Don't Blame
Donald Trump
When Donald
Trump began his campaign for the presidency he rightfully claimed he was not a
politician, not a Beltway insider, not someone who would maintain the status quo. On these grounds he was
being accurate.
Since
ascending to the halls of power, he has proven those claims over and over. Not
being a politician means he is not connected or beholden to a constituency to
whom he is dedicated and responsive. Not being a Beltway Insider means that he
has zero connections to the existing power structure in any of the three Constitutional
branches of government.
Being
politically tabla raza, he only has
the references for correct actions which the Republican Congress and
conservatively minded politicos demonstrate in the exercise of their offices.
Two of the tenants of that way of thinking are "blame the victims"
and "disrespect losers."
The
conservative legislative attitudes are similarly manifest in recent Judiciary
appointments. The blame the victim approach has become rampant in Republican
legislatures and gubernatorial offices. The list is long and varied but here
are a few examples.
·
People
receiving public assistance are lazy and don't want to work (although many of
them do.)
·
Single
mothers are irresponsible by becoming pregnant even though it was a man who did
the deed.
·
When
a 4 year old girl is raped by an adult, she came on to him and was a willing
participant.
·
When
a woman is raped or molested on the street or in a public accommodation, the
clothing she chose to wear caused the crime to be committed on her person.
·
Children
whose parents cannot afford to provide adequate meals are takers when they want
the school system to provide nutrition as well as education.
·
When
a police officer beats a citizen to death or shoots an unarmed person, it was
the dead person who was at fault for making the officer fearful for his life.
·
People
who live next to a toxic industrial site are to blame for their cancers and
other diseases because they did not move away.
·
The
battered wife is the cause of her beatings by not being a good wife or by
challenging the authority of her husband. Her not leaving him is also her
fault.
·
A
woman seeking an abortion is promiscuous and responsible for getting pregnant and
must be required to carry to full term. See second item above.
·
Being
homosexual is just cause for getting beaten, burned, dragged or lynched by an
alleged heterosexual. Well, just because.
·
Not
being able to obtain a well-paying job is one's own fault for not being skilled
enough in a wildly changing labor market.
The
Conservative and Republican mentality is heavily oriented on Biblical writings.
God made peoples' skin brown to punish them for some ancient sin therefore,
today they deserve the distain visited upon them for economic gain by others.
It is their own fault for being brown and poor and disenfranchised.
Then there
is the disrespect part. Poor people need to have their diets controlled via
restrictions of what can be purchased with SNAP Debit Cards. They must be drug
tested and pass in order to be worthy of feeding their children. Their benefits
must be time limited so they do not become generationally dependent. Not only
these limitation must be imposed, conservatives must vocally denounce recipients at
every opportunity.
Donald Trump
has far too little worldly experience to be responsive to the needs of the
people of America and the world for that matter. In his world-view anyone who
doesn't have everything they want is a Loser. Anyone who doesn't fit his
winning-style is a Loser. He has even gone as far as saying he doesn't like
Senator John McCain because he was a Vietnam POW. "I don't like people who
were captured." Trump was casting McCain as a Loser.
In Trumps
world asking him for something they need is a double insult in his mind. First,
in the asking is the implied statement that what he has done was not enough nor
was appreciated. Second, it casts the asker as a Loser. His attack on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín
Cruz for criticizing the White House on its hurricane Maria relief efforts
angered Trump in a trifecta of factors. A Hispanic female dared to say HIS
efforts were subpar. In response he besmirches her leadership abilities, the competency
of the PR people, and their desire to have everything done for them. Then as
though punctuating his distain he made his tweeted comments from his golf club.
Her actions
showed how much of a loser she was and the people of PR are in his mind. The
fact that they need any supports in indicative of that status. To be fair to
the man, he treats everyone that way. Well except for Caucasian Nationalists
and all their ilk. They get a pass for being who they are and what they want.
Donald Trump
is pulling his actions from the Fascist Dictator playbook. The mere asking for
something shows you are not worthy. Pointing out racism runs against the claim
there is no racism in America. Showing the world there are people in desperation
in Puerto Rico is blasphemous after the dictator has said everything there is
being handled in an amazing way. The death toll is a boasting point. He says providing
3,000 meals is great response when there are 3.5 million people who need a meal
a day or more.
I suspect
Donald Trump really believes what he is saying. He has no idea how far PR is
from the mainland when he says it is an island far out and surrounded by the
sea. For a man who departs and arrives at airports by jets, he has no idea
about actual distances. For a man who points to items on a menu in a private
club dining room, he has no idea how difficult it is to feed a family several
times a day every day. This is not his fault. No one ever showed him the
realities. "It is easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain."
The
unfortunate part of the entire scenario is even if he does learn important
lessons, they will be too late for the people who are in harm's way and he will
not have the opportunity to employ those lessons a next time.
