Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

Is trump a symptom of a truly broken society?

It's not surprising that trump is using the same tired strategies from his 2016 campaign for 2020 --- spewing hate and division. And he's running against Hillary again, apparently. 🙄 But his base just gobbles it up like starving puppies.

Do trump supporters understand that crossing the border illegally is a misdemeanor? So unless you also advocate for ripping babies away from people caught jaywalking or getting a speeding ticket, you are a racist. It's that simple.

There is no humanitarian argument that can be made for the way we’re treating these families, individuals, and children. There's no way to dress it up, repackage it, justify it, or make it right. My heart breaks for them. And what did I do in my lifetime to be treated so well, while these asylum seekers are being held in dehumanizing conditions? Nothing. I appear to be 'white', born in America, and grew up privileged. So yeah, I didn't do a goddamned thing to be treated any differently than asylum seekers. But I know one thing for sure, if I were in the shoes of these immigrants who are running and trying their best for a better life, I'd be doing the same thing. We don't know what they've experienced. Btw, it’s not illegal to apply for asylum. Period. And you gotta cross to do that.

The GOP strategy is fear.
They claim the liberals want open borders. Not true. We want immigration reform.
They claim the liberals want to take away your guns. Not true. We want stricter gun laws. They claim liberals are radical socialists. Not true. What most decent people see as living with concern and care for others; republicans see as socialism.
The list goes on and on.

Conspiracy theorists sent death threats and stalked the families of children murdered in mass shootings and the GOP elected a man who helps spread conspiracy theories. Be proud, GOP.

Our country is in crisis but it's teaching us a lot about ourselves and those we thought we knew. Know that if you oppose trump, his destructive, hateful policies and unlawful actions, you're on the right side of history.
The US helped make the asylum seekers countries uninhabitable, they are running for their lives. Trump is using that to create fear. He actually said that illegal immigrants would kill you and live in your house and again the gullible base ate that shit up. If the situation on the border gets worse, worse than babies being raped by the guards, the youngest was 4, worse than dying in custody, worse than being sent to private for profit prisons, worse than losing track of children and never being able to reunite them with their families, all for a misdemeanor, that will only help Trump. Not fixing the problem on the border is far better for the Trump campaign than fixing it. Not building the wall, far better for Trump. "The Democrats are withholding money for the border" but what happened to the multi billions he already has for the border. Trump is 100% lies, more than 10,000 public lies so far and now when he starts campaigning, something he absolutely loves, the lies will come pouring out like a flood but the Trumpfans won't even notice. I've come to the conclusion you have to be mentally ill to vote for someone who is obviously mentally ill. I'm hoping the rest of the country will stomp on the Republican Party in 2020. People like Cocaine Mitch have to go! Trump and his family need to be in jail.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Pitchblue I do not disagree with anything you have said. It is profoundly sad that the US has reached this point of dysfunction.
@windinhishair Trump admires people like Putin who can indiscriminately kill people, he admires Kim Jong un because he can feed his own Uncle to a pack of dogs. He doesn't understand why it could not be that way in the US so that when he's done as President he can hand the country off to Ivanka. Donald Trump is amoral.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Pitchblue Completely amoral, which is typical of malignant narcissists.
Northwest · M
Some people are tribal, and fear those who do not look like them.

I'm sure there are immigrants, Muslims, or people from other religions, but they do not represent the profile of a typical immigrant to the USA. Trump, believes that it's the other way around, when he says 'and some of them are OK'.

This is certainly a dog whistle, but I am convinced this is not just act, and he's a true believer.

I was listening a Trump interview, from a few decades ago, when he was arguing that Indian reservations, should be stripped out of their special status, because casinos on Indian reservations, make it more difficult for his casinos to compete. I suppose, in a way, it's a prelude to his tariffs position now.

His racism was clear, when he took out a full age ad, wanting to impose the death penalty on the Central Park 5. They spent a decade, or more in jail, but it turned out they were innocent.

Don't forget to vote in 2020.
So anyone who cares about the future of the U.S. can’t afford to be apathetic like so many were in 2016. They now know that the worst [b]can[/b] happen, so they need to [b]vote[/b] for, in the best case, a really good president, or at the very least, removal of the worst one in modern times.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard A strong case can be made that Trump is the worst president in US history. He certainly is in the bottom two or three.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
Bravo! Very well stated!
MasterLee · 56-60, M
[image deleted]
Breeze60 · 61-69, M
[image deleted]@MasterLee
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@Breeze60 yes legal immigration
SW-User
@MasterLee [quote]We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall[.[/quote]

-Ronald Reagan 06/12/1987
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@Waymore and it's illegal to drink and drive but most bars have a parking lot, oh but those are for the employees
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
SevIsPamprinYouAlways · 56-60, F
[image deleted]@Waymore
MarineBob · 56-60, M
Northwest · M
@MarineBob You've got the education part wrong, but you certainly got the 'white' part down.
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@PainfulTruth Yeah, that goddamn democrat George W. Bush took the nation from the biggest budget surplus in history to the biggest deficit in history in only two years! And started two wars of convenience based on false pretenses that we are still fighting today! And he destroyed the economy and sent it into a downward spiral to the biggest downturn since the Depression! Oh wait, he's not a democrat, he's a [b]republican[/b].
@windinhishair Obviously SniperMk is just another Troll who thinks posting garbage like this is funny. Bush left the country in need of a bailout or else the economy would collapse so he says it was Obama that caused the recession not the President that got us out of recession while being obstructed by the Republicans every day of the 8 years he was in office. Sniper is one of the reasons I can't tell the difference between the Trolls and the Cons.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Pitchblue Sniper is clearly a troll. But so many other Trump cultists are.
Budwick · 70-79, M
[quote]It's not surprising that trump is using the same tired strategies from his 2016 campaign for 2020[/quote]

Yeah, that straightforward talk can be baffling to most of the left.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Budwick You mean the racism, fear, and hatred? Yes, easy to understand for Trump cultists. Baffling to compassionate human beings.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@windinhishair No Windy - I'm talking about Trump, not Obama.
redredred · M
This country has an absolute right and responsibility to defend its borders. Calling for immigration reform is fine but any "Reform" that does not include an immediate and vigorous defense of the borders is just calling for more undocumented democrats flooding the southern border.

What Sanders, Fauxchohauntis and Ocassional-Cortex are calling for is not concern for others, its outright socialism, their words, not mine. BTW, who shot Steve Scalise and what does an investigation of the shooters politics show? That's right hes on the left so dont lecture me on calls for violence.
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
SW-User
if he would say "twerking is fun and everyone should do it" his base would all learn how to twerk immediately
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@SW-User and nasty nancy and AOC would stop
SW-User
@MarineBob lmfao. I hope your booty jiggly.
Loretta78 · 46-50, F
This is the best post I´ve read today on SW! 👍️🥇
This comment is hidden. Show Comment
DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M
OnceZ we getS rids of THEs MexicanZ Muslimz DisablEdz Feminiztz
Carla · 61-69, F
Well...!!!!!!
SW-User
tenente · 100+, M
please don't judge my country based on my president 🤔

 
Post Comment