By SheelaR

As we quickly approach the run for presidency, we find ourselves in the midst of a hell and brimstone three ring circus lead by Donald Trump. The candidacy and rhetoric of Donald Trump that has literally set U.S. race relations back more than 50 years. Mr Trump has made the most egregious forms of racism and intolerance openly acceptable by the GOP base. What we are witnessing folks, is a new, raw, and unbridled republican party. They are no longer interested in hiding behind clever euphemisms and doublespeak. They are loud and proud.

If elected, his “promises” may never come to fruition… However, his rhetoric is irresponsible and dangerous for Muslims, Latinos, and any minority community in this country. His thumbs up gives life to fear-based hate. We seemed to have forgotten that America was colonized by refugees fleeing from religious persecution. “Refugees” and “Religion” have now become dirty words when attempting to stoke fear and hate. This country has no room for anymore hate and intolerance.

Donald Trump is a fool cheered by fools and the willfully ignorant. We’ve seen him mock the disabled; engage in talk of rounding up and deporting Mexicans and Muslims; engage in the worst kind of misogyny; and elude to America engaging in religious persecutions.  Did I leave anything out? Oh, yes! He doesn’t seem to like or respect blacks either.

We have to find a meaningful way to shut down the hate rhetoric and lies from the lunatic ultra-right, which teaches their brainwashed foxbot followers that anyone who is not a lunatic rightist, is inferior and corrupt.  Their sick reactionary spewing’s and their cynically pre-planned responses to crises, are designed to attack the President and anyone attempting to challenge their twisted ideology.

The fact that no one on the right can even acknowledge that they are reactionary or even look up the means of that term, tells us how close to ugly ultra-right fascism these incendiary/inflammatory hate-mongers truly are. We are living in perilous times. We must band together and use our common sense and voting power to keep the Donald Trumps of the world out from ascending to power.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” -John Dalberg-Acton