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| TRUMP: Used intolerant label, now must live w/ it |
Of course, watching the video, it seems the only person who’s being abusive is this lady, who happens to be white and probably doesn’t deserve to be thought of as a lady. But during her diatribe, she comes out and says she’s being picked on by black people because she supported the presidential aspirations of Donald J. Trump.
MANY
OF THE people who felt the need to post this video did so out of a sense of
wanting to show how outrageous and over-the-top the Donald Trump people are
capable of being in their behavior.
They
seem to side with the store’s management, which it seems remained calm in the
face of a hysterical customer.
It
kind of reminds me of my old days working in retail when bosses would pass on
to me the old Marshall Fields’ slogan “The Customer is Always Right.” Which in
my mind always translated to, “The Customer is Usually a Pompous Buffoon.”
Even
if I always managed to keep this to myself during the stints I worked in retail
many years ago at a suburban Carson, Pirie, Scott location and also in stores at the Water
Tower mall on North Michigan Avenue.
THIS
WOMAN SURELY showed herself capable of behaving poorly. Although I suspect in
her own mind, she will forevermore remember the incident as the time she “told
off” the incompetent pygmies who worked at that store and stood up for herself
in the face of victimization.
Which
may well be the scariest part of the whole Trump political phenomenon – the people
who banded together into a group large enough to give Trump a victory even
though a majority of voters wanted Hillary Clinton really want to think of
themselves as the victims!
Which
also means they want to use their newfound political influence to be punitive.
It’s not an exaggeration to say their interpretation of “Make America Great
Again” probably means elimination of many of the measures that civil rights
activists fought decades to obtain.
I’m
sure even Trump should be thought of in that way. This was the man who started
out his campaign activity with vicious slanders against people in this country
from Mexico, and now seems to want to continue that line of attack.
BECAUSE
I KNOW there are many nitwits in our society who are desperate to use the label
“illegal” to the existence of people from Latin American nations (and “no,” I
don’t think those ideological twits are capable of distinguishing the 23 different
countries of the Americas).
So
when Trump spewed his nonsense this weekend that the only reason he didn’t win
the popular vote is because of, “millions of people who voted illegally,” I
have no doubt he’s trying to appeal to people such as our woman in the Michael’s
video who want to believe that a just society is one that regards their
existence as superior to that of all others.
Even
though I’d argue that this nation probably would go up a notch or two if we
were to deport her back to whatever nation her grandparents (or maybe
great-grandparents) came from.
Not
that anybody is seriously proposing that. It would be as absurd as just about
everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth, or off his computer keys when he
feels compelled to type out a pithy (in his mind) one-liner on Twitter.
THIS
KIND OF hostility and ugliness is something we’re going to encounter quite a
bit in coming years – at least until we can do the next election cycle and
replace Trump with someone more credible.
Not
that we’re going to give in to this kind of nonsense. If anything, I’m
motivated by the numbers of people who are offended. It makes me realize that
the so-called “silent majority” is really neither.
They’re
at least 2 million people fewer than those who’d rather be preparing for the Hillary
Clinton administration. And after watching this woman’s diatribe, silent is the
last thing you’d ever call them!
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