Donald Trump, the billionaire who pressured Obama to release his birth certificate to prove that he wasn’t a terrorist sleeper agent, is going to be the GOP nominee. If you aren’t going to vote for the Democratic party nominee, no matter who they are, to stop Trump from becoming President, then you are a fool.
Yes, I am talking to you, Susan Sarandon. I love your movies. Your foolish politics? Not so much. In fact, while I will continue to enjoy your movies, I would really appreciate it if you could just STFU about politics, because not only are you not helping, but you’re making things worse.
And I am also talking to everyone else who thinks that maybe a Trump Presidency would precipitate a revolution. On behalf of everyone who would be severely harmed by a Trump Presidency, let me just ask you, ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE?!
You know, I have talked about being a foster kid here over the years. Let me tell you all the number one lesson you learn when you are a foster kid for years:
IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE!!!!
I can’t stress that truth enough to anyone who thinks that a revolution rising up from the ashes is something preferable to a Hillary Presidency. No. You don’t know what your talking about. Things don’t get better after getting worse. Ever. Things get worse and then worse and then worse. And the worse it gets, the more difficult it is to reverse course and the more likely it is that you will never turn things around.
If you are flirting with the idea that a Trump Presidency would precipitate a revolution, then either you are suffering from some kind of judgement clouding despair or you are incredibly spoiled and entitled or you are simply a god damned fool, because it’s a seriously dangerous idea.
Look at Iraq and Afghanistan. You know that good old can do American optimism that we had about turning those countries around. Look at Libya. Look at Syria. That’s what happens when you take a dive off the cliffs of uncertainty in hopes that somehow you land on your feet. You crash and burn and everything goes to god damned hell.
Trump isn’t George Bush. He’s not Mitt Romney. He’s not John McCain. He’s a completely wild card. We don’t have any idea what his Presidency would be like. He could get impeached in the first year by his own party. Or he could take us to war with Iran and Russia. He could do nothing but pose for pictures for 4 years. Or he could actually try to deport ten million people.
Trump isn’t Hitler or Mussolini. Trump is a billionaire who wants to be a King of the most wealthy powerful nation in the history of the planet. That’s what he wants. That’s what his supporters want him to be. In deed if not in title.
This isn’t like other elections. The Republican party has devolved and is about to nominate a wanna be monarch. Any ideas about turning his Presidency into some kind of opportunity is fucking insane. If he becomes the next President, Susan will skip town for Europe and so will a lot of wealthy progressives. The rest of us will be left here to clean up a mess that could dwarf the foreign and economic disasters that the last Republican President left us.
We aren’t fucking around this time. This is the election of our lives. Either we win together or we clean up a fucking disaster and hopefully there will be another Obama who volunteers to help lead the job. But I wouldn’t count on it.