by baldilocks
From a recent conversation:
Them: “I didn’t vote for President Obama either time. You know that. But I like him.”
Me: “Really?”
Them: “I can’t stand Trump! I know you’re on the Trump Team.”
The Trump Team? We’re on teams now?
Me: “I’m not on the ‘Trump Team.’ I’m on the side of our country. And President Trump has done many good things for it.”
Them (scoffs): “What has he done?”
Me: His policies have brought about lower unemployment. Black unemployment is at its lowest since …”
Them (interrupts): “NO, IT’S NOT! IT’S THE SAME AS IT WAS WHEN OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT!”
That’s when I knew I had to compose this post. But before I did, I created a page containing links to my many posts during the 2016 presidential campaign in which I expressed skepticism about Donald Trump’s intentions. In short, I thought he was playing conservatives and was in cahoots with Hillary Clinton to get her into the White House.
There are a lot of links on that page, so if you don’t have time to read them, don’t worry. But, I don’t believe in hiding my errors.
Also on that page are indications of my evolution into becoming a supporter of now President Trump.
Do I like him? It’s a question that does not matter. He’s not my friend or my boss. He’s not going to marry into my family nor will anyone in my family marry into his. I like that he is mostly good for our country, I like that he wants that which is good for it, and I like that he isn’t all talk.
I could post the many forms of beneficial action which President Trump has taken, but I want to focus on the most recent topic since the majority of my American family lives in the South and Southwest: Illegal immigration.
Yes, I’ve ranted about it before but, as I type this, we are seeing the beginning of results of this president putting Mexico’s feet to the fire.
Mexico has long been allowing MILLIONS of citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to walk through its southern border and sojourn through its land en route to the United States.
And why wouldn’t Mexico allow this? Why the flock not? Hey, it’s a chance to shake down these people, rape them, rape their children and turn them into drug mules. And, just spit-balling here, it’s also a chance for Mexican banks to get their hands on monies belonging to international organizations like Pueblo Sin Fronteras (PSF). The Chicago-based PSF has been at the forefront of bringing Central Americans through Mexico to the United States since 2008.
One thing: this flood of illegal aliens has been nothing but a hindrance to the well-being of Americans who are black. Did I mention that the person I was talking to is black?
But what really got to me was the notion of Barack Obama’s “likability.”
I didn’t want to ask why this person likes the former president because we were already past the point of reasoning together. But I tried to think of what was likable about Former President Obama versus the things that would cause a person to dislike President Trump. Of course, that didn’t take long.
One president talks in a calm, even manner. He’s youthful, slim and has close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair. He will compliment you and try to assuage your doubts.
The other president is old, a little overweight, and funny-looking; that hair, though. And he speaks bluntly and will hurt your feelings.
It would be easy to like the “likable” one, if we didn’t also know that, as a state senator, he voted against saving babies who are born following botched abortions.
… if he hadn’t said that wouldn’t “punish” one of his own daughters with a baby, if one of them had become pregnant before age 18.
… if we didn’t know about Benghazi
… if we didn’t know about Operation Fast and Furious.
… if we didn’t know what he did for Iran.
(If I listed everything that President Likable did to harm this country and its people, this post would be endless.)
But, because he fornicated us with a smile, he’s likable.
Conversely, it’s okay to dislike the one who does almost everything alleged conservatives say they want and who, among many other things, is executing effective action to secure this nation’s borders and strengthen its economy.
Fact is, most people will accept tyranny if the tyrant blows smoke up their a**es.
And will hate the harsh one with the old man hair; the one who tries to fix things.
Even the things they care about.
Even while they are prospering.
Thinking about this, I’m glad that Jesus never told His followers to like their neighbor as themselves, since I spend a lot of time disliking my neighbors — even the ones that I love.
Even the ones who are unable to discern friend from foe or good from evil.
Juliette Akinyi Ochieng has been blogging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here. She published her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012.
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