Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: Are You Willing to Die for Donald Trump and His Billionaire Buddies?

May 6th 2020

US President Donald J. Trump address Joint Session of Congress (Ninain Reid)

By Thom Hartmann

Donald Trump says, “The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. Our country has to open.” So, first he ignored the coronavirus for months and didn’t do any planning or preparation. Then he threw responsibility for dealing with it to the individual states and told them they’re on their own.

Now he tells you and me that we’re supposed to be the soldiers who are willing to die in a battle that he doesn’t want to fight. All of Trump’s efforts now are being directed toward turning the money machine of the economy back on for his billionaire buddies and the stock market, because he thinks that’s what will get him reelected.

He’s willing to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands of us to accomplish that. And he is betting that we will be willing to go along with being involuntarily drafted for his war to help his billionaire buddies. Did you volunteer for this draft? Are you willing to die to get Donald Trump reelected?

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of the War on Voting and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.