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Brace For Impact!

Brace For Impact!

With just two weeks to go before the election, Donald Trump has only a 4.1% chance of winning the General Election for President of the Unite States. At this point in time, Donald Trump would have to win virtually every single one of the 16 battleground States to win enough electoral votes to win the election. The polls indicate that this is highly unlikely, if not impossible.

If Donald Trump were to somehow win the election, it would be the greatest polling error in the history of polling the elections.

By all indications, The Democrat, Hillary Clinton, will win the election by a comfortable margin, or even possibly by a landslide.

This article is not about the fact that Hillary Clinton may very well be the first woman President in history.

This article is about the percentage of Trump supporters who are in fact “deplorable”. These people are not going away just because Donald Trump lost the election.

You would be naive to assume that if Hillary Clinton wins these deplorable’s will just go away. Sure, maybe a small percentage will just shrug their shoulders and say Hillary won, so we will now just support the Clinton Presidency. Sadly, most will not.

Don’t get me wrong. Not all Trump supporters are deplorable. I personally know a few, and they are not deplorable. Misguided maybe, deplorable, no.

Donald Trump has awakened the dark side of America. He has said horrendous things about many groups of people, and the incidence of hate speech and crimes against Muslims, African Americans, Mexicans, Women, and Jewish people have risen dramatically since Trump entered his name into nomination as the Republican nominee for President.

Donald Trump has called our elections rigged, and that the media is biased against him. Our free and fair elections, and the peaceful transfer of power, as well as our freedom of the press, are the bedrock foundations of our American Democracy.

How could this happen?

It all started with Donald Trump’s main mantra that the country has become “Too politically correct”. This was a serious mistake. I have written about this previously. you can read about it by clicking This link,  http://profoundrevelations.com/2016/10/12/whats-wrong-political-correctness/

Political correctness is the filter and the binding element that keeps the fringe elements of society in check. Without political correctness, the fringe elements have been unleashed and actually believe they have found a voice in Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has made; xenophobic, racist, bigoted, and misogynistic statements and his supporters go wild.  Donald Trump has incited political violence and even mocked a disabled reporter. He was even on tape advocating criminal sexual assault against women.

Donald Trump is also supported by; the Klu Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, and other, conspiracy theorists of all kinds, as well as the radical Alt-Right. These are all fringe elements of society and Donald Trump has done little or nothing to discourage their support.

Donald Trump’s own words have unbound these fringe elements from the political correctness that society has managed to mostly keep in check for the last couple of decades.

Even when Donald Trump, loses the election these fringe elements are not going away. We experienced a similar phenomenon in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s with the radical leftest groups. It took decades to but this genie back in the bottle.

Donald Trump’s greatest sin against America is that he has given a voice to those who should have been left voiceless. Donald Trump has encouraged those who would harm American society to stand proudly and spew their hate when in reality they should have been left in the shadows and been relegated to the dustbin of history.

No, these fringe groups will not be going away anytime soon, and it will take a very long time to undue the damage he has been already done.

We are in for a long stretch of rough times ahead, and we have only one person to blame, and that’s Donald Trump.  Trump has awakened the dark side of American society, and all we can do is, place our tray tables in their upright position, fasten our seatbelts and prepare for strong turbulence for the next several years. And if for some reason sanity doesn’t prevail, be prepared to……… Brace For Impact!

As Always,

I Am,

Tom Dye, The Safety Guy

 

If You Are Xenophobic, Racist, Bigoted, Misogynist, Homophobic, or are Islamophobic, You My Friend are Un-American!

If  You are Xenophobic, Racist, Bigoted, a Misogynist, Homophobic, or are Islamophobic, You My Friend are Un-American!

It’s time for some straight talk my friends. I am stating un-equivalently that if you are Xenophobic, Racist, Bigoted, a Misogynist, Homophobic or are Islamophobic, You My Friend are Un-American!

Let me repeat that, Yes, I am saying unequivocally, and in no uncertain terms, that  anyone who suffers from Xenophobia, Racism, Bigotry, Homophobia, or Islamophobia, or is a misogynist, is a disgusting, shameful human being and their  words, actions, and beliefs are unequivically Un-American.  These individuals are essentially traitors to the very core ideals, and foundation of The United States of America.

Our founding fathers would be appalled and disgusted by anyone who subscribes to any one of these abnormal beliefs or behaviors.

These individuals are either woefully ignorant and/or uneducated or they are seriously mentally ill, and are in desperate need of some sort of serious mental health intervention.

First, for those of you who are unfamiliar with these terms let’s go over the meanings, so we are all on the same page so to speak.

The first thing you may have noticed is that most of these words end in “Phobic” or “Phobia” So let’s start there.

Phobia – a combining form meaning “fear,” occurring in loanwords from Greek (hydrophobia); on this model, used in the names of mental disorders that have the general sense of “fear, dread of, aversion toward” that specified by the initial element.

Xenophobia – an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.

Racism – Hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

Bigotry – stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one’s own.

Homophobia – unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality.

Islamophobia – hatred or fear of Muslims or of their politics or culture.

Misogynist – a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women.

So, what do all these words have in common? The connecting threads through all these word definitions include; fear, hatred, irrational, intolerance, and unreasonable.

It’s pretty clear that these words are not terms that one would use to describe a “normal” human existence.

Here is some examples from history that prove my point.

The Preamble to the United States Constitution states;

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.

The operative words here are;  WE The People.  I define this to mean All The People, not just the ones who think like me.

Or, how about FDR’s first inaugural address in 1933, Where FDR said:

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days”.

And finally, take out any paper U.S. Currency and under the great seal there is a Latin phrase;

e pluribus unum, which translates to; out of many, one. This is the official the motto of the United States.

I could cite many, many, more examples, but you get the general idea.

These type of shameful and disgusting Americans have been part of The United States since the very beginning. However, they have always been part of a small minority of anti-social fringe groups that over the decades have mostly been marginalized and slowly assimilated into mainstream society.

In other words as each new generation comes of age, a majority of them have grown up more tolerant and open-minded then the last one. So what changed?

The latest obvious example is when President Barack Obama, a black man, ran for, and was elected President of the United States, not once, but twice. 2008 – 2016.

The Right Wing GOP Conservatives immediately ran with the birther nonsense (Donald Trump being the most vocal proponent of the totally discredited and ludicrous theory) coupled with GOP obstructionism, and covert racism with bigoted innuendo thrown for good measure by the Conservative Republican political movement, re-ignited and gave voice to  the closet racists, and bigots, that had mostly been suppressed in our evolving politically correct society in the past couple of decades.

Even with all the cards stacked against him, President Obama’s, honesty, integrity and family values prevailed and he still maintains an incredibly high approval rating with the majority of the American public.

And then Donald Trump came along……

Donald Trump somehow became the Republican parties Presidential nominee. As the Huffington Post points out, “Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.”

Donald Trump has single-handedly given voice to the  Xenophobic, Racist, Bigoted, Homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynist subsets of society that we have been trying to educate and assimilate into mainstream society for decades.

These  fringe elements have found a voice in Donald Trump and have openly come out of the woodwork to support him with his very vocal encouragement. Donald Trump has opened the floodgates, encouraged, and given voice to the vile Un-American un-educated, mentally unstable, elements of society. There is no way to return this lunatic fringe back into the bottle and the onto the path to the mainstream, even after Donald Trump loses the election.

Donald Trump has single-handedly undone a couple of decades of progress we have made educating and integrating the fringe elements into society. Just when we were making progress, Donald Trump comes along like a spoiled child and destroys all the progress that has been made to date.

Civil society may  be down, but we are not defeated. We will regain the ground we have lost, but it will take time to recover. Donald Trump will go down in history as one of the biggest setbacks to the American social structure  attempting to create “a more perfect union” than any other Presidential nominee in modern history.

Donald Trump has subverted and destroyed the Republican Party. and unleashed the Xenophobic, Racist, Bigoted, Homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynist subsets of society back into the mainstream. Will we survive this abomination? Of Course.

It will take some time to recover, but our modern, politically correct, civil society will prevail in the end. Losing a single battle is not losing the war.

Remember, the official motto of The United States, e pluribus unum, (out of many, one).

Let us not forget the sacrifices of; Martin Luther King, Jr., JFK, RFK, LBJ, and many, many, others who lead us to where we are today. This is only a temporary setback, it may take years to fully recover. but we will recover, together as a nation. Remember, there is only one race on this entire planet, and that is the human race. All our other differences are irrelevant.

Together, we will prevail.

If your are interested, inlearning more, here are “176 Shocking Things Donald Trump Has Done This Election”. By, Keith Olbermann, on GQ.

 

As Always,

I Am,

Tom Dye, The Safety Guy

September 15, 2016

 

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