WOW! Well Mr. Trump,
the list is growing. So far, you have a majority of both Republican and
Democratic candidates for POTUS; Vice President Dick Cheney; Speaker Paul Ryan;
the Prime Ministers of Britain and France; and countless others speaking out
against you. You’ve done it. You cracked the code! You have universally pissed people off by
saying you want a “total ban” on Muslims.
I can’t lie, I’m actually happy that Trump is doing so
well. To me, Trump’s campaign (and huge
lead in the polls) only highlights what most rational folks already knew: the majority of the Republican Party’s supporters
want a country that supports their beliefs ONLY. American values REALLY means White American
Values.
To be honest, I have NO idea what “American values” mean
anymore. There was a time when I thought
the beginning of the Declarations of Independence’s preamble represented “American
values”: We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness.
But that can’t be true.
Not if Trump is running on a platform to, “Make America Great Again.” Again?
As in before? As in, how it used
to be? When all men were NOT created
equal? Trump’s platform appears to be
one where “Great” only applied to a certain segment of the American
population.
What about the Bill of Rights and other Constitutional amendments? Do they establish the framework for America’s
values? Again, it’s hard to tell
anymore. I mean, today’s Republican
Party, you know, the party that is considered the most “patriotic” of the two
major parties. Yeah, THAT party. The party of strict Constitution
constructionists. The party who believes
in the divinity of the Constitution.
That’s what fascinates me about Mr. Trump and his
supporters. More American citizens have
died by the hands of other Americans in mass shootings then acts of terrorism. Yet conservatives fight tooth and nail to
defend the second amendment and are all too quick to disregard the Constitution
when it comes to Muslims. Conservatives support
religious freedom. As long as it has to do with companies to deny goods and
services to people or outlawing the rights of citizens of the same-sex to
marriage. To hell with their religious
freedoms and rights to “Happiness”, I guess.
See, Trump and his flock of disadvantaged beneficiaries are
FAR too willing, and even determined, to completely shred the very same Constitution
and rights of American’s when they disagree with something. To
them, not only is it okay to treat Muslims unfairly, it’s also okay to violate their
Constitutional rights.
Muslim? Nope, can’t be president. Want to build a mosque? Hell no, you might take in Syrian refugee terrorists. And now, we don't even want you coming into our country.
"Nobody wants your evil cult. Every one of you are terrorists. I don't care what you say. I don't care what you think."
- Unidentified man speaking to a group of Muslims at a public meeting in Virginia"
Gay? Lesbian? Then you are relegated to a second-class
status. In Trump’s “Great” America, it’s
okay to not provide service to a gay man.
It’s okay to prohibit a lesbian couple from adopting a child. And
don’t even think about serving in THIS military. I guess THOSE were the days. THAT’S when America was “Great.”
Their disdain for Mexicans also runs deep. So deep, they’re willing to round up 11million people and physically remove them from America. And for the more Mexican, Mexican-Americans –
you know, the faux Americans that received their passport at the birth of their
anchor baby – They want to completely remove the 14th Amendment from
the Constitution.
These are just a handful of the positions made by the
current Republican front-runner. To be
fair, SOME “establishment” GOP leaders are scrambling in an attempt to prevent
Trump’s victory. But it’s a tight rope
to walk when a HUGE majority of Republican constituents support Trump. This only exemplifies the delusion of GOP
leaders. They are trying to run away
from the ideologies and values that the party created; at the very least, a
majority of the GOP leaders sat by and did nothing – said NOTHING. When previous candidates spewed the same
poison or when their supporters spit the same venom, they sat by
benefiting. They were enablers. This
IS your party now. This IS whom you
represent. You can’t run away from who
you are. ("You can try to change but that's just the top layer. "- Jay Z)
If you think about it, it makes sense. The values of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness” sound great – wax poetic. But
make no mistake, when the founders wrote these words, they did not mean the “Life”,
“Liberty” or “Happiness” of immigrants, Blacks, gay and lesbians, women, non-Christians,
and many “others.” Just because it’s
called the “U.S.A.” doesn’t mean this country is for “YOU – Esé.”
It’s as if a certain segment of the population created the
rules of the game; however, they didn’t mean for those rules to apply to
everyone else. Now that “everyone else” is
also benefiting from those very same rules, the “rules creators” are trying to
change the game’s rules. It’s telling,
is it not? When the rules benefit them, the
Constitution is beyond contestation. But
when it applies to the “others”, then to hell with THOSE sections of the
Constitution.
I guess that’s what Trump means when he says “Make America
Great Again.” Great obviously represents
a time when ONLY White men and (some) women benefited from the protection of
the Constitution. America simply wasn’t created
for “The Gays”, “The Blacks”, “The Mexicans”, “The Muslims”, and the “activist
judges” who support them. As such, I
guess they DO need to “take their country back.”
The fact of the matter is that this IS America. We are making progress and living up to the ideals that make us the greatest country. A country where everyone is free from religious persecution. Where people who may not look like me or think like me, or even believe what I believe, still have the opportunity to live the American dream. We're a melting pot. And everyday, we do try to CONTINUE making America Great - for EVERYONE.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
