At some point in his life, Donald Trump has screwed contractors, employees, investors, and bank that has crossed his path. Publicly, personally, and radically he has destroyed lives in order to enrich himself and become more powerful. And you MAGA cowards turned a blind eye to the truth of his character because you were afraid of an evolving America. And we normal folk who embrace change, who celebrate individuality, and who practice tolerance and acceptance have allowed ourselves to be bullied by you. You want to take our country back to Little House on the Prairie, where everyone is white and rural life is perfect, where there are still soda pop fountains at the drug store. Your America is Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, but the Mr. Douglas you see coming from the city, he don't look like you.
In rural Maine, they say folks who come from other states, come "from away". A Mainer once said to me, "You'll nevah be ah Mainah. You can live hereah the rest of yor life and ya still ain't nevah gonah be ah Mainah."
Before that when I was an inspector in Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania I had a running conversation with a white, local contractor, a good ol' boy. His point was, and he made it several times, that one day they (meaning him and his boys) are gonna take our country back. And my reply always was, "From who?"
Clearly this was a trend with white, rural baby-boomers across the farmlands and back woods of America. Then Donald Trump showed up and all those rural white men who didn't like strangers, who wanted to take their country back, hitched their wagons to his horse.
Even when he incited a riot to overthrow an election- after every other attempt to stay in power failed, even when he pardoned those rioters, who injured and killed police officers guarding one of our most sacred buildings- you cheered him on. So when yesterday, a Nebraska cattle rancher went on Tik Tok to admit that her family's vote for Trump has directly resulted in their own bankruptcy, I felt nothing. I simply noted that Nebraska is a Red State.
You voted for Trump by a clear majority because you didn't listen to his words, and you sure as hell didn't listen to our words. And now the fox is in your henhouse and is killing all your chickens. And in truth, my thoughts are: Good, let it all fall, let the pain hit you hard, because the only way we survive is if you suffer the consequences of your decision, and wake the fuck up.
This is what you red hats, including many of my friends, have taught me how to feel- I have no empathy for you, for your family, for your rights, for your guns, for your sons and daughters, because you are ignorant and judgmental and you don't care about our rights. In fact, you use political power to take away our rights. You stand on your church's narrow path to salvation and demand a government run by a Patriarchy, where women are modern handmaidens. You crazy born-again Christians couldn't keep your hands off the rest of us.
You will never bring Rapture this way- only heartache and despair. You have failed every person who has died for our freedom, You have shown us how ugly humans can truly act. Even those who are my dear friends, you have damaged our friendship in ways you will never understand.
What will become of this country I do not know., but I do know this- if this Nation survives its dismantlement and destruction by Donald Trump, I do not want to share our country again with you. I would rather go to war against you than even try to live in harmony with you again.
You have shit on our founding fathers, you have shit on our constitution, you have shit on our nation of laws, you have shit on our child-bearing women, you have shit on our trans children, you have shit on our minorities, you have shit on our liberals, you have shit on our moderates, you have shit on everyone who isn't as white as you and who doesn't pray in your churches. You have shit on the few leaders trying to save our democracy. You have shit on our immigrants, our Native Americans, on our history, on our alliances, our economy, our poor and forgotten, and you have shit all over our Declaration of Independence. You really are full of shit, the one commodity Trump gives away for free every day.
The Nebraska ranch like so many, others, depended on migrant labor to survive. And those laborers have vanished, gone because America is no longer a land of work and promise, it is now a land of hatred and bigotry, of fear and intimidation. So they packed their gear and went home. Good for them, they show a stronger moral backbone than you ever will.
The problem is we told you this would happen. Trump told you this will happen. You dumb fucks.
We are now standing at the edge of a cliff Donald Trump has led us to and he is pointing at the abyss and saying, here is where we must go to Make America Great Again. And you take the lead dragging us all over the edge, like lemmings, while Donald steps into his golf cart and putters away, he is never late for his 10:00 a.m. tee time.
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