It’s Time to Drop Your Trump/Republican Friends.
By: Johnny Silvercloud
Tags: Trumpism, Republicans, White Supremacy, Friends, Conservatives

Why is this 2020 Election so Close?

By the time of publishing this column, the 2020 Presidential Election is close. If you have been following me this far, you know good and well that this political race of U.S. President should not be this close at all.

2020 Presidential Election Results| 07 Nov 2020 7:10AM East Coast Time | Graphic Credit: Associated Press

If Donald Trump wins the 2020 election, he would be the first and only impeached president to ever win reelection. He would be the most derelict president who has ever lived. He would be the most sociopathic president to win reelection.

He would be the most pathologically narcissistic president to win reelection. Trump would be the most terminally ignorant president given a whole decade to ruin America.

He would be the most white supremacist president we will have ever seen in our lives. He would also be among the few presidents who don’t even own a pet, like a dog. I’m not sure how white people missed that one.

The fact that 70 million people voted for more totalitarian white supremacist fascism — who also helped 234,264 Americans needlessly die by way of profound terminal ignorance and neglect — is telling. Nearly a quarter of one million Americans are dead due to the fact that President Trump prioritizes nice-looking illusions over harsh realities that require leadership. If the racism alone didn’t sink this man’s political career, the pandemic response should have.

70.5 million Americans didn’t think so.

White people: providing concessions and appeasements aren’t working on your Trumpian friends. It’s time to drop them.

The Bus comes back

A few days ago I was hit up by an ex-friend who I used to make music with a long time ago. I put him on a bus stop a long time ago, and I referenced him before. Sometimes when you put someone on a bus, the bus comes back, especially if you were the greatest, genuine best friend.

He quoted himself in a track we wrote, I produced. “We brothers in arms, brothers among races”. The line appears to me as pathetic as a banana peel; devoid of substance.

I told him I will have to love him from a distance, which was might register as a lie being that I wasn’t descriptive enough. The distance I have in mind isn’t of the physical realm but the temporal; I recognize and respect the fact that Ben H. 2020 isn’t Ben H. 2004. The person trying to talk to me now is not the same person I knew.

Perhaps the best analogy would the famous thought exercise is the Ship of Theseus. If all the parts are replaced on a ship, is it the same ship at all? If enough parts are replaced, at what measure does one rule that the ship is different? Or the same?

I will have to suggest that this ex-friend Ben H. of 2020 is fundamentally different than the young Ben H. from 2004. As a Trump supporter, I saw him on numerous occasions demonize Black activists and police accountability protests and other civil rights causes. In the SAR-COV-2 pandemic, he’s anti-medical science, citing “freedom”. He parrots the same conspiracy theories you’d hear from most who blindly follow Trump. He’s a Trump supporter now, and when I think about it, his past self would kick his modern self’s in the teeth. I won’t go into intense detail but please understand that this guy is radically different than his former self.

These People are Not the Same People You Remember

Those friends of ours are not the same friends they once were. The old person you knew is no longer there. In my perhaps racially unique situation, this man only wants that “black object” back. Not black friend, black object. Black “friends” are not actual friends of conservatives; we are Black objects of some sort of political utility. In my racially unique place, I am fully aware of this being once a Black conservative. I will not be this racial device again for fascism-enablers like himself.

“I can’t be racist, I have a Black friend.” “No, you do not.”

If my voice of reason isn’t listened to or even considered, I know I’m not a friend. If he doesn’t consider my problems, issues, and fears but I consider all of his, what does that make me? What does that make him? He’s not a real friend, that’s for sure. The same proves true for you.

They only want to use you

These Trump supporters have already thrown away any friend-like value to your word, your critical thinking, and accurate analyses of issues. They are not friends, they are associates who do not care about your serious concerns. There’s only two reasons, or categories rather, that you can expect their counterfeit friendship to be based on. They are:

(1) Weaponized Tokenism, and;

(2) Shut Up and Dribble.

The weaponized tokenism is the part of the conservative gaze thing I mentioned a while back. The shut up and dribble part is the please-don’t engage-in-serious-topics-like-racism thing. The shut up and dribble category is where we our only value in their lives is to be one-dimensional ushers of some sort of entertainment. You can tell this by the way they talk, refer to you, look at you, and answer to the issues you raise. Any way you slice it, we are not subjects of our own movies, let alone subjects in theirs. We are objects in their movies who, by their direction and unique editing, move the plot that they star in devoid of the diversity of human character. We are that expendable Black guy in an old horror movie. And they have an undying support of the slasher in this slasher film, too.

I have spent a lot of time talking, explaining, and more importantly, listening to Trump supporter friends. I’ve even listened to your Trump supporter friends. Nothing is working. Just diligently explaining things out like logic, reason and science isn’t working, and does not work with Trump supporters. I have a couple of thoughts on this. 1) They love Trump more than they love you or I; 2) The Republican Party is technically at this point, a political cult; and 3) they behave, function, and act like this is a war. I want to talk about the third part.