What's My Problem? I'll tell you...

What's My Problem? I'll tell you...

(script from Episode 28, aired 11-16-16)

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HOST: Today’s Doctor Ackrite’s Get It Together Podcast is brought to you by Jams by Kim. One good taste and you’ll know you’ve been settling for less than the best.

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HOST: On this episode of Doctor Ackrite’s Get It Together Podcast, let’s talk about hurt, sadness, rage, blame, and eventually healing. Totally appropriate at this particular point in time I think. Don’t worry, guys. This isn’t going to be my diatribe on politics, but instead will be my attempt to explain why so many Americans, and others around the world, are having such a hard time emotionally right now. Myself included.  This is going to be a particularly personal episode, so let’s get into it, guys. Right after this little piggy goes to market.

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HOST: Hey hey guys! Come on in! Hurry now. It’s really cold out there. I kind of hate to say it, but winter is coming, guys. It’s hiding there and waiting for us. As most of you know, I’m a fall baby. Born in the fall, in love with the fall. I am all about the slightly nippy air while the formerly green leaves suddenly explode into colors I had already forgotten were available in the world. Reds, yellows, oranges… yeah, I think you get the picture. I’m not really sure why it felt necessary to describe fall to you as if you’ve never seen it before. Well, but wait a minute, guys. We have a global audience now. We’re going out to more than 40 countries now, so there is totally a chance that someone out there has never seen fall they way I have. So, as I was saying… reds, yellows, oranges… Also, in our part of the country, we have white-tailed deer and this year, there seem to be more males, complete with the most amazing antlers I’ve ever seen. And they come right into my yard and eat leaves from the trees, or onions from my lawn—more weeds than grass by far, by the way—they’re really pretty spectacular. I can totally imagine that some of our listeners up there in Canada and Alaska and Russia. They are laughing out loud at me.  

HOST: “We have caribou, moose, elk… They eat your stupid tiny deer for snack…” (beat) Wow. That went dark quickly, didn’t it? Maybe we should to the parental guidance warning if we’re going to be eating deer up in here. No? Okay, my imaginary studio audience has said that we’re all done with the deer eating shenanigans. Alright. Good. Okay, so guys, today we’re going to talk about the aftermath of our recent presidential election. Before we really get started, I want you guys to know that this is not going to be a referendum on how much I personally dislike our president-elect, or how much more appropriate a president I believe our former secretary of state would have been. That stuff is a fait accompli. It’s a done deal. I do wish it had all turned out very differently, but it didn’t. So now we should just assume that we have the president we have for the next four years. I’m not one of those who is going to deny the fairness of the system or claim, like our president-elect did repeatedly before he won, that the election and the entire process are rigged. I do not like the outcome, but I have no evidence to allege that somehow the way the election turned out wasn’t ultimately the will of the people, the way our system was designed to work.  

HOST: So I am not disputing the fairness of the system or the validity of the outcome. Donald J. Trump is our president-elect and, unless something else unexpected occurs between now and January 20, 2017, he will become our 45th president and there’s nothing really that any of us reasonable people can do about that. No, guys. The thing I would like to share with you—whether you live in this country and are suffering through this with me, or you are a devoted listener from another country and are sitting at home totally mystified that we Americans have done this to ourselves—is how it feels to learn that about half of your fellow citizens are somewhere on the spectrum that has outright bigots on one side, and people who are somehow willing to easily forgive bigotry for the sake of electing a charismatic charlatan who makes up problems as easily as he avoids making up solutions. Why do I say that? What makes me think that half of the electorate falls on that particular spectrum somewhere? Well, guys, for those of us who are uninitiated, our president-elect was covered more than all other 2016 presidential candidates combined because he never failed to say or do something truly shocking nearly every day for about a year and a half. 

HOST: For starters, when he rode the escalator down to the press event in Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, when he announced his candidacy for president, Mr. Trump gave a speech. In that speech, he said, “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems….When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people….It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin American, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East. But we don’t know.”  Guys, this was a prepared speech by the guy who is soon to be the so-called leader of the free world. In this one speech, he insulted people of Chinese descent, Mexican descent, Middle Eastern Descent, Japanese descent, South American and/or Latin American descent, and more. Now four years earlier, this is the person who took to the airwaves and invented and perpetuated the lies that our current president—the first and only black U.S. president ever—was not born in this country and that he was secretly a muslim.  None of that was true. And he knew it. 

HOST: By the way, Mr. Trump used to be a democrat—same party as President Obama—and then he changed when he spotted a deficit of leadership in the Republican party.  This person, who will soon be our president, in order to win the white house, aligned himself with the lowest form of American life, those people on the extreme end of that spectrum that we mentioned a few minutes ago. He was endorsed by David Duke, the former grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan—America’s most notorious racist hate group. He was also endorsed by the KKK itself, as well as its most prominent newspaper. These are verifiable facts, guys. Please look them up for yourself.  He became best friends with Roger Ailes, the former head of Fox News—America’s least enlightened, least culturally sensitive cable news channel, and had Ailes come to work on his campaign. He became close friends with Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News and breitbart.com, and brought him in to be CEO of the Trump campaign. After the election, he was named as the “chief advisor” to the President. This is a guy who once infamously said that he didn’t want his daughters attending a private school with Jews.

HOST: This is a bad, bad man, guys. Breitbart is a company that specializes in promoting white supremacist and white separatist causes by fabricating scandalous news stories about people and organizations that such people consider to be enemies of their causes. The New York Times described it this way: “Breitbart has been denounced as misogynist, racist and xenophobic, and it served as a clearinghouse for attacks on Mr. Trump’s adversaries, spreading unsubstantiated rumors about Hillary Clinton’s health and undermining its own reporter, Michelle Fields, after she accused Corey Lewandowski, then Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, of assaulting her.” Some of the more memorable headlines by this so-called media outlet include: “World Health Organization Report: Trannies 49(TIMES) Higher HIV Rate.” and “There’s No Hiring Bias Against Women In Tech, They Just Suck At Interviews” and “Planned Parenthood’s Body Count Under Cecile Richards Is Up To Half A Holocaust.” Or how about this lovely one? “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy.” By the way, none of these is intended to be comedy. 

HOST: They are all presented to Breitbart’s audience of millions as legitimate news. This is the guy who has the ear of the president-elect. This is the guy who is the biggest bit of proof that Mr. Trump is, at the least, a person who holds those different than him in contempt. At the most, it labels Trump a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, sexist, agist, rapist, islamophobe, and antisemite all at once. Trump also became close friends with Nigel Farrage. Those of my friends and listeners in the U.K. and all over Europe know already that Farrage is a fear monger who encouraged the British to leave the security of the European Union by making the common people terrified that little brown men and women were going to steal their privilege away. And instead of helping to facilitate the actual move that the U.K. must now endure, Farrage was here touring the country with Mr. Trump and stirring up the same fear of brown, yellow, red, and black over here.  You'd think he’d be to busy to have time to do that right now. By the way, people in Mississippi at a Trump rally didn’t know Nigel Farrage from Nicki Minage.  So ask yourself what his relevance was. Ask yourself why he was there.  Certainly not to Make America Great Again. 

HOST: Alan Dershowitz, perhaps the most highly recognized constitutional scholar who is also a trial attorney, wrote this in his recent opinion column on FoxNew.com. "This is what I wrote in my Ebook, Electile Dysfunction: ‘Think about the vote on Brexit. Virtually all the polls including exit polls that asked voters who they had voted for - got it wrong. The financial markets got it wrong. The bookies got it wrong. The 2016 presidential election is more like the Brexit vote in many ways than it is like prior presidential elections. Both Brexit and this presidential election involve raw emotion, populism, anger, nationalism. (Britain First, America First), class division and other factors that distort accuracy in polling. So anyone who thinks they know who will be the next president of the United States is deceiving themselves.’" That makes it abundantly clear that one of our greatest analytical legal minds believes that Farrage and Brexit weren’t part of this crazy crazy crazy show by coincidence. Let’s take a break. 

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HOST: Guys, I’ve been voting since I was 18. I’m now 49. This isn’t the first time I’ve been horribly disappointed by the outcome of a political race. I even have friends who have run for various offices over the years, and many of them with my help. The disappointment when we lose is hard to take, but you do take it and then you begin to accept the version of the world that has your chosen politician not in the role you wanted. You soon figure out how to make the most of the version of the world that has the other guy as the leader. 

HOST: You find ways to work with that guy for the good of society, but also how to appropriately challenge that leader so that she knows that there is a check on her power and that the constituency is watching and demanding solid leadership in the interest of the community. That’s the mature way to accept an electoral loss. Ordinarily. Now I didn’t invent that. People have done it that way since the very first democratic elections—going all the way back to the direct democracies of Ancient Greece. Certainly there have been bad patches where people couldn’t accept the loss so easily—assassinations, coups and civil wars. I don’t want to overly dramatize our current situation, but I do need to point out what makes this year’s presidential election exceptional. Because it is exceptional, guys. I’m sure there are some of you out there, in this country and around the world, who wish that people like me would just get over it. I’ve had people tell me “your side lost. Grow up.” They’ve said it on Facebook. They’ve said it on Twitter. They’ve said it in the grocery store and at a restaurant. It is true. My side did lose. I do need to get over that part. And I will. 

HOST: And I will try to respect my president as best I can, like I did in 2000 and 2004 when President George W. Bush was elected. Many may remember that his 2000 election was the subject of a truly contentious election that resulted in the final determination being made, for the first time—but not the last probably—by the United States Supreme Court. Most of my friends and family felt that outcome was wrong for many reasons. But none of us seriously doubted President Bush’s basic qualifications for the job. He had been governor of one of our largest and most populous states. He had dealt with crime and punishment, natural disasters, healthcare issues, financial distress, and military issues. He was, by no means, a scholar or a diplomat, and there were some concerns over his actual intelligence, but we all thought that he could govern with the right help. And President Bush surrounded himself with experienced, well-regarded leaders from his father’s presidential administration. There were plenty of times, during the 2000 campaign, where then-Governor Bush said and did some really dumb stuff. Really dumb. Comedians and cartoonists made whole careers out of making fun of him. 

HOST: And while I felt strongly that Bush didn’t specifically care about many of the issues that were important to me—or worse, that he took the opposite view on these issues, I never felt that President Bush was a bigot. I mostly felt he was out of touch. And, although I didn’t agree with most of the decisions the Bush administration made, I generally saw a method to his madness. The same will not likely be true with President-elect Donald Trump. Let me say emphatically that I did not believe that Mr. Trump was serious about becoming president of the United States. I still don’t. But then I don’t believe he means much of anything he says. Which is helpful in understanding why I, and many others, feel he is going to be so bad for this country. Why his election signals the end of many things we feel are special about our country. I have heard many of his supporters explaining away the horrible things he has said before, during, and even after this horrendous campaign. Seemingly well-meaning people have said to me and to others, with a dead straight face, “oh, he didn’t mean those things he said. He just gave into an impulse to say something outrageous.” 

HOST: They then go on to explain why this explanation makes it clear that “he’s not really a racist” or “he’s not really a homophobe” or “he’s not really a sexist” or “he’s not really a rapist” or “he’s not really an agist” or “he’s not really a xenophobe” or “he’s not really an Islamophobe” or “he’s not really a pedophile” or “he’s not really a body shamer” or “he’s not really a liar, cheat, or thief.” But they never kind of explain why and how he had the impulse or compulsion to do or say the things underlying the accusations in the first place. What prompted him to call Mexicans rapists with no actual evidence and no real context? What prompted him to tell African-Americans “You live in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?” That diatribe wasn't actually made to a black audience. It was made at a rally in a Michigan community that is 93 percent white. And, while we’re on the subject, most everything he said was dishonest or misleading. But he meant to do that. It drove his underlying message to his core supporters.  

HOST: And who are they? They are white people who, in a fit of desperation for personal financial stability, societal normalization, and a “return” to “the good old days.” Am I saying white supremacists?  I am not. I am saying that President-elect Trump’s core group of supporters seems to be generally less-well-educated people who have been made to feel threatened by the our society’s contemporary emphases on inclusiveness and diversity. Look, guys, I would love to tell you to write off this entire group of people because they are the lowest of the low. I would love to tell you that there is no virtue in what they were trying to do by voting for and electing the most obvious charlatan ever to present himself in the history of American politics. But most of these people were either too worried about their own dire situations to be concerned about those who are somehow different from them, or they were so mystified by the tv star and fake billionaire and his hyper-dramatic presentation that they forgot to think about what he was saying. And some of them are people dear to me. Guys, let’s face it. Let’s be clear. There will be no wall. And Mexico won’t be paying for it. Nobody will, because nobody can pay $25 billion for a fake solution to a fake problem. 

HOST: And President-elect Trump has already admitted that he will likely be amending Obamacare instead of completely repealing it “during the first hour of his first day in the white house” as he has stated literally hundreds of times on the campaign trail. Oh yeah, and he probably won’t be deporting 11 or 12 million undocumented immigrants during that same hour either. And as for bringing back the high paying manufacturing and industrial jobs, unless he has a magic wand and a time machine, most economists and labor experts agree that there’s no real way to accomplish this either. So basically, our modern-day P.T. Barnum has sold a nation half-filled with sick people the desperate, but ineffective, medicine commonly known as snake oil. And they bought it because they have felt that nothing else has worked to solve the problems they have. And just like the real snake oil, this impotent mixture will taste just awful going down and will accomplish a big fat nothing.  We’ll be right back.

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HOST: Guys, you have probably noticed that, inasmuch as I don’t want President-elect Trump to be my president, I recognize that that part is out of my hands. 

HOST: We voted. He won. This episode is not about his utter unsuitability for this highest and rarest of honors. He is unsuitable. But this episode it my attempt to come to grips with the fact that things have gotten so bad, from the perspective of half of my fellow citizens, that they wittingly voted for a person who is demonstrably a bigot. By his own words and his own actions, he holds Mexicans, blacks, women, gays, muslims, the elderly, the Chinese, and those from South America and so-called Latin America in contempt. By his own words and his own actions, they are simply not as good as he is. By his own words and his own actions, they are not entitled to the same courtesy, respect, or dignity that he believes he is. He has been discriminating against those different than he is since at least the 1970s when he was a landlord of luxury apartment and had to be sued twice before he would permit blacks to rent in his buildings. And in 1989, he called for the execution, without trial, of five black teenagers who were falsely accused of attacking and raping a female jogger in New York’s Central Park. 

HOST: Even after DNA exonerated all five, and a serial killer and rapist came forward and admitted to having committed the heinous crime, Trump refused to back down and ran ads in the New York Times to try to keep the five in prison. And he has been discriminating against women for at least that long. His three wives and two daughters, if they were to be totally honest, would have to admit that he has said and done some creepy things around, about, and to them all. And then we can consider his clear opinions of combat veterans (Senator McCain is a loser because he got captured by the enemy and held as a prisoner of war for five years in North Vietnam). And we can consider his contempt for at least one gold star family. Guys, if you don’t know, a gold star family is a family that has lost a uniformed member in combat or due to military action. Remember the speech by Mr. Khizr Khan, who was joined at the podium by his wife Ghazala Khan at the Democratic National Convention this past summer? These two amazingly dignified people spoke to the crowd about the death of their son, Captain Humayun Khan, while he was serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004.  

HOST: In the speech, Mr. Khan, a lawyer who was born in Pakistan and who became a naturalized U.S. citizen, offered to lend his copy of the U.S. Constitution to Donald Trump. Obviously, it was a rhetorical device and obviously it was meant to whip the DNC crowd into a bit of a frenzy. All political convention speeches employ these techniques.  But instead of treating it as fair political discourse and letting it wash right past him, Mr. Trump decided that his best move would be to attack these two citizens and their religion—Islam—by implying that the only reason that this grief-stricken Gold Star mom would choose not to address the crowd herself is because she was somehow being controlled by her presumably domineering Muslim husband. That’s clearly islamophobia, but isn't it also misogyny? Oh yeah, and Mr. Trump did his attacks via Twitter and then national tv interviews. Considering that he apparently has millions and millions of Twitter followers and millions and millions of broadcast followers, his act also labels him a bully.  But the electorate decided that these things were not consequential to their choice of him as our president.

HOST: And do you remember when, during the first debate during the primary season, Moderator Megyn Kelly asked Donald Trump about the dozens of times he had, as a “celebrity” socialite and reality TV show host, insulted Rosie O’Donnell and countless other women by calling them “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.” She also asked him about the time he also once tweeted about a female contestant on his reality tv show that “it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees,” making a clear reference to a sexual act. Mr. Trump was so defiant in his answer that it seemed certain that half of all voting Americans would turn against him in that moment. Yet, a year later, he was elected president. And that could not have happened had a substantial percentage women not supported his candidacy and voted for him. How does that happen? Oh, and by the way, a goodly number of Mr. Trump’s personal and categorical attacks on individuals and on blocks of the electorate take place on Twitter. It’s almost as if he believed that publishing these little nasty-grams to his now 14 million Twitter followers constituted free kidney punches for which he would never be held accountable. 

HOST: Like most reasonable people, I watched in horror and waited for the shoe to drop. But it never did. Like an eel this guy. A slippery, slimy, stinky, unpleasant, rude, lewd, crude, rambunctious, unctuous, non-compunctious, nasty, nasty, nasty eel. And somehow the American people let the devil in our door. And it really isn’t the devil’s fault. Comedian Chris Rock has a joke about a certain celebrity big cat trainer who was mauled years back by one of his charges. And, according to the story, people were concerned because the tiger “went crazy.” But Chris Rock disagreed with that assessment. “That tiger didn’t go crazy,” he said. “That tiger went tiger.” With all due respect to and empathy for Roy, the performer, the joke makes a huge point. Or should I say “Yuge”? Those who have ever heard our president-elect speak will get that comment. Anyway, the joke makes the point that much like it was unreasonable for Roy to have expected behavior from the tiger that was contrary to its nature, Americans are silly to expect this fatally flawed person to ever rise to the level of the highest caliber of leader. Again, not that I expect him or anyone to be perfect. I’m certainly not perfect and I’m not a hypocrite. 

HOST: But we want our leaders to represent a sort of moral high ground to the rest of the world. We want them to have the appearance of tremendous character, even if they are a little less good in private. Here’s a silly little game I like to play. We have generally put our most revered leaders on our money. Our coins and our paper notes. Now, in fairness, that honor has largely been reserved for men, but play along for a moment. Try to picture Donald J. Trump on a postage stamp or a $50 bill. Can you imagine it? Would it bother you to have it in your wallet or on your desk? Or would it be an honor and a privilege to see? Or would it be something that you don’t even register? My guess is that even most of those who supported his presidency are of the camp that they cannot even imagine this guy on our money. So why on earth did we send him to the white house. That is what’s behind the protesters in all of our major cities, guys. That is behind the divisiveness on Facebook and Twitter. This guy is why many people who have loved each other for years are finding their friendships and relationships fractured. We are all afraid, supporters and detractors alike. 

HOST: Because this guy will have tremendous power as president. More power than any modern president has ever had. Why? Because he will have all three branches of the federal government.  He will have the executive branch, of course, and will have the ability to reverse laws derived from executive orders and administrative codes—and these are the laws that tend to protect consumers and govern workplace safety and safeguard the civil rights and basic human dignity of people of diverse races, national origins, religious beliefs, physical and mental capability, sexual orientation, and gender. Further, as he has already repeatedly said, he will assume he has the ability to prosecute his former political rivals for actions that have not heretofore been considered criminal activity. He will also have the two houses of the Congress which pretty much guarantees that he will be able to easily overturn the statutes that protect the rights of these same people. 

HOST: Finally, because his party will have a majority in both houses, he will be able to easily appoint at least one conservative Supreme Court justice and several hundred conservative judges, virtually guaranteeing that the court-made laws that have protected the rights of these people will be overturned—blasting civil rights and women’s rights back to where they were some 60 years ago. Imagine an America where women no longer have a constitutional right to their own bodies. What impact will that have on the other aspects of their lives? Pretty profound I’ll wager. And what happens to the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples that have become legally wed in the past few years? And what happens to their children when the courts and congress together eliminate their right to get, or even to be, married? And as a black father of three, including two young women in training, I am terrified for their future. What keeps them safe from the dial-back of voting rights laws, public accommodations laws, workplace anti-discrimination laws, public school education equality laws, medical treatment equality laws, and more? 

HOST: And if the government is officially “recognizing” them as inferior persons, won’t some private citizens simply follow suit? Isn’t that what happened in Germany, Austria, Poland, and a whole bunch of other places during the 1930s and 40s? The parallels between this situation and Nazi Germany cannot be overstated, and this isn’t just a rhetorical device people are using to advance their liberal agenda. We are afraid, and this president-elect is doing little to make us feel better. He knows that hate crimes are already abounding—in his name, by the way. Swastikas are being painted on public and private buildings. The primary difference between these Swastikas and the ones from Hitler’s day is that these have references to Trump and his recent electoral victory. Plus Latino children, most of whom are citizens or legal residents, are having personalized threats of deportation hurled in their direction daily. Muslim children, and some who aren’t even muslim, are being physically threatened by people purporting to be Trump supporters.  I myself have already been told to shut the blank up and go back to Somalia. Guys, I’m from Indiana and so were my parents. My grandparents were from Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. 

HOST: Their parents were from Virginia and North Carolina. The earliest direct ancestor I could find in public records was born in Virginia in 1804. His name was Dred Brown and he was my great great great great great grandfather. So I won’t be going back to Somalia, except as a tourist. Oh yeah, and by the way, guys. By the way. Our president-elect has stated emphatically that he believes that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese. So he will be reversing all of the regulations and policies that President Obama and his predecessors have put into place to try to save our world.  Guys, my children are these ever-hopeful, super-nice, wonderfully weird troopers who have always trusted me to protect them from the bad stuff and bad people in our universe. I don’t know exactly how, but I must protect them from this. You know? In the end, however horrible some people try to make this world be, the good people in this world, including my three children, will win out. I believe it. I really do. And look at how long the protests have lasted, guys. There are people out there—black, white, brown, yellow, rich, poor, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Agnostic, Atheist, Male, Female, Straight, Gay, Trans, Bisexual, educated elites and high school dropouts alike. They know what’s right and they’re going to stay at it until the new president and his team know too. And the fact that we live in a place where we can do that without fear of significant punishment is what made America great in the first place. Remember that and we will be okay.

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HOST: Wow, guys, wow!  Can’t believe how this time has just flown by once again, can you? I love the time we spend together each week. I can’t even pretend that isn’t true. But all good things must come to an end I suppose. Oh well. I’ll be here next Wednesday, no matter what else is happening in the world. You know I will be here. And you’d better be here too. Because if you’re not, you know we’ll just be talking about you! Have an amazing week with your wonderful families. Hug each person in your family and tell him or her how much you care. I think we all need that right now, right?  Anyway, until next week, guys, enjoy…

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