The saddest and most tragic effect of the Donald Trump candidacy for President is how he is promoting long term racism and nativism in children, which guarantees a long term tumultuous future for American race relations.
White children are taunting their Hispanic-Latino and Muslim school mates,that they will be deported and barred from America, and that is cannon fodder for the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups to recruit teenagers and young men and women in their 20s to incite racial violence and persecution over the long haul.
A third grade boy in North Carolina has written, as part of a class assignment, to Donald Trump, deploring his racism, nativism, and other prejudiced statements, that harm children, and shows a very perceptive young man who is ashamed of what Trump is doing as an adult, who is supposed to be a role model, but is anything but that.
It is infuriating that Trump accused Cokie Roberts, the PBS journalist formerly with ABC News, who was on Morning Joe this morning, of being “nasty”, by bringing up the effect Trump is having on children. And for Trump to claim he has not “heard” or “seen” that, is aggravating, as just because he, personally, has not heard or seen it, is just an indication of how ignorant he is, and his attempt to deny reality as a result!
Trump is already damaging America in a long term manner, long after he leaves the scene, and that is a sin beyond redemption!
On a related note, Trump is attacking Muslims again. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-attacks-muslims-islam-hates-us
This is something you wouldn’t see in Trump’s version of America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dearborn-muslims-arab-americans-bernie-sanders_us_56e16b5ae4b0860f99d7ea1f
Jeannie Moose has a video on CNN of a dog reluctantly taking the Trump pledge.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/10/donald-trump-dog-raises-paw-pledge-erin-moos-pkg.cnn
That dog’s smart. He knows that Trump is a nut.
This is a pragmatic progressive political blog with some humor. Check out there interview of Rubio, Hillary and Sanders.
http://bpicampus.com/2016/03/10/mixed-nuts-ask-marco-kinda-sorta/
Trump supporter threatened and punched protester at a rally. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/man-charged-assault-after-punching-protester-trump-event
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a Presidential candidate. Now, I just want Presidential candidates to grow up ; )
HAHA, good one, Paul! LOL
Professor,
David Brooks, a conservative writer who one can respect, said it all in one of his columns last week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/opinion/the-governing-cance
of-our-time.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=collection
Yes, Paul, David Brooks is a man of principle and wisdom much of the time!
Re: The violence at Trump’s rallies
Any reason why Trump can’t be charged with “incitement to violence”? He’s certainly doing that.
Pragmatic Progressive, ABSOLUTELY Trump can be charged with incitement to violence, and if he were not who he is, he would be!
Pragmatic – Muslims voting for Bernie is testimony against stereotypes that Muslims are antisemitic.
Yes, former Republican, isn’t that wonderful? 🙂
“Muslims voting for Bernie is testimony against stereotypes that Muslims are antisemitic.”
Correct, and using that same reasoning you could also make the case that conservative white “Tea Partiers” (or just simply many conservatives in general) who voted for Ben Carson is testimony against the stereotype that they are racists, or insensitive with regards to race. Obviously there are other examples that could be used, such as Marco Rubio, or Carly Fiorina (testimony against the idea that they are sexist or misogynistic).
I am certainly not a “Tea Partier” but am just trying to be fair. I get the feeling that some on this blog may possibly not recognize this point.
Mike, I agree that stereotypes are very dangerous, and you are correct!
A lot of the stereotyping is typically done by the Right.
Precisely! Just look at the GOP debate last week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-uncivil-debate/2016/03/11/0e151f7c-e7d1-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html
Trump is yelling at his rallies today that the protesters are being organized by Bernie. He’s also calling them thugs.
Newsweek article from 2010 about the Tea Party and racism.
While some in the movement may truly just be upset about politics and the size of government, data from surveys show that there are racial elements in the movement.
http://www.newsweek.com/are-tea-partiers-racist-70695
Quite right, Rustbelt.
Ben Carson’s nutty comments made him hard to take seriously.
Carly Fiorina hurt herself with the abortion lies.
I agree totally, Former Republican!