The Cult of Trump Part 2 Who Owes Whom What ?

 

 


This is the second in the cult of Trump series and they should be read in order.

In the first post in this series I introduced myself and gave a very brief description of a cult and established that this series is primarily intended to examine the Trump supporters and his relationship with them to see if it qualifies as a cult.

I had intended to address the key aspect of cults called a thought reform program in this post, but something else has been brought up in the first few days since Trump was elected president of the United States.

The question of what people owe him is here. Some people have said all Americans owe Trump respect, cooperation and our loyalty.

Um, that is one opinion.

Trump has already insulted black Americans, Latinos, Mexican immigrants, women, unions, veterans, the disabled and many other people.

He supports eradication of the minimum wage, weakening or destroying unions, ending all gay rights, allowing religious discrimination, allowing racial profiling, stop and frisk policing, torture, war crimes, monitoring Muslims in America, mass deportation of immigrants, ending abortions, ending the Affordable Care Act and throwing millions of Americans off their health insurance, destroying the EPA and letting corporations pollute unchecked, removing regulations that protect people, cutting taxes for the wealthy, bombing foreign countries mercilessly and much more.

He has ruthlessly insulted many groups of people and by repetition and billions of dollars of free media coverage used his words to influence millions of people.

He has terrified millions and given them tremendous fear and even trauma. Having a president act like you are not really a legitimate human being and deserve and won't receive human rights is horrifying. He threatens many people in different ways but always by acting like they're not legitimate good human beings.

He associates with known racists, antisemites and white supremacists. It's not a stretch. He hired an alt right website leader, Jeff Sessions noted racist senator who was appointed a judgeship and found unfit due to his extreme racism, Carl Paladino as a surrogate. Carl was cut off in an NPR interview after calling President Barack Obama a coon. Trump praised John Wayne who openly advocated white supremacy and didn't want black folks to be free. Trump praised Andrew Jackson who embraced genocide of Native Americans and was pro slavery.

I could go on and on. Trump has said white men have it harder now than black folks and women.

Trump was asked to speak on his followers harassing a Jewish reporter with Auschwitz concentration camp photos and threats of rape and murder. The threats included antisemitic slurs and insults. Trump chose to say I have nothing to say.

He chose tacit approval of his white supremacist and antisemitic supporters. Again and again. He has encouraged violence and beatings at his rallies.

It's clear that he doesn't care about the people his supporters attack, the Muslim children that are being bullied and fear deportation and murder.

Black folks are being attacked too. Black children are being bullied at school. Gay people are being assaulted.

Trump knows about all this. He still insults people and knows his supporters will attack them. He knows that white supremacist groups like the KKK have used his racism to galvanize their members, to fill them with enthusiasm and to recruit like mad.

Their membership has exploded and shows no signs of slowing. It's radicalized millions of Americans. They wouldn't have joined these groups if his billions of dollars of free media wasn't used to spread hate to people over and over and over and normalize his statements for millions of Americans.

That's the catalyst for the explosive growth the white supremacist groups have experienced and the threats, bullying and attacks these people have created.

Donald Trump has promised to remove rights from millions and millions of people.

I believe he already is responsible for knowingly inspiring his followers to terrorize millions of people. He is already responsible for threatening to allow unfettered pollution to destroy our environment.

I don't think we owe him respect as he has already been utterly disrespectful to us, so much so that people have been attacked, bullied and harassed. He has threatened our rights, way of life and very liberty. His office and election doesn't magically make his lies true, doesn't make him a decent person or his actions acceptable.

We don't owe Donald Trump a damned thing. In fact he already owes us more than he can ever pay.

And we owe each other fighting to keep our rights. If we protest and stand together we have a chance. We owe ourselves a fighting chance. The only way we can win is if we all stand together. If he attacks gay people, Latinos, black Americans, women and everyone else then what he does to one of us he does to ALL of us. If he has any doubts about that WE need to eradicate them. We need all politicians to know he gets to attack no one.

There must be massive civil disobedience nonstop every day. Every person that can must join the effort and protest, organize and unite as many groups as humanly possible.

We owe Trump our disgust and fury. He's utterly deplorable. He owes more than he could pay. And we owe ourselves and each other the fighting chance that relentless protest and solid unity can give us.

Don't worry about what we owe him EVER.

Here's a link to my blog archive by topic:

• Blog Archive by Topic

• The Cult of Trump part 1 What's a Cult, Really ?
• The Cult of Trump Part 2 Who Owes Whom What ?
• The Cult of Trump Part 3 Thought Reform
• The Cult of Trump 4 Reason and Resistance
• The Cult of Trump 5 Most Likely Scenario
• The Cult of Trump part 6 The Con
• The Cult of Trump part 7 Godwin's Flaw
• The Cult of Trump part 8 Godwin's Flaw 2