Sinking Into the Cesspool,Towards the Abyss

I'VE BEEN AWARE of Trump for well over thirty years. I believe I met his aquaintence through tabloid television programs in the late seventies and early eighties. Always the new trophy wife, the recent divorce. Always the new casino, the recent bankruptcy, the sensational, the gossip, the glitter, the glamour, the made for TV hype. Never the sane or sublime. When he announced, I, like everybody else, thought he would never last. I supported him at first, like many people, because he was new, fresh, different, bringing hope. I lasted until about the fiftieth time he called Ted Cruz "lying Ted". Always the slander, the smear. His mentor, Roy Cohn, hit them twice as hard, as if we don't already have enough of that. Then came the big lies, about one every damned day it seemed. Thousands of Moslems cheering as the Trade Center tumbles. Obama, the founder of the Islamic State. The bigger the lie, the bigger his following among people bereft of hope, judgment. or joy. Always the angry, negative, on the attack Trump. Lying Ted. Romney the Loser. Crooked Hillary. I would never accuse anyone of being a sexual predator without hearing them brag about being one. God, what an animal, what a reprobate. And what a nation devoid of hope and joy to support such a monstrous entity. Without blinders, it is impossible for decent people. We must be wearing blinders, we must not be decent people. Putin and Trump, two peas in a pod, two bullies, two monsters, two thugs, two tyrants. Select a sane policy proposal, Trump advocates the opposite. For me conservatism was always Barry Goldwater threatening to unleash hell on earth, the KKK and their Christian racist hatred, the sanctimonious piety of a religion condemning all those who are not saved, according to their definition, worshiping a cruel god who destroys cities and nations at the stroke of a bolt of lightening. A conservative religion with a conservative god for a conservative people. How dare you glance inside the ark of the covenant. I shall destroy fifty thousand and seventy people, to punish one person. In the Old Testament, I lost count after fifteen thousand animals were sacrificed to a meat eating deity. Conservative America, and its meat eating, mass murdering god, and its savior who condones the ancient law. Conservative america, from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump.