Les Whitenaugh
Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

I hate being right — I mean, correct, but I’ve felt more and more like Cassandra over the past nine months. I did NOT think the D would win, but following I’ve seen too many warning signs regarding the rising tide of hate, which perhaps just lay dormant, but gained new energy and confidence with the tacit acceptance by the Man, and his spineless toadies. For at least six months I’ve had this disconcerting fear that Trump could be backed into a corner by his own Party members who either have some recessive integrity or see the writing on the wall for future elections, and in desperate scrambling to keep his power, could actually call upon his Base, to rise up and protect and defend him. Today, I read the word I’ve used about them for half a year- sedition- in connection with the NRA and its rabid, armed legions who disproportionately have remained Brownshirt loyalists to the Trump.

I would like to believe in the best instincts and qualities of the U. S. but have been disappointed to see the vicious reaction by way too many white folks like myself, who bought the decade old propaganda the Republicans had prepped for 2008 when they thought Hillary would be the nominee, and which was conveniently recommissioned for the 2016 campaign. Add the anti-Obama mania and we have allowed a climate of epic warming. White hot. White whiners. White faux victimhood. Fear of the Black Nation. Pick your own catch phrase.

The NRA is about to become an official terrorist organization; it is homegrown, well-armed, with cells as wide and deep as your local police and hunting club, with more and more openly racist members professing an eagerness to start shooting, and all it will take is an order from Wayne LaPierre, a loathsome creep who makes Steve Bannon look like Mother Teresa. Stay tuned; if I were a thinking liberal, I’d think about taking advantage of the generosity of the Second Amendment privileges allowed in your area, now, because — despite the groundless warnings that Obama was coming for your guns — as the pro-Trump camp is already stockpiled and ready, an executive order from him could freeze the good guy’s opportunity to arm themselves. It is a myth that Hitler tightened gun laws -he actually loosened them, but incidently made it illegal for Jews to own guns. Should a similar “modest proposal” appear under a Trump order, we get to see how free LaPierre is to defend ownership by the opposite side of the political arena.

Cassandra, out.

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