America’s Great Sadness
Speaking about her support of Trump, a wealthy friend of a friend explains, “I know he’s a terrible person, but I agree with his ideas, and he’s doing good for me.” Read: He’s keeping people with brown skin far away from me, he’s making rich people richer, and I really couldn’t care less about anything else.
This is the fundamental disappointment facing people of kindness and decency here in the U.S. It’s a very sad time for most Americans, simply because, though Trump will soon be gone, bigotry, selfishness, and indifference to suffering won’t. Until and unless I expatriate, I’ll be living with people who don’t care if the planet bakes, our skies and waters are poisoned, babies are locked in cages, poor elderly people and elementary school kids go hungry to fund tax breaks for billionaires, cruel felons are pardoned, justice is blatantly obstructed, tyrants are coddled, entire religions are banned, the free press is muzzled, sick people die without healthcare, and schools, when they don’t turn out corpses, turn out illiterates. 
I resent that.
Craig,
You seem to have some odd friends.
Your Anti-Trump rhetoric is becoming repetitive and increasingly untrue.
You seem to be living a nightmare fantasy of your own making, giving credence to rants from people filled with hate in order to fuel your own need for validation.
No “entire religions” are banned in the USA ! That’s just a lie, as you well know.
President Trump’s electoral base is not the rich, but mostly working class, blue collar American’s whom you still despise and ignore.
The Press is not “muzzled” ! That’s another blatant untruth.
No babies are locked in cages, in fact it was the current President who ended family separation, a law passed and accepted by you under Obama.
The idea the President is a “Nazi Sympathizer” is not only a pathetic lie, it doesn’t even make sense to level such absurdities against the only President to shift the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
As for the rest, well US Presidents have always “coddled” convenient tyrants, (that’s just diplomacy) and no President can end mass shootings in schools. The President never said he “grabbed women”, that’s just a lie, he said women would allow (or invite) famous celebrities to do so. Avery different, and accurate description of some women’s attitude to fame.
But, hey what’s “truth” to you and the other “Never Trumpers” eh ?
Therein lies your problem. While you rant inaccurate untruths, you lose credibility that you offer anything more than just a hatred of the President.
That is terrible! The rich know that he’s a bad person, but since they’re getting richer they think it’s okay. This should not be tolerated by anyone. We need to take a stand against Trump. We need to get rid of him before there’s too much damage to repair. Before we move back in progress towards a better, cleaner, more sustainable world.