It's been a bit...June actually not that anyone really is keep track of the months as much as we used too. 2020 seems to have taken time and all that goes with it stuck it in that ride at the carnival, you know the Rock and Roll ride that spins super fast while playing the hardest possible rock that they can get away with but with all the safety's off.
As a country we lurch from crisis to crisis. We move from lie to lie, from one hypocritical action to another. Things that a few years ago would have made everyone say no way, have been normalized. There is no calming force, coming from our leadership...and when I say leadership I mean from the top down. It's no secret that I am not a Trump fan. On the contrary I personally believe he is not just a horrid president, but also a bad person.
All politicians lie, we know this, and yet the boldness with which this one does so is astounding. The boldness of using the Justice Department as his own personal law firm is unprecedented. The race baiting, gas lighting, all of it just, in my mind, reinforces the fact that he's a bad person, a very bad person.
Which makes what I'm about to say, or write probably seem like the strangest thing in the world.
I feel bad for the man, and I pray for him. I pray for him because the Bible says to, but also because I feel bad for him.
Here's the thing, as bad as Trump is, and make no mistake I believe he is very bad, his behavior is enabled by a group of people who are supposed to act as a check to him and in this situation are just saying nope lets watch this implode or explode. If we could jump in a DeLorean, take it to 88 mph and come out in 2015 and 2016, we would find a very different group of people, railing against the very man that they now suck up too. Trump is a shark surrounded by a pod of dolphins that at any moment can turn on him and kill him without a thought. One only needs to look at what McConnel, Cruz, Graham and others in the GOP said about him all the way up till his unlikely nomination. You would be hard pressed to find anything positive about the man said by these men, who now seem to be his best buddies, the difference is, these leaders have been in Washington for years, and years. They could care less about Trump or his policies, they only care about how far he can take them in their grab for power. The fact that he too craves power works in their favor at this point as is evidenced by their willingness to just ignore and do whatever he says.
In Trump you have a picture of the Emperor with no clothes. A leader that lurches from crisis to crisis, that has given so many alternative facts, that contradict what he has said in the past that is able to be seen and heard because of technology, the worst part about it, is that when it's all over, his new friends will forget all about their golf buddy and move on to the next person that they think will further their power grab. The dolphins are circling and the shark just cant maneuver fast enough.
In the wild it's all down to design. A shark is not like a Dolphin. Sharks, are typically solitary individuals, they have a different type of bone structure to that of dolphins, they have a slower range of mobility as well. A pod of dolphins will surround the shark and start confusing it, then one will dive deep and swim rapidly up into the underbelly of the shark with it's snout, sometimes repeatedly many times it kills the shark, and even if it doesn't, it will leave the shark with internal damage.
For Trump there has to be a realization that he can't really trust the people that now are his "best friends, and apologists." if not then I feel even worse for him.
So why this post. What's the point of it. Am I breaking my political embargo?
I am writing this post about this man because in truth, we all were and are bad people in some respect. We all fall we all are messed up we all make mistakes, we all need forgiveness and grace and mercy. We all need to realize that. We all need to understand that. It doesn't excuse our bad behavior to admit it, it doesn't take away from the consequences of that behavior, it doesn't even give us an excuse to say well deal with it this is who I am. What it does is let us all realize that it's okay to feel empathy for a man that is so far out of his depth, that is looking at a very sad and frustrating and lonely life following whatever happens in the next couple months and possibly years.
Yes we should hold our leaders accountable, yes we should not and can not excuse his behavior. If you are not happy with his performance as president then it's incumbent on you if you can vote to go and vote accordingly to remove him from office. If you are happy then of course it's your choice and duty to vote for him. This post is not about that. It's about the ability to realize that our personal feelings towards him, does not negate the fact that he is a shark swimming with dolphins, and at any moment those dolphins can and will turn on him and destroy him. Is that destruction deserved? Probably but it should give all of us pause. It should make us all stop a moment and understand, because if we can't find empathy, even for the worst among us...are we any better than the shark?
