The Politics of Boorishness

I don't care if you voted for Trump or not. I frankly don't care if you're a loyal Trumpette or not. I don't care if you voted for Spider Man or the Man In the Moon. But let's call a spade a spade. Calling anyone "fine" (as Trump did in a recent speech or ramble) who spews hate as those white supremacists did recently, who barfs racial slurs, promotes religious, racial, sexual bigotry, who can barely string together rational, kind, coherent thoughts (more or less a sentence), is an insult to TRULY fine people everywhere.

Those sadists in Virginia are the ones who are making America UN-great. If I were a native of that lovely state I'd be saddened and sickened.

"Make America Great!" he cries. America never "lost" its greatness. Ever. That is pap that some folks have been fed and are eagerly lapping it up. People with two brain cells to rub together are letting the inmates run the asylum. Its greatness has been dimmed by rhetoric and fear-mongering.

People who have a knowledge of history know this for what it is. It's not the Liberals, It's not the Democrats. It's not any political party. It's so close to Nazism that it's frightening. First step: silence or suppress the media, the scientists, the intellectuals, the artists. Next: blame your troubles on Somebody Else. The African-Americans, The Jews, the LGBT community, the opposite sex.. Then make people afraid. Afraid of each other. Afraid to make an educated choice. Afraid of themselves.

There has been such an unleashing of idiocy, crassness, bad manners along with dangerous, subversive cruelty and frankly, kids, it's coming from the top. If you think it isn't, you need to really look very carefully at what's happening and understand that Trump's illogical, irrational invective has suddenly opened the floodgates of unacceptable behavior. Just look at how social media is blowing up and how this diarrhea of misbehavior and lunacy is creating horrible things. Horrible things being said and done. I, for one, am tired of being the world's punch-line.

Where is class? Where is graciousness? Where is courage?
Where is kindness? Where is helping your neighbor? Where is pride in your country, community, home? Where is reaching out your hand to comfort or help another, be it adult, child or animal? Where is the sense of feeling the breath of freedom; that one can worship, marry, love as long as it does not harm another?

It's time for Trump and his supporters to own up and pony up. This has not been an improvement. This is intellectual bedlam, boorishness, cowardice and bullying on an almost unprecedented level of Low.

You can have a fifth grade education and live in a run-down shack and have more class, intelligence and kindness that what is being witnessed today.

Get a grip.