I have been
seeing an ever increasing number of stories on-line recently about disappointed
Trump voters who didn't get what they expected in return for their votes. Latinos who voted Trump are being deported. Coal miners and factory workers who voted Trump
are being laid off while their jobs still go overseas. Women who
voted Trump are seeing their gender being defamed, criticized, and held back
more than ever. Sick and elderly people
who voted Trump are seeing Trump and Republicans try every trick in the book to
take away their health care insurance and kill them off because they cost too
much to keep alive. The number of
disappointed and betrayed Trump voters grows each day.
Maybe I
should feel sorry for such people, but I don't.
They failed to use common sense , they willingly bought into what were
obvious lies, they voted with bigotry in their hearts, and they willingly cut
off their noses to spite their faces just to destroy the system they had
instead of voting for those who wanted to improve it. Now they must reap what they have sown. Unfortunately, a lot of innocents will suffer
with them.
The ever
increasing number of disappointed and betrayed Trump voters reminds me of the
old story of the man, the river, and the snake.
In the story a man walks up to a river that he must wade across to get
to the other side. He hears a voice and
looks down. He sees a poisonous snake on the ground. The snake says, "Please help me get to
the higher ground on the other side of the river. Help me and I will reward you with great riches. I cannot get there by myself. I need your help."
The man
answers, "I can't help you. You are
a poisonous snake and you will bite me and I will die."
The snake
replies, "No, I won't. I am a good
snake. I am the best! I promise I won't hurt you. Help me and I will give you everything you
could want. I'll even help you destroy
all those bad people on the other side of the river. It will be great! It will be huge!"
The man
says, "Well, OK then. I believe
you. I'll help you get to the other
side."
The man
then picked up the poisonous snake and placed him in a position of trust upon
his shoulder. The two them started
wading across the river.
When the
man and the snake reached the middle of the river, the snake suddenly bit the
man in the neck. As the poisonous venom
entered the man's blood stream, he grew weaker, and he and the snake both
slowly began to sink to their doom beneath the water. The dying man cried out, "I trusted
you. You seemed so sincere. Why did you bite me? Now we'll both die!"
The snake
was already under water so he couldn't reply.
He did however pull out his smart phone and tweeted out, "I couldn't
help myself, that's my nature. I'm a
snake."
There you
go. Help a poisonous snake … expect to
get bit. Vote for a rich con man who
never helped or cared for anybody except himself and his own in his entire life,
and expect to get betrayed. Like the con
men say, "There's a sucker born every minute!" Or, as the Christian Bible says, "As ye sow,
so shall ye reap!" Those who voted for and elected
Trump in the last election shouldn't be surprised that they are now being
bit. No sir, I don't feel sorry for them
at all.
