Donald: Will fire you but you better not quit.

Donald Trump hasn’t been told the truth very often in his life. He won’t allow it. He demands utter loyalty even when he is utterly wrong. And without honest feedback from those around him, his behavior hasn’t been held in check. He’s become a classless disgrace, someone willing to profiteer from racism, a bigoted Birther. He makes a target of the first African-American President not on political terms but on racial ones. In doing so, he mocks the very people who have historically had the rawest deal in our nation.

It’s funny that you never hear any of his children criticizing their father. Could it be possible that every one of them is also a racist buffoon? Not likely. So why don’t they, regardless of whom they support in the upcoming election, distance themselves publicly from their father’s racism? Why don’t they scold dad? It’s likely because they’re not permitted to. Like most deeply vengeful people, Donald Trump is frightened and insecure. He will lash out and dismiss those he feels have crossed him. He can accept no dissent.

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Donald Trump is part of an executive overclass who thinks employees owe him complete fealty. His catchphrase which he delivers with relish is “You’re fired,” but he doesn’t feel employees should have free will. The Washington Nationals shut down their brilliant young pitcher Steven Strasburg before the playoffs because he was coming off surgery and they were afraid he would get hurt. It’s a debatable decision, but it wasn’t made merely for Strasburg’s well-being. The team has him contracted for several more seasons and wants him to be healthy.

But Donald Trump will have none of it. When Strasburg becomes a free agent in a few years, he will be “disloyal” to the team. You know, by making the best financial decision for his life and family. Trump doesn’t like it when employees benefit from a free-market economy, only owners. He thinks Washington should have worked the potentially “disloyal” player into the ground.

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You will not likely declare undying loyalty to wealthy people like Donald Trump? You will not put their interests above your own? Then you should be used and abused before they discard you.

Ivana: You were very loyal to me, Donald.

Marla.