Norm Gilbert
4 min readJan 21, 2021

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Not all 75 million Trump supporters were racists. But plenty were from the crazies shouting Jews Will Not Replace Us in Charlottesville to the wack job running through the capital carrying a Confederate flag.

Many were simply low information voters, easily led by the expert con artist. They believed what they heard from Rush or Faux. And no one had ever taught them critical thinking.

Others were Born Agains who were willing to throw away their morals as long as Trump would try to outlaw abortion.

A few were rich people who didn't want to pay any taxes if they could get away with it.

Trump was painted as a racist from day one? He acted like a racist by going after 5 innocent black men who were falsely accused of a crime in Central Park. He started or amplified the total nonsense that Obama wasn't born in the United States, and he was actually a Muslim. And the ignorant people believed it all. Ever see that old woman ask McCain if Obama was a Muslim, and he actually had to set her straight?

You don't know much about Hollywood, do you? Harvey Weinstein was raping women and everyone was afraid of his power to make or break their career, so they kept quiet.

Mel Gibson was an anti-semite. Kevin Spacy was molesting young men. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was a heroin addict. You never heard about these things for years until something was reveled.

"The Apprentice" was a total fantasy, creating this fake persona of a very successful businessman, when the truth is that Trump is a horrible businessman. Everything he touches dies. What was it 7 bankruptcies? Who cannot make money owning a casino?

I should use my head? I'm the one citing the facts, while you have no facts, so I can only assume your support of Trump is both irrational and emotional.

TDS is something you Trump supporters made up. Just like "What Aboutism".

Nothing I say will convince you that you wrong about Trump. But he hates the same people you hate, so that make him admirable.

I get pretty sick of hearing the fearmongering where you label all Democrats as Radical Left Wing Socialists when the real radical is Trump, and his terrorist supporters. Who invaded our Capitol? Wasn't the liberals, it was Radical Right-Wing Terrorists and Fascists.

Trump was the first President in 100 years that refused to concede and wouldn't participate in a peaceful transition of power. That's pretty damn Radical.

Real true capitalism is an excellent economic system. The major feature is plenty of competition. Corporate Capitalism is about eliminating competition and building de facto monopolies, then buying politicians of both parties to vote on legislation their lobbyists wrote. And let's be honest, the tax system is set up to favor business and screw over workers.

Before you go off on socialism (which you really ought to define) you do realize that your local Fire Department is a 100% Socialist enterprise. Would you have it any other way?

Jack, you worked for IBM, so I have to assume you are a pretty smart guy and if you did quantitative research you know numbers and math. And you also know how research can be manipulated by whom you ask and how the questions are constructed to produce any conclusion you'd like.

But you and I are dinosaurs. 28 years working for one company? No one does that anymore. Neither workers nor management want that kind of a company. Anyone over 40 is considered old in Silicon Valley, except for positions as janitors and security guards.

I managed a district office for Businessland back in the 80s. We were the very first authorized IBM PC dealer in the world. Our systems engineers knew more about networking computers than did IBM's own people who were stuck using only IBM technology.

IBM was our supplier and supposedly our partner, but they were also our competitor and had no problem selling PCs below our cost to cut us out of some rather huge multi-hundred PC deals to major corporations. They were also selling smart cash registers that we as dealers couldn't sell. The sale was always going to be IBM hardware, no matter who sold it. What IBM did isn't capitalism, it was pure greed and predatory capitalism.

Study much history? How much do you know about the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in 1932 Germany? We're very lucky that Trump is in fact a bad businessman and a terrible manager. We came so close to a fascist coup, except Trump is a coward and well, stupid. Trump is Hitler in character but doesn’t have Hitler's ruthlessness. But her learned well how to use propaganda to control the population. The Big Lie, told over and over again, becomes the perceived truth. But if America isn't careful, there will be another Trump in our future.

But Donald is in a heap of hurt, both financially and criminally. He's heading for prison. Are you still going to support him after he's tried and convicted?

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Norm Gilbert
Norm Gilbert

Written by Norm Gilbert

Fully retired, ex-pat living outside the US. Been a worker, been in a union, owned a business, and had probably 6 different career paths. I write as a hobby.

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