Today is a sad day – the Republican voters have begun the violence

I was going to write about something else but today is not the day. I need to acknowledge something else: the protests and violence that occurred in Washington D.C.

The violence has finally happened today. How far it will go or whether it will continue, I don’t know but it is worth repeating an analogy I thought of maybe four years ago.

When an underaged child does something bad in the eyes of the law, they are treated as juveniles, punished accordingly, and their records sealed so that, later, when they become adults, they can begin their adult life without prejudice. If they continue to engage a life of crime after they turn 18, then they are treated as adults and handed down adult punishments as fit.

You first treat them as a child in the hopes that they learn and straighten out their ways and then when they become adults in the eyes of the law, which is generally 18, then we symbolically throw up our hands and go, “Well, we tried to warn you but you didn’t listen, so now we have to give progressively harsher punishments and they will go forever on your records.”

We could apply that same analogy to the Republican voters: four years ago, those who were opposed to Trump thought the Trump supporters would over time to see how wrong Trump is, and after all of the cruel and incompetent things he has done, we thought they would see the light.

Instead, four years later, 74 million of them tried to vote him in.

It’s time to say they haven’t learned. The rot lies with the Republican voters because Trump would not have been President if they hadn’t voted him in. The rot lies with them. What to do about it? I don’t know but we need to acknowledge that Hillary Clinton was partially right about them: it is not 50% of the Republican voters who are deplorables – it is 100% of them now. Anybody who calls himself a Republican or evangelical is a deplorable because by trying to vote him in, he is saying he is okay with:

By voting for him, they – 74 million of them – told him: do more of this.

I almost want to say they are no longer Americans, not in the sense of the word we mean. Evangelicals are certainly no longer Christians. So, if you are a Republican or evangelical and you don’t support Trump, then you must no longer call yourself a Republican or evangelical because you will be inadvertently tied with such stain.

Here’s the thing that I don’t think the Republican voters have considered: businesses understand that in order for them to be prosperous, they need stability and law and order. As a matter of fact, CNN has reported that Wall Street is sounding an alarm about the current attack on the vote. They recognize that if there is no stability, all of us will suffer from decline in living standards. When businesses need to expand or hire more people, they will search for those with the proper skill sets, critical thinking and good judgement. What the Republican voters don’t realize is that by picking and sticking with Trump, they’ve sided with the QAnons, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the 3 Percenters, the white supremacists: they’ve shown a severe lack of critical thinking skills and very poor judgment. And unfortunately, the Trump supporters are mainly supported in rural areas – areas that need economic development. Businesses might hire them for grunt work, but they won’t hire them for supervisory or executive positions due to the lack of critical thinking skills and poor judgement.

QAnon alone is crazy. If Trump really was spearheading an investigation and eventual arrest of a pedophile group consisting of Democrats, celebrities, and George Soros, you would think that four years later, he would have arrested them by now. Four years is too long to let children suffer such a fate. He hasn’t arrested anybody simply because there is no PROOF of such a pedophile group of democrats/liberals/celebrities. There is no evidence.

So, these rural voters have pretty much slapped themselves in the face, kicked themselves in the butt and shot themselves in the foot with their support and vote. I think they have made their lives immeasurably harder.