Blinded By Hate

 


I have never really been interested in politics. I can remember shooting suction cup darts at the television back when I was kid and Ronald Reagan would come on and start yammering about God knows what. Kids are intuitive. They know when someone is full of shit. 

I especially lost faith in politics in 2009 after I voted for Barack Obama because I thought he was going to end the Iraq/Afghanistan War, but was quickly disillusioned when the first thing he did was bail out all the corporations. I thought to myself "I think Obama really wanted to do what he said he was going to do, but now that he's in 'power' he realizes he's controlled by the corporations and all their funding. Presidents are puppets. We all have to be the change because politicians are incapable of making any changes that we cannot make for ourselves". 
 

So when Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, a lot of my friends were freaking out, asking "aren't you concerned about Donald Trump being our president?" 

"Why would I be concerned? Donald Trump is only one man. We have to all ask ourselves what we are doing to make the world a better place because we are the only thing that can change things. Do you really think ANY of these politicians care about us? And if you do believe they care about us, do you really think they can do everything to make the world a better place?" I answered.  

I had friends posting on social media about how much they hated Trump for this or that. They'd ask me what I thought about Trump and why I wasn't joining in bashing Trump. "If you know anything about positivity, then you know that you want to focus on what you DO like, not what you do NOT like. For example, if you're riding a bike on the a trail with a cliff on one side, you focus your gaze on the trail at where you want to go. If you focus your gaze at the cliff beside you, then you'll probably end up going off the cliff. If you focus on the trail where you want to go, then you'll probably stay on the trail. The same is the true with Trump. If you don't like Trump, then post about what you do like. Post your solutions to any problems that Trump might be causing. If you constantly post about the things you don't like that Trump is doing, then you're still focused on Trump and you're probably perpetuating his message." 

I did not vote for Trump in 2016, but I can understand why a lot of people did. I didn't vote for Hilary Clinton either. I voted for Jill Stein. I didn't really even pay attention to Trump's presidency until 2020, when the C!9 pandemic started. I did not pay attention to Trump until I was stuck in my apartment because the world had shut down and I asked myself "who could possibly be benefiting from this?". Amazon? Donald Trump? Bill Gates? Dr. Fauci? 

I lived through the 9/11 disaster in 2001 and the subsequent "weapons of mass destruction" scandal so I have a healthy distrust of government. 9/11 was a tragedy. The Iraq/Afghanistan War was a terrible reaction with countless innocent people in Iraq/Afghanistan killed. What did any of the US citizens do to stop that war? We held signs at a few protests. Did we stop paying the taxes that were funding the war machine? Most of us did not. Did we stop buying gasoline/petroleum that we knew was coming from the Middle East? Most of us did not. 

As the "pandemic" went on I started to see that Amazon, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci and many more were benefiting from this global crisis. However, so many people's hate for Donald Trump blinded them from thinking for themselves. They feared that if they questioned Dr. Fauci, then they would look like a Trump supporter. They feared if they don't wear a mask or get the mRNA injections, they would look like a Trump supporter. So many people's hatred for Trump and "Trump Supporters" controlled their decisions. 

I do not understand all the talk about Donald Trump running for office again in 2024? Most of the "Trump Supporters" I know have abandoned Trump now as Trump is pushing the mRNA injections as if he were a salesman for Big Pharma. In my opinion, Trump was the distraction who set up a precedent to make anyone who thinks for themselves look bad. I hope the world can see that NOT all people who think for themselves like Donald Trump. 

For most of my life I  would have considered myself more of a democrat, though I've never pledged allegiance to any political party. When the democrats started getting intolerant and hateful in 2020, I cut any allegiance I may have had to that side of politics. I also have no allegiance to the Republican party. I am now a firm independent. I will swing whichever direction I need to on any given issue. 

What if Donald Trump won the 2020 election? Would all the Trump haters have taken the Donald Trump warp speed mRNA injections? We will never know.  What we should know by now is that we have to always be the change we want to see and focus our energy on what we want, not what we hate. 

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