I Hate Donald Trump

I don't know Trump, not personally anyway. I know only what he says and does, and 99% of it is objectionable in the extreme. What I hate, if that's the proper word, is how he has given voice to the xenophobic population of our country, of how he has divided our country as never before.

People with small, bitter/hateful, self-serving minds have flooded to his cause, and much to my chagrin, there seems to be many of them. Many of these people have lived small lives. Never traveled, never seen what is on the other side of their city/community, much less their state or country. They simply live and think small. They have no notion for anything not them. Worse, they fear and hate anything not them, and to my way of thinking, that is 180 degrees out and totally inconsistent with what we are, or have espoused our country to be. It goes against our founding principles, against what I and many before me fought for.

Worse yet is that there are large numbers of people who follow and support him who have not lived small lives. These people are knowingly destroying our country with their greed, the self-serving, privileged actions and rhetoric.

It is a time I thought I would never see. I am ashamed of us as a country; but proud to stand against Trump and his followers, and ever will be. Time, reason and decency will prevail, of that I am certain. Until then I stand opposed to this man and his followers, totally, absolutely, and without equivocation.

I could go on and on, but I suspect you get what my thoughts are.

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frequentlyme · 70-79, M

I am somewhat amazed (although I shouldn't be), in how this turned into mostly a party line thing. I addressed the character, voice and actions of Trump the man, and what he has brought about, and had zero to say about liberals or conservatives. My comments were not party oriented, yet many want to interject what they want to say about their opposing agendas, not respond to what the comment was about. Like I said, typical, a diversion from the subject, and to my way of thinking, it goes a long way in proving my point.

veoh112 · 22-25, F

@frequentlyme Yes you said you appose people who have are xenophobic and have lived a life in where you disagree with, where they follow Trump. There are many factors as to why those things come about because not everything is black and white. I think it still addresses the issue at whole and a discussion but hmmm I might be just a small minded suburban minded thinker like you mentioned.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@frequentlyme Hey being an ex Trump supporter I 100% agree. I can say from my own experience that people just pretty much see what they want to see.

I look at it like this:

On one hand Trump made his platform about helping the "working class" people and within good reason. Calling out to them. On another hand, he called out to ultra nationalist groups by running on their platform. Also a healthy dose of fear mongering got him elected.

I'm pretty sure in personal life, a lot of people are the same way with friendships. We often ignore several warnings with toxic people because toxic people are SO good at making you see what THEY want you to see. We all have bias blind spots and a good politician knows how to exploit those because most people don't go out of their way to review what their own biases may be.

Yes I know Trump ran his platform under the fact that he's not a politician but he plays the game like one and that's all that matters.