Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

lees1975

(5,959 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2024, 07:25 PM Sep 6

Trump's "ideal America" is white supremacy.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-ideal-america-being-pushed-by-trump.html

As much as I dislike watching or reading news stories about rallies and stump speeches given by Trump and Vance, I've read enough to get a very clear picture of what they are promoting and where their idealism is going. The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is the centerpiece of virtually everything they do, and it's interesting to note that, in spite of his vehement denials, Trump, Vance, and the entire GOP campaign for Congress has been tagged with it. People do seem to be paying attention.

I'm not making some earth-shattering observation here, though wading through Trump and Vance rhetoric is a good way to induce vomiting. They are betting that bigotry and racism, anti-Semitism, and separating people in America by race, ethnicity, personal wealth, religious beliefs and cultural identity, and favoring the bigots, racists, wealthiest, straight, white people by promising them all of the favor of government while discriminating against everyone else who doesn't fall in that category will get them enough votes to win.

And so, in the world's most prosperous, and ideologically and politically most free country, the fact that there are enough of these people to make an election as competitive as it seems, and might well be, is a damning indictment. The fact that, in spite of our freedom, in spite of our prosperity and our resources, in spite of our ideology, in spite of our Constitution and the groundwork laid by our founding fathers, in spite of the claims of the heavy influence of Christianity on the nation, this hideous, hateful, divisive, subversive ideology has as much of a following as it does is a sign of the failure of multiple government, cultural, social and religious institutions.

There are few words to describe the complete and total lack of any kind of humanity that Trump and Vance spew out every day. Total depravity is one term that comes to mind, from the theology developed by Jean Calvin during the Reformation to describe what he believed was the state of mankind apart from God.
2 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Trump's "ideal America" is white supremacy. (Original Post) lees1975 Sep 6 OP
Trump-Vance is a Christmas Present BOSSHOG Sep 6 #1
The racist rapist Blue Owl Sep 6 #2

BOSSHOG

(39,854 posts)
1. Trump-Vance is a Christmas Present
Fri Sep 6, 2024, 07:31 PM
Sep 6

For the Heritage Foundation. Such a toxic combination has been at the top of their list for 50 years. Two odious charmless thugs with a base. Now that’s some Heritage.

Latest Discussions»Editorials & Other Articles»Trump's "ideal America" i...