Do you remember the book and the concept, the American who would and/or could walk through the world impresssed by his own self, arrogant, with the privileges that he believed his country entitled him too? We made progress from that image, though it has lingered behind in some ways, but today, we have an Ugy American image again, and a country that is turning uglier by the day.
For the prototype of the Ugly American one only has to turn to DC,in particular, to the White House, Congress, and most dangerous of all, the Supreme Court. There, after years of silence - could it be shame at the truth of his treatment of women - now, Judge Thomas evidently feels he can speak out for he feels that only he, and he alone, knows the truth of the Founders and their minds as they wrote the Constitution. Now, with another Ugly American on the bench with him, pervert Kavanaugh, and the chief pervert nearby, he can go on the attack and state some of his very dangerous opinions, opinions that would change the face of America, its very inner core, that which makes it America.
The progenitor of it all in today's world lives in the White House. Every ugly bit of nastiness that can be squeezed out is acted upon. He verbally attacked immigrants, legal and otherwise, and encouraged the physical abuse that resulted from his attitude. The ugly American was surfacing in ICE, in Border Patrol, and why not? The boss is okay with it. So secretly, a program that allowed for a path for legal immigrants to apply for children, parents, siblings, to come over and be reunited, was shut down, telling no one. Instead, we have slowed down the whole process of asylum seeking, almost to a crawl and have substituted threats and cages and family separation policies.
The Ugly American in the Oval Office continues to unleash his ugly tongue and mind, afflicting the country with it, inflicting it on so many people. Shutting down the heart of America, shutting down its welcoming of new citizens, even of caring for citizens who have been here for years and years, for generations, as the social safety net was ripped and shredded. These were the end goals of this ugliness. Greed and corruption the words and actions of the day.
We now hear of companies that paid money into the Trump Washington hotel after a decision was reached. Ugly! We hear that the chief Ugly wanted his kids to be able to know all the 'inside' crowd stuff, so he unilaterally pressured to get them top security clearances even though the experts and the authorities in this area said not a good idea. More Ugliness - and more danger for our country.
Mr. Ugly then fell 'in love' with dictators, his old BFF affair with Putin rearing its ugly head and the new love of his life, Kim, was right there as well, exchanging love letters. Ugh!! This is the man supposed to be defending us, the country, to abide by the oath he swore? UGLY!
Not wishing to stop at any time soon, Ugly contined on his path that endgngerd the country. He attacked its values. He lied and lied and lied and lied into five digit numbers of times. More and more of the imperialAmerican leaked through his outer hide, as he attacked the media yet lived via the words and advice of Fox News bigots such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. Other Ugly Americans such as Bannon or Gorka or heavy duty other white power/white supremacists stuck their two cents in. The ugly blisters on our souls thrived as prejudice was deemed okay, even valued, and the latest? A man arrested for gardening - and why? - he is black. Oops!
This ugliness has condoned the rest of the world as it, too, grew in the muck of nastiness and ugly prejudices arose once more, coming into the light from whence they had hidden the past few years. So ugly oversize puppets are allowed in a parade in Belgium. Guess having almost 100% of their Jewish citizens nurdered in WWII - with their cooperation - was not enough. Jews survived the horrors of Nazi Europe and the cooperation of native countrymen all over and through the countries of Europe but here it is again. Here, once again, we have the old canards, the raging hatred, the demand to kill Jews and not only there, for nope, we graduated here in the country to acting upon this anti Semitism by killing Jews in Pittsburgh. And we elected three openly anti Semitic and vicious women of hate to Congress. I had hope for one, but she shattered that hope with her statement of support for them yesterday.
The ugliness of it all, the payment of bribes, the maltreatment of women, the pride in that misbehavior, the lies when discovered and uncovered,and a defense not against the charges, but that the Big Ugly American is now immune to all consequences and punsihments because he is president. Wow!!! In a real world, BECAUSE he is President, he has to be better and held accountable for every misdeed and so it has been. VP Agnew, Nixon, Johnson and go back in history. But today, today the kids tell their parents that being a liar, doing the wrong thing is okay if you can get away with it for why not? Doesn't the President do the same thing? Times change, do they not and not always in the right way, in the correct direction.
The ugliness of it all. The head honcho Ugly American and all of us potential and real Ugly Americans have retrogressed so badly. Is this what we want? Is this what we want to teach our kids? Is this how we wish to have history speak of us, evaluate us as the return of the Ugly American?
I hope not, I really do. Time to act. Time to demand the right way. Time to put the place right. Now.
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