I Can’t Even Look At Him

I can’t even look at him, this man-child. I can’t listen to his voice, or any of his minions. I can’t watch the news and I barely read anything past an article’s headline. I’ve added subscriptions to Hulu and Gaia to my Netflix and Amazon video options because I can barely watch television anymore. Comedy shows, forget it. I can’t possibly watch any of them make fun of this man because at some point, they will begin normalizing all of this. It can’t be that bad because after all, we’re laughing.

No. Not doing it.

Cable news programs were pathetic. Any possible respect I may have had for any of them flew right out the window on election night, never to return. And now one guy doesn’t care for the new guy’s belittling. As much as I agree with his position, my response to him is to do his job. Go out in a flak jacket and helmet to his press conferences, assuming he has any, just to make a point. Not that it will have any effect because he couldn’t care less what anyone thinks. He will be whomever he wishes to be.

He behaves like an entitled child.

It’s not that I believe that our country has no problems because we clearly do. I’ve heard some say that the Democrats are too focused on identity politics and that’s what caused the more qualified candidate’s defeat. I’m not so sure about that, however. When oppression exists, so-called identity politics will as well. Some of us don’t happen to like it when people’s lives are affected due to policies based on any of the isms. So we tend to vote as Democrats and express that concern, voting for candidates that consider the worth of all over the worth of a few.

And instead of continuing the idea of unity, we are the United States of Ameria after all, for some reason it became a power grab, creating a different sort of identity politics, one that further separates and divides. All based on promises the man-child who some elected has already begun walking away from. He’s like a bull in a very expensive china shop caring nothing for the damage he creates.

He’s like a game show host, and if the video can be believed, a lecherous one at that.

We don’t yet know how all of this will shake out, but with the people he’s selected for his cabinet, the concern is real. How anyone supported the idea of oppression of our rights is beyond my comprehension. How anyone could vote for any man with the sort of sexual assault allegations that he has had is also beyond my comprehension. You’ve told every survivor out there that our safety and dignity do not matter..that we don’t matter.

And now a report has been released about his involvement with the Russian government. Although it’s not so easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys anymore, I’m fairly certain with all the oppression that still exists there, it’s a safe bet that they’re still the bad guys. But if it’s true that the Russian government influenced our election then shame on the man-child’s supporters for being just that stupid. Because it’s not like this was a revelation. We knew this before the election.

So, thanks for that.

Thanks for not thinking of the greater good. Thanks for the sexual assault allegations not mattering. Thanks for making it that much more difficult for people to have decent health care. Thanks for electing people who will destroy our voting rights. Thanks for doing our disabled veterans dirty because of the ridiculous need to privatize the Veteran’s Administration. All they needed was funding, something the people you support can’t seem to understand.

No funding, no care. It’s simple really.

He stirred up all the isms in people during his campaign rallies, continuing that fervor after his election with more rallies. He’s addicted to the lime light and to center stage. If anyone speaks out, he takes to tweeting endlessly about how wrong they are, how sad they are, how weak they are, the First Amendment be damned.

And now the flood gates have opened and programs designed to elevate the citizenry are at risk of ending, leaving people who need this assistance wondering about their future. What will happen to the people of Flint, Michigan as a result of this change in focus? How will they contend with the long term effect of lead poisoning, manifested by the racist beliefs of the powers that be?

Do the American people even matter anymore?

Time will tell if we do, but it’s looking as dicey as the weather report. And as the icicles form, we have no choice but to wait in anticipation of what will unfold.

At least I have a Roku box.

Blessed be