'Why I'm afraid of Donald Trump" - Darren Maule
"Dear South Africans who don't care that Donald Trump is the President of America..." - Darren Maule
My fellow South Africans,
You are my friends and I am very fond of you so I will not use any expletives in this reply to to your question about why should we even care.
How are we as South Africans, who are a part of Africa which is a part of planet Earth supposed to enjoy our lives here when catastrophic climate change destroys food production due to droughts and displaces hundreds of millions of people onto the world economy due to flooding?
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You know, because Climate Change is a conspiracy by 97% of climatologists and the Chinese?
The fact that Donald Trump believes this is so irreconcilably horrifying that the rest is literally a gentle summers rain compared to the shit storm he will unleash through pure ignorance and the arrogance that goes with it.
Let's leave out the fact that the leader of the most powerful military known to man is the physical embodiment of every reprehensible human quality rolled into one giant orange trust-fund baby.
Let's forget that any one of his detestable personality traits would disqualify him from running a tuck shop, let alone a nuclear nation.
(Keep in mind that none of these repulsive qualities listed are as a result of hearsay or from second-hand accounts. Our knowledge of his racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia come from only what he has said since he announced his candidacy for the presidency.)
I know that people are losing faith in government structures and multinational institutions. I am too. And I want to see change. We all do but that doesn't mean you put Frankenstein's monster into the White House.
I'm not even going to suggest the walk-backs in civil rights that are going to come or how easily narrow minded draconian legislation will be passed in a Republican presidency, senate and house.
You are my friends and I am very fond of you so I will not use any expletives in this reply to to your question about why should we even care.
How are we as South Africans, who are a part of Africa which is a part of planet Earth supposed to enjoy our lives here when catastrophic climate change destroys food production due to droughts and displaces hundreds of millions of people onto the world economy due to flooding?
Read: BREAKING: Donald Trump wins US Presidency
You know, because Climate Change is a conspiracy by 97% of climatologists and the Chinese?
The fact that Donald Trump believes this is so irreconcilably horrifying that the rest is literally a gentle summers rain compared to the shit storm he will unleash through pure ignorance and the arrogance that goes with it.
Let's leave out the fact that the leader of the most powerful military known to man is the physical embodiment of every reprehensible human quality rolled into one giant orange trust-fund baby.
Let's forget that any one of his detestable personality traits would disqualify him from running a tuck shop, let alone a nuclear nation.
(Keep in mind that none of these repulsive qualities listed are as a result of hearsay or from second-hand accounts. Our knowledge of his racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia come from only what he has said since he announced his candidacy for the presidency.)
I know that people are losing faith in government structures and multinational institutions. I am too. And I want to see change. We all do but that doesn't mean you put Frankenstein's monster into the White House.
I'm not even going to suggest the walk-backs in civil rights that are going to come or how easily narrow minded draconian legislation will be passed in a Republican presidency, senate and house.
No, no, no. None of that. Just the fact that we ALL live on this tiny blue dot with a complex ecosystem and an atmosphere thinner than Donald's skin and that he runs a country that was only beginning to grasp its impact on our species- is scary enough.
We have already survived one horrific epoch in human history called 'The Dark Ages.' Will our species be able to survive 'The Orange Age?'
- Darren Maule