The Majority, Discarding Trump's Evil

FOR PEOPLE who really despise President Trump, which evidently consists of about sixty percent of the American people, his words and actions are so vile, so reprehensible so often that it becomes tempting to block him out of the mind, to ignore the reprobate. All modern American presidents are fo course in the mainstream news every day, both because they want to be, and because they have no choice but to be, since there is a market for it among the consumers, and the media, like all successful businesses, cater to the often whimsical preferences of we the American people. Follow the money, like we say. In a functioning democracy, above all else, the people must pay attention to their chosen leaders, who want the attntion for the most part, except when committing crimes. Politicians, like actors, learn early and often that they are always onstage, and the best politicians, like J. F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, understand this,and learn how to exploit it. FDR, whose presidency ended at the moment in history when television was just barely beginning to gain widespread use, understands as well as anyody the importance of presenting to the mass media consuming public the image of a healthy, alert, energetic, confident leader. My mother was twelve years old when Roosevelt became president in 1933, and nearly twenty five when he died in office in 1945. For her, she essentially grew und into early adulthood with FDR in office the entire time,and it seemed almost inconceivable to her that anyone else could or would ever be president,that Roosevelt had been and would remain in office forever. She told me that the entire time he waspresident, neither she nor her parents, nor most people evidently, were aware that FDR essentially lived in a wheel chair, and was confined to the chair because of polio. The extent to which he went, with full cooperation from the media, to conceal his disability from the public was remarkable, largely effective, and seems bizarre to us today. Likewise, it seems strange that the mainstream media helped conceal bed behavior of American presidents like Kennedy from the American people, which is nearly impossible now. Nearly, but not quite impossible. My mom was twenty one, newly eligible to vote in 1944, and I remember asking her whether she voted for Roosevelt. She had two answers, she said, "no", and "hell no"...So, alas, I come, it seems, from a long line of Republicans, at least on my mother's side My father's too, actually. As far as I know I am the only Democrat, and certainly the only radical left wing lunatic, in the family, nuclear, or extended, although there seems to be hope for my sister, who, if nothing else, hates Trump. That, as they say, aint a bad start. I made it through eight years of Reagan, and he doesn't seem so bad to me now. Neither, for that matter, does Nixon. Bad, but not that bad. I feel full of energy adn optimism for the next three years, because the anti-Trump movement is a solid majority of the American people,it is not likely to shrink, and support for Trump is not likely to grow. The Trump movement has by now surely begun to reluctantly envision its own seemingly inevitable decline, a decline which seems destined to come to stark fruition after the November elections. We who strongly oppose Trumpism are a large majority, and can stop the MAGAmovement dead in its trackes,and can render the rest of Trump's term impotent, ineffective, uninfluential. We have the peopepower to bring the Trump-Repubican political uprising to a dead stand still, and to cast it into history's dustbin without distinction or fan fare. Blatantly immoral politicians like Trump must in the future be ignored and discarded, not elevated to power and exalted as tyrant dictators by a poorly educated mass of angry, fearful sycophant cult worshippers.