Wow - Old Chinese Expression: “Ho Lee Sheet”
Wow – what a
surprising article from
Fox News … the highlights and short introduction follow:
Millions of
Americans are fed up with divider-in-chief Donald Trump and the awful job he’s
done dealing with the coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 113,000
Americans and protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of
Minneapolis police – among his many failures.
As a result, President Trump’s poll ratings are
sinking and the prospects are increasing that former Vice President Joe Biden
will send Trump into political retirement in the November election. Trump has
appealed only to his base and sought to fan the flames of division and conflict
between Americans.
This is one more sign of the incompetent leadership of our
reality TV president and it is also an unwise political move.
Hillary
Clinton received about 3 million more votes than Trump in the 2016 presidential
election, but lost in the Electoral College. Trump is taking a huge gamble if
he thinks he can be reelected while trailing by millions of popular votes
again, because Biden and his team have no doubt learned from Clinton’s mistakes
and are focused on doing better in the Electoral College.
Trump has in effect changed the name of our country
from the United States to the Divided States of America. He has increased our
divisions along lines of race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and political
views.
Huge contrasts between Biden and
Trump – from this article – a fine summary: Biden talks about knowing how those who have lost
loved ones are feeling, having lost his first wife, daughter, and one son. He
is a real, relatable, kind, and a loving man who clearly cares about the pain
and problems suffered by others.
That’s a
stark contrast to Trump, who tweets and tweets and tweets with complaints about
being unfairly attacked, viciously attacks, and insults his critics, and labels
any news report that doesn’t shower him with praise as “fake news.”
I would add to that popular Trump phrase that he frequently
also uses this phrase: “They are the enemy
of the people.”
That phrase has a very long history, but in more modern
times it gained its widest use by Joseph Stalin during the early years of the old
Soviet Union.
In the nation's early years, Vladimir Lenin along with Stalin
used the term: vrag
naroda (Russian for enemy of the
nation or the people) to refer to those who disagreed with the
ideologies pushed forth by the Bolshevik government and, later, adopted by the
newly-formed Soviet Union.
That phrase could include anyone from the clergy who
did not want to adopt state-enforced atheism to writers to political
opposition that questioned the ideologies of the new government.
Later picked
up by Stalin, such a designation could mean immediate imprisonment or removal
to a labor camp.
The writer of
this article thinks Americans are tired of the tweeter-in-chief’s constant
whining. They want a president focused on our nation, not a narcissist focused
on airing his personal grievances.
My 2 cents: I totally agree with the article’s main
points and conclusion – and it is a keeper for sure – as a reminder of the upcoming
presidential election and what it really means — as the stakes are higher than I have ever seen in my
lifetime, and probably in yours, too.
Time will tell of course, but be sure that Trump will
pull out all the stops and dirtiest tricks in his bailiwick. Stay tuned and also be sure that it
will be nasty and ugly.
Thanks for stopping by.
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