Today’s Democrats – Riding the Trolley to Make Believe Land
For Generation Xers who followed their older sibling Baby Boomers, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood was a morning staple that practically rivaled Sesame Street on PBS. A daily feature of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood involved riding a virtual trolley car into “Make Believe Land,” which brings to mind today’s Democrat Party and the fantastical places that they would seek to take us.
In Democrat Make Believe Land:
- Hillary Clinton actually won the 2016 Presidential Election. After all, it was the Russians who interfered with the election balloting that gave Donald Trump an Electoral College win;
- Donald Trump is a racist, a neo-Nazi and a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan who only seeks to make America white again, and completely undo sixty-five years of civil rights gains for people of color…the same holds true for every single person who voted for Donald Trump…they are, by definition, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic white supremacists who want to bring America back to the days of Jim Crow;
- Donald Trump wants to round up every single immigrant who came into this country during the last four decades and return every single one of them to the country of their origin. Therefore, all barriers, borders or otherwise impediments to those who wish to enter this country should be immediately removed, and voting rights should be extended to anyone who wants to cast a ballot, regardless of where they are from and how they managed to get here;
- Donald Trump and his Republican Party want to deny every single American any access to healthcare unless they are among the very rich who don’t pay enough taxes to ensure that every person in America, citizen, legal immigrant, or “undocumented worker” (there is no such thing as an illegal immigrant) get access to “free” healthcare;
- College education should be a universal right and therefore tuition free. All outstanding student loans should be considered “paid in full” …after all the greedy banks and lending institutions can easily absorb such a waiver of payment;
- The continued use of fossil fuels here in the United States poses an existential treat to the survival of the planet. Babies born this year will never reach adulthood unless the United States gives up its addiction to coal, natural gas, oil and all related petrochemical-based fuels immediately. Never mind the pollution caused by emerging countries, such as India, China and Russia…they are not the ones imperiling the future of humankind…its only Americans who are “raping” the environment and no one else;
- There is no reason why the United States should continue to squander billions and billions of dollars trying to prop up national defense, when we are the ones who are the only threat to world peace. We should take all of the money we spend on defense and provide every country in the world the economic stimulus needed to level the playing field across the globe;
- President Trump and all Republicans want every person in the United States (which is to say every white person in the United States) to be armed with a fully automatic machine gun so they can mow down undesirables and people of color who threaten the American way of life (code-speak for racial, religious and ethnic intolerance). Therefore, all such weaponry should be confiscated and Americans who seek to defend their homes should be issued slingshots- provided, of course, that they complete the requisite slingshot safety certification course and registration;
- The freedoms of speech, the press and the right of assembly should be curtailed for anyone who is not in lock-step conformity with those standards as established by a consortium of university professors who, after all, know better what is good for us than we do;
- President Trump should not be allowed to hold any political rally in any venue larger than an elementary school auditorium. Furthermore, such rallies must guarantee equal access to those who are opposed to Donald Trump, and any resulting demonstration should not be impeded in any way;
- Free housing, free food, free medical care, free education and the guarantee of minimum basic income should be guaranteed to any person in the United States…if there is not enough money to pay for this, the United States Treasury is more than able to print enough money to pay for all of this, once 100% of all of the private and corporate wealth is exhausted;
- Donald Trump will lose the election of 2020 by ten percentage points if any of the following candidates (Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, Booker, Buttigieg) win the eventual Democrat nomination. Any of the other Democrats would stand an even chance of winning the election over Trump, if they are the nominee.
“Ding-Ding” (it’s time to take the trolley back to reality, folks)
Once, again, advantage Trump.
-Drew Nickell, 6 August 2019
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