Americans have elected an angry, hate-filled, repugnant human, devoid of empathy, truth, honour, kindness, intelligence, even rationality. They elected someone who actually gets giddy when he thinks of doing harm to others. Retribution, racism, misogyny, lies and narcissism, that’s all I see coming from not just Donald Trump, but his whole entourage of human misfits. Most who hold the same beliefs and who will tell you point of fact, that they can’t wait to deport all those who have no documents in America.
It doesn’t matter if these people are model citizens. It doesn’t matter if they contribute more to America every day than those who hold the ‘right’, simply by a matter of chance, to be born in America. It doesn’t matter if their families have worked incredibly hard once they got there. It doesn’t matter that for many, their children are Americans, just the same as yours. It doesn’t matter that some family members wanted to be American so badly, that some of them lost children, relatives and family members just getting there.
America is supposed to be a land of immigrants, and every single one of you ‘are’ immigrants, unless you’re Native American, — the true owners of North America. If you can’t find room for those who now reside in America, then take down the Statue of Liberty, for it means nothing. Melt down the bronze plaque and make an effigy of trump with just his finger pointing to the sky, because that’s what America will represent to those outside it from then on.
To think that a man can be so vile that he would round up undocumented people, arrest them, throw them into concentration camps, because let’s fact it, that’s what they are and are meant to be, — there to be demeaned and treated like Mr. Trump’s chattel? America is no longer a land of the free. It no longer provides solace to the tired, the poor or the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
And as for the wretched refuse of your teeming shores? Well, the President and his immigrant wife more clearly represent that group than any coming to America’s shores. No, the promise for the ‘tempest-tost’ is to bring yourself to the ICE officer for immediate deportation.
Immigration rules exist for a reason, yes, but there are literally millions of Americans who have profited by paying less than the minimum wage while informing the tempest-tost that if they complain and go to the authorities, they, and all immigrants that they know will be deported back to Central America, South America or Mexico when they do. For some, it’s even worse than that. They are coerced into the sex trade or required to steal or sell drugs for good, God-fearing naturalized Americans.
America under Trump will become a place where Hobbes would have longed for a place other than America where life was more pleasantly, ugly, brutish and short.
Yet Americans, yearning for a scapegoat and willing to do evil if only the opportunity was to present itself, will inform, help arrest and deport the good people who couldn’t be coerced, bribed, threatened or forced to do menial work for next to nothing while in their employ. Those people who ‘used’ these immigrants like slaves on their farms, in their fields, kitchens, restaurants, as janitors, Nannie’s and gardeners.
America has become a place where the rich are allowed to denigrate the poor, the coloured, the Muslim, Hindu, catholic immigrant or black people of this world, and then ignore them like so much waste material.
The underground economy in the United States is estimated to be somewhere between $2 Trillion and $3.2 Trillion U.S. dollars, or somewhere between 6 and 13% of GDP, but of course, no real figures are calculable because these people are illegals, subject to arrest and deportation.
America under trump will become a place where hate, greed and violence have, and will become the ‘values’ that underpin American life.
I wish you well, those of you who did not support, vote for, or believe in Donald J. Trump. You are, and will pay a massive price for his rise to power. One that is fraught with lies, kleptocracy, thievery, hate, violence and war.
Personally, I will never again set foot in America. I value my life and my future too much to take that risk, – and yes, it is a risk, even now, five days before all hell is let loose.
Violence, already endemic, handguns ubiquitous, fear palpable and distrust pervasive, — that is America today.
Tom T. Hall, a famous country singer, wrote a song about America in 1995. Thirty years have transpired, and America hasn’t become any more beautiful. It’s entitled;
America the Ugly
There was a man came to see the USA from a foreign land
To photograph the progress of dear old Uncle Sam
He got off the boat in New York went down to the Bowery
I know what the man went to photograph and to see
Winos who sell their souls for a bottle of a cheapest red
That’s the picture that he wanted
And that’s what he got they say America the ugly today
Where people live on bread and soup fat back and pinto beans
He saw the hungry children and he photographed the ragged clothes
I guess we’re gonna try to tell him that it ain’t so
Pregnant young women who didn’t even have a pair of shoes
The man got his pictures and what are we going to say America the ugly today
It seems that the young generation just didn’t want ’em in their hair
He saw the poor man workin’ it out while the mighty rich lives high
And my friend that brings a gleam to the enemy’s eyes
The enemy knows when a heart gets hard the country is bound to fall
If we get heads and hearts together we won’t have to hear them say
America the ugly today America the ugly today
And so it is that an Ugly American, a man devoid of any redeeming qualities will be the President of the United States in just five days.
Was this an accident? No, of course not. This is the second iteration of the Ugly American.
Goodbye America, the one I remember when I was eighteen in 1971. The place where there existed a belief in what America could and should become.
Those days no longer exist. America is today, the place I never wanted to see or know.
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