Coming Clean

AT THE SENIOR CENTER, where anything that can happen does, dude comes walkin' in about lunch time wearing a brand new bright red ball cap with the message "keep america great:Trump 2020". i was shocked, though I shouldn't have been. His name, after all, is, believe it nor not, "Bush", but, unlike Barbara, obviously didn't leave the Republican party because the rise of Trump. I've known him a long time, he's sort of a friend of mine. No, neither of us said anything. I tend to think that he has seen the "Unfit to serve: Impeach Trump" bumper sticker on my car, and that he knows its mine. I quickly figured out; that's going to be their gimmick, isn't it? To try to reelect the great reprobate by claiming that, somehow, during Trump's first term, America has regained its greatness, because of Trump. I hadn't really thought about it, because its nearly too weird to even contemplate, but its all quite clear now. We the still sane people of America must never underestimate these Trump people. They can do almost anything, and are quite willing to. These are people who so despise the progressive movement that they are perfectly willing, even happy, to follow a leader who was helped getting elected by Russia, knew about it the entire time, and welcomed the help. If that isn't treason, we should redefine "treason". For that, if nothing else, this president should be impeached, removed from office, indicted, tried, convicted, and incarcerated. Although I have no intention of discussing politics with conservatives in the future, I wish at least one among them would suddenly muster up the honesty and integrity necessary to acknowledge Trump's constant lies, condemn him for it, and also say something disapproving of his generally ungentlemanly behavior. I can understand somebody supporting Trump's policies, but I cannot understand why nobody who supports him seems to care about his horrible personal moral character. The fact that they don't mind it indicates that they share it. If you voted for Trump you made a silly, and terrible mistake. If you paid attention to his behavior during his presidency, and either ignored it or failed to condemn it, perhaps you should question your political and moral priorities. If you support him at this point, you're morally bankrupt, no better than he. The evangelical Trump supporters, the most disgusting of them all, think they have created a clever response to their support of Trump: they have forgiven him for his sins, as Christ forgives us all, under certain conditions. That, of course is as phony, dishonest, and pernicious as they are. The evangelical Christian community tries to justify their support of Trump, because they know perfectly well what everyone knows; they can't.What Trump has said and done during his entire presidency has almost invariably been exactly the opposite of Christian values, and all Christians, even those who support him, know it. What the right wing Bible bangers want is not Christian values, but a return to a patriarchal, white male dominated society, supported by a theocracy, a return to the past, which is exactly what Trump and all his supporters want. The fact that they will never achieve their goal will cause them to act out their anger in violence for a time, before expiring, exhausted.