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Letter: A Bad Apple

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Submitted by William Elder.

Not before, not when— unfortunately— but after you have bitten into a rotten apple do you realize that you have gone so wrong. Too late to avoid it and the rotten consequences of your mistake. But fortunately not too late to spit, with consequences only to your pride and embarrassment. Thank goodness you don’t have to swallow and endure worse consequences.

Spit time has come with Donald Trump. The man was a rotten apple from the beginning. Too few in the Electoral College recognized it; the popular electorate knew— nearly five million of us. First time I saw his hustle, first time he opened his mouth, I knew. My mother taught me about phonies like him— without honor, integrity, even due regard for respect extended, courtesy shown, even simple truth recognized for what it is. I recognized him immediately and voted accordingly. But he won— no matter how now.

Now he has lost, to all but those who cling in admiration to his character flaws or their own delusions. Time enough to examine what we have, in disgust, now spat out.

Like all of us, Donald Trump, the ex-President, was the product of his up-bringing. By all accounts this was a man disliked and bullied by his own family. This neglect hurt him deeply, shaped his attitude towards all those around him. Call it disinterest, dislike, even hatred of his fellow human beings, and a clinging love of himself, his opinions of himself. Sociopathy the mental-health professionals call it. Trump remains a sociopath to this day. Listen to it in his vicious, hurtful words, hear it in his tone when he speaks about self-perceived enemies all around him, watch it in his strutting arrogance, see it in his indifference to any and all needs but his own, always overblown, invoking pity, always self-focused, embracing bathos. Usual lies. His own regard for himself is always central to Donald Trump. That, and money. Merely look and listen, and judge. First him, then yourself.

So what? He’s spat.

Ask yourself what nourishment the country might have been taking in while we were taking four years to throw up. Health care. Effective government response to a range of problems, not least of which was a pandemic that has killed— continues to kill— one out of every 1,000 Americans, at the rate of one Pearl Harbor per day! How stronger could the Body Politic have become if the outgoing administration would have used its vast power to strengthen our common institutions, create fairness, reform our 18th Century social practices, bring our divided populations into harmony rather than create political advantage out of political, religious, racial, economic, and social divisions? Trump leaves a vast vacuum in the nation that only echoes the hollowness within himself— his vision of himself, his fellow man, his care for his country and its people. God save us all caught in his destructive wake. May it at least wash away mention of his sullied name again.

The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.

Comments

  1. Bill, your letter ends with “The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.” Not so, they are also the view of myself and almost all of my friends. I still have friends who championed Donald Trump . . . but their enthusiasm has waned . . . not soon enough. I knew Donald Trump for what he is and was in the debate with Hillary Clinton. While she spoke he stalked around behind her. How absolutely rude. Hilary should have stalked around “in front of him” the next time he spoke. But I’m afraid he wouldn’t have understood the message. He didn’t pick up on messages then and he doesn’t pick up on them now. He has completely ruined the GOP. I will never again vote for a major candidate selling themselves as Republicans. I will still vote for the best candidate locally no matter what their political beliefs, however. Trump showed his true colors when he sulked and played golf instead of approving help for Americans. Good riddance good riddance good riddance . . . spit him out.

    • Mr. Doman, if Trump has completely ruined the GOP, how is it that the party gained 11 seats in the House, reducing the Democrat party’s majority to 222-213?

    • When it concerns the welfare of our nation,there can be no rest for the truly passionate AMERICAN.I am just so very thankful that most of my fellow Americans finally woke to the evilness of trump.

    • Well,I don’t own a tv,so I don’t watch any news.But I do read extensively and I do very thorough research…and I have done it on trump going back as far as the 70s… he’s quite a NASTY character.Perhap you need to research his personal and business history.

  6. Your words: May it at least wash away mention of his sullied name again. We have, Mr. Elder. You should too. Your candidate won, the other candidate lost. Stop lecturing us about it.

    • They couldn’t get over the fact their candidate lost in 2016. Now they can’t get over the fact their candidate won.

      I’m guessing the next four years will find them blaming Pres. Trump for the reasons their plans are failing.

      I’m also predicting that Kamala Harris will be president before 2021 is over. Joe will relinquish his seat by then; the reason for so much discussion of the 25th Amendment a while back.

      • LOL–LUDICROUS !!! Obviously you have really never ever done any in depth research on Trumpty’s back ground to know what kind of man hi truly is….get an education. Knowledge can be powerful and rewarding !!????

  7. William Elder, one of the parrot Bots of MSNM!
    We try to read the Suburban Times for quality input not rubbish from Liberal Bots!
    Please take you Bot tribe and move to the Soviet Union!

  8. Nice piece of work, Mr. Elder. It’s predictable that our conservative brethren are now practicing “selective memory loss”…hey, “give it a rest”, “stop lecturing us”, and eventually: “Who’s Trump? Never heard of him!”
    Reminds me of a lot of Germans after WWII: “Damn Americans…you deprived us of our Fuehrer…” Not a word about the monster that was removed , the damage Hitler caused, the millions of lives needlessly taken.
    Let the “glossing-over” begin.

  9. Choose sides, that’s exactly what’s expected! The only way to surely divide and eventuually conquer. Keep you riled up and distracted…it works every time during a regime change and so it is.
    Mr. T and Mr. B, both useless shiny, incompetent facades .

  10. Steve, your are just another MSNM Bot who has obviously got “selective memory loss” himself!
    Join your other Bot pals in Russia!

    • Kellie, it’s “you’re”, not your…and do you mean “MSNBC”, not MSNM”? Glad you express your ideas so clearly…