Empty Seats and Insults Faced by Trump in Pennsylvania
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
It appears that a growing number of Trump’s enthusiastic
supporters are moving away from the convicted felon. During a rally in
Pennsylvania, video reveals the entire upper section of the auditorium was
vacant, and many seats were empty in lower levels. Trump was seen fuming about
how small the crowd was although he had expected a full house. Is Trump losing
his hold on uninformed voters?
If you know anything about me, you know that I have never
understood how Trump was able to influence more than a handful of people to
attend his rallies. They are filled with misdirected anger and hatred for others
who simply oppose Trump’s vision of our nation’s future. This is America where
free thought, free speech, and dissention are treasured, not reasons for
emotions intended to deny what it means to be a citizen of the United States of
America. Anger and hatred are destructive, and cannot become the focus of our
political system.
TRUMP WILL NEVER BE “PRESIDENTIAL”
As an original baby boomer, I grew up expecting our
president to be an exceptional human being, a great leader, and a man who would
do anything to preserve the integrity and guarantees promised by the
Constitution. Although not all of the 13 presidents I remember fulfilled my
hopes and expectations, none until Donald Trump opposed all of my beliefs.
First of all, a simple fact: Trump is boring. There has
never been a rally where Trump was involved when the focus was not about him.
He whines constantly about how he is hated by most Americans, and complains
about his perceived belief that he has been mistreated by everyone. Fact: your
life is the result of your own actions. This has been the focus of every hate
rally since 2015. Not once has he told his supporters how he would improve their
quality of life, or how his policies would benefit their families today and in
the future. He will never be presidential because he will never be our nation’s
president.
ALL ELECTIONS MATTER, BUT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
EVERY ELECTION HAS BECOME CRITICAL
It is not an overstatement to claim that the 2024
election is the most important in history. The truth is that beginning in 2016
this has been an undeniable fact.
The greatest mistake ever made by the American people, aided
by the interference of Vladimir Putin, was on November 8, 2016. Trump has
caused more harm to our nation’s future than December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001,
or the first Civil War between 1861 and 1865.
His rigged election began a division of our nation’s
people not experienced since the Civil War. Trump began the destruction of our
Constitution piece by piece ending the promises of our Founding Fathers. His
failed economic policy, combined with his failure to take action in December of
2019 to prevent the disastrous loss of life and economic disaster caused by
Covid-19 nearly caused a second Great Depression. More than one-million lives
were lost, many the result of his policy of “it will just go away.”
I AM AFRAID TO FEEL HOPE
The “Trump era” must end, and end soon. He is not the “great
white hope” for our nation’s future. He is in fact the grim reaper who will destroy
the dream, the ‘great experiment.’
He does not possess the ability or the will to move our
nation forward into the 21st century. His plans are to move us
backwards into the dark days of the mid-twentieth century.
This is not a criticism of the worst president in
history, it is fact. The American people deserve a president who places their
future and the future of their children and grandchildren in priority number
one. This is Joe Biden.
I have no idea where Mr. Biden will be rated by
historians, but he is the president we need today. Our country is moving
forward and every American is benefitting from his policies and his efforts to
fulfill his promises to all of our nation’s people. America is on a path which
will move us forward into the 21st century, not backwards.
Please vote, and vote for the best men and women available,
not for a political party.
Op-ed by James Turnage
My novels are available on Amazon
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