I belong to several groups on social media that reminisces our time
in the military.
They are apolitical, but sometimes stupidity seeps in.
Trump, in a political stunt, deployed thousands of troops along the
border. Their base of operations is Joint Base San Antonio, which is
where I used to serve.
My brothers and sisters out there are miserable. No mess tent. No electricity.
No mission. They literally have nothing to do. They are going to miss
Thanksgiving with their families. The Pentagon admitted it has been a
waste of time, resources, and money (Est. $200 million). It’s been a
major drain on morale, and Trump has essentially forgotten about them
now that he lost the election.
One soldier posted a picture of what #MAGAmorons think they are
doing---a bunch of fully armed soldiers in a trench with M-16s trained
on a target, but he superimposed it with reality: servicemen in mud
picking up garbage. Well, that started it...
Most people jumped in and agreed it was all stupid, but a
few—especially one guy--went nuts. He said Trump was trying to protect
the real 'merica from the influx of Muslims and Mexicans. In response,
I posted the picture above and reminded him that they aren’t coming, but
are already here, and oh—they are his leaders now.
(And something to
the effect of “suck it”.)
Boy, oh boy. ALL CAPS came at me: SOCIALIST this, INVADERS that… on
and on. It inspired me to use this photo in a few more GOP safe spaces,
and I always get the same reaction of ranting and raving. I don’t think
there's any other photo that I’ve posted that had such a visceral
reaction. It encapsulates all their fears at once: women in power,
minorities in power, the changing face of America, and the obvious fact
that their long-term strategy of appealing to bigotry is starting to
fail.
And it’s just going to get worse for my conservative friends.
Thanks to Trump, the GOP-gerrymandering ploy to pack suburbs in their districts backfired: college-educated women denounced Trump and voted Democrat. The GOP has done so much self-inflicted damage that I don’t see how they are going to win them back anytime soon.
Demographics are also not on the GOP’s side. The nation is getting
younger and darker, and they are voting. An entire horrified generation
of activists has been created after witnessing inaction with mass
shootings, racist attacks, justifications for sexual assaults, and
depraved policies that allow things like children being thrown in cages.
Movements were created that made electoral contests all over the nation
in play (OK, UT, VA, GA, AL, etc.) I reminded my friend that his home
state of Texas will have more Hispanics than whites in a five years—with about a million turning voting age by next presidential election.
My point is—the picture above is not the anomaly that the GOP is
hoping it is. It’s the new reality. They are right to be afraid. (Or
should I say wrong to be afraid?)
And it keeps getting worse: it’s not just diversity that the new
freshman are bringing, it’s a rejection of the old guard’s appeasement
policies. This new group knows a thing or two about fighting, and they
are aiming for a bold, new progressive agenda. Some of it may seem
far-fetched now, but give it a few years. America is changing, and a
progressive revolution is coming.
This is our time, or as I put it so eloquently to my friend…… “suck it”.
Damn I just LOVE her!!!!!!
Just remembered that back in January, the GOP was really looking
forward to this election. Lots of stories from rightwing media, like this pathetic piece from RedState, that
the GOP will have all these pickups because the Democrats didn’t stand
and clap at Trump’s State of the Union address. Yup, they sure called
it...that was the big issue this election.
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