No Mr. Trump, America is Not a Mess

[babylonsister]

http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/04/16/no-mr-trump-america-is-not-a-mess/

No Mr. Trump, America is Not a Mess
April 16, 2017 / John Pavlovitz

Dear Mr Trump,

Mess.

I’ve heard you use that word quite a bit over the past few months:

The world is a mess.
America is a mess.
You inherited a mess.

I’m not sure if you actually believe these statements, or whether they, like many things you say are simply lies meant to instill fear and to mask your own deficiencies—preemptive salvos fired in advance of your failures.

Either way, I want you to know that you’re full of it.

America is not a mess—it is complex, and I imagine this is the disconnect if there is one. It doesn’t seen like complex is your gig. America is made of intricate systems and a complicated history and delicate social relationships and elaborate laws, none of which you seem all that interested in or capable of understanding. So yes, I can see how you would look at all of this and be overwhelmed, as this is what 65 million of us saw coming a mile away. We’re just surprised that you’re surprised.

The reality is, you didn’t inherit a mess, Mr Trump, you received the job that you politicked for, lied for, likely colluded for, sold the remaining segments of your soul for. Even though you weren’t qualified or deserving or chosen by the people, you received the title of Leader of the Free World, and the least you could do is not act like this country owes you sympathy or some special grace period—or that we’re the problem here.

We’re freakin’ amazing, actually.

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If you stopped golfing and Tweeting, and indiscriminately dropping bombs to distract from talk of Russia long enough to actually took a look around, you’d see:

This country is wildly diverse and quite miraculously coexisting in this reality, all things considered.
Christians and Muslims and Jews are serving in the streets of their cities together.
People are marrying outside of their faith traditions and across color lines.
More and more churches are welcoming the LGBTQ community.
Good people are feeding the poor and teaching children and rebuilding neighborhoods and caring for the elderly.
Families are raising children to be decent and generous and compassionate.
Teenagers are discovering who they are meant to be.
College kids are studying hard and forging their dreams in real-time.
We are straight and gay, bisexual and Transgender.
We are people of every pigmentation.
We are Christian and Atheist, Muslim and Agnostic, Jew and Humanist, Native American and immigrant.
We are refugee and undocumented and 4th generations born here.
We are rural whites and coastal elites and Bible Belters and heartlanders.

In other words, America is being who America has been long before you arrived and (if you can manage not to completely destroy us), long after you’re gone, hopefully less than four years from now. Far from perfect, but even further from being a mess—we’re the place where all people are supposed to be treated with dignity and decency, and allowed to pursue life, liberty, and happiness unfettered. We are the land of the free, the home of the brave, and we’re not falling for your nonsense that pretends we’re anything less than that.

So, Mr. Trump, stop being so cavalier and careless with something that we and our forefathers and foremothers worked so hard for. You don’t deserve this country, and the least you can do is stop try to gaslight us into believing that we are broken and in need of fixing or that we’re something doomed that needs saving.

We just need you to stop fighting and derailing us at every turn and we’ll be just fine.

We’re not the mess here, Mr. Trump—

—we’re pretty damn glorious.

[heaven05]

1. the Trump Regime

is the mess, we, the a,erican citizen, actually can have it together, our best example of that in the last 17 years is POTUS Barack Hussein Obama.

[Homer Wells]

2. Excellent post

I am very proud to kick and recommend this! Wow. Just WOW.

[narnian60]

4. +100

[awesomerwb]

3. Excellent!

Loved it! Thank you for posting it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. He's certainly trying to make a mess of it.

[beveeheart]

6. He's the mess.

[Cha]

7. trump is a lazy idiotic golf slinging

predatory asshole.. wtf does he know.

[jimjc]

8. huh!

As far as this president ( I hate to call this con man the president ) is concerned our country will only be great when he says it is....He lies about everything and he's lying about this....I wake up every morning worrying about what this nut case con man will do....

He's dismantling everything we've built for the people for 50 years....He's in the process of trying to divide us all...

He's a person that may turn this country in a direction taking us away from being a great country and into a country with a dictator in charge....I pray he will simply disappear..

[Mr. Ected]

9. It's only a mess in the eyes of the brainwashed

The ones who watched Obama help raise the country from the devastation unleashed by George W. Bush.

They couldn't bear the thought that a Democrat, faced with the most obstructive Congress in history, could still navigate us to the point of peace and prosperity....so they simply lied about it.

And lied about it.

And lied about it.

I have a friend who lives in a million dollar home on the lake. He drives a Porsche, has a beautiful boat, and makes a ton of $$$. A real estate agent. During the aftermath of the Bush years, he, like the rest of us, had to take it in the shorts for awhile.

But then...under Obama's calm and compassionate watch...he regained his mojo.

Did he ever credit Obama? Hell no. At one point during a real estate closing, he spoke of his boat, his weekend on the lake, and his upcoming European vacation. And THEN he said, out of the other side of his mouth, that Obama had ruined this country, and we'd all be lucky just to make it out alive.

Strange how people living the life can still be swayed by FOX and Rush talking points.

[mtngirl47]

18. This.

They sow fear and hysteria.

[BeyondGeography]

10. He's President of a country he has little interest in

and understands even less. Unfortunately, he has lots of incurious company. It's called his base.

[Wounded Bear]

11. He's projecting...

his life is a mess, therefore everything else in creation must be a bigger mess than his.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. It isn't

But Drumpf's trying his darned'st to make it one

[dlk]

13. Trump Uses Projection

Trump likes to use projection. His criticism is a cover for his own massive shortcomings. In reality, Trump is a mess.

[2naSalit]

14. K&R

[NewJeffCT]

15. Trump is talking to about half of his base

of support when he says that America is a mess - it's meant to keep them engaged and angry

[TNNurse]

16. I have begun to believe that Make American Great Again

(which I consider a very offensive slogan) really meant: Make America Great Again after Trump and his followers do everything they can to destroy it.

[tomp]

17. that's a beautifully optimistic point of view. thank you....but....

if we are so damn awesome, how did we get here?

[FakeNoose]

19. Dear Mr. Trump

YOU are the mess. The only mess.

Sincerely,

The people of the USA

[smirkymonkey]

21. Yes. Thank YOU!

He IS the mess and intends to turn this country into one.

[kentuck]

20. He knows he's going to leave a mess...

...and then he can say that the mess he inherited is worse than the mess he leaves.