Normally I try to stay out of political
discussions. And I enter this public fray only to try to encourage
those who are afraid of President-elect Donald Trump... to not be.
First of all let me share a very
personal moment. When President Obama was elected, I remember
visiting with my father, very ill at the time, once a huge political
activist, (both Democrat and Republican) and telling him my
disappointment in the election results. I felt Obama did not have the
experience or the leadership qualities to lead our country out of our
financial or military mess. My father never hesitated... he said “I
think you will be surprised... I think he may turn out to be a pretty
good president.” Smiling, he went on to explain that Clinton had
been a much better president than we (as Republicans) wanted to give
him credit for... and Obama might surprise a lot of people.
My point is that many so-called “racist
haters,” Republicans, were willing to give the man the BENEFIT OF
THE DOUBT. The fact that he was black was immaterial. I am serious.
He won the election, and he had only to prove himself. I feel that my
father represented most voters, because that is what Americans do. We
fight hard for what we believe- then we support the results of the
system. But the system has gotten uglier and uglier for decades...
The bag in the photo is a souvenir of
my childhood. In 1964 my father took us to “volunteer” to work in
Barry Goldwater headquarters in Houston to help get him elected as
president. We worked hard for him. I remember licking stamps and
listening over the radio to Ronald Reagan nominate him at the
Republican National Convention. Reagan stirred my ten-year old soul.
I tear up just thinking about it. Goldwater was a pretty boring guy,
and I could not wait for then Governor Ronald Reagan to run for
president!
Barry Goldwater was a distinguished
Senator from Arizona. He was a man with an excellent record and
highly respected by both parties. But President Johnson's campaign
made a despicable TV commercial. It showed a little girl out picking
flowers on a spring day, and then BOOOM... she was blown up by an
Atom bomb. The world as we knew it suddenly came to an end... NOTHING
like this had ever been seen on national network television.
The Democrats said that this might
happen if Barry Goldwater was elected. We were all going to die! This
strategy worked and they have been doing this ever since. Since then
their commercials have shown all kinds of monstrous expectations from
Republicans, including pushing helpless people in wheel chairs off of
a cliff... Today they have young people stirred up with many
outrageous accusations about Republicans, now led by Donald Trump, as
if they are all maddened war-mongers who hate everyone who is not
male or white or Christian. Don't let them make you a hater, who
judges and persecutes people because they disagree with your
political agenda. Ironically, it is Democrat extremists out beating
people right now because of their beliefs...!!! The epitome of
intolerance! The Democrat party ruined Barry Goldwater, and they have
now almost ruined our country with their ruthless propaganda. Our
country is mired in the worst class and race tension I have seen in
my life.
Even Warren Buffett, one of the
wealthiest Americans and a stanch Clinton backer, has said that Trump
will not have the kind of negative impact which drives so much fear
in Hillary Clinton's supporters. Like my father was about Obama, he
is willing to give Trump a chance. He understands the damage that
could come from youthful over-reaction. These are young people doing
what many jobless, disenchanted young people choose to do... act out
their anger and frustration. But almost everything they are doing is
either against the law or against civilized society... pure anarchy
with a flimsy excuse.
Many of us on the Conservative side
have endured President Obama, not liking his politics or his effects
on this country... but we never acted out in anger, never called
anybody names... I have even defended him at church because he was
our president, and we are taught in the Bible to “honor the King.”
The real intolerance, hatred and prejudice is coming from where it
has come from all of my life... inspired by ruthless politicians who
say anything to win and have no conscience about what they stir up
in the process.
Donald Trump was not my first choice, but he will emulate Bush and have the most
inclusive cabinet in history. He will be the most effective president
in decades. He will do the most ever for the underprivileged and Veterans and yes, Blacks and (American) Hispanics. WHY? Because he is
a problem solver, an experienced achiever, who is accustomed to
having to deliver the goods... who does not enjoy the benefit of the
doubt... (mostly due to his own misbehavior and democratic
fear-mongering). He will eventually prove himself, and that will be
the end of the Liberal stranglehold on this country. And that is why
Harry Reid and others will relentlessly continue their uncharitable
partisan attacks. They are going down... this time for good.
Conservative Americans are tired of being called names, tired of the Democrats
rallying votes by impugning our intelligence and humanity.
Get smart, see through this class
manipulation. STAND DOWN, watch and listen as Pence and Dr. Carson
and others join the most effective Cabinet in history... and maybe
you will begin to understand that we are not “deplorable” haters
or racist or whatever, and in fact we love YOU and this country and
only want the best for all of us... and we know how to get it done!
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