Trump’s hijacking of the Fourth of July just got a lot uglier
Reading this, two things dawned on me: One, the author is, of course, completely accurate in his column. And two: What does it matter?
All of this is just preaching to the choir, and virtually no minds have been changed about trump since the day he won the election. Those are the overwhelming truths that I have taken away from these last 32 months.
It doesn't matter what you say to a trump supporter. It does not matter how well reasoned the argument is. It doesn't matter if you deliver it in a manner that lacks passion entirely, or has the passion of Mussolini on crack. It doesn't matter if it comes in the form of respectful pleasant dialogue, or if it is read in a column from a newspaper in an overwhelmingly white, conservative state or it is heard on
any tv news program. Nothing will get through to a trump supporter that rivals what their master has to say. No story. No piece of evidence. No indisputable fact. They will dismiss it as just another piece of fake news, and await the next tweet from their master with bated breath so they know who to hate, or who to blame.
We can survive as a nation if 10, 15 or maybe even 25% of the population is made in the image of the trump supporter as I believe them to exist. Maybe even eventually see their stupidity kill them off to the extent they serve only as a cautionary reminder that that is what hatred, scapegoating and stupidity turn you into. But we will never thrive if they make up 25%. And I suspect they make up a lot more of our population than just 25%. Maybe not half. And maybe not more than 25%. But even if it is a number that small, look at the harm being caused by such a "minor" subset of society.
This terrifies me and makes me wonder what more I or any of us can do to make the world a truly better place. I suppose continue with our little corner of it and hope others do the same thing.
