For years now the far right has waged a war on American values in the name of American values in order to confuse their ideological goals with the very definition of what it means to be American. By now it is obvious to most of the people on earth that they have annexed the Republican party and are having their way with our nation.
The far right have used the GOP to beat Bill Clinton over the head with his affair with Monica Lewinsky and a supposed Whitewater real estate investment scandal that never produced any real evidence. They continue to impose a poor image on Hilary Clinton over these same issues, even though our current president gets a huge pass on hard evidence of worse offenses on the same issues.(Stormy Daniels & Trump Tower Washington & Moscow for just a few examples.)
The GOP rode Barrack Obama so hard during his 8 years in office that I was embarrassed for our nation. Donald Trump and his racist far-right “birther” movement tried to cast doubt about his citizenship and therefore authority to govern. Far-right racist cartoons casting President Obama and his wife in humiliating ways, Republican senators professing to seek to limit his term to 4 years almost immediately after inauguration. The GOP in Congress was so anti-Obama they were the least productive in history during his term in office, openly vowing to reduce his influence on America to as little as possible while at the same time blaming him for not getting much done in office. To this day Trump is erasing what little he did get done. (Blame Obama is a recurring GOP theme.)
Now we have a President who never gave us a look at his tax returns, keeping his past international and investment ties a secret unlike all presidents before him since 1976 except one. He has had multiple marriages, which would have been a non-starter before 2016, but somehow was forgiven, just like his infidelities and self-admitted sexual assaults. Trump’s verbal abuse of American Heros who “didn’t get captured” didn’t get him cut from the list of GOP hopefuls, although if Obama had said it, I’m sure someone else would have become president. There are so many verbal abuses and insults Trump has issued that I’m sure everyone else in America is aware of and is a shame to our national reputation. Also the fact that in his first months in office he has redefined our allies as delinquent bill payers and promoted autocrats and demi-gods as supposed well-respected members of society worthy of admitting into international organizations. Now, Trump is telling us that all the women and children fleeing death and destruction in their central American countries are a national crisis that needs our military and a huge wall to protect us from. Machine guns, tear gas, and barbed wire vs diaper wielding moms. Let’s not talk about our broken immigration system and how to fix it, though. A wall will do it all if you believe Trump.
Thanks, GOP. You’ve ruined my country. I won’t support you any longer until you start treating Americans as the people you are supposed to represent, not the people you can lie to and steal from. I would rather vote for a goat in a tree than a member of your shameful organization.
You’ve given this nation’s reputation a bruising, worse than a black eye, with all you’ve done to restructure the world’s relationships to your own liking, as well as lie to your country on a daily basis about everything that means anything to your people and use foreign nations to help you win your seat at the table. The fact that you keep bragging about “your base” really tells us everything we need to know about you.
We’re ALL supposed to be your base.
You are the President of the United States of America, but you are governing like the Divided States of Trump. You’ve given our nation social syphilis. Luckily there’s a cure if you catch it in time.
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