The Price Of Unity

 

Biden has a message of reconciliation. It's time to put away the hate and divisiveness and come together as a nation to build a better world for ourselves and our children. It's a great message.

And I thoroughly disagree with it.

I've shocked more than one Trump voter with that statement. When they've posted something on social media to the effect of, "Now that we have a new president, let's all be friends again," my answer is plain and simple:

Aw, HELL, no!

After four years of the most hate-filled, derisive and irrational verbal abuse, you think you can just come back to the circle and sing "kumbaya" with us? Think again!

It comes as a surprise to some of these Trump voters. One person even called it "a slap to the face." But it shouldn't be a shock to anyone. Not really.

Forgiveness, you see, is healthy, and not just a Christian thing. It's good for all of us to forgive. But in order for someone to receive forgiveness, regardless of one's religion, that person must show some remorse for his sins.

No remorse? No penitence? No forgiveness!

That may sound harsh, and it is, but tough love is necessary. Especially now. I cannot back down from insisting upon this one, central point:

Trump was NEVER an option!

In a sane world, he would have been laughed off the table. Especially by Republicans! He was everything we warned people he would be, and worse. A narcissistic, petulant, racist, misogynistic, man-baby. A charlatan. A bully. A pauper disguised as a rich man. 

And we knew all this way, way back when Trump was becoming a Fox News media darling by pushing the lies about Barack Obama's birth certificate! Six bankruptcies! A whole string of failed products! Appearances in porno films! Refusal to release taxes! This man couldn't even draw a profit from a casino! The Pentagon was literally afraid to give him intelligence briefings or hand him the nuclear codes!

This should have been kindergarten-level simple!

Meanwhile, in Trumpland, it was often acknowledged how bad Trump was. "But we'd rather have that than socialism!"

As if reality didn't dictate that 50 "socialists" (whatever that means anymore) weren't preferable to one Donald J. Trump. But the Right Wing Media Cult situated things so that "Demon-rats" and "Libtards" were automatically worse, no matter what.

It has been so bad that there are literally people who believe the Democrats are running a Satanic pedophile ring! Who believe the "lame-stream media" is the enemy of the people! Who were protesting against public safety measures, during a pandemic, while armed! People literally wanted trump just to "make liberals cry!" as if that were somehow a justifiable motive!

Trump literally tried to subvert the voting process. ON VIDEO. He spread conspiracy theories to make people believe certain votes were fraudulent, without evidence. He falsely claimed victory before the vote was completed. He STILL refuses to concede defeat!

We lucked out that Trump turned out to be an imbecile. If he had the intelligence level of, let's say, Vladimir Putin? There would be no United States of America anymore. It would be the Fourth Reich.

So, if after all that, you want to simply pretend it never happened and be all friendly? Fuck you! You can take your message of reconciliation and shove it up your ass! Until you repent of Trump, and Trumpism, you can go straight to hell! And take your Q Anon bullshit with you when you do!

And I understand how rioting and looting has damaged our own brand on the Left as well. Such actions played right into the hands of the Right Wing Media Cult, and gave them extra ammunition to demonize liberals. But seriously, when you impoverish people for generations, when you fuck up a pandemic response and render them all unemployed, eventually they lash out. No, that doesn't justify it, but perhaps that makes it more understandable.

And, for the record, let's knock that looting shit off forever! It really hurt us this election!

If you want unity, friendship, and a United States of America, the price is the complete and unconditional excommunication of Donald Trump.

I really don't think that's too high a price to pay.

Eric

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