Actor Harvey Fierstein’s Facebook post from yesterday, wondering why we are protesting Donald Trump, has gone viral. While protesting Donald Trump may be a strange thing to question, Fierstein feels we are doing the Republicans’ job for them and explains how:
“They created Trump. They earned him. As if their hateful rhetoric wasn’t enough, just in how they treated our President, they earned Trump!”
Fierstein likens Trump to a man-made monster, and as such, inevitably it will turn on it’s creator:
“Let the monster they created and nurtured destroy them!”
Even if Trump would leave the presidental race, Fierstein warns against the alternatives:
“What do you think they’ll do if we manage to Dump Trump? They’ll only turn around and give us the next horror from their arsenal of selfish intolerance. Look who they have to offer America. Next up is Cruz. CRUZ!!!!! Someone who has done nothing in his career but self promote, obstruct progress, and lie. Don’t you see that Trump is the radical that makes the dangerous Cruz look reasonable?”
Fiersteins advice is to focus more on Democratic values and less on the Republicans:
“WHY IS IT OUR JOB TO GUIDE THE REPUBLICANS TOWARD A LESSER EVIL? They’ve already all said that they’d back Trump if he gets the nomination. Does anyone really think they have America’s welfare at heart????”
Fierstein’s advice is basically to leave the Republicans to themselves:
“This is the time for us to work FOR OUR PARTY and not for the Republicans. They poisoned their garden and can now only grow weeds and briers like Trump and Cruz. They need to make things right in their own world or, trust me, they will poison us all. They need to clean up the toxic waste dump that has become their party. We can’t do that for them.”
The conclusion is an encouragement to keep working for what’s good for the country instead of waisting energy on trying to battle what’s bad for it:
“WE have our own work to do. We have our own candidates to support. We have America’s future to worry about. Let’s do our job. Let’s use our energy to work FOR SOMETHING. Not against it.”
Wise words from Harvey Fierstein. Although there will always be a need to pay attention to danger, the focus should always be on working for the good.
Featured image by David Shankbone via Flickr under a Creative Commons license.
