Right now I’m sitting back and have my fingers crossed. Half the world is mortified by Trump and the other half is jubilant. Where is everyone in between? I have some optimism at the same time I’m guarded about what’s coming down the pike. Nevertheless I can’t help but be alarmed to see how whacked the career mob wing of the left has gone on inauguration day and the weekend. To their credit, there are others on the left that appear to be ready to approach the new administration as business. I would like to present a guide to those that are foaming at the mouth to help them negotiate these difficult times.
One: Anything that Obama initiated in the last two to four weeks of his presidency was done to sabotage Trump. If it wasn’t worth doing the prior 95 months, it wasn’t really worth doing the last month. So if Trump undoes something, first see if it fell into that window. Falling on your sword over that issue may be ill advised.
Two: To those incensed that a blatant sexist is now in the White House, I only have two words for you: Bill. Clinton. Sure he’s wasn’t the actual alternative, but if you bought into Hillary as your hope, you were fine with their ‘arrangement’. That makes you a hypocrite. Besides, you wildly endorsed Bill when he was in office assuming you were old enough to vote back then. I suspect you stood by your man back then as he was getting impeached, just like Hill did. Trump’s past misogynous streak was certainly ugly but you may have more important and current things to fight about. As far as I know, he hasn’t solicited favors from young interns in the Oval office yet.
Three: I know you are utterly slobbering shocked that Obama’s pet projects have come down off the Whitehouse website, i.e. climate change stuff. As Trump said in his speech, he intends to do what he campaigned for. Imagine that. If there is an offence in Washington, that’s it, and that applies to both parties. Look at it this way, anything that was truly important will be deliberated by the peoples representatives, that other branch of government. DO go ahead and start writing your representative. DO NOT whine into the public void as if that is the same thing as enacting the changes that were meant to be handled by representative government. O, you’re afraid that government will not be so responsive? Welcome to what the Trump camp and those of us outside the two party system have been feeling for quite a while. Ultimately you still have your vote. If you live in a big blue district, that vote will get you no further than it did this past November because you likely already carried that district. So then, ask yourself, what would endear the red states to your position other than insults, threats, and forced social engineering? Answer that and you’re on your way to eventual relief.
We’ve had day one of Trump government and we haven’t dropped any nukes yet. I guess that something. Seriously, the level of hate is off the charts. Relative to that quite honestly, I have very little fear of a Trump administration. Trump has not exceeded his constitutional authority and yet millions are planning either his departure or death as though he had. Ergo, we can expect a large faction to attempt to go outside the law to eliminate him by one devise or another. That is what I fear and any backlashes that will be spawned. In the weeks and months ahead, people that thought they were normal moral human beings will wake up and look themselves in the mirror and won’t recognize the malignant sycophants they’ve become. The goading on the left will not stop; it will only worsen. You/They are going to have to choose which person you/they want to be.
The Republicans are another story that has yet to unfold. To Trump adversaries, at least take this to heart: while the haters are carrying out their self-immolation, the Republicans will probably act as the other third party exercising checks and balances on Trump. That is how government is supposed to work. More shall be revealed.
