Editor,
Albert Einstein might have been talking about Trump’s followers who stupidly annihilate facts and believe his undeniable lies.
- They believe Trump will create jobs – Trump ripped off many workers by not paying his bills, buying off officials and judges to give him unfair advantages, partnering with the Mafia and other criminals to develop substandard buildings to rent at very high prices.
- They believe his lack of experience is better than an expert’s lifelong practice – because Congress has proved itself corrupt and incompetent (due to the majority Republicans’ opposition to everything progressive), it would be good to hire a novice to run the government?
- They believe he is an accomplished and rich businessman – starting out with a million dollar trust fund, he has declared bankruptcy four times leaving small businessmen and workers holding the bag, refusing to disclose his tax returns so his true wealth cannot be known.
- They believe Trump is smart not to pay taxes – Trump wants to run the government without supporting government and he has dishonestly bought politicians who created tax loopholes for the wealthy and has paid out millions to camouflage his tax returns thereby paying no taxes at all for at least 20 years;
- They believe lesbians and gay people are immoral to love someone of the same sex – Trump has openly and proudly admitted to his compulsive conquest of young women and has had many public affairs outside of his three marriages;
- They believe Trump is telling the truth about what is needed in America – “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” – Nazi Joseph Goebbels;
- They really do not care what Trump has done since they are so very angry – E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post talked to white Trump supporters who knew of his deceptive practices and did not care because they were so angry about what they perceived as injustices done to them.
- They think Trump is a Christian – his very lifestyle mocks true Christianity, he misquotes the Bible to pretend he is religious, and his main drive, according to him, is to get revenge.
- They believe the “little guy” will get a tax break – Trump proposes cutting the top rate on the wealthy from 39.6% to 25%, eliminating the estate tax which applies only to the rich, eliminating capital gains tax and other sleight-of-hand trickery ending with a $2,700 tax cut for middle-income Americans and a $275,250 reduction for wealthy Americans.
- They assume Trump’s toughness would bring peace – Trump has said NATO is obsolete, he might use nukes in Europe because it is “a big place,” and that it would not be a bad thing “if Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia (among others) had nuclear weapons.”
T.A. Laughlin