By Sally Dugman
One of my friends sent me an article that suggested that Bernie Sanders’s recent rallies that goad Donald Trump had paid attendees. In response, I think that such a plan is dubious, although I do remember Trump paying actors to come to at least one of his public meetings to make him look popular and desirable.
So, what does it matter, anyway, about the number and whom attended Bernie Sanders’s rallies? What matters much more so is about whom runs the narrative about happenings.
All considered, we, as a country’s citizens, aren’t acting conscionably when our main leader who is liked is someone who wants to steal Gaza for his own personal, cut-throat (literally so) financial gain (so as to build a high-end resort catering to the extremely wealthy) and we think that this action is okay. I, certainly, don’t do so.
Yes, maybe lots of U.S. citizens think that it is okay to steal land and resources (especially since our country was founded on murder and theft from millions of natives for self-gains). I do not.
Maybe most U.S. citizens think that it is okay to provide “hush money” to shut up a porn star who one solicited for sex so as to be able to present a lily-white image of self during the time that one is running for office and at that point, one’s wife has just given birth or about to do so. I do not.
Maybe they even like that Trump followed a woman, who verbally stood up to him, into a store dressing room and by forcing his finger or fingers into her vagina showed his dominance and control over her with his pay-back revenge in the way that war-mongering thugs do in conflict war zones do. I do not.
Maybe they think that it is all right to publicly make fun of a disabled reporter who is asking you an earnest question at a news conference.I do not.
Maybe they don’t mind that Trump was caught lying again and again on a frequent basis about all sorts of topics such as consuming cleaning solutions for handling a virus, I do not.
Maybe they think that it is okay that he gives funds and weapons of mass destruction at taxpayers’ expense that are used to purposefully kill children and elderly citizens in Palestine so that they simply die off in a massive genocide. I do not.
Maybe they think that it’s okay to ravage USA forests, meadows, waters, and more while causing lots of species to go extinct and climate change to run amuck while not leaving much by way of resources for future generations of humans. I do not.
Maybe they even imagine that it’s favorable to dismantle assorted U.S. agencies via a fawning lackey named Elon Musk who is on the dole for billions of dollars for his provisions to the United States government. I do not.
Maybe they think that in reverse Robin-hood style, it’s okay to steal Medicaid, SNAP, WIC and more from the poor to have ample money available to give tax breaks to billionaire personal pals. Imagine that happening being condoned by the brunt of the public. I cannot.
Perhaps Trump and the brunt of the general public like shabbily treating as a way to publicly humiliate the Ukraine leader. I do not. …and the list of the grievous and morally slipshod wrongs goes on and on all of which some people wildly condone Trump’s actions overall, including his sending would-be Immigrants to a notorious prison in another nation! I do not … and adamantly so since I lack having any degree of liking moral lassitude.
Sally Dugman lives in and writes from Massachusetts in the USA.
25 March 2025
Source: countercurrents.org