05 October 2018

Celebrating Cruelty

The Atlantic published an excellent article on Wednesday (link here) with the title "The Cruelty Is the Point" and the deck title of "Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear."

Republicans in the past could be accused of a callous disregard for the less fortunate and the suffering. They made a show of looking concerned but their actions were tepid at best.

Donald Trump, however, seems to revel in treating people badly and, at times, downright cruelly. Immigrants, migrants, minorities, children, and women are subjects of his sneering contempt.

Worse, his administration seems to go out of its way to shit all over the unfortunate. Look at the way he and they treat refugees, immigrants, and migrants. It's a policy of "fuck you, we got ours, so get lost."

This is what you get when you elect a head of state who spent his entire life being as greedy as possible. He has no sympathy nor compassion for anyone who isn't greedy like him.

If you're a poor, browner-skinned person struggling to escape a totalitarian regime, an America under Trump no longer offers you kindness and hope. Piss off and go elsewhere is their motto.

Read the linked piece. It has dozens of examples of this man's cruelty. The way he treats people is like something you'd see in a dictator, not the leader of a democracy.

He demeans America with his heartlessness.

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