Finding it Everywhere
Many who voted for Trump say the current state of the economy is the reason they did it, and this includes those who are doing well in the Obama economy, which improved considerably from the day he took office in 2008 after the Bush wars and other misdemeanors drove us into a deep recession, They refuse to acknowledge that through his economic policies, Obama kept the United States out of a depression of the type we had in the 1930"s. Would it be overkill if I mentioned that it was also the Republicans in the 1930's who caused the worst depression in United States history and it was FDR that took us out of it. "It wasn't racism stupid, it was the economy."
And if they concede on the economy they'll point to the Affordable Health Care Act. Now let's get serious here. I totally agree that Obamacare, as it is also known, was, and is, the worst possible solution to the worst possible health care system in the Western World. We rank 37 (please implant this number in your mind) of countries viewed as part of the First World. There is only one solution to our health care problems and that is some sort of single payer system. I didn't vote for Obama in the primaries in 2008 for just that reason. Unlike John Edwards and Hillary Clinton, who supported some type of single payer system, Obama did not. Why? I can only assume he was catering to his inner Republican. But let me ask of Trump voters, did any Republican propose a different or better solution. If as Trump has promised, Obamacare is gone on January 21, and we again have the largest number of citizens without health care in the world, what will he and the Republicans offer in its stead? Sorry, but pointing to Obamacare is just another excuse to let your inner racist run free.
My favorite, mainly because I love absurdity in most forms, are those voters who claim to have voted for Trump because of their Christian values. So, they rejected Hillary Clinton, who married once, a regular church goer, and as far as I know has never posed naked in her life--well, perhaps for Bill. So to represent their Christian values these people voted for a man who has been married three times, cheated on his first wife while he was still married, married a woman who has not only posed naked for men's magazines but naked with another woman, simulating sexual activity. The same man who represents their Christian values was recorded many times over the years, not just in 2005, bragging about sexually assaulting women. He also made two soft-porn films for Playboy. Ten women have come forward to accuse Trump of sexually assaulting them. Many more are out there. Perhaps because I was raised in an Irish Catholic home where strict modesty, even with five children, two adults, and one bathroom, was strictly adhered to, I have to ask what Christian values are these people practicing in their own homes? What indeed?
Some of the many other troubles these people found in the Obama administration:
- Obama had the audacity to try to promote clean air and water, regulations which Trump has promised to dispense with. No doubt none of the Trump voters live in Flint, Michigan.
- Obama supported the Dodd-Frank act to overhaul our banks in light of the 2008 financial crisis. Trump will, if he can, get rid of Dodd-Frank. This is particularly interesting. They complain about the economy and then they complain about the things Obama did to prevent another recession brought on by the greedy banks.
- Trump will not support the Alternative Minimum Tax, although personally I wonder why he cares since he doesn't pays taxes.
- Trump will get rid of the estate tax, which today after many Republican tax cuts, applies to only 5,300 families in the United States. Need we ask if the Trump family is one of those families.
- Gun free zones in schools and military bases will be abolished if Trump has his way. One can only hope that the killing of school children weighs on the consciences of Trump voters. It won't, I know, as they are without conscience. What the rest of us call conscience, they call Christian values.
- Trump refuses to support the Paris agreement on climate change. As they all know there is no such thing as man-made climate problems. Trump voters: most of you won't be around when your children and their descendants have to cope with the radical changes that are coming. Will they even know that this was a legacy from their grandparents and great grandparents.
Sorry readers, I haven't yet arrived at "diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." I thought this would be easy and short but when I contemplate the numbers of problems that have been placed on Obama's head and the lies that support them, I am exhausted.
I suggest the answer to all of the above is, "Yes, Trump voters you are racists," and of the worse kind. At least we know where the KKK stands but when we see you on any given day we think of you as kind loving people and have no clue how much hatred you hold in your hearts, all 60,000,000 of you.
My next blog will be on Hillary's emails, the number one reason Trump voters give for their votes. That one so reeks of hypocrisy. Here's a clue: 22,000,000 emails purposely destroyed and against federal law. Take a guess!
See you tomorrow, I hope.
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