WHY CANT WE UNITE BEHIND THIS WHITE HOUSE AND HIS SUPPORTERS?

CHRIS VOSS
8 min readFeb 11, 2017

Lets chat about why we, on the left, struggle with getting behind the “President,” support him, and to reach across the aisle working together. Why we can’t seem to come together as a people. I see so many people asking why we are so divided. It doesnt help we’re angry because the majority of didnt want him ruling and by a technical trick 19% of the country squeezed him in. But beside that point….

I see myself working the alienated “divided” front crowd agenda while people like my friend Gary Shapiro work the “uniting” front attempts.

I applaud my friend Gary Shapiro of CES & CTA who oversees an association of over 2400+ companies. He is regularly speaking a narrative of unity and working together. I like it when he logically argues with me over “unity.” I like watching Gary in his business politics where he HAS to be a uniter. He works for his constituency I’m sure in his association. It may also be his personality as well. It’s interesting to see him be a leader in working the “uniting” front and I applaud what he is trying to do. I hope that his narrative can win, and we can unite, that he can find a way, but the other side has to want it also, and that is where it seems to collide.

Conversely, I don’t have to be business politically expedient. It bears little on my financial survival and my logic in dealing with Hate, extremists and the ignorant, to put it in crude summation is “you can’t fix stupid.” The people we are supposed to unite within the White House are extremists. I cannot marginalize that unity means we’ll have to sacrifice some people’s lives and America’s reputation to serve Unity. I cannot marginalize Hate, Racism, Xenophobia. But let’s move to why we truly can’t unite.

Many people find themselves confused by Trumps constant divisive and fearmonger Tweets and Speeches. “Why is he Tweeting that when hes the President of us ALL?” He’s not. You really should be asking “WHO is he speaking to? And Why?”

Yesterday I watched as Jason Chaffetz, U.S. Representative (GOP), after his fiery constituents, shouted him down during his Town Hall. He responded the next day that those people were “paid protesters” shipped in from outside his constituency. _Ask yourself, who is he saying that to and why?_ Answer: He’s not speaking to ALL of us. He’s giving his right wing Base talking points to DIVIDE us further. He not acknowledging and uniting with the left side of his geographical constituency. He even seems to laughingly mock them in his Town Hall. We cant unite if the people who have all the power have no interest in it.

Breitbart had a private one on one interview with Spicer in a back area of the White House. Put aside the jokes about the young man overwhelmed by the situation. Ask yourself why is the White House trying so hard to give Breitbart special exclusive treatment to its audience of Alt-Right Hate, while calling CNN fake. Think hard about WHY they are doing that and think about histories Fascist propaganda machines. Why is the White House doing this? Does that seem like “uniting” to you, feeding the extremist Alt-Right propaganda machines? They are supporting divisive Hate organizations. How do we unite again?

Look at anyone of Trump’s tweets, you can grab ANY of them and ask: WHO IS HE TALKING TO? He’s NOT talking to ALL of US Americans. Seriously, look at EVERY Tweet Trump makes and ask “who is he talking to? He’s talking to his right wing Base. He’s consistently selling his agenda to them. They elected him, he thinks they will elect him again, and he’s really there to serve his handlers agenda that aligns with his values. He’s gotta keep the poor he snake oiled believing he’ll save them while he administers the pockets of Billionaires. Sure he might pick up a few people from the left that fall into the fearmongering pitch, but he’s talking to his base from inside his bubble. The principle is simple “divide and conquer.” He’s already conquered, so now he’s keeping his base going for his agenda and reelection. Hes not tweeting to all Americans. He’s not a President for ALL of us.

There are lots more examples of a White House divisiveness but WHY are they doing it? The people who stepped in to save Trump’s campaign was the Mercer Family and the Heritage Foundation. You can google what they are about, and Trump is the front for serving their agenda. Bannon is allowed to run around lighting his personal fires for distraction as they do what they want with their billionaire friends, piling into the Administration to make everyone richer. Notice all the racial minorities with jobs in the Administration? NOT.

Heritage and the Mercers won the White House simply four ways. 1) Tapping the extremist white Hate in the country through Trump signaling to them and using mediums like Breitbart. 2) Playing on the poor, less educated people who felt ignored by Obama desperate for any snake oil salesman promising anything. 3) Funding the “crooked Hillary” narrative to disenfranchised voters from showing up at polls. 4) This is likely the MOST important one of all we need to remember: Disguising an extreme right interest disguised as a more mainstream populist agenda to lure in evangelical support. This is an extremist agenda hiding in a populist movement. It’s not complex. What they did and are now doing is very simple and we cant be confused by it.

Bannon and his handlers, know that anarchy can serve his agenda to create more fear and more recruits. He is a master at divisiveness and creating reckless havoc just for the purpose of using it to advance his agenda. He’s communicated that for years and is proud of it. While he lights fires and whips the right and left up, the right wing Billionaires can rob the bank out the back.

Sadly, Bannon, Trump, Mercers, and the Heritage Foundation are forwarding their extreme right, White power agenda. It is extremist, divisive position and they are not interested in uniting unless it’s behind their agenda. How do we “unite” with this? They have all the power, Democrats are helpless. They have no motivation to do so.

So if you do your homework, you’ll realize Alt-Right loving extremists are running the country. Simple as that.

So while I’d love to be a uniter, we are dealing with extremists. THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN UNITING. Nothing is more clear that they have won and with a GOP majority seems to be focused on little that he promised other than his persecuting non-white races and enriching themselves. The photo op “meetings” he has with Elon Musk, etc are propaganda jokes that he’s actually working for us or caring. Their agenda with a majority is to run roughshod and fuck you agenda. Or try to with their ragtag band of sloppy pirates so far. Besides their sloppy noise is the distraction while the Billionaires behind them cash in.

Quoted from Vox article: In his farewell address, George Washington warned, “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.”

So that is where we are. Bannon and Trump are not looking to extend a hand across the aisle, and they dont have to either. For ordinary people who are poor, they will hold the line on his snake oil, star fucker, TV star, charming pitch that has enthralled them. Evangelicals will let his extremism run as long as they can get their agenda and SCOTUS nominees.

My friends like Robert Scoble, Jesse Stay, Scott Jordan etc. talking about these issues in a quandary of having to deal with publically unfriending old friends of ours, for example, Joel Comm it is challenging. We’ve openly discussed this on Social Media. Joel, who in my opinion is extreme right, gleefully Periscopes his videos supporting the banning persecution of immigrants, families wrecked, refugees suffering, while hypocritically promoting the #DoGoodStuff campaign. He tweets mocking liberals while complaining the left is divisive. He’s done mocking Facebook posts about how unlike the left, he doesn’t talk politics but runs off at the mouth about #MAGA on Twitter and Periscope. When you watch Joel’s videos, they show he is rabid along Breitbart’s narrative to his personal values. He even mocked Women at the Womens March, touting the March for Life women as better. As I watch, crying families have their mothers deported; it’s hard to listen to Joel’s videos or see him tweet #DoGoodStuff. Joel is even signed up to go to Washington to support Trump’s agenda if his friend wins running for office in Mississippi. He’s a hardcore Trump lover. How do we unite with these friends we’ve unfriended? How do we unite and reconcile with extremists who do not want to meet in the middle? How do we hug Haters who support Trump and his Hateful agenda persecuting immigrants and refugees?

Now to meet in the middle with these extremists, we have to let them deport families, destroy lives, let fearmongers reign, destroy American values, etc. And they are not interested in giving in, nor do they feel their majority position has to. They have the GOP by the balls too.

So sorry, but you’d have a better chance talking someone out of their religion than unwinding someone who has Hate in their heart. Repeating: “You can’t fix stupid.” I cannot marginalize that unity means we’ll have to sacrifice some people lives and America’s reputation to serve Unity. I cannot marginalize Hate, Racism, Xenophobia. I cannot say, well let’s unite and let them fuck over SOME of certain races or groups of people. I’m smart enough to know those jobless are going to get massive jobs back or high paying ones for that matter.

In the end, keep in mind only 19% of America voted for this guy. He won by a fluke of 70,000ish votes and unpopular. Fearmongering is the only way he can get reelected if we don’t create a movement to stop extremist Hate. And us being angry and fighting his agenda is the only way to combat Hate, unless extremist Trump, Bannon and the lot decided they want to work together which they have little motivation to do. We need to keep our movement going and show up in the next 2–4 year election cycles. We need to fight because the congressional Democrats can do little. Some of our fellow Americans are willing to sacrifice certain races and peoples for Trump’s agenda. I am not. Its up to us as consumers and lawyers to use our power left to us to #Resist the extremists. Don’t be fooled they are not. THAT is who they are talking to and working for. Not us. Trump is not Tweeting to ALL Americans.

Finally, we shouldn’t be just boycotting Trump’s money. He’s just the spokesman patsy for the puppetmasters. We should be targeting the Mercers, The Heritage Foundation, and the other money changers supporting this. Trump is just the tip of the iceberg of Hate.

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CHRIS VOSS

Podcast Host of 9 Podcasts at TheCVPN.com CEO, Consultant, Trainer, Speaker, The Chris Voss Show, Chris Voss Podcast Network. Forbes Top 50, CNN, Huff Po, etc.