A Word to My Readers

When there is bias, the truth is hard to find

It is so predicable. I can almost predict verbatim how both the right and the left will respond to my political posts. They are all turning into caricatures of themselves without the slightest bit of thought and nuance about the political issues I discuss. The latest of which is a recent post on Trump’s ‘racist’ comment about the ‘Squad’ - a group of 4 women that share a hard left political philosophy.

In one of his many Tweets, Trump told them all to ‘Go back where they came from’. That has been deemed is a racist statement because the ‘Squad’ consists of 4 ‘women of color’.  Ordinarily I would agree. But Trump’s intent should be clear if one reads his entire ‘tweet’. 

His criticism was clearly not about what color they are. It was about the kind of politics they have. That is so obvious. And yet it is completely ignored by the media, by Democrats, and by all who have their political agenda. They have all been ignoring the intent of that tweet. Which was to condemn their politics. Not their color.

That distinction is lost on the ‘lefties’ that comment here. They continue to focus on the fact that the tweet was racist because the women of the ‘squad’ happen to be women of color. 

I do not absolve the President for saying it. In fact I think he is his own worst enemy by saying things like this about his political adversaries. He is making martyrs out of the very people whose views he wants to discredit. And has given them a bigger platform to influence the public to buy into their socialist agenda. These four freshmen congresswomen have been granted far more attention, influence, and power than any other first term congressmen in US history!

The media can’t get enough of them. They are having a field day with this issue as they keep insisting that this proves the President is racist. All it really proves is that he is an embarrassment whose vocabulary consists of about 70 words and who doesn't even understand why his comment is considered racist - insisting that he doesn't have a racist bone in his body.

(And that’s another thing. Racism used to mean hatred of another race and acting upon it in harmful ways. Now it means saying anything that might be perceived as hurtful to another race. Kind of like what political correctness means. But I digress. )

Democrats must know in their hearts that the President's tweet was meant about the politics of those four woman. But that did not stop them from getting the Democratic majority of the House (along with 4 Republicans) to pass a partisan resolution condemning him. (I guess that makes most of the House republicans racists too!)

Nor did it stop the media from making heroes of a group of women - at least half of which are Israel haters that consider the democratically elected leaders of Israel to be no better than Nazis... preferring Israel not exist  and and instead replaced with the State of Palestine. Media personalities cannot heap enough praise at them!

And then there is the right. Trump can do no wrong in their eyes. He is the greatest President since sliced cheese. They completely ignore the fact that he is a narcissistic womanizer who cheated on his wife (more then once); lies all the time; denigrates American heroes like John McCain; says things that are easily misconstrued as hateful to minorities often seeming to justify bigotry, bashes our allies, praises our adversaries, and constantly embarrasses this country in a myriad of inarticulate of ways. None of that matters as they continue to see him as their hero while bashing all of his critics. ( For the most part, I Like most of his polices too. But you cannot ignore the negative - even when you like the positive.)

These are the facts. I realize of course that they will fall on deaf ears as both the left and the right will continue to cling to their dearly held biases without seeing any nuances thus blinding them to the truth. The left will still see him as the near reincarnation of Hitler while the right will see him as the American Messiah. And once again I can predict almost exactly what the responses to this post will be and who will say them.

I will nevertheless stick to the truth even though the hard core ideologues of the right and left continue to ignore it. Because the truth is what this blog is all about.