From: John Vanderbur
Greensburg
On Nov. 9, 2016, I was in the first stages of waking up from a good night’s sleep. I fumbled around in search of my television’s remote control and when I found it, I hit the “on” button and I thought I heard a news commentator say that Donald Trump had won the presidential election. Being more asleep than awake, I thought I was having a nightmare.
During the Nixon Watergate hearings, U.S. Rep. Earl Landgrebe, R-Ind., a strong supporter of Richard Nixon, made this notorious statement: “Don’t confuse me with the facts.” Later on, he made this statement: “I’m going to stick with my president even if he and I have to be taken out of this building and shot.” Mr. Landgrebe’s comment, “Don’t confuse me with the facts,” seems to hold true in today’s vile political environment. According to polls, Trump has a “base” of approximately 40 percent of Americans who have basically said: don’t confuse me with the facts, I support Trump regardless of what he says or does.
A glaring example of this is the reported fact that approximately 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016. Religious leaders such as Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. have supported him even though Trump violates all of the tenants of goodness. There are those that even express that they believe it’s God’s will that Trump be the president of the United States; that’s beyond the pale of rational thought. Some people seem to embrace the words and actions of Trump and have closed their eyes to morality, decency, truthfulness and the God that they profess to believe in.
From what I have recently read, President Trump is suffering from narcissistic personality disorder. I went to a Mayo Clinic web page which gave a complete description of this mental condition. There is a total of 20 symptoms. I will write four of them. 1. Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance; 2. Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration; 3. Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it; 4. Exaggerate achievements and talents. All of the 20 symptoms fit Trump completely. I encourage everyone who wants to know the truth to go to this website and read all 20 of the symptoms.
I believe we are now in an historical moment in time when the citizens of the United States must decide whether this nation wants to continue on our present path of dishonesty, deception, lies, illegality, immorality and all of the adjectives that describe a Trump-Pence administration. There are also those Republicans in Congress that have closed their eyes, ears and mouth to what is now transpiring in our nation.
Trump isn’t a Republican or Democrat. He belongs to the Party of Trump. He couldn’t care less about anyone except himself. If he hasn’t resigned or isn’t being led to jail by the 2020 elections, we must, for the sake our country, vote him and Pence out of office.
