This is my own personal opinion. Please, no Trump supporters argue with what I say.
I have zero interest in Trump. I’m not interested in how he delivers his speeches or what he has to say. He is the worst candidate ever to run for ANY office. I have not listened to (nor read) a single word this person has said in his quest to become president…"
Bolding mine.
Probably not wise to indict yourself like that. No one should endorse this behavior, but your post is ironic, considering that it’s dumb voters being dumb that leads to Trump’s strategy of dumbing it all down.
Mind you all, Hillary has resorted to this winning tactic, and for the time being, her team has done better at it (only recently).
I’m starting to think that perhaps there needs to be general competency test before one is permitted to vote. The Achilles’ heel of democracy is an uneducated electorate.
The quote from the OP also struck me as notable. Again:
Yeah, this is 1st grade stuff…BUT, a 1st grader would probably ask, “WHY was Saddam Hussein such a really bad guy? What did he do?” And then you would have to say, “Well, he killed a lot of people without care for their rights, or proving that they had done anything…” “But, but, you just said that’s what made him good…” So 1st grader? Maybe not…this is more like what happens after intellectual curiosity and basic thought processes have been worn away by years of training to recite just the information that’s been fed to you.
And the thing is, even if you point out the problems with his admiration of Saddam for killing terrorists, they will still insist that handling terrorists that way is fine because they’re terrorists and deserve it; but oh yeah, killing the innocent people was bad. But it’s incredibly difficult to convince them that you don’t get one without the other. That somehow there’s a magical way to target ONLY the “right” people (or even define the “right” people) without any due process or oversight or repercussions. And if they then insist that there is, it gets even scarier because then you’re literally getting into genocide/“ethnic cleansing” territory…
Turns out? This has always been the case. People like Trump can’t rise to power in a democracy without two things: cynical people who know better, who support him for what they can get; and voters who can’t be bothered to rub two thoughts together to see through him. This is always the case. Go watch “A Face in the Crowd” and “All the King’s Men” again.
We have always had a sizable percentage of voters like that, and other countries have too. Our job, as sensible people, is to make sure that the hysteria of circumstances don’t switch the less-lazy, less-malleable voters over to their side.
There has been some good advice in this thread. Don’t underestimate Trump. Remember that his soul is that of a salesman, while at heart he is a narcissist. If he cleans up his act even a little bit, he will be even more dangerous. Don’t let down your guard, don’t waste your time trying to convert true believers, but if you run across anyone leaning his way, please do put in the effort to calmly and respectfully show them the would-be emperor’s lack of attire.
And please become educated about and vote in all upcoming non-presidential elections. We’ve seen how influential the US Congress and state governments are in the past 8 years. Even if Trump becomes president there is still a way to have a decent country.
He won’t. He can’t; one of his most trusted techniques is the dead cat strategy.
Dead cat strategy is a diversionary tactic used in politics. Picture a dinner table, and the conversation is going somewhere you don’t want it to go. To divert everyone, do something strange and revolting, like throwing a dead cat in the middle of the dinner table. Guarantee that everyone will talk about the dead cat and why you would do such a crazy thing.
Repeat as necessary. Trump never runs out of dead cats.
Sure, but all the people at other tables will think you would never throw a dead cat at their table. And they may even think it cool that Donald stuck it to the man, with that dead cat.
Because Trump isn’t claiming to care about the environment, just pointing out Obama is acting hypocritically. Also, to the same point, Trump has had the time to play golf, Obama, presumably, should have more important things to focus on.
i think that this is less like writing like a first grader than like writing to a first grade reader. Trump is trying to cast, if not the widest possible net, something like that.
Add that to his conscious use of obscenity, and I have to give him props. He’s winning not because he knows what he’s talking about, but because he talks differently than the professional politicians. Honestly, the way we try to make politicians speak did need shaken up. Good for him.
I fear he has little to no administrative acumen, though. He’d be a terrible President. He has no friends in Congress, and he would be a weaker President than he looks as a campaigner.
He’d have to give up so much stuff to the people in Congress! And they’re bad people. Very, very bad. These are the same people that give politicians a bad name.
I hope I’m wrong! But I think he’d just be weak. They’d say, “We want these judges,” and he’d agree. And the judges, well, they’d be the crooked judges the party leadership want. Isn’t that how it goes?
