibility to most of us.)

With careless, uncaring, cruel people currently holding all the reins of power in America, it's time for us to adjust our thinking to things we once found impossible to grasp.

[randr]

6. His presence should remind us of something

Voting counts!
He has nothing to teach us.

[Cyrano]

9. Yes, voting counts

VOTING REALLY FUCKING COUNTS.

Anyone foolish enough to sit out the upcoming election is a fool.

You can call and get a mail-in ballot sent to you by phone if you can't get out.

If we can't take over, at least the House of Representatives, (if not the Senate), in the upcoming election, America is over.

Vote like your life depends on it. It does.

[Aristus]

7. "Becuz he pisses off th'libruhlz!"

That is the last and final word on the subject of why they support Trump.