| | | SodaSaint the Sleepy
I loathe what Trump has done.
While it is true that he's unpacking much of the festering mess and strife that was largely already boiling under the surface and has been for years in our nation, let's be clear; the man is the POTUS. His role in fomenting brother against brother and father against son, neighbor against neighbor and friend against friend is NOT a small one.
He did it because he's a stupid, cruel, vain peacock who cares only about himself, conflates what is best for his own interests as being best for America, he even openly admits that he considers his net worth to depend on his MOOD that morning.
Trump has far more in common with Robbespierre and the Know-nothings than George Washington and the Founders. His modus operandi is very clear: he emotes, therefore he is, and any who dare contest whatever shade of passion he happens to feel that morning should therefore be hated with the heat of a thousand suns simply because he says so.
His is a worldview largely devoid of compassion, honor, loyalty, charity, and moral restraint. Worse, he goes so far as to call restraint of one's baser instincts, lusts and sinful impulses as weakness and implies that being led by loin or lust or desire alone is sufficient to lay claim to whatever he wants.
And he's also very good at taking advantage of people who are justifiably frustrated, angry and afraid by positioning himself as some kind of Adonis to be placed on a pedestal, where he can then pump his poison into the veins of the hearts of the populace... all with only one end goal: it's about, he, himself and him. And nothing else. It is a mishmash of various socialist, facist, nationalist, authoritarian and agrarian ideas, bound by a glue of his malice, manipulation, lies and lust for power.
The utter cowardice by so many who know better is just an example of too few being willing to call Trump what he is: a bully, a liar, a parasite, an opportunist, and a coward. A deceiver of his countrymen and confuser of truth.
Is it hard to stand firm? Yes. But there is no price one can put on moral clarity and integrity. While it does not make us better that we didn't buy into the lie, it does help to, I pray, act as a beacon for others who have rationalized Trump's poisonous lies, deceptions and twistings of the truth.
I am so glad that Jesus is king and I am not... I pray, brothers and sisters, that we remember to show forgiveness and be willing to do as Christ did before us: to do justly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly before our God.
And most of all, let us pray that God opens the eyes of the many who have deceived themselves around the country... or even the world. That they might remember why it's dangerous to mix truth with lies and why it NEVER works and NEVER will. |
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