By REY FLORES
Before I get into the main thrust of my argument here, let me just say that the 2016 presidential election seems more fiction than fact, and it’s getting harder and harder to believe what we hear, read, or see anymore.
Election after election, we only see candidates who are either very wealthy or very well connected and none of them are any more credible than the candidate running against them. It’s a sorry state of affairs, but it is what it is, and we have to deal with it as best we can.
While a choice between two people like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is far from what we wished for, it’s what we have to work with. We must do whatever it takes to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
Now on to our topic for this week:
Whether you like Donald Trump or not, I’m sure you will agree that he has certainly been the most contentious figure of this election season. He is a lightning rod of controversy — but the problem is that some of the worst lightning bolts are striking some of his supporters instead of him.
For several weeks now, we have watched the television news and online news reports featuring videos of anti-Trump protesters behaving in the worst way possible. They are not just disrupting the rallies, but are destroying property and physically attacking Trump’s fans.
It’s ironic how the agitators will scream and yell, calling Trump and his supporters racists, but the real racists are the rabble-rousers, particularly the Mexican immigrant protesters who are burning American flags, and waving Mexican flags as symbols of hate for America.
Being a son of Mexican immigrant parents, I am truly embarrassed to have the same ethnic background as many of these miscreants. My parents both came to this country from Mexico with the desire to succeed through hard work and learning how to read, write, and speak English.
Growing up, my father never took a dime from the government. He worked the same job for 30 years, six days a week, and 12 hours every Wednesday.
My mother taught us to hold strongly to God and to our Catholicism, particularly our devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. As poor as we may have been, my two sisters and I were constantly reminded how blessed we were to have been the first generation of our family to be born here as American citizens.
While both my parents often spoke fondly of, and visited, Mexico throughout their lives, they also loved and embraced this country very much. One time my mother, in her broken English, helped me write a composition titled “What My Country Means to Me.” We won first prize, which included a trophy, a fifty-dollar check, and my picture on the front page of the archdiocesan newspaper.
My parents did the right thing as legal immigrants. They knew how fortunate we were to be here and they never let us forget it. I love this nation and would never dream of wanting to live anywhere else. It is the miserable ingrates like the anti-Trump protesters and the Black Lives Matter agitators who have made a mockery of our nation. They have been trained to have a sense of entitlement and to view America in the worst light possible.
We can thank the media propaganda pushers and the liberal and socialist public school teachers and academia, who have created a new generation of America-hating zombies who have no sense of history aside from “revisionist” theories.
Video after video shows these Mexican flag-waving thugs physically assaulting people, including conservative Trump-supporting Mexican-Americans, simply because they have bought into every lie the media have created to paint Trump as the prototypical white, rich, straight, male racist.
Any comments that Donald Trump has made about Mexican illegal immigrants or any judge of Mexican descent are not racist, in my opinion. Saying that the illegal immigration problem brings in a criminal element is absolutely true.
The main problem with Trump is that he shoots his mouth off before he thinks things through. For example, the other day he made a reference to “my African-American” at a rally when he really meant to say “my African-American supporter.” In the heat of the moment, Trump’s cockiness gets the best of him and he says things that come out all wrong.
As to the “wall” that Trump keeps promising to build between the U.S. and Mexico: I don’t believe he has any plans to build any wall, let alone make Mexico pay for it. It has surely, however, stirred the liberals up, thereby firmly planting the racist label on Trump’s forehead.
I must make mention that many of these protests, or riots, aren’t necessarily organic. There have been ads posted online, offering agitators $15 an hour plus travel expenses and per diems to go to a Trump rally.
The violence at the Trump rallies is not because of Trump’s big mouth; rather, it is rooted in the troublemaker groups like the SEIU-Service Employees International Union, the National Council of La Raza, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, who are backing these riots, and are therefore partly responsible for any violence at the Trump rallies.
Like any other nation on the planet, the United States is not a perfect nation, but it’s about as perfect a country as one could hope to live in, anywhere in this world.
If all of these anti-Trump and anti-America reprobates hate our country so much, why are they here? Why don’t they leave immediately?
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(Rey Flores is a proud American and can be reached at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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