Trump Buyers Remorse

            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.