As Trump's World Turns: An Absence Of Leadership (Gun Mass Terror)

When Leadership Fails To Lift and Improve Society, It All Erodes

 Leadership matters.

WATCH: Trump laughs after his supporter suggests shooting migrants.#WhiteNationalistTerrorism #WhiteSupremacistTerrorism pic.twitter.com/Yeq6spqyA6

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 4, 2019

And, where does the failure to lead take the nation?  Correction, actually Trump is leading. He is leading a party and a national mindset which embraces racism and bigotry.

Indifference matters.  How many times have we heard: 

"...this will never happen again?" 
"...this will not define us.
" Now is not the tie ....."
" ...we need prayers"

While the US leads the world in mass killings via white nationalist (white supremacists), we are seeing irrefutable evidence national leadership remains indifferent. Trump's leadership clearly fuels US white supremacy while weaponizing the minds of Americans who may not even realize they harbor racists inclinations.  

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently published a piece which offers a timeline of White House (Trump and cabal) indifference to white supremacy and growing overt manifestations.  July 2019...Linked here. Hardly a piece with examples of critical national leadership.

But leadership isn't just the domain of the White House.  The US congress is an even more critical facilitator of gun violence via its concrete and never yielding defense of the NRA; facilitation is 99.98% via the GOP and cash contributions.  In 2018 The Business Insider published a list of then-current politicians who accepted a political contribution from the NRA.   You may ask, "why pick-on the NRA?"

Let's use a basic literary device called the syllogism (deductive reasoning) to show why we "pick on the NRA." 

Major premise (A): The NRA has a mission of gun proliferation. Minor premise (B): Mass killers use guns (specifically rapid-fire military-style rifles)
Conclusion (C): Politicians who support the NRA are mass killing facilitators.

If you viewed the Business Insider list of NRA friendly politicians, you couldn't have avoided a mental image of the GOP as the penultimate facilitator of our weekly mass killings.

It looks like this...

• Major premise (A):  NRA almost exclusively fulfills  its mission via donations to Republicans 
• Minor premise (B): Money helps to win elections and paid individual pockets
• Conclusion (C): GOP politicians help fulfill the NRA mission

Now take the NRA information and blend the information with growing white supremacy (unchecked by national leadership) and we get more of the message from the meme below.

First, consider watching the first two minutes of the following CNN segment (aired this morning).

Here is another angle from the Right. Why consider the impact of military-style weapons when a party can continue to point to mental illness.  Mass killings are virtually impossible without military-style rifles.

It should be noted the Texas Lt. Governor declined t appear on CNN while scrambling to appear on Trump TV (Fox).

The aforementioned meme.

This is the El Paso shooter.

Patrick Crusius, a 21 year-old white male Trump supporter whose manifesto says he committed mass murder in “response to [the] Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

This is white supremacist terror.

It's part of a pattern.

And Trump is complicit. pic.twitter.com/PO4O4las3h

— Kai Newkirk (@kai_newkirk) August 3, 2019

A contrast in law enforcement; Eric Garner strangled to death while yelling: "I can't breathe" and the El Paso white supremacist terrorist while being arrest seeming to offer order for a burger with fries. 

 

We will revisit this issue as information comes forth.