Those of us who are not enamored with Mr.Trump have been trying to understand why his fans are, for months. We have been confounded by the fact that his past is of no consequence and that his refusal to commit to any agenda other than "Make America Great Again" is enough for so many to carry his torch. It has been said by many that the reason they like him is that he is too wealthy to be corrupted, but that just didn't make much sense. Corrupted from what? Being a democrat? A rival campaign blamed it on "celebrity", and I bought into that for a while, but who watched his game show? If they did, who liked his character?
I've figured it out. The reason a Trump fan can't be convinced that he is a bad man is because they know he is a bad man. That's what they like about him. He is condescending, rude, and mean and they are hoping to project their own anger through him.
Everything else be damned.
Can’t speak for anybody else but will reply to this. Enamored with Trump – no. Angry – absolutely spot on.
I personally think this country is f’cked; unequivocally, irrevocably, inevitably f’cked. Everything history has shown us about slowly boiling frogs is coming true and has been for some time. We have reached the point in our empire where it is in decline and is dying. Power is concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. That power lets them be further and further insulated from the errors of their hubris, unlike the rest of us who have to take it in the ass for their arrogance and grossly negligent mismanagement.
I have no idea how to fix it. I really don’t think it can be fixed through the election process. We can control some small issues, maybe, for 4 or 8 years at a time, but I’m talking about the fundamental values that make any country great. We’ve lost them and surrendered our liberty for (false) security and glib promises of free stuff – partly through a calculated effort but mostly that “calculated effort” has just ridden the wave of normal human nature; “they” haven’t done anything more or less than any other would be despots have done successfully since Oog took over the Hill tribe.
So anyway, back to Trump. I hope he breaks the place. We are boiling slowly and looking to politicians,
any politician, to fix things is only prolonging the agony. We absolutely know what the Devil we know is going to do, he or she is going to f’ck us in the ass and force us to pay his owners for the privilege of being f’cked in the ass. That only leaves the Devil we don’t know. And I don’t know what others think, but I think Trump would be one of the most monumentally disastrous Presidents we’ve ever seen. Maybe.
We’re bankrupt, our enemies grow stronger financially, militarily and most importantly industrially every day while we grow weaker on all fronts. We are a boil ready to burst. Trump might actually try to fix things and bring the whole place down around our heads, which, as bad as that will be, is the only way I can see to start something new again. OR, the other strong possibility I see is that he’d be the dictator that so many people throughout history, especially the folks that founded this country, have warned us about. This place is certainly ripe for it. Which might actually be the catalyst needed for some kind of genuine revolt, armed or otherwise, so we can finally start to clean out the den of snakes that live in the Potomac basin. That is, if he doesn’t start a war with a stronger allied force that finally conquers and occupies us.
OR, he could be like Reagan in some ways without the polished actor image and poise. A real cowboy coming in rootin' and tootin', kicking ass and taking names. I tend to doubt it, but it's one possibility that we can't dismiss. At least he sticks to his guns in the face of the
media Propaganda Corps' worst efforts, something nobody else seems willing to do.
Whatever happens, so be it. The sooner we face the inevitable the sooner we can rebuild.
This really isn’t all about Trump but in reply to your post, yes, you are absolutely right, he expresses my anger with the Establishment very well. I don’t hold out any hope for him to fix it, but I know anybody else coming from Washington will only turn up the burner under this frog one more notch.
