It is Tuesday morning at 4 a.m. I had a hard time sleeping, kind of disappointed in myself. I have always prided myself in telling it like it is, never wavering from obvious truths, so, here it is folks.
Over the past several years I have been honest in my opinion concerning Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The GOP has taken the easy road in chipping away at what it means, to be an American.
Again, being honest, in 2016 I reallyv had hoped that Donald J. Trump could bring about a positive change, a breath of fresh air in a stagnant society. I was fooled and soon learned reality.
Throughout the world we are undergoing a shift to the far right. It is caused by something we call nationalism. A bit of this nationalism is a good thing, but too much has led us to where we are today.
You see, throughout history the clan was a way of survival. Identity of who we were and who we are was crucial to our existence, but things radically changed.
If you did not look like a German, speak like a German, eat like a German, then obviously you were not German. This was the brewing cauldron of reality back in the 1930-1940s. World War II finally suppressed these ideals and the world moved on, but did it?
When nationalism takes too firm a hold we slide into 1930-19040s Germany. Due to a number of factors, migration has taken hold throughout the entire world. Call it climate change, call it wavering economic conditions, but the mixture of cultures, the movement of humankind is now in transition. This is probably not the first time throughout history, but with modern technology and a world of instant pictures and words, it is a reality.
Throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, the entire world, we are experiencing an uneasiness. This leads to the situation we are in today.
Donald J. Trump, Vladimir Putin, and a number of far right leaders are only the tip of the iceberg. How we handle this transition now and in the future is both scary and a chance to be a part of an evolution of mankind.
If you knew, in your heart, that I, or anybody else, was lying, but you choose to follow that lie, we have a basic problem. When through the new media we begin to live a lie, we as a nation a planet are doomed.
Here is a fact, not downtrodden by religion, party politics, color, language, or what we now call nationalism, Donald J. Trump is a consistent liar. He did not win the 2020 election. The rational courts have proven this over and over. There is no great conspiracy to thwart the vote, and real Republicans know this. As I previously mentioned, Donald J. Trump is only the tip of the ice we see, the great portion of the ‘lies’ lie below the surface.
Politics has a strange way of promoting fallacies for the sake of continued politics, staying in what we now deem as power.
By this part of the column I have already lost the interest of too many believers of lies. That is reality, but to the real listeners/readers, please continue.
Ask any Republican on the national, state, or local level if they really believe Donald J. Trump lost in 2020. If they cannot give a straight "yes", or "no" and answer, without dodging, or giving you gobbledygook, we have a problem. The same goes for Democrats or any other political leanings.
Ask local party leaders, ask State Assemblyman Brian Manktelow, ask Congress Woman Claudia Tenney, ask State Senator Pamela Helming, ask yourself, do you really believe all the lies spewing from Donald J. Trump. If they, or you, cannot answer truthfully, it may be the beginning of the end. We have drunk the proverbial kool aid, but need the honesty of being an American.
This November, in about three and a half weeks, we are going to vote at a crucial point of history that will determine our new society. What we have to ask ourselves is... "Am I part of the lie?"
