Stereotyping

WHEN DOPNALD TRUMP MADE HIS infamous suggestion, (the most recent one, the one about keeping Islamic folk out of the country) all the other Republican presidentail candidates ran like hell, away from Trump, in righteous indignation. How could anyone suggest such a thing! Why, its positively un-American, and no, we certainly don't want to seem like bigots, we right wingers. Maybe they shouldn't have been so quick to dissavow the Donald. Polls indicate that a sizeable percentage of the zenophobic American electorate agrees with Trump, supports the idea of islamic exclusion. After all, some point out; its happened before: Chinese exclusion, Irish exclusion, eastern European exclusion. The United States of Exclusion. It may well be that the G.O.P. contenders misread the mood, and took the wrong stand. If so, we should see them offering corrections soon enough, just as soon as their sharp eyed political advisors get hold of them, and talk sense. Our worst fears are confirmed: the American right wing is as crazy as Donald Trump. Surely someone will eventually point out that any Moslem wanting to immigrate to America need only check the "non Moslem" box to get admitted. Surveys indicate that your avreage right winger in the U.S. believes that you can tell a Moslem from a normal good Christian person merely by looking at the person. Don't they all look the same, all billion and a half of them, with a sort of "Islamic" look to them? Dark complexion, beard or burka, and wala! You have a Moslem, and thus, a potential terrorist. It would be as if any appearance of the Ku Klux Klan indicates that any and all Christians are potential terrorists. Beware of anyone claiming to be a "christian"! Why, before you know it, they'll be swarming all over the land of liberty, wearing white masks, lynching dark skinned people, and setting fire to abortion clinics. They're all like that, aren't they?