I have truly never hated anyone in my life, until now.
Today, instead of watching a hateful man take office as the most powerful man in America, and possibly the free world, I watched “The Last Days”, during his self-righteous installation. It is the story of a handful of survivors of the holocaust. It wasn’t an intentional act on my part, but reflecting on man’s inhumanity, I thought would provide me with an understanding of what was to come, and why.
It was a reaction to having watched a man, for more than ten years, become so self-absorbed, so resentful of those with real talents, abilities and character, spewing vehemence, malice and willfully hateful intent, towards people he has never met, or known. It has made me conscious of how sick humanity can be, and has now become.
His actions were not one of a statesman, a leader or even a decent human being. They were those of a man whose only means of leaving a mark in history will be through his inhumanity, his indifference to the pain and suffering he intends to inflict on those too weak, too unimportant and too defenceless to matter. To Donald J. Trump these people are simply an act in a powerful gesture of hate. No more important in his eyes than farm animals to be used for his pleasure and utility.
“I Donald J. Trump can willfully and with malice and full knowledge of the pain and suffering I will inflict, take great pride in doing so.”
That was what this man is to be known for. This is all he leaves as a legacy.
Hate.
A legacy that he will be almost giddy to leave as his testament to power, to greed, to injustice. Only a sociopath feels nothing. No conscience, no introspection, no humanity.
While I watched Steven Spielberg’s documentary today, through the eyes and with the words of those treated so inhumanly, cruelly, maliciously and with such vehement hatred, I see the same sociopath, the same wish for a ‘immigration solution’, irrespective of the damage done. America, as it was, as it has been, with all its foibles, all its previous mistakes and terrible foreign policy choices, — I do not believe was intent on the total destruction of empathy, of kindness or humanity towards those who suffered, — whether in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, or as soon will be, Iran.
I have only seen the same level of hate from three leaders in this last century, and they all rose to power on a message of hate, retribution and defining of a scapegoat. The first was a pathological hatred of the system, the second of Jewry, and the last a pathological scapegoating of immigrants.
Donald J. Trump has created that hate, that indifference and that willingness to act, maliciously. He has surrounded himself with others who above all else seek power, wealth and the ability to control others.
How strange is it, that in a nation composed of immigrants, that this collective of people, seeking the same gifts bestowed on those who simply by fate, were either born or given a new life in the United States, should turn to hate their own history? They are all, universally, immigrants. The wife of this man even comes within this generation from the immigrant community itself, yet now stands beside the man who will take pride in their arrest, detention and deportation.
A man so devoid of character that he takes pride in abuse, sexual conquest, rape, pathological lies, and without any ability to look at himself and his actions. A man who is incapable of facing his own truths, his cowardice, his racism, his misogyny and his arrogant ignorance.
What happened to this man to harbour so much animosity that it exorcised itself as a pathological hatred of others? Even more unfathomable, how does an entire nation of people, immigrants themselves, seek to blame those doing exactly what they and their ancestors did in coming to America?
America today, isn’t simply complicit. America today isn’t just acting to preserve some sense of authority. Very few if any of these people are any different from ‘Americans’, except for the piece of paper that identifies them as ‘worthy’.
This is America today. A place where people have learned to be hateful, vengeful, and angry. They have been whipped into a frenzy by lies, blame, scapegoating and dehumanizing of the ‘others’, those less-than. It is the same message that Nazi Germany created in order for ‘good Aryan Germans’ to be capable of the most inhumane acts against people they have never met, spoken to, shared conversation with or respected.
This is America, and those who will carry out this barbarity to come, are Americans.
And for that, I will never forgive, or forget.
America has lost its heart, its soul, its ability to reason, to understand or to care. America is becoming a dark and ugly place where hate rules.
I will not set foot there again.
America is at war with humanity and with itself. There is no introspection or questioning now, simply acts of retribution, prosecution and ‘internment’ to come.
America is… no more.
Now something completely different exists across the border.
The enemy of all that is right.
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