10-09-2016, 03:32 PM
All in all I feel much sorrow for the conservative Christians that Donald Trump has snookered. Just today I saw far fewer Trump signs in northeastern Indiana, a profoundly-conservative area within a conservative state. Sure, conservative Christians seem good people on the whole -- but they also seem very gullible. They were slow to recognize Donald Trump for what he is. He played some of their favorite tunes, so to speak, on his piano. Now we find that the man who played The Old Rugged Cross with such profound spirit plays other works on his piano. No, Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata is not a favorite in the whorehouse.
Well-educated liberals recognized Donald Trump as a fake, a fraud, and a hypocrite long before the Trump/Pence yard signs bloomed in rural America. Now those signs may be facing an early harvest... for the many burning barrels of rural America. Conservative Christians are not bad people; people who adhere to the teachings of the Christian Bible can't be all bad. Many are good, undemanding workers in crappy jobs. They will make good soldiers in an apocalyptic war should we have one. They show affection for their children. They outdo us liberals in unqualified patriotism. They expect moral conduct from their leaders. Donald Trump has betrayed them badly. May we all learn something from this disgusting episode in American history!
Well-educated liberals recognized Donald Trump as a fake, a fraud, and a hypocrite long before the Trump/Pence yard signs bloomed in rural America. Now those signs may be facing an early harvest... for the many burning barrels of rural America. Conservative Christians are not bad people; people who adhere to the teachings of the Christian Bible can't be all bad. Many are good, undemanding workers in crappy jobs. They will make good soldiers in an apocalyptic war should we have one. They show affection for their children. They outdo us liberals in unqualified patriotism. They expect moral conduct from their leaders. Donald Trump has betrayed them badly. May we all learn something from this disgusting episode in American history!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.