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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Some Major Government and Politician Lies Over The Past Two Decades

A number of recent news events raised the topic in my mind of government employees and politicians and the lies they create, perpetuate, and force on the country. These lies cover economic, medical, and environmental lies. They are put forth with straight faces by those telling them, raising that age old question: do these folks actually believe the lies they tell or do they think we are too stupid to find out and understand if their assertions are true or not?

Let’s check out the latest lies and myths that they have floated over the years:

1)Let’s go back to the days when Obama Care was being developed and passed as legislation. Remember when those of us that expressed our doubts about how that legislation would not resolve the country’s health care issues were met with some very vicious and demeaning rebuttals to our views:

Democrat Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi called opponents to Obama Care unpatriotic for simply having a difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington including herself.
Democrat Charles Rangel slandered millions of ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by calling them racists for simply having an honest difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington.
Democrat Shelia Lee Jackson slandered ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by associating them with the Ku Klux Klan,
Democrat Alan Grayson called those opposed to Obama Care knuckle dragging Neanderthals.

Let’s fast forward to today:

According to a recent large-scale survey from the Kaiser Foundation, health care costs in the past year were up 6% after rising 7% in each of the two previous years.
All of these increases were larger than the overall inflation rate and the growth in wages in those years.
Thus, it does not look like Obama Care’s objective to “bend the cost curve downwards" was not met if the rate of health care spending and costs are rising faster than inflation and wage growth.
About 25-26 million Americans do not currently have health insurance coverage according to an analysis by the Kaiser Foundation.
Thus, another Obama promise, that EVERY American would be able to get and afford health insurance under Obama Care, has proven to be false.

It appears that those of that were called unpatriotic, racists, KKK members, and knuckle dragging Neanderthals for simply having doubts about a government program actually turned out to be right: costs have not gone down, coverage has not gone up, and things are getting worse since part of the current government shutdown is because the failure of Obama Care is requiring more and more taxpayer subsidies to stay afloat.

In other words, those that supported Obama Care lied to us and used derision, and insults to cover up their lies. The problem is very simple: Obama tried to implement an economic based solution to a public health problem, using a hammer when he should have been using a screwdriver, it was doomed from the start.

The underlying problem with high health care costs in this country involves a number of factors: Americans eat too much, they eat too much of the wrong types of food, they do not exercise enough, and they smoke too much. By not fixing those underlying causes you cannot fix the overall cost problem.

Consider the informed opinion of Dr. Delose Cosgrove, formerly the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic:

In our current health care industry there is no incentive for staying well.
Obesity in America accounts for 10% of all health care costs.
Smoking, diet, and lack of exercise, according to Dr. Cosgrove, contribute to 40% of premature deaths in this country, 70% of chronic diseases such as heart disease, and accounts for 75% of the nation's total health care.

Thus, the American public was led astray down the faux Obama Care path: it did not resolve any of the health care issues facing the country despite the ravings of Democrats. But we knew this back in 2010 when we predicted exactly what would happen if Obama Care passed:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/search?q=Cleveland+clinic

Which brings us full circle back to the above hypothesis: were politicians of that timeframe too stupid to know they were not going to resolve anything or did they know but thought we were too stupid to question their assertions?

2)The Trump administration raised some hackles, mostly with liberals and Democrats, several months ago when they asserted that pain reliever Tylenol may have negative impacts if taken by pregnant women, specifically that there might be a link between Tylenol consumption during pregnancy and autism. However, it appears that various government people and politicians actually knew for a long time that there was at least a hazy connection between using Tylenol and causing autism:

Apparently, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had in its possession scientific reviews from 2016, 2019 and 2022 along with two memos from two different divisions within the FDA that warned of a possible link between Tylenol, pregnancy, and autism.
None of this information was shared with the public or doctors, specifically pregnant Americans regarding the potential danger of taking Tylenol.
In late 2016, FDA senior medical officer, Adrew Mosholder, finished his review of eight studies, with seven showing at least an association between Tylenol like products and attention deficits, delayed motor skill development, and autistic behaviors.
He recommended that the FDA issue a warning that Tylenol should be used rarely if at all given that there was possibly some kind of link between usage and autism, a recommendation that was not heeded.

We could go on with further examples over time when the FDA lied about what might be going on with Tylenol but took no action but you get the idea: the government sat on information that may have negatively impacted an untold number of American families. By lying in this case, we are assuming not telling the truth or sharing available information is the same as lying.

The complete history of this negligence can be found at the following link:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/

3)Let’s stay in the medical field for this classic quote dropped on the American public by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s lead point man on the covid epidemic:

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”

Let’s be honest, it did not quite work out that way:

I had the first two vaccination doses and still got covid … twice.
My wife got the first two vaccinations and booster shots and got covid.
A good friend of mine got the first two vaccinations and all of the booster shots and caught covid four times.
I could go on and on about my personal experiences with friends and family that got the vaccines and boosters and still got the virus.

I would bet anyone reading this also can tell stories of how the Fauci promise above was either wrong, a trait you do not want in a person in charge of the nation’s health, or he was lying, knowing full well that the vaccine was basically useless for everyone except drug companies that got rich on taxpayer wealth.

4)On last example for today:

I have lived in Florida for twenty years and have had my share of hurricanes.
During that time, I and millions of others were constantly told by politicians and government scientists and agencies that global warming would make those hurricanes more frequent, more intense, and more destructive unless we surrendered trillions of tax dollars and personal freedom to prevent the impending weather disasters.
People like Al Gore got even more famous and wealthier by predicting that dire climate changes will increase the severity of hurricanes and other bad weather.
Barack Obama agreed to a multi-national climate agreement that was created at a Paris climate summit during his term to combat the growing threat of catastrophic weather and its increasing frequency, all of which would require American taxpayers to pay more for every type of energy.

But guess what: in 2025, two decades after Hurricane Katrina kicked off a hand-wringing epidemic across the country by global warming advocates, my state of Florida experienced absolutely no hurricanes this year. No hurricanes, no tropical depressions, no tropical storms ... nothing. And it was not like we had any near misses either. No weather disruptions at all.

Which brings us back to the old question: did politicians and other government officials really believe that we were headed for climate disaster when they asked to control our lives and wealth in the name of global warming or did they just want to control our lives and think we were too stupid to understand they were leading us on?

Which brings us full circle to the reality that government officials and politicians are wrong or lying more often than they are right or telling the truth. In the meantime, our taxes, our lives and our futures can change dramatically for the wrong reason: did these folks actually believe the information they were espousing or did they think we were too stupid to understand they were lying?

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Sunday, November 6, 2016

November, 2016, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Obama Claims Innocence (Wrongly), Wasting Taxes On Apple Colors, and MOre

The current monthly record for the number of posts that were needed to cover one month's worth of insanity is ten. We equaled that record last month when we needed ten days to cover one month’s worth of political class insanity. There is a very good chance that the ten day record could fall this month since as we get closer and closer to the election, the volume of ineptness grows almost exponentially.

But today and for all of the insanity posts this month, let’s start off with a welcome piece of honest political dialog. It comes from a State Department spokesperson. Mark Toner, who is about to start the daily State Department press briefing. In a joking matter, he makes the following quote: "Welcome to the State Department. I think we have some interns in the back. Welcome. Good to see you in this exercise in transparency and democracy."

He then burst out laughing at his own quote, indicating he also knew what a joke the Obama administration has been, especially Mr. Toner’s State Department, when it comes to cover ups, lack of transparency, denial of Freedom of Information Act requests, the prosecution of whistleblowers, etc. But at least it was a little refreshing to finally hear some actual honesty out of Washington as we see from the actual clip of the news conference:

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/08/when-even-the-state-department-spokesperson-cant-keep-a-straight-face-about-things-anymore-video/

With that context of honesty, let’s see what other insanity has been going down:

1) Let’s consider the state of the nation today:

Our pubic schools continue to under educate our kids.
Our veterans continue to die unnecessarily because the Federal government cannot fulfill its promise of provide healthcare to our vets.
There are still way over 40 million Americans that need Federal food assistance every month.
The real unemployment rate is much closer to 10% vs. what the outdated and current unemployment rate is.
We still have no overarching strategic energy plan to protect us from the vagaries of the international energy market.
Our national infrastructure of roads and bridges is falling apart.
Our military readiness is probably at a decades long low point.
Drug addiction still kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Our borders still leak, opening us up to terrorist infiltration from outside the country.
Major government programs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, are criminally infested and hurtling towards fiscal insolvency.
Healthcare costs continue to skyrocket with Obama Care being an epic failure.

And these failures continue to exist even though the Federal government overspent it tax collection amounts by about $10 TRILLION over the past eight years, i.e. we spent a lot and got nothing in return except for an overbearing national debt burden.

So how did we spend so much and get so little even though the Federal government has collected more in taxes over the past eight years than any other government in the history of mankind? Well, a recent Heritage Foundation article by David Rosenthal on October 20, 2016 gives a small set of examples of how trillions of dollars are wasted over the years by the Washington political class:

- Federal government regulations - Cottage Cheese:

The Food and Drug Administration has Federal regulations on how moist cottage cheese is.
FYI, the moisture level cannot be greater than 80%.
If a company makes their cottage cheese with 80.1% moisture than they have misbranded that product and are subject to a Federal crime.

Somewhere in the Federal bureaucracy, someone spent time writing and implementing this cottage cheese regulation using our tax dollars, dollars that could have been better used by saving veterans and drug addicts lives, fixing a broken road or bridge somewhere and potentially saving someone’s life, etc.

- Federal government regulations - The Color Of Apples

The Federal Department of Agriculture provides official regulations on what are the official color standards for various types of apples.
For example, McIntosh apples must be at least 50% red to be considered “extra fancy” while Red Delicious apples must be at least 66% red to get the same Extra Fancy status.
Failure to accurately gauge the color of apples could you thrown into jail for up to five years and face a $1,000 fine.

Yes, Hillary Clinton can mishandle top secret and confidential documents and still be walking around but mislabel the color of an apple and you are in the slammer.

Somewhere in the Federal bureaucracy, someone spent time writing and implementing these apple color regulations using our tax dollars, dollar that could have been better used by saving veterans and drug addicts lives, fixing a broken road or bridge somewhere and potentially saving someone’s life, etc.

- Federal government regulations - Chicken Noodle Soup:

Government regulators have spent a lot of time actually defining what chicken soup is: “A consumer-packaged noodle soup product containing less than 2 percent chicken meat on a ready-to-serve basis may not be labeled ‘Chicken Noodle Soup’ but, when appropriate, could be labeled as ‘Chicken Flavored Noodle Soup.’”
Failure to obey this regulations gets you jail time and a fine.

Somewhere in the Federal bureaucracy, someone spent time writing and implementing this chicken soup regulation using our tax dollars, dollar that could have been better used by saving veterans and drug addicts lives, fixing a broken road or bridge somewhere and potentially saving someone’s life, etc.

So while veterans die, addicts overdose, roads crumble, our kids are under educated, etc., our tax dollars are going towards massive and inane government regulations that worry about the moisture levels of cottage cheese, the color of apples, and how much chicken is in chicken soup. Such a bad set of priorities of a government bureaucracy that is out of control.

Such over regulation means that businesses have to devote more and more time, resources, and energy to being sure that they are not going to go to jail over the color of an apple. This is time, resources, and energy that cannot be spent on growing the business and the economy, creating job opportunities for those that need a job.

As we have said many times before, as government gets bigger and bigger but the need for more government does not change, those within the government bureaucracy need to create work and look busy to justify their high government salaries and continued employment, resulting in over 70,000 pages of government regulations that stifle economic development with no societal benefit in return.

2) But it is not just food where the government misspends taxpayer funds. Consider some wasteful spending by the State Department when Hillary Clinton was in charge. According to an article on Breitbart’s website by Amanda House on October 27, 2016:

While Clinton was in charge of the State Department, the Department spent $5.4 million on crystal stemware via a no bid contract despite her promise, when she was Senator Hillary Clinton, to work to “restore transparency and oversight to the federal contracting process.”
If the no bid contract for millions of dollars was not bad enough, the bigger question is why does the State Department need $5.4 million worth of crystal stemware anyway?
Her State Department also spent an amazing $630,00 to increase Facebook likes for the Department.
And for some god forsaken reason reason spent $79,000 for copies of Obama’s book.

As we said above relative to unnecessary food regulations, how many addicts could have been treated, how many hungry Americans could have been fed, how many potholes could have been filled, etc. if the State Department did not spend $5.4 million on crystal, $630,000 on a useless Facebook project and $79,000 on a book? Insane.

3) According to a recent article on the US Chronicle website, President Obama claimed that he has not contributed to the divisions that have sprung up in the country over the past eight or so years. Really? Wasn’t it Obama who spitefully stated that:

Rural residing Americans “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Americans skeptical of global warming are idiots and that "We don't have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society."
All white Americans are racist, "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..."

But it is not just what he said that was divisive, it is what he did not say that had even more of an impact in dividing the country, his silence in the face of his Democratic Party political allies saying things that were hateful, bigoted, and divisive was deafening:

When the campaign manager of Democrat Jerry Brown’s California governor campaign called Republican opponent Meg Whitman a whore, Obama was silent.
When Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson called all Republicans knuckle dragging Neanderthals, Obama was silent.
When Obama administration czar Van Jones called all Republicans assholes, Obama was silent.
When Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Walters said all citizens that support Tea Party principles should go straight to hell, Obama was silent.
When Playboy magazine’s online website offered a detailed analysis on why and how each of ten Republican women in politics should be hate raped, Obama was silent
When Democrat Charles Rangel slandered millions of ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by calling them racists for simply having an honest difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington, Obama was silent.

This is just a small sample of the dozens of times when Obama stood silent and let his Democratic allies do his political mudslinging for him. For examples of dozens of other instances, go to the following link:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

I am not saying that Obama should have responded to all of these insults or even most of them. But he never once voiced his objections to things like this when his side was spouting them off and dividing the country. He refused to set the tone of civility when he never told his political allies to knock it off or tone it down, he just let the venom flow, much like a simple community organizer would do. So please, Mr. President, you did contribute to the deep divisions in this country, in both your own words and your own silence.

That will do it for today’s insanity, more of the same tomorrow.

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

How American Liberals and The Washington Political Class Created Trump Mania - Revisited

Now that Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for President for 2016, I thought it might be worthwhile to go back to a post we did earlier this year where we showed how Obama and liberals created Trump mania. I know a lot of Democrats and liberals were going nuts last week with the nomination of Trump, pulling their hair out and denying the reality that he could become President.

However, they keep denying or do not realize that the liberal wing in this country created Trump, the Presidential candidate. To prove my point, our March 16, 2016 post had a quiz that I asked liberals to take to show that either overtly or via their silence, they helped create Trump mania.

With the Republican convention now over and the Democrats at bat, I challenge you to take the following quiz to see if you helped create the Trump mania, especially if you consider yourself a liberal. As an added bonus, I have added two additional questions that have arisen since March 16 to further prove that liberals have continued to reinforce the Trump mania ever since.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016

How American Liberals and The Washington Political Class Created Trump Mania

Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you probably know that Donald Trump has been very successful in gathering Republican delegates in his quest to become President of the United States. This has upset many people, media types, politicians, and pundits all along the traditional political spectrum. And upset is actually a pretty tame description given how crazy and out of their minds some people, especially liberals, are going.

Many of them, liberals, are having trouble dealing with the reality that someone so non-politically correct as Trump might become President. Many of them are having trouble dealing with the reality that someone who is so honest might actually become President. Many of them are having trouble dealing with the reality that a non-politician might actually become President. Many of them are having trouble dealing with the reality that someone so arrogant and crude might actually become President. Many of them are having trouble believing the reality that anyone could actually support someone like Trump. The whole situation repulses them, throws them into a tizzy that blows their minds.

But while liberals are going nuts over the Trump phenomenon, they fail to get underneath what is actually driving that phenomenon. Trump has somehow tapped into a strong undercurrent of unrest, resentment, disgust, and rebellion that is brewing in this country. According to one Gallup poll, over 70% of Americans view the current political class in Washington as corrupt. Another Gallup poll found that 69% of Americans view “big government” as the biggest threat to the country. Trump is neither a member of the political class or a member of big government, he is viewed as an outsider, one who might actually be independent enough to overcome these poll results and the disgust they represent.

But I think there is something more subtle also going on beyond the what these polls reveal.

A lot of Americans have kept their mouths shut over the past seven plus years of the Obama administration despite a tidal wave of insults and slurs from liberals and many Washington politicians that have been cast out against anyone who dared to have a different position on the issues than them. They have had to endure crudity and obscenities and they stood by quietly and absorbed the blows.

But along comes Trump and these Americans have found someone that seems to understand them, that that seems to understand how tens of millions of Americans have been slandered by liberals and Democrats for years. Someone who seems to understand that the President of the United States stood silently by, giving at least his tacit acceptance, as common American citizens and politicians with a different and legitimate position were viciously pummeled by his political allies.

Which leads to the following theory: the Trump phenomenon was created by and fed by liberals, Democrats, and the President of the United States. It was also fed by ordinary citizens who stood silently on the sidelines as their friends, family members, and neighbors were obscenely attacked and slandered by liberals and Democrats over the past seven years. To prove my point, especially the point where the President purposely allowed Americans to be personally and obscenely attacked, take the following quiz:

When the campaign manager of Democrat’s Jerry Brown’s gubernatorial campaign called his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman, a whore, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When TV host Montel Williams publicly hoped that Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachman would commit suicide by decapitating herself, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Ed Schultz, an on air commentator for the Democratic leaning MSNBC news channel, called Laura Ingraham of Fox News a slut, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When HBO TV host Bill Maher, a major donor to Obama’s 2012 Presidential Super PAC, said on air that Republican Sarah Palin “would f*** Rick Perry if he was black,” Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Bill Maher called Republican Sarah Palin disgusting and derogatory female anatomical names that I will not repeat here, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Playboy magazine’s online website offered a detailed analysis on why and how each of ten Republican women in politics should be hate raped, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When a rap artist gave a Minnesota concert that was billed as the “F*** Michele Bachman” concert (spelling out the entire f-word), a Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When a Democratic operative insulted Ann Romney, and millions of other American women, by slandering and demeaning her as a stay at home mother, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democrat Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi called opponents to Obama Care unpatriotic for simply having a difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democrat Charles Rangel slandered millions of ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by calling them racists for simply having an honest difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democrat Shelia Lee Jackson slandered ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by associating them with the Ku Klux Klan, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When White House czar Van Jones called all Republicans a**h***s, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Louis Farrakhan said in Miami last year that the time has come for 10,000 black volunteers to step forward to kill white Americans, Obama was silent. Were you also silent?

When Democrat Alan Grayson called all Republicans knuckle dragging Neanderthals, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When union boss and Democratic supporter Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. stated that his union was at war with the Republicans and Tea Party and that those people "need to be taken out," Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democratic Congressmen Mike Doyle and Henry Waxman and Vice President Joe Biden slandered ordinary Americans opposed to unfettered and destructive government spending and debt by calling them terrorists (those people that bomb and kill and innocent civilians), Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When ordinary Americans objected to the building of a Islamic mosque near the World Trade Center property because of the horrible memories of 9-11 and Democrat Nancy Pelosi said THEY should be investigated for simply having an opinion on the mosque, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen likened Republican critics of Obama Care to the Nazis and their propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Walters said ordinary American citizens can go to hell simply for having a difference of opinion with her, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Martin Bashier of leftist MSNBC News showed a video of Mitt Romney’s campaign bus that was interspersed with video clips of buses blowing up in balls of fire, explicitly wishing that the Romney bus also blow up and those inside die a fiery death, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Martin Bashier of leftist MSNBC News said someone should defecate into Sarah Palin’s mouth, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When liberal Professor Richard Parncutt of the University of Graz said he wanted to execute other human beings that are global warming deniers for simply having a different opinion than his and Obama's on global warming, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When liberal newspaper columnist Donald Kaul wrote an article for the Des Moines Register where he called for the killing of gun owners and“dragging legislators who disagree with gun control behind pickup trucks until they get the message,” Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When liberal Erik Loomis, PhD, assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island decided that he wanted the death of National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre, branding the gun rights group he heads as a terrorist organization: "[I] want Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick," Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union shared some violent rhetoric of her own: “Do not think for a minute that the wealthy are ever going to allow you to legislate their riches away from them. Please understand that. However, we are in a moment where the wealth disparity in this country is very reminiscent of the robber baron ages. The labor leaders of that time, though, were ready to kill. They were. They were just – off with their heads. They were seriously talking about that,” Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When liberal Elizabeth Ashack, an economist at the Department of Labor, said that all Christians are Nazis, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democratic Indiana state representative Vanessa Summers publicly stated that a fellow legislator’s 18 month old son was a racist, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Bernie Sanders said that any American believes that the Social Security process is hurtling towards insolvency (which it is) is a liar, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

When Democratic activist Sarah Noble said that all men should die or get f***ed, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

Bonus insult: When the Hispanic Congressional Caucus sent out a fundraising letter and said that Republicans needed to be “kicked in the teeth,” Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

Bonus insult: When Professor James Pearce, who teaches at Southern State Community College in Hillsboro, said that “A bunch of us anti-gun types are going to have to arm ourselves, storm the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, VA, and make sure there are no survivors,” Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

Bonus Insult: When BillNMaher called Trumps kids a**h**** and Nazis, Obama was silent. Were you silent also?

Maybe now you see that if someone was constantly being called a whore, a slut, an a**h***, a racist, a member of the KKK, a liar, unpatriotic, a terrorist, derogatory female body parts, a Neanderthal, and a Nazi, they might be attracted to a Presidential candidate that seems to understand their frustrations.

Maybe now you see that if someone was constantly being told to kill yourself, f*** yourself, die in a bus crash, just die, have someone defecate in your mouth, go to hell, get hate raped, get kicked in the teeth, get taken out, and get decapitated, they might be attracted to a Presidential candidate that seems to understand their frustrations.

Additionally, maybe now you see that if someone was constantly being blamed for events that happened long before they were born and long before their family even came to this country, that someone was being blamed for the ills of the world because they were born a certain skin color, that someone should be killed for simply being white, and that you achieved success in life not because of your hard work and efforts but because of an inane concept called “white privilege,” they might be attracted to a Presidential candidate that seems to understand their frustrations.

And if your answers to the quiz above were that you also remained silent as your neighbors, family members, and friends were being attacked by politicians, media types, and others, then you along with Obama helped create the Trump phenomenon. So stop fretting about Trump, stop lashing out to those that are supporting Trump, stop being part of the problem, stop casting and supporting the insults and slander, and start being part of the solution.

Insist that the personal attacks stop and set an example by discussing only the issues and not the looks or intelligence of those that have a different opinion than you. Insist that your political representatives do the same. Otherwise you are part of the problem, you are part of the divisiveness in the country, you created the mania that is Trump.