by Robert M. Traxler

Let’s discuss a recent speech Secretary Hillary Clinton gave at fund-raiser in New York City to a group of rich donors headlined by Barbara Streisand. She said in the speech Sept. 9, “You can put half (more than 63,000,000) of Trump supporters in what I call the basket of deplorables.” Mrs. Clinton went on to say half of Trump supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and other phobics.

Referring to many of the good Americans in Dorr, Wayland, Hastings, Martin and Moline as deplorable and then to say the Republicans want to divide us should be condemned for its hypocrisy. Not to worry, the good folks in the media agree with her that most of us are horrible, vile, racist, people.

This goes back to the bedrock of the Democratic Party; if you have the audacity to disagree with a liberal, you are not wrong, you are a racist. If you do not want unisex bathrooms you are homophobic, if you do not want tens of thousands of unvetted immigrants from countries that are hot beds of Islamic Terrorists you are Islamophobic. If you prefer to use historic terms like fireman, policeman, lineman or yeoman you’re a sexist.  Xenophobic, a term I had to look up to understand, is a catch-all term. The Thesaurus uses words like, chauvinistic, intolerant, racist, nationalist and prejudiced. Secretary Clinton used xenophobic just in case she missed prejudging anyone who may be contemplating ever voting for a Republican.

We now have a new way to divide us even further using the term “nativist;” give the left a day or two and they will come up with a few more ways to divide us.

One of the things I have never been able to understand is what I call zip code prejudice. The liberal folks who live on the east and west coast think you and I are toothless backward rubes because we live in flyover country (land you fly over when going from coast to coast) or Mid-America. They also feel those who live on the coasts are vastly superior humans compared to those of us who live in Mid-America.

According to the self-proclaimed liberal elite, if you want to become a good bit smarter, move to a politically correct zip code. One of the things that has always baffled me is how the liberals in Mid-America agree with the assertion that your address makes you either smarter or a complete idiot. Somehow a mid-American liberal feels the east and west coast liberals are not referring to them, but all those other ignorant fools in Mid-America.

Secretary Clinton’s remarks are designed to sow hate and division in the name of unity. Mrs. Clinton’s remarks prejudged 63 million Americans, but the folks in the media will tell us she is not prejudiced because prejudging millions of outstanding Americans by a liberal is not prejudging. Folks, you cannot make this ridiculous stuff up. Common sense is not so common when it comes to politically correct liberal hate and prejudice.

Our friends on the left are not doing us any favors dividing Americans into groups to politically divide and conquer. We need to celebrate our national pride in a way to include all Americans, not dredge up our divisions from 151 or 168 years ago, divisions over slavery and the Mexican War.

There are 600 sub-groups who according to the self-proclaimed enlightened ones on the left have never had a chance to succeed in our nation and are still held down and unable to succeed. A self-fulfilling prophesy; tell most people they cannot succeed and they won’t, tell folks they can succeed and many will.

Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Carter, liberal presidents elected after the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, all said that they would end the perceived and real injustice; if it were a true problem, would not President Obama have fixed it? President Obama had a majority in the House and Senate but he offered almost no laws in the area of civil rights; could it be they were not as necessary as the Democrats constantly say they are? Could it be the United States is not the bastion of “phobics” Mrs. Clinton maintains we are?

Time for a change time, for President Trump.