Monday, December 25, 2017

The fault dear Bannon is not in the stars ​but in​ you​!


​"​
Steve Bannon Blasts ‘Javanka’
​(Ivanka and Jared) ​
As Everything Wrong With The White House
​." (See link below).

My Comment to Bannon: Bannon, ​
​ ​
you​ ar​e ​to blame ​in extremis ​for starting the Trump ​campaign of chaos on its road to failure​. ​ ​Bannon, take advice from allegedly your ​Catholic faith​ ​"Do not criticize someone with a speck in his eye when you have a log in your own.​"​


Bannon, you characterized the essence of the American public in error. You thought
​ ​
​ ​it was reflective of how you feel about life. You took an extremist right wingnut part of the electorate which was always there but on​​ the political periphery, ratcheted ​it​ up and gave ​it ​a screaming voice using Trump as ​its mouthpiece​. It is why Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million. An Electoral College fluke did not give you the beating heart of our democracy. The extremist anger you hold elected ​Trump ​
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because ​those​ who hold that anger​ are not only ​are angry but many are haters of "the other" a left over from ​history​. Lincoln Rockwell (one of the first American Nazis who was gunned down by one of his own), George Wallace​, Bull Connor​ and others were always there but got nowhere because when all is accounted for most American hearts, as Anne Frank might have said, are basically good​ and because the arc of our history is long and bends toward justice in the long run justice prevails​. Your Republican Party has been turned​,​ ​over many election cycles since Nixon's Moral Majority, ​into the Party of hate so the Democratic opposition has a glowing chance ​now ​to not only in one election crush Republicans but destroy in the process the Republican Party ​as we have known it in the modern era.​


It will take time to disinfect this poison and cleanse it from our body politic but ​it will be done. This nation did not fight WWII for nothing. We fought it, won it and stopped fascism in its tracks. That is the true essence of our people and you missed it.

​You have shown what happens when the Republican Party goes extremist right. It is ultimately rejected because some of those others you hate so much​ who ​need the help ​that ​only government can ​provide will organize with their allies and rise up to defeat you. Count me in as part of that electoral insurrection.​ ​Moreover​,​​ ​isolationism and "America first" foreign policy does not work. We are an economically global society affected by world business and opinion. We must take part in world discourse understanding its needs as well as our own and we must acknowledge science which will have the last word.

I don't know what made you ​and Trump, as I see you, ​the
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​psychologically sick ​bestial creature​s​ that you are but to have inflicted ​your​ hate on our once decent hearted people makes me feel profound sadness not for you but for our nation. You and all you represent ​will​ be defeated soundly​ soon​. ​Never ​again​,
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​​I hope, ​
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will our nation fail to stop those with a political agenda filled with psychological malady, perfidy, treason, and the exclusion of ​"the other." O​ur forebears ​came here to achieve a better life, to breathe free and for shelter from death itself. Lady Liberty tells us that.


I thought if Trump had changed his mantra and moved to the left of his extremist right positions, ditched his hateful rhetoric and policy, stopped tweeting alienating nearly everyone ​here and many around the world ​he actually could have had a charismatic​ ​and decent presidency. History​ would have​ judged him more kindly. Instead he will leave office shamed and history throughout the ages will define him with ​a ​ harsh ​verdict. It will define him as a political
​American ​
exception to the general
​American ​
rule​. The fault, paraphrasing Shakespeare's "Julius Ceasar," dear Bannon, is not in the stars ​but in​ you​!

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