Frank's Musings

The current president of the U.S. hopes to remain in office following the outcome of the 2020 general election because a coalition of single-issue voting blocks will vote for him in sufficient numbers to win a victory in the Electoral College.       Pursuers of those issues include the following:

Right-to-lifers                                 (But can you imagine Trump allowing a wife to escape through abortion her admission of being weak-willed in the face of his predation?)

Climate-change deniers               (Why would he care if anyone or their progeny would have to live with the consequences of global warming?)

Environment exploiters                (It’s not important to him what might result from the uncaring degradation of the planet.)

Fundamentalist Christians           (How manipulative was his photo-op holding a bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square?)

Resentful white working class     (Some of us willingly rely on the help of those more intelligent or successful than us; some of us think that smarter and wealthier people unfairly enjoy more privileges than the rest of us.)

White supremacists                      (He believes that good people can also discriminate against other humans merely because of the color of their skin or their country of origin.)

Nativists                                          (Those of us who are already in America and violate the principles of our Constitution by denying entry into the country to anyone who accepts those principles.)

Misogynists                                    (Anyone who has had three wives, five children and countless adulterous lovers doesn’t respect women very much.)

Know-nothings                               (Some egotists are disdainful of the expertise of others, to the extent that they refuse to sacrifice their precious time and attention even to reading or listening to what others have to say.)

Pandemic flouters                         (A corollary of that arrogance Is his fixed idea that no one‘s alarm about the unusual nature of the COVID-19 pandemic is more reasonable than his own expectation, because he has not personally been affected, that it will just go away.)

Democracy Disregarders              (For him, democracy is nothing more than the name we have given (forget the Greeks) to the order of things in which an undeserving rich person is free to do as he pleases.)

Each of these voting blocks may not share allegiance to all or any of the other issues; but they all share strong enough conviction in their own issue to constitute a reliable voting and financial resource for the Trump campaign. Therefore, the only way for the Democrats to defeat Trump in 2020 will be to convince those not in those blocks that it is important to vote in order just to preserve the future of an America that makes it possible for us to coexist.