The most horrible thing in the recent poll results . . .
. . . for the approval rating of Trump.
The 1st is that 40% of our fellow Americans approve of what is being done.
- They approve of depriving people of healthcare and leaving them to illness, pain and needless death.
- They approve of profiling people based on ethnicity and grabbing them off the streets.
- They approve of stripping food from the mouths of hungry children and giving that money to Bezos, Zuckerberg, Thiel and other billionaires.
- They approve of the President of the United States taking bribes.
- They approve of the President of the United States extorting businesses, countries, law firms and universities.
- They approve of the people they detain dying in custody.
- They approve of the POTUS using the military to throw a parade for himself for his birthday.
- They approve of doctors and nurses being watched and hunted by police for providing medical care.
- They approve of ending suicide hot-lines that save people’s lives.
- They approve of overt discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.
- They approve of Supreme Court Justices lying to Congress and also hiding their corruption.
So many more awful and despicable things have been done and yet 40% of those polled approve of these things. That such a large percentage of the population of this country appears proud to be pure scum of the earth is a shocking percentage. Sure we have always known that a percentage of the population was despicable. But this level of support for the horrors going on now isn’t explained by just attributing it to their personal selfishness and them feeling it’s OK because it’s not happening to them.
In this large of a percentage it demonstrates that these people enjoy the misery being inflicted upon people by the actions of Trump.
These are the people who would smile while torturing animals. These are the people who would slam their door shut if an accident victim came to them needing help. These are the people who abuse their children and claim nobody should be able to step in. These are the people who want rapist athletes to get a pass. These are the people that say victims of police violence had it coming. These are the people who also seem to be OK people living in decent neighborhoods and attending churches etc.
So at it’s heart it isn’t explained by just latent racism and hate left over from previous decades and passed down. There is a malevolence inside those nice homes in the suburbs of America, inside some cops and some military veterans. Inside a huge percentage of the people in those categories and those wearing suits and ties and nice clothes is a sickness that has a need to inflict pain and suffering on people and they like knowing that the pain and suffering is going on and it feeds that malevolence inside them.
Decent people in America always knew we had people who were like this. But we mostly thought it was a small percentage. We were wrong and now the ones they chose to do horrible things to the rest of us in order to feed their malevolence are in control. They wanted this. They needed this. They’re feeding on it. They counted on it.