What's It Gonna Take? Saturday Political Soap Box 241

What's it gonna take to move you away from Trump?

It's not enough that he has botched the response to a deadly pandemic?  It's not just that he was slow recognizing it.  It's not just that he failed to build or deploy significant resources to combat it during the brief lockdown period most states experienced.  It's not just that he encouraged us to drink disinfectants or have lights shoved up our butts. 

It's the stunning realization that he values his re-election more than human life.  That he cares more about the illusion of a good economy than the frontline workers who will have to expose themselves to maintain that facade.  He cares more about having cheering throngs at rallies and events than he does about the lives of those rabidly roaring and spitting at anything he spews.  He's willing to risk eliminating the Affordable Health Care Act even if millions that will lose insurance coverage, as a result, losing it during the time of the gravest health crisis of the last one hundred years.

I know that most of my faithful readers are not Trumpeteers.  Many of them knew like I did that he was not fit for public office from the beginning.  From the time he glided down that escalator and called Mexicans murders and rapists.

Never has a President been more racist.  He says and does things that might even cause '68 Wallace to cringe.

Never has a President been more sexist and misogynistic.  He has over two dozen credible accusations of sexual assault, including rape.  He thinks because he is a celebrity, he can do carte blanche whatever he wants (don't take my word for it - he's on tape confessing it).  He treats and talks about women in a scurrilous and dismissive fashion, including the way he treats female reporters.

Never has a President been more narcissistic.  His self-centered 'what's in it for me' approach permeates everything.  He has no core philosophy (except his hatred for minorities and women) - everything is about furthering his own financial empire, his own re-election, his personal aggrandizement, and adulation.  Don't take my word for it.  Read the countless accounts from former associates and government officials.

I could go on and on, but that won't budge you, will it?

Other nations have managed to control the virus, significantly better than we have.  Look at the chart at the top of this blog story.  It's frightening.  And yes, many American's bad behaviors have contributed to this.  But it is undeniable that much of this is prodded and encouraged by a man at the top who doesn't give a craping two bits about you.  He just needs the economy to start to come back, and whatever sacrifice is necessary to do that is worth it.

I know that the polls currently show Biden winning by landslide numbers.  I should take comfort in that.  But I don't. 

No one should be for this incompetent buffoon.  Nobody.

There can be no chance he can be returned to office.  Trumpism needs to be obliterated from the American political landscape.

Make no mistake about it.

There are lives at stake.

He doesn't care about it.

YOU SHOULD.