Posted on 11/17/2016 9:25:58 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Over the summer, my little sister had a soccer tournament at Bloomsburg University, located in central Pennsylvania. The drive there was about three hours and many of the towns we drove through shocked me. The conditions of these towns were terrible. Houses were falling apart. Bars and restaurants were boarded up. Scrap metal was thrown across front lawns. White, plastic lawn chairs were out on the drooping front porches. There were no malls. No outlets. Most of these small towns did not have a Walmart, only a dollar store and a few run down thrift stores. In almost every town, there was an abandoned factory.
My father, who was driving the car, turned to me and pointed out a Trump sign stuck in a front yard, surrounded by weeds and dead grass. “This is Trump country, Tori,” He said. “These people are desperate, trapped for life in these small towns with no escape. These people are the ones voting for Trump.”
My father understood Trump’s key to success, even though it would leave the media and half of America baffled and terrified on November 9th. Trump’s presidency has sparked nationwide outrage, disbelief and fear.
And, while I commend the passion many of my fellow millennials feels towards minorities and the fervency they oppose the rhetoric they find dangerous, I do find many of their fears unfounded. I don’t find their fears unfounded because I negate the potency of racism. Or the potency of oppression. Or the potency of hate.
I find these fears unfounded because these people groups have an army fighting for them. This army is full of celebrities, politicians, billionaires, students, journalists and passionate activists. Trust me, minorities will be fine with an army like this defending them.
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Hate helped - the more hate the Left threw at him/us the more energized we became - to defeat that hate...
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
The left has a tendency to become unhinged when they don’t get their way. Sort of like spoiled children, they have a tendency to have temper tantrums.
In the political area, they can’t seem to accept election results.
Do they think their demonstrations of outrage will really convince others of the rightness of their cause???
A really great read on how Trump won, in spite of the media and establishment attacks, is at http://resistancefeed.com/2016/11/10/donald-trump-beat-the-best-funded-political-machine/. He appealed to the people who the Clintons and Obama hurt.
With an army like that at their back no wonder they are scared to death.
WOW! What a wonderfully written opinion. I’m sending this out on FACEBOOK. It’s true, it’s real, it’s poignant, and it touches the soul. No one can deny the depth of the real pain in the description of rural helplessness expressed here. Makes me proud that I supported the candidate that WILL help them.
God, please protect President-elect Trump, his family, and compatriots as they do your work.
Every where in small town America, not just Pennsylvania.
Bump!
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