Blind Loyalty is the Enemy

I’ve held out hope through all the numbers.  But I think I’ve run out of numbers.  We’ve gotten to billions world-wide.

I’ve just about run out of hope for the loyal Trump base because of the mountain of proof of their blind loyalty.  It doesn’t matter what morals this man breaks.  Doesn’t matter what laws he disregards.  It doesn’t matter what foe he embraces or the allies he stabs in the back, nor who he eliminates or how.  The loyal Trump base will support this man.  They will justify all of his actions.  Excuse all he does. Absolutely place their trust in him.  Sacrifice all to this one man.  Where have I heard of that before?

This blind loyal Trump base has become the enemy of the people.  There, I said it out loud.  This Loyalist base is the enemy of America.  The enemy of what she stands for.  It has totally become anti-American.

No Mueller probe will make a difference in their loyalty.  What happens when they prove he’s a witch?  It doesn’t matter how many Stormy Daniels’ there are.  No shooting someone, no trashing of honored war heroes, no ban on Muslims or any Mexican dragnet, is going to make a difference.  Not one stupid thing he says or does seems to matter.  His loyal base will support him.

All the Republican politicians are so afraid of this base, so afraid they’ll lose the primaries if they go against this base.  They’ll say and do anything to please them and the number one requirement is loyalty to Trump.

With a loyal base that more than proves with the latest Russian fiasco, that they will support him.  No matter what he does!  I wonder if King George III held this much sway with those loyal to him.

Trump supporters could indeed ignore his personal life.  Cheating on wives or taxes, employees or tenants.  All of this was OK with his base.  They support him even if he’s breaking all Ten Commandments.  Support him lumping all Muslims and Mexicans as one.  Liberty of the Individual, America’s sacred Truth we hold, crushed under his fancy shoe.  All of this doesn’t matter.  They still support him.  Still cheer him, whatever he says.

They support him giving tax breaks to the already quite rich, dumping more debt on Americans.  Support him breaking treaties and long-held alliances, stabbing our friends in the back.  Remember those friends who sacrificed their lives beside us on those hallowed beaches and had our backs in those horrific trenches of both our World Wars?  He stabbed them all in the back.  And yet the Trump base still supports this man.

He calls for war on Free Speech and Free Press.  Pillars of our Democracy.  And yet, that’s OK with his base.  They will still cheer him on.  It’s just our foundational Rights, you know.  What’s the big deal, snowflake?

He can now throw all of our intelligence agencies right under the bus and take the word of a proven tyrant and murderer over theirs.  And he’s still OK with his base.  This is absolute proof Trump can do what he wants to and his loyal base will still support him.  I wonder if King George III had it this good.  His supporters were called Loyalists.  Loyal to him no matter what he does.  It’s the same then as it is now.  As long as the king doesn’t hurt me too much and gives me a few things I want, he can do as he wishes to all of the rest.  Our king, unbound by law for the common man, can quash the rabble-rousers as he sees fit.  He can ban anyone he wants to, even whole countries if he likes, or separate, imprison and tear apart families, as long as he keeps me safe.  He can crush any thought of rebellion with the threat of the wrath of his base at his beck and call.  No leader or minion will stand against him.  This is what cowardice we’ve come to.

I’ve held out hope for these loyalists.  Hoped Trump’s actions and words would pile up and folks could eventually see and smell the mountain of crap that he is.  But the numbers are still piling up.

He officially began with being able to shoot a person in the middle of New York City and “not lose one vote”, then denigrate two parents of a fallen, decorated American soldier.  Then he can smear hundreds of women or judges or American prisoners of war at his whim, and separate and destroy hundreds of families at the border.  Next, he can ignore by the thousands, all the victims of our gun culture and not even lift a finger.  Not even shed a tear.  He can go on to lie about the hundreds of thousands who voted illegally or came to his inauguration.  We’ve passed now millions of people with his destroying alliances and waging trade wars with long-held partners and abandoning our friends on the frontlines.

Let’s now try hundreds of millions of lives at risk with the nonchalant rattling of nuclear sabers.  And now billions of people have witnessed Trump hand our ass to Russia and still his loyal base supports him.  They still can’t see or smell this mountain of crap right before them and we’ve exhausted all our numbers.  What number will it take?

I’ve wondered for too long, with our gun culture, how many of our children and loved ones will it cost, before we open our eyes and really try to change things here.  What’s the number?  Thirty-two?  Sixty-eight?  Two-hundred and twelve?  Does it have to pile into a mountain?  Will the blind loyalists even see it then?

Then I remember that picture of that mountain of little shoes, found in the warehouses at Auschwitz.  I remember and I know without a doubt, what blind loyalty is capable of.  For folks with blind loyalty, there is no number.  Blind loyalty really is blind.  No science, no facts, no numbers, not even humanity will do, and it’s proven above all, his base will be loyal.  How long should we wait?  No number, so far, seems to matter.

This is the very enemy America was born to fight.  Not just a supreme leader with unbridled powers.  America was born to fight this blind loyalty.  Blind loyalty is the enemy of the people.  The numbers have really become a mountain, if his base can’t see it now, then this base has this exact blind loyalty.  And I don’t know if they’ll ever see it.

I’m glad I didn’t post this right away.  Took a few more days to think about it.  I know I said things that have to be said and no, I’m not sorry.  But I don’t want to give up on people.  Even the loyal Trump base.  My goal is to stop this war, to remind us what we all have in common.  To remind us what we have at risk.

I’ve thought about blind loyalty.  Tried to break it down to smaller pieces, to try to understand.  I do respect loyal and the blind are not doomed to never see.

The blind can indeed learn to see.  You don’t have to see with your eyes.  Knowledge can open up our eyes, our mind.  Thinking can change our whole view.  We can help the blind see the way.

Loyalty, itself is sacred.  Loyalty is rarer than Love.  I can truly respect those who know it.  It’s truly a beautiful thing.  It comes from more than just your heart.  It’s not just, “I think you won’t take advantage of me.”  It’s, “I absolutely know you won’t.”  True loyalty takes time to earn.  It’s never just given.  It takes a long time for this trust to be bestowed.  It doesn’t come with just words.  With loyalty everything matters, not just how you treat me.  Your beginnings, your means and your ends are what matters, not simply what I get out of the deal.

I believe America herself deserves this loyalty.  I believe she has truly earned it.  I believe we can make some more people see it.  Because her beginning, her means and her ends have proven, she truly cares about all of us.  She said, at the start, first document, first statement, her goal, her ends, and how to get there, right there, the means.  There in the very beginning.  Her Founding Principle has been there for us.  The words have not wavered one bit.  Our loyalty, she has truly earned.

Many do value loyalty.  How about if we speak of our loyalty to America?  Loyalty to America and what she has always stood for.  I wonder if loyalty to America can override this blind loyalty to one man.

I’ll still hold out hope.  But it won’t be blind.  I see we are running out of numbers and numbers don’t lie.  And we know infinity can go on without us.  We need this to make a difference to all, right now.  Give this reason against blind loyalty.  To show the one thing that absolutely must matter.  We must stop this blind loyalty.  Blind loyalty is the enemy of America.

It truly breaks down to this – ever since July 4, 1776 to now – decide where your loyalty lies.  The same then as it is now.  With one man or to our country?  Because you cannot have both.  The numbers don’t lie.  And the picture is in stark black and white.

 

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