Imagine if we all got the same kind of free pass the Republicans are giving Trump.
“Honey, I know yesterday I said I cheated on you, but today I’m telling you that what I meant was that I DIDN’T cheat on you!”
“Oh, well, that’s completely different! You’re absolutely forgiven.”
It’s amazing how real, solid evidence (including indictments, arrests, convictions and guilty pleas) will not convince these people but the wildest conspiracy theories are swallowed whole without a thought.
Trump supporters are still chanting about Hillary while Trump stands with Putin and, despite the findings of the FBI, CIA, and every intelligence organization in his own country, claims that there was no Russian interference in our election.
Amazing, isn’t it?
(Mind you, I’m a criminal defense attorney, so I’m used to guilty people doing their best to discredit the police. I’m just not used to the President of the United States doing it.)
Putin’s look is one of a man thinking “I’ve got Trump’s balls right here in my pocket.” (Photo credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE / REUTERS)
Here’s the thing (as I’ve said before):
It’s one thing to be ignorant. That’s not the same thing as being stupid. Everyone is ignorant of something. I’m ignorant of sports teams, fashion, and nuclear science.
But ignorance can be cured with education, and knowing you are ignorant of something is good.
The sin is in being willfully ignorant — in refusing to seek out facts or refusing to acknowledge them because it might change your already held opinion.
But the Trump people refuse to believe, despite the indictments and guilty pleas already handed down. Instead of believing Mueller, who helped to bring Enron, Gotti and many mafia gangsters to justice and whose reputation is untarnished, they rely on Fox News or Trump, whose reputation for truth and facts is undeniably absent.
Sometimes I think this isn’t really a fight between right and left or right and wrong but informed and ignorant.
July 27, 2016: Trump looks at the camera and says ““Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” thus inviting a foreign country to commit espionage against an American candidate.
July 27, 2016, late at night (according to today’s indictments): Russia hacks into the Democratic party’s computers.
What an amazing coincidence!
(Just to make sure it’s even more blatantly obvious, you know who Trump’s campaign manager was on that day? Hint: he’s now sitting in jail, accused of colluding with Russia.)
The only good thing about this is that whenever some Trump supporter claims there has been no Russian interference with our election, I can now say “But her emails!”
Sean Hannity recently screamed about the dreaded socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s radical left-wing platform, posting it verbatim on Fox News in order to scare his viewers (average age: 68).
All those policy positions that Hannity pointed out as being outrageous socialist left-wing extremism? Yeah, they’re pretty much all supported by the majority of Americans.
For instance:
Medicare for All has the support of 63 percent of registered voters.
Tuition-free public college has 63 percent support.
A majority of Americans support Obamacare. (This is especially true if you call it “the Affordable Care Act.”)
A majority thinks gay marriage, abortion and marijuana should be legal.
A majority supports more gun control.
A majority wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and do not believe that “corporations are people.”
A majority want to raise the minimum wage and do something about campaign finance reform. (And a majority support amending the Constitution to overturn the Citizen’s United case).
And let’s not forget that in 6 of the last 7 Presidential elections, the Democrat received more votes than the Republican.
We’re the moderates. We’re mainstream. We’re the majority.
The right has done such a good job of demonizing liberalism and moving the window to the right that we seem to be extremists only by comparison to their far-right agenda. In most of the rest of the civilized world, our positions are even supported by the “conservatives” in those countries, because they’re mainstream views.
We need to stop acting like we’re asking for outrageous things.
The conservative way of thinking is just foreign way to we liberals, as I said a few days ago. We just don’t think like you do, scared of all those terrible nonwhite people coming over here, wanting to, you know, escape tyranny and pick fruit for less than minimum wage.
We see people coming here to the Land of Free wanting to escape terrible conditions in their home land. You see “animals” and “scum” who want to bring terrorism. You sincerely think they’re all here to destroy us from within.
Apparently, you believe these people came here with their families, knocked on our doors, asked to be let in, in some sort of ingenious plan to … what?
1. Walk into America’s front door
2. ????
3. Profit!
We want to welcome these people whose only “crime” is walking past an imaginary line. You are afraid of them.
We just don’t look at the world as “us” vs. “them” like you scaredy cats do. We’re not afraid of everything.
Because that’s what it’s all about really. You guys need your guns and you need to keep out anyone different because you’re so damned afraid all the time. You’re afraid gay people will want you. You’re afraid black people will, I don’t know, make you listen to rap or something. You’re afraid of anything that challenges your safe little world. You’re afraid of not being “special” any more. You’re afraid of anything different.
So much for the “land of the brave.”
Grow some balls and become an American already.
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