The one thing which is spreading faster than coronavirus in America is the fear of “others”. It all started with the 2016 election rhetoric from Donald Trump. When it comes to infection rate, hate superseded Coronavirus. Just like the coronavirus, it has its Variants too. Some are more Virulent and more extreme. If coronavirus spreads through Air, hate is using Social media to propagate. People are getting pushed towards more and more extreme ideologies because of their fear of others. People need to understand that Donald Trump has instigated all this fear to win an election, stay in power, and to get reelected. He is solidifying his base by filling more and more fear in his supporters. He is making people think that “others” are taking advantage of them. He is telling his supporters that the Radical left and their socialistic agendas will take all their wealth away and distribute it to all the poor people. This is said by a person who has filed for bankruptcy 6 times in the past and used Taxpayer’s money to wipe out his debts. When someone files for Chapter 11, they can just wipe out all their debts and Bank loses the money. But as a matter of fact, the people who lose the money are shareholders, 401K accounts, pensioners, etc. When Banks ran out of money in 2009, the Government bailed them out using our TAX money. Socialism means taking someone’s money and giving it to someone else for free correct? Then That’s what happened with Trump. Our money was used to bail him out of his debts, not one time but 6 times. So please don’t think that Socialism Trump uses in his preaching means a Wealthy guy’s money gets distributed out, it can be the other way round too.
Obama put financial regulations in place after the 2009 market collapse so that the middle-class won’t get cheated by the Wealthy. Trump came to power and the first thing he did was to get rid of Regulations so that Middle-class money can be stolen by the wealthy again. A favor he had to do in return. Please ready the CNN article on Trump’s reversal on Obama era policies on Financial regulations.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/03/investing/dodd-frank-executive-order-wall-street/index.html
Trump took all the easiest and shortest routes to improve the economy by getting rid of financial regulations, enabling offshore drilling, etc. He empowered the class-based society to take advantage of the middle/poor class people. He is using division to come back in power and if he succeeds Middle/Poor class lives will turn more miserable every day under the impression that race and religion are what divides them. But in fact, it’s not. No one in America who is not obsessed with Trump, really cares what religion or race we all belong to, neither you should. With another term, Trump is going to transform America into a country where people won’t trust each other. It will create a fractured society where people will be suspicious of each other caving into their own ideological or racial boundaries. For coronavirus, you have a vaccine or drug. There is no treatment for the hate or division in the society, all for one person’s political gain and to come back in power.
In a country where many own guns including automatic rifles, what kind of dangerous situation it’s going to create. It already started happening. Look at Kyle Rittenhouse who took an automatic gun to a city where protests and riots were going on and shoots three people killing two. He argued that he did that in self-defense while he was trying to protect some business. Why would a civilian guy be walking on the street with an automatic rifle in the midst of protesters? As he says, If he was trying to protect a Car Dealership and provide medical Aid, he should have stayed in that property correct? not walking in the street showing off the automatic rifle in between protestors. That was instigating violence. This guy is not only freed but also had dinner with Trump. Trump called him a “Nice Young man” who should not have gone through all those troubles for killing a few people. What kind of society do we live in?. He has no business patrolling the streets with a fully-loaded automatic rifle. He is not a member of any police force or has any kind of training in controlling protestors or riots. We pay a lot of taxes in this country to fund the police force and it’s their responsibility to protect us in return. If they cannot handle it, then there are the National Guards. No one needs the help of an immature Teen to protect anyone in the street. This is happening in a country where innocent African American people are getting shot for reaching out to their wallets to show their license when they are stopped by the police, even in the presence of their families. What will happen if a person of color carries a gun and walks in the street like Kyle Rittenhouse. To add some color to this, what if that’s a brown person with a middle eastern look. He will get not only shot by the cops, but the cops who take him down will get a Medal of Valor or a Preservation of Life Medal.
On top of all these, the judge who was presiding over Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial was making comments and gestures which could potentially reveal his political stands. if People lose faith in the Judicial system, it will fracture this society forever, right or left. Same with the Arbury case. Why would people take law into their own hands and shoot others in suspicion? Arbury’s case would have never come to light if one of the accusers didn’t record that Video and share it on the internet. He would have been another African American kid shot dead by the so-called Vigilantes who claim that they are protecting their neighborhoods.
One of the State Supreme Courts a few years back ruled “University Students can Keep Guns in Cars”. Why would a student in their teen take a gun to the Campus and why would a court rule support that? Does this mean that the student without a gun be afraid of their lives when they are on Campus? What is the point of taxpayer-funded campus security if everyone bears arms in a Campus?
In the height of Covid, the South Carlina supreme court says that the ban on mask mandate in schools is constitutional. Then a federal judge goes and blocks the ban on mask mandate. Please see the ABC news article below
If every Court including Supreme Court, President, Governor, State/County officials will start making new laws or changing the existing based on their political aspirations or interest (religious or racial), without following what’s mandated by the federal agencies, please imagine where it will take us as a nation which is called the United States of America.
Trump should be an example of the fact that the majority of this country has a clear-cut advantage over the minority in our society. Trump said that he can shoot someone in the fifth avenue and still win a presidential election, grab someone wherever and whenever he wants it with no consequences. Didn’t have to pay taxes like all of us do because he is smart. Filed Bankruptcy, not one time, but 6 times and still kept his wealth. Used the most abusive language containing obscenities towards the minorities and finally instigated the January 6th insurrection against our democracy. But one thing he said was that if he is tried by a Judge of Mexican heritage, he may not get a fair trial. So That means if it was a White Judge, he gets a so-called "fair" trial. Then what about thousands of minorities disproportionately held in prisons for similar crimes which the president did or he said he can do? Can they all say, they didn’t get a fair trial because they had a judge or jury who didn’t look like them? He is telling Americans that there are implicit Bios in this society based on race. One of my colleagues once told me that cops caught her while driving at 90mph. I asked her how much the ticket was and her answer astonished me. "Cops Normally don’t give tickets to a white, blonde Lady with Bambi look on her face". Instead, She got a warning not to repeat and she said she has gotten that many times. Not just applicable for White Women. Read about Little Gore Kid who got arrested three times for the possession of Marijuana. He was able to complete an MBA from Colombia after that. Again Bernie, please don’t make Marijuana legal. That’s not the solution for this issue instead it’s going to create more casualties.
Trump has taken over the republican party. Anyone who won’t kiss the ring of King trump won’t have any place in the new Trumpian Party. That’s because he has a base of 30 percentage electorate who will follow him blindly. In the Virginia election, if Trump would have told his base not to vote for Youngkin, the Virginia Governors’ election outcome would have been different. So Republican Party cannot be fixed. There is nothing better than the “Imhotep Chant” video clip below from the famous Mummy movie to describe the situation of a republican politician among a bunch of possessed trump supporters.
Following are the phrases Trump used to call Mitch McConnel who is the Senate Minority Republican leader.
"Dumb Son and b**** and stone-cold loser, Gutless stupid, Knucklehead, dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack".
Mitch McConnel was so worried about his career that he didn’t even respond when reporters asked him about these despicable words used against him. Instead he said, he will still support Trump if he is the 2024 GOP nominee. Any person with little bit of self-respect would have responded back fiercely without even caring about their career. Republicans gave Trump a "Champion of Freedom "award the same day Trump called Mitch McConnel all this. So if you still think Republican Party is Lincoln’s Party, you are living in an alternate world. Republican Party is now rebranded under Donald J Trump. He can even call these Republican Senators and Representatives to Mar-a-Lago, slap them in their face for insubordination, Still, they would come out from there with a smile on their face as if nothing has happened. They all want their job so badly because they all have a family to feed.
Now let’s talk about the 2020 Vote Fraud allegation by Trump. On the election night when results started coming in, all attention was on swing states including Georgia. Counting was over in most of the red areas of the swing states because they were sparsely populated, and they had resources to complete the counting in a matter of hours by midnight. In addition to this, being Trump supporters, the people in these areas preferred in-person voting vs voting by mail. So Obviously the counting was fast. But the counting in urban and suburban areas was taking a long time going into the next day because those areas are densely populated, mostly minority. Most of them voted by mail instead of in-person voting. The counting resources in these areas obviously will be people of color because they normally reflect the population of the voter district. Because most of the ballets were by mail, the counting was taking and long time, and the whole process was televised on national TV. And hour by hour, the results were changing in Biden’s favor. When I called my friend, who is a big Trump supporter, he was telling me immediately that the democrats are winning because of the irregularities being done in those urban areas citing the slow counting and the racial makeup of people who were doing the count. I tried to explain to him that counting is slow because of how densely those areas are populated and the huge number of ballot votes because of the pandemic. And that it had nothing to do with the people who are doing the count. Even being a well-educated man, he could not agree. I knew his sentiments and knew exactly why he is misunderstood. On National TV, they were showing a slow counting process carried out mostly by people of color and so it’s easy for someone to misunderstand that they were turning the whole election in Biden’s favor. The whole social media erupted with content showing how the election is being stolen and there were putting a face to the so-called election fraud. Trump immediately cashed in on this calling it fraud, even referring to the counting process and people who were doing the count. It’s not that he didn’t know why it was taking more time and why it’s being performed by people of color. He was using that to mislead the people to think that he lost the election because democrats cheated. In my opinion, this is what incited January 6th uprising.
Build back better Plan is in play currently. But unfortunately, it’s Trump who is building back better to come back in Power. Trump is rebuilding the republican Party batter to his advantage at all levels. Joe Biden’s weaknesses and leftist democrats are aiding him, unfortunately.
by Hari Ramachandran