These people want to believe they’re now in charge and that the whole rest of the world has to learn to “suck it” and take whatever abuse they feel like dishing out. Yet they keep getting reminders of just how repulsive the real majority of us find them to be.
FOR
TWICE IN the past week, there were incidents where people aligned with Trump
wound up getting chased out of restaurants they were trying to eat in.
Based
on the Internet-based commentary (almost all of which is anonymous) I have
stumbled across, it seems as though those people want to view these incidents
as the equivalent of certain individuals being forbidden to eat at a Woolworth’s
lunch counter of old.
Discrimination,
they scream! Harassment! Bigots engaged in trash behavior, they want us to
think.
Which
is a batch of nonsense, of course. In fact, it reinforces the notion that the
people who now scream about “reverse racism” are the exact same types of people
who, a generation ago, complained about all those racial minorities being “uppity!”
NOW
FOR THOSE who’ve been hiding away in a cave, there was an incident in
Washington, D.C., at a Mexican restaurant where a group including Homeland
Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen found themselves being taunted while they
tried to eat.
NIELSEN: Harassed during her meal |
Cries
of “Shame!” and “End Family Separation!” were shouted at the group while they
tried to eat. It also seems other customers at the restaurant while this
incident occurred wound up applauding when the Nielsen party ultimately
departed.
Now
some might want to dismiss this as the type of trashy behavior we see from
urban places. But then came another incident in a community some 70 miles away.
Lexington, Va., to be exact, where presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders herself showed up to eat.
It
seems the restaurant staff, some of whom are gay, decided they were offended by
Sanders’ presence. They didn’t want to serve her. Their boss wound up agreeing.
WHICH
RESULTED IN Sanders being told to leave within minutes of being seated, and her
party of guests deciding to accompany her.
SANDERS: Didn't even get appetizer |
Now
I’d feel some sense of support for Nielsen and/or Sanders, except for the fact
that both of them decided to use Twitter accounts to make themselves out to be
the victims. Someone dared to express the notion that they disagreed with the
behavior of these two public officials!
Which
the supporters of this Age of Trump probably think is repulsive – all people
are supposed to be in agreement with them. Or else, they’re supposed to be
silenced!
Instead,
they got treated with the same kind of gross disrespect that they often
advocate for other people. And that they openly support whenever their boss,
himself, does it to the masses in our society.
IF
ANYTHING, IT strikes me as the masses fighting back in whatever little way they
could against the bully that these people want unleashed on our society.
Only place he's welcome? |
Which
truly is the trend everywhere in our nation. Citified people tend to be the
critics, while those people who live in communities isolated from the populated
masses are the ones who prefer the Trump ideology about life.
Odd
only because I suspect Trump himself (a very urban, and also rather gauche, Manhattanite
when he’s not spending time at his Mar del Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.)
would never be caught dead living in any of the communities where he is
beloved.
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