The Trump Virus

[H2O Man]

Question: “What do you think of Donald Trump running for president?”

Dick Gregory: “I think that there are two of him.”

Question: “Two? Why two?”

Dick Gregory: “Because no one man can be that ugly.”



A system can only produce that which it contains. Thus, as Malcolm X taught, a chicken cannot produce a duck egg. Nor will a horse give birth to kittens, And so we should consider what gave birth to Donald Trump's presidency, if we are serious about preventing a second term.

Dick Gregory was correct when he identified Trump as double-ugly. Thus, Trump's only avenue to victory was to make the political system that could result in his election double-ugly. This involved injecting hate, fear, paranoia, lies, and mistrust – all on steroids – into the republican primaries and general election.

Trump's apologists claimed that the ends justified the means, that Trump had to run an ugly campaign in order to do noble things as president. This, of course, is something we can all recognize as bullshit. He ran an ugly campaign in order enable him to run an ugly, corrupt administration. This is the teleology of his ugly system.

A rational, thinking person should recognize that we will not benefit from taking on Trump's campaign characteristics. This includes in the Democratic Party's primaries. We should consciously avoid “noble cause corruption,” simply because the use of divisive tactics can never result in unity. And, no matter how good it may feel to attack Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders, doing so can only mean that, if only for that moment, one has added the force of their being into Donald Trump's re-election campaign. It cannot be otherwise when the negative is promoted, no matter how positive the individual's goals may be.

A divide in the Democratic Party is the ONLY way that Trump can possibly win the November election. Such a divide will not be found between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. That isn't going to happen. It can only exist between the supports of each candidate. Impossible, you say? Take a long hard look at the nonsense being posted on DU:GD-P, and you will see the seeds of division being sewn daily. It is as if too many people didn't learn a thing from 2016.

Unity is our best and only hope. If we are united, we crush Trump in November. If we are divided, he wins.

H2O Man

[Newest Reality]

1. K&R +1000, etc.

[H2O Man]

3. Thank you!

[Turin_C3PO]

2. Agree!!

I try to keep positive but fail at times. I’ll try and be better for the sake of party unity.

[H2O Man]

4. Thanks!

There are so many good reasons to support Joe Biden -- and the same goes for Bernie Sanders -- that there is zero benefit from attacking anyone but Donald Trump. And I say this, recognizing that primaries are hard fought, as they can and should be. But come the Democratic Party's national convention, there is not going to be a separation between the winner and second-place: they will be united in purpose. The threat of division is within the public.

[democrank]

5. Thank you for this, H20 Man.

I have to be honest and say that I have to call on every ounce of self control I can muster to refrain from jumping in the middle of the brawls here. But.... the putrid cesspool Donald Trump has sent rushing through American life must be halted, gutted, fumigated. Unity is the only thing that is going to get that done.

~PEACE~

[H2O Man]

6. Thanks!

It can be tough, for sure. I know that I have been a jackass in years past. And I see people -- here and elsewhere -- who participate in the nonsense from time to time. That includes family and friends. But, as tough as it is to NOT partake in some of the heated discussions, it will be a heck of a lot harder to repair the damage that is done by insulting one another.

It is important to keep in mind one of Malcolm's teachings: just because a man throws worms into the pond does not mean he is a friend of the fish. There are forces from the dark side attempting to stir the pot of hostility and division. Some of them are simply the buffoons that wear MAGA caps. Others include a nest of retired FBI agents clustered in NYC. And even the teachers union is being targeted by Eric Prince's private group of mercenaries. We should not do their bidding for them.