The Democratic convention represents a new (hopefully clean) beginning for America
And the stars are aligning for a new age of enlightenment. There were numerous great speeches from the brilliantly staged DNC convention who had to overcome the stubborn Bernie or Busters. If there was one defining speech about tolerance beating hate, a speech all Americans should watch to better understand their own country, America’s role in the world, then this was the speech, this was the moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG0K_9RDeFE
I have watched objectively from the sides and watched America descend into a scary parody. A country literally rotting from the inside as a result of the breakdown of critical thinking. Everyone else around the world sees a country that is naked and afraid. Humanity knows what is up, it is just Americans living in a jungle of their own making who cannot see the wood from the trees. But looking on the USA from a satellite—the rest of the world has an unpolluted vision. A vision unpolluted by Roger Ailes, Fox news, hate radio and massive false equivalence—and even the mainstream media (still virtually all corporate and right wing) terrified of pointing out stupidity—because to do so they would be labeled as biased.
My own cultural self-identity allowing me to wash my hands of the ugliness that has been spreading across the land. What am I? I really do not know—nor should it matter. But even before this Democrat convention, some strange thoughts had begun to emerge and take shape. I never considered myself a particularly brave person—I know that I would “tap out” on that TV show Naked and Afraid well before tea time—but boy, I am so much braver that your cowardly gundermentalist. I go grocery shopping not even carrying a pencil for personal protection, and I do not spend my life scared by people who are not part of my tribe, I do not even know what my tribe is. I will not be terrorized by terrorists. I mean, what is the point of being an anti-USA terrorist if Americans do not get into an immediate panic mode. My values? I can tell you without a shred of a doubt that my values are already heavenly relative to the foul fake Christian values of Trumpeteers. Not a high benchmark.
But something bigger has been happening—and even though I have been subliminally aware of it for years, the ties between the Trump campaign and Putin has now made it definitively obvious. I can now come out of the closet (not proudly) and say I am more American than any “real American” even though I see myself primarily as a citizen of the Earth. Even though I despise excessive nationalism, I am way more patriotic than any Trumpeteer patriot. Even though American exceptionalism has become a joke, a new age is dawning where the best of America will likely soon significantly outweigh the worst. America may get a final chance to fix its broken Democracy, its Armed forces used for a higher purpose than for protecting its need for stupidly cheap oil. America has been changing from being the laggard to a leader in creating ideas and jobs in the clean energy sector, fighting climate change and finally the fake Christian values of 80% of evangelicals and 100% of Trumpeteers can be purified by boiling them for ten minutes. Trump has forced the GOP base from their caves, their values can now be seen by shining the sun through a magnifying glass. With this tool we can now see what it all boils down to—if you remain a Trumpeteer you can not be a Christian, you have lousy values and you are more of a traitor than a Patriot.
The very chant USA! USA! USA! became the sound of jackboots on cobbled stones, the symbol of a bunch of mindless Zombies, reaching the end of their intellectual horizons—being the tip of their noses—and falling into a void filled with nothing but ignorance and hate. These people have nothing. I know this as I do engage quite regularly with Trumpeteers—and my plea to a Trumpeteer is so simple—please, please, please say something intelligent, I beg you. But they never can, because they have nothing but hate, slogans and… nothingness.
Trump it can now be seen—made his fatal error, the entirety of his Cleveland hate convention and the emptiness of his acceptance speech. America a desiccated landscape, with no friends and evidently only one man, one dictator, who can possibly restore its greatness, a greatness lost with each civil right gain from 1776 onward. That is the Trumpeteer world, riding into the bosom of Putin’s Russia, a one-man recruiting tool for each and every one of America’s enemies. If the world came down to the American Military torturing at will, committing ongoing genocide—would ISIS really look so bad? USA! USA! USA! Go to hell.
Go to hell.
Yes, Trump is the dream candidate. Democrats and Hillary—whatever you opinions may be you can hardly argue that are not professional and that they are not smart. The difference between the conventions was light and day, love and hate, facts and nonsense, good and evil. No objective observer could suggest otherwise. But that is not the fun part. The best part is that the Democrats have now clearly emerged as the party of values and the party for patriots. This was all the GOP had (in their rather small minds) before their own creation came back to hijack the party. Ever since G W Bush and Karl Rove plotted a war to secure political capital, strategized big money, gerrymandering, voter suppression, fear-mongering to overshadow the will and the interests of the voters- all leading to the intellectual death of the GOP. Without an intellectual foundation, without any values, it is stripped bare, it is naked and afraid—they have nothing. The only way they get to survive is with the assistance of a fair forgiving hand teaching them how to live with nature, rather than trying to destroy it. It is day 18 out of 21—three days before extraction day—now is the time to get reborn as a better person, get some protein (facts, knowledge, values, patriotism) and come back on board, rejoin humanity.
Today, decent people are yelling USA!USA!USA! (whilst fully understanding the irony) this chant instead of being absurd might, in fact, be the first step in a country’s rehabilitation to its true self—the shining hill that so tragically got “socked in” the day JFK was assassinated, raining ever since. Today, I am optimistic for America again.
Congratulations to Hillary and her convention planners for allowing the conditions to materialize for the GOP to finally die and be reborn into a legitimate opposition. And thank you, Trump, for giving Trumpeteers no place to hide. For without Trump, America’s habit of pushing hate and ignorance under the carpet could have carried on all the way to a fascist state.
Who won the battle of the Conventions?
1) The ratings are in:
The post Convention Poll Bounce
Trump: +1.2 in swing states
Hillary – stay tuned
I’m with you Pat. Let’s hope this new energy can transform our military might into a force that tackles global warming. It’s gonna take a massive movement of labor to fix things. We really cannot afford to waste money on weapons anymore.
All money we spend on defense must fix the atmosphere, and get other nations to do the same.