It no longer surprises me at all. It is so common and obvious that it hardly even gets my attention anymore. I hear it on talk radio every day. We conservatives watched for many years how the Clinton/Obama Democrats operated while in power. They treated their supporters as if they could not think for themselves. They had absolutely no ethics. They exaggerated. They were obscurantists. They purged opponents and wielded power against anyone who posed a threat. We watched all of this but knew our day would come when we would purge tyranny and not people....and then it came....sort of....and now I watch as Donald Trump has simply turned us into what they were. The following post is from 2018.
Consider this scenario....you have a good position in a very big company....and your immediate boss likes you very much and is always talking about how you will easily climb up the corporate ladder. The only problem is that this man is a scoundrel of the first order....and everyone knows it. He is not honest in his business dealings and if he doesn't watch out will get caught....and the whole company may wind up in turmoil. No one who really knows him trusts him....they may use him because he has a lot of corporate power....but they would much rather that he quietly slip away at the first opportunity so that they can base their hope on making an honest living and not having to roll the dice all the time.
Now you really don't know this man all that well. You've heard the stories but really don't want them to be true. You start to tell yourself that it doesn't really matter how he gets the job done....he gets it done....that that's big business....it 's hardball at times. He fires a good man with a beautiful family just because he doesn't like him....and you feel for the man....but wind up defending the boss's reasoning in firing him. This kind of shenanigans goes on and the more that the boss violates ethics....the more that your own ethical belief system starts to seem unimportant....even a hindrance. Two years pass and you are just not the same person that you once were....but the company stock is going up....you've had a number of big pay raises....that's all that matters. You have wound up filtering out all the lies that the man has told....and his arrogance....and his egotistical rage.
I thought of this scenario as I watched President Trump's latest rally last night in Montana. Those people in attendance were not all that long ago my brothers and sisters in opposing not only the Clinton and Obama and Republican establishment captivity of American government....but in restoring ethics and honesty and transparency and wisdom and sound decision-making to our government in very difficult times. Donald Trump is the scoundrel....he turned this conservative/tea party movement into a cult of personality. This man who promised to drain the swamp....dragged us right down into that swamp. He's mean....and we've become mean. He lies and distorts....we accept and pass off the lies and distortions. He struts....and we worship. He points and we throw the stones.
All this could not have happened if the Democrat Party had not long ago corrupted itself in every facet of its political existence. Donald Trump uses this. This was his planned deception. He presented himself as one of us....and then over a period of time....through what can be described as a soft disclosure....eased us into accepting him for who he really is....and we have done just that.
Consider this scenario....you have a good position in a very big company....and your immediate boss likes you very much and is always talking about how you will easily climb up the corporate ladder. The only problem is that this man is a scoundrel of the first order....and everyone knows it. He is not honest in his business dealings and if he doesn't watch out will get caught....and the whole company may wind up in turmoil. No one who really knows him trusts him....they may use him because he has a lot of corporate power....but they would much rather that he quietly slip away at the first opportunity so that they can base their hope on making an honest living and not having to roll the dice all the time.
Now you really don't know this man all that well. You've heard the stories but really don't want them to be true. You start to tell yourself that it doesn't really matter how he gets the job done....he gets it done....that that's big business....it 's hardball at times. He fires a good man with a beautiful family just because he doesn't like him....and you feel for the man....but wind up defending the boss's reasoning in firing him. This kind of shenanigans goes on and the more that the boss violates ethics....the more that your own ethical belief system starts to seem unimportant....even a hindrance. Two years pass and you are just not the same person that you once were....but the company stock is going up....you've had a number of big pay raises....that's all that matters. You have wound up filtering out all the lies that the man has told....and his arrogance....and his egotistical rage.
I thought of this scenario as I watched President Trump's latest rally last night in Montana. Those people in attendance were not all that long ago my brothers and sisters in opposing not only the Clinton and Obama and Republican establishment captivity of American government....but in restoring ethics and honesty and transparency and wisdom and sound decision-making to our government in very difficult times. Donald Trump is the scoundrel....he turned this conservative/tea party movement into a cult of personality. This man who promised to drain the swamp....dragged us right down into that swamp. He's mean....and we've become mean. He lies and distorts....we accept and pass off the lies and distortions. He struts....and we worship. He points and we throw the stones.
All this could not have happened if the Democrat Party had not long ago corrupted itself in every facet of its political existence. Donald Trump uses this. This was his planned deception. He presented himself as one of us....and then over a period of time....through what can be described as a soft disclosure....eased us into accepting him for who he really is....and we have done just that.
