That we in America are co-existing in two different worlds
is really no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention at all for the
last few years, and certainly since Donald Trump was elected to become President
Trump (President for at least one of those worlds; the other refusing to accept
him as President). But, this all really
struck me again today as I listened to the House Judiciary Committee’s latest episode
of the Impeachment Show.
Today we had staffers – staff counsel – commenting on the
hearsay and opinion testimony that had been provided to Adam Schiff’s Star Chamber
segment of the Impeachment Show. It was so
clear as I listened to the two different interpretations of the evidence (which
we will remember is not first hand accounts of the “offense” under
consideration, but accounts of what someone was told by someone else who heard
it from someone else who may or may not have first hand evidence). So, rather than coming closer to the truth we
become further and further removed from reality.
But, it is interesting to listen to how both sides hold some
of the same buzz words and phrases dear and use them to explain what is wrong
with the other side. For example, each
side proclaims how the other does not care about America and is destroying our
country by disregarding the Constitution.
In my opinion, it is ludicrous for the Democrats to proclaim
that President Trump does not care about America. Who in recent memory has done more for our
country and its people? The economy is
good, unemployment is low, those disaffected groups whom the Democrats have
always pandered to are experiencing far better conditions than under the
Democrats who would keep them dependent and depressed.
There is hope in the country for many who have lost or at
least not seen hope for many years.
America is blossoming after having been told for years that we should be
ashamed and hopeless. This is the President’s
doing, so it is hard for me to understand how people can say he does not care
about America. But, they live in a
different world where they look at life through different glasses. Glasses that are a complete mystery to me.
The Democrats proclaim that President Trump is all about
using his position for self-gain. Again,
I do not see what they see. The
President is trying his hardest to make America great again, for all its
people. He donates his entire salary,
making nothing for the hard work he puts in.
His businesses as well as those of his adult children are if anything
losing due to being under constant attack by Democrats and the media. I do not see the self-gain that they see in
their world.
As far as disregarding the Constitution, I see the Democrats
as the ones who are shredding it daily and since the moment that President
Trump was elected. It is they who refuse
to accept the will of the people, who believe that they have a right to
overturn the results of an election because the people’s choice is seen by them
as not the one that the people should have made. Indeed, they are disdainful not only of the
choice, but of the people themselves. They have sought since 2016 to overturn the
election and remove the President. Yet,
in America, under our Constitution, the losers must accept the will of the
people if our democracy is to continue. At
least, that is the reality I know, though apparently not theirs.
Beyond overturning the people’s electoral voice, the
Democrats have consistently attacked the President and his supporters and appointees
with star chamber like proceedings that deny fairness and due process to those
involved whom the Democrats are attacking.
We witnessed this in the Russia probe, in the FISA warrants, and most
disgustingly in the Kavanaugh hearing to name just a few. And, of course, in the current proceedings in
which Adam Schiff seems to think he is a king who can do as he pleases, violate
House rules, and deny all due process in order to reach a goal that he has
already chosen.
Moreover, it is the Democrats who would silence every voice
that opposes them. It is they who are
not tolerant and supportive of the diverse views that our democracy demands. It is they who spew hate at everyone who
does not join them in their hatred of the President while at the same time
claiming that it is he who is hateful.
Meanwhile, how has the President thwarted the
Constitution? In our system of laws, he
has gone to the courts, not made proclamations by fiat in response to seemingly
unfair and unjust demands by the likes of Adam Schiff and his gang of
Impeachers. He follows the process. Perhaps that is why so many of the unelected diplomats
who thought they were in charge were so infuriated when the President removed
them or at least some of their power. Apparently,
they had forgotten that the people elect the President whose duty it is and who
holds the power to make the policy decisions that they thought it was their
right to make. Again, they seem to live
in a different reality than do I.
What I see are politicians set in their ways and in love
with their power who are angry that President Trump is not willing to support
their continued disregard of the country and its people. They are now dug in and determined to remove
him. Removal is their only goal and they
are willing to shred the Constitution and even the country to do so.
And so, they tell their stories of how the President is
destroying America. How? Perhaps by not leaving so that they will stop
their destruction? They tell stories of
the President’s (and his supporters’) evils – racist, hateful, etc. How?
The President’s economy is helping minorities, raising them out of the
depressed, hopelessness that has been their gift from Democrats. He enforces laws equally, not based for or
against someone on their identity.
And, returning to the specifics of the current Impeachment
Show, the president has a duty to
investigate fraud that may have been perpetrated on this country by another nation
or by individuals within this nation who held power and used it for their own
personal or family gain. So, when the
President told Ukraine that we (our country) wanted them to investigate both
the 2016 election interference and the possibility that the then Vice President’s
son had in some way benefited from the Vice President’s power and position, President
Trump was doing his job. That the then
Vice President happens to now be a presidential candidate should not preclude
an investigation into what might be at best an unethical act during his vice
presidency.
And, here is what I really don’t understand: it is pretty clear that the then Vice President
in some way used his position for his or his family’s personal gain. There is no evidence that the current
President has done so. Yet the Democrats
would have us ignore the facts, ignore possible ethical violations by the Bidens,
and instead claim that it is President Trump who is doing so. It is like the pop psychology assertion that
we see others through our own eyes. That
is, the Democrats seem to be projecting their own behavior upon the President.
It is like Truth and Untruth in 1984: “Reality exists in the
human mind and nowhere else.” And, we
clearly have two realities coexisting in this country. I would label them as follows: The one based on emotion and the belief that
if you say and believe it enough, then it will be true. I assign this to the Trump-haters and the
Impeachers. The other reality based on
reason and logic I assign to those who demand real facts and evidence, not
innuendo, supposition, and narrative based upon personal feelings.
For some Truth is simply what they want it to be. They ignore real facts that contradict their fanciful
and personal narrative. This is the approach
of The Impeachers. They, in my opinion, are not rational. Theirs is not Truth, but UnTruth, an UnTruth
designed to suit their own personal ends.
Orwell writes in 1984, “There was
truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the
whole world, you were not mad.” I hope
that there are enough of us willing to cling to the reasonable, rational, and
factually supportable Truth so that we can keep the country from not only going
mad, but from the destruction that the continuing attacks of the Impeachers
will cause.
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