The Trumperor's New Clothes

 I love to read. I've been reading ever since I first learned how at the age of three. I still read just about anything and everything that I can get my hands on today. 

I had a lot of story books when I was younger. One book that stuck with me was The Emperor's New Clothes. It was about a revered leader who hired a couple of con artists to craft new garments for him. The thieves gladly took the money and pretended to work, but never actually created any clothing. They convinced the emperor that they had designed a fabulous set of new clothes that were invisible. Failing to see through their ruse, he gladly paraded around town in what he thought were his new duds. It wasn't until a child in the audience pointed out the fact that the emperor wasn't wearing any clothes that doubt started to set in.

I see some parallels with this story and our former president Donald J. Trump. I can't overlook the fact that he tried to incite an insurrection by continuing to falsely claim that the 2020 U.S presidential election was stolen. Multiple articles that have been released since then seem to suggest that Trump was trying to have himself installed as a dictator. That goes against everything that our democracy stands for. 

Let's face the facts here: Trump legitimately lost the electoral and popular vote in 2020. He isn't going to be reinstated, because that isn't how our elections work. All of his more than 60 challenges were thrown out. The lead counsel for his state challenges has now lost his law license. 

What I don't understand is how or why so many people continue to believe him, even though more than 30,000 of the lies that he told while in office are documented. Some people refuse to believe the truth, for some reason or another. I guess they have their blinders on and want to live in a world that's full of the promises that Trump never fulfilled, like the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for and his nonexistent health care plan. 

The people pointing out his fallacies are somewhat similar to the boy in the story. More people have started to doubt Trump's claims as more evidence has been brought forward. I just hope that people start looking at the situation realistically regardless of their political affiliation. It's time to stop all of the political infighting, put aside our difference and start working together to solve problems.

Well that's all for now. Until next time, have a great weekend, everyone!