He's eating America's Soul... one bite at a time
Here's to those outside my gate
who wanders by, so filled with hate.
I hear their vicious chants
and then their mob-like rants,
how long, we ask, must justice wait?
More than seventy percent of the American people who own a television set, a radio, are on the Internet, or subscribe to a newspaper readily understands what this president and his "base" are doing to destroy our nation.
Conversely, less than thirty percent of the American people belong to this clump the president calls his "base." Fortunately, we are also being told by some who still hold a modicum of honesty in their bones that those numbers are slowly declining.
But as the rants and chants and pitchforks and torches of the "base" menace the seventy percent of us across America, so does the bullying tactics of the president as he eggs on his "base" with his lies, name calling, and more lies. Whether this "base" believes his lies or not, they will never say. They have found a savior in Trump and he has found his ego fuel in them.
When fact checkers begin to lose count of the president's lies (now at more than 10,000) and the White House Press Secretary looks into the nation's television cameras and says, "the president does not lie," we realize that we definitely are in a very deep, dark place. Remember when the lies were explained away as "alternative facts" by his senior advisor?
We have dumbed-down so many things in America, such as how we dress, how we talk, how we think about moral issues, and countless others that were once our American values. They were the things that made America great.
But we have now reached the point where we have dumbed-down what we expect in our president... and what we will accept from him or her, as well. It was what we once called our American Values; our national pride; It was called integrity!
My greatest wish would be that each time the president stands before the nation and tells a whopper, the reporters in attendance would call him on it - immediately. Why haven't they? It serves little purpose to report it after he has moved on because it has become the daily norm.
There are even lies as insignificant as when he said his father was born in Germany, when the truth is his father, Fred Trump, was born in the Bronx. Lies like this are what label him a pathological liar. Pathological liars do so because it is a sickness they can't control and usually has no relevance to the topic at hand.
As a former official in the Trump Organization said, "Oh, his little fibs are just exaggerations...just his kidding around. He has always done it."
Exaggeration about where your father was born?
Come on...that's not an exaggeration, that is a sickness!
But as the rants and chants and pitchforks and torches of the "base" menace the seventy percent of us across America, so does the bullying tactics of the president as he eggs on his "base" with his lies, name calling, and more lies. Whether this "base" believes his lies or not, they will never say. They have found a savior in Trump and he has found his ego fuel in them.
When fact checkers begin to lose count of the president's lies (now at more than 10,000) and the White House Press Secretary looks into the nation's television cameras and says, "the president does not lie," we realize that we definitely are in a very deep, dark place. Remember when the lies were explained away as "alternative facts" by his senior advisor?
We have dumbed-down so many things in America, such as how we dress, how we talk, how we think about moral issues, and countless others that were once our American values. They were the things that made America great.
But we have now reached the point where we have dumbed-down what we expect in our president... and what we will accept from him or her, as well. It was what we once called our American Values; our national pride; It was called integrity!
My greatest wish would be that each time the president stands before the nation and tells a whopper, the reporters in attendance would call him on it - immediately. Why haven't they? It serves little purpose to report it after he has moved on because it has become the daily norm.
There are even lies as insignificant as when he said his father was born in Germany, when the truth is his father, Fred Trump, was born in the Bronx. Lies like this are what label him a pathological liar. Pathological liars do so because it is a sickness they can't control and usually has no relevance to the topic at hand.
As a former official in the Trump Organization said, "Oh, his little fibs are just exaggerations...just his kidding around. He has always done it."
Exaggeration about where your father was born?
Come on...that's not an exaggeration, that is a sickness!
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