Trumpers and Trump
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Well, I do this with some trepidation and loathing, but it's per a request. Yes folks, I do requests.
Couple days ago, I was heading back from golfing 18 in southern Michigan. Inflation has brought a once $12 course up to $20 and that is very much a golf-value stretch. It gets you out walking and hitting anyway. A friend I was riding with, who I've golfed a lot with in the last few years and is both a very good golfer and deep MAGA red, turned to me and said, "You should write more about politics."
I guffawed, "Goddamn, that's pretty much all I write about!"
He then said, "Sort of – you should write about how a lot of the Trumpers are pissed-off at Trump."
But honestly folks, I don't get paid anywhere near enough to write about our red and blue shit-show. Really, if you're not making millions from it, there's absolutely no reason to go anywhere near America's political cesspool. Then yesterday, the president called supporters "weaklings," and waved off some of there support – that's funny.
Now, Trump is some sort of idiot savant when it comes to politics. He's continually hit on a lot of issues with little understanding and absolutely no idea what to do about it. But lambasting your supporters about an issue they've fed-off for years, and you've helped dish-up the gruel? Well, that's entertaining if nothing else, switching for a half-hour between between cable channels, I was entertained. I can report the cable circus is not any better than it was thirty years ago, perceptibly worse in fact. I even listened to Pocahontas and Barnie! Trump ain't the only cringe worthy political act in this country.
There's plenty more of the American elite besides Trump who want everything about Epstein kept buried with the old pedo himself. However, this isn't the only issue in this first six months creating tension between Trump and a lot of his base. There's the continued wars in Ukraine and Gaza, if you can call Gaza a war and not simply a massacre. Plus, there's great cognitive dissonance with the ICE thugs rounding people up from their work places. Let me tell you, a lot of MAGA understand being harassed at shit jobs much better than the Corrupt Blue. I've recently heard police state muttered from the mouths of more than a few conservatives.
One thing about the MAGA Red, they hate and will not listen to the Corrupt Blue. No one can fault them for that. But, no alternatives leads to a growing and dangerous politics of nihilism. Even I, my fellow Americans, don't find much humor in that.
Over the past decade, I talked to a number of MAGA-ites. When I tell them Trump ain't no answer to nothing, they'd immediately start in on the Democrats. I stop them, saying, I'm not defending any Democrats. They suck too. What's funny about this, not funny ha-ha, but funny in sickening way, is for 20 years previously, when ever I talked to Democrats about how much the Corrupt Blue sucks, they'd always immediately talk about the Republicans. Yes, they suck too.
What I have told all Americans for over three decades now, (and how pathetic is that?), the American political system was in desperate need of democratic reform. If it wasn't reformed, this republic would ever faster circle the drain. Any revival of democracy starts with one thing, no magic, no fairy dust, just Americans talking to each other, but you're all bound and determined not to do that.
Give the people what they want
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