Posted by Tina
As the events of my day unfolded I found myself asking a question that has become quite common in the race for the Presidency, “Why Trump?” Why has this bombastic man so captured the attention of the American people and the press? Trump is cheered, studied, and reviled. He is defended and attacked. What is it that has everyone charged and ready to rumble? Republicans who support him feel betrayed by the leadership of the party and their representatives in Congress. Some are attracted because they think he’ll bring back the economy and jobs. Several people have speculated that the public is simply fed up. They are done with being shamed about race and class. They are no longer willing to be careful as they speak for fear of offending. They are tired of watching the country “fundamentally transformed.” I agree that all of those things explain Trump. But they don’t explain all of it.
As I was preparing, and later eating, my dinner a movie played across my TV. It seemed to be about corruption in big city government and it’s dealings with union bosses. I wasn’t paying close attention because I had been involved with my pork roast, baked potatoes, and an occasional contentious shot on PS, so I didn’t catch the story line. No matter, it seemed to have inspired a thought. Are the people clamoring for a good old fashioned Elliot Ness type? Are they looking for someone to clean out the corruption, division, tyranny, and violence that’s been in our lives over the last few years? Are they hoping for someone who can restore our nation?
Elliot Ness was best known for cleaning out the rats nest that marked the violent and ruthless reign of Al Capone in Chicago. But he also did a good job in Ohio:
Ness was also responsible for turning around Cleveland, Ohio, in the mid-1930s, when the city was overcome with crime and corruption. Weeding out 200 crooked police officers and bringing 15 other officials to trial for criminal behavior, Ness set many precedents…
We’re not talking about a singe city or a crime family but we are talking about corruption. Corruption in government, corruption of the language, corruption in the justice system, and the corrupting influence of indoctrination in our schools and colleges. We are talking about taxes and regulations that have blunted and stifled our economy and forced too many people into a situation of poverty or near poverty. We are taking about a doubling of our debt and a budget that has grown in the extreme. We are talking about our military and veterans that have been demoralized, hog tied, and forgotten. And there’s more…a lot more from Ferguson to Libya, the border situation to foreign relations, the people are impassioned and hungry for a leader who will tear up the rats nest.
Why Trump? Because he talks and acts like a man who won’t take any crap and is dedicated to restoring power to “we the people,” a concept that many across the fruited plain have shoved aside as they pursued their own special interests and desires for power and control.
Cruz is still my choice for president but I will vote for Trump to save the nation from more of the same from corruptors.
What are you talking about?
1) Trump doesn’t talk like someone who will “restore power to the people,” he talks like someone who will expand federal power for himself.
2) His supporters aren’t just tired of being “careful as they speak for fear of offending,” they’re just not careful enough to tell the truth, which is why we saw Trump supporters circulate two hoax stories in one day, one of which you fell for.
3) If they care that our veterans and military are being demoralized, why are they supporting a candidate who has insulted POWs, saying “I like people who don’t get captured?” THAT’s a guy who supports our troops?
4) If they’re looking for someone to “clean up violence,” why are they supporting a candidate who has incited his supporters to beat up protesters and told them he would pay their legal fees if they did so?
5) The idea that Trump wouldn’t be corrupt could only be believed by someone who has at some point been the victim of a Nigerian e-mail scam.
And that’s only scratching the surface.
Even if all the concerns of voters you mention are accepted as legitimate, Trump is still a TERRIBLE choice for addressing any of those concerns.
People are not voting for Trump (or Sanders). People are just voting, finally, to destroy the establishment.
The *establishment* composed of journos, BS-Vending talking heads with well-formulated verbs, bureaucrato-cronies, lobbyists-in training, New Yorker-reading semi-intellectuals, image-conscious empty suits, Washington rent-seekers and other “well thinking” members of the vocal elites are not getting the point about what is happening and the sterility of their arguments.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-12/nassim-taleb-sums-americas-election-17-black-swan-words
So, then, it’s a giant temper tantrum thrown by adults who should know better. Got it, bob.
If I am forced to vote for Trump in the general election, I will. Again my vote will not be for a candidate, it will be against one. #NeverHillary #NeverAnyDemocrat.
It’s a rare occasion when we get to vote with absolute enthusiasm. Always, always, I vote for the candidate I believe will work to move us in the direction of our founding principles.
No Democrat today meets this benchmark…the Democrats of today are all grounded in Marxist principles.
I expect to be disappointed no matter who gets elected. Our system was designed to make change difficult.
Conservatives are about preserving the principles of freedom, equality and justice…certainly not the revisionist view.
Well said, Tina!
No matter whom the GOP nominee is, they will be 1000% better than whatever the Demwits have to offer.
Yes, I think people are looking for that super hero to ride in and save us from the harm done by both parties over the past several decades. They’ve just chosen the wrong person. They’ve forgotten that Trump joined with Jesse Ventura in 2000 to run for the presidency. Ventura who is also know for suing the widow of Chris Kyle. Now, there’s a real looser for you and in my opinion the perfect running mate for Trump.
Trump is on video telling people to act and react violently and then just like a school yard bully denies he said it and disavows any responsibility for those who follow his directions.
The man disgust me and I won’t be voting for him in the general. He’s too much like Obama. He finish destroying America just like Hillary will. What’s the difference? I’ll write in Ted Cruz’s name on my ballot and vote my principals and hope enough others will too. It worked for Murkowski in Alaska.
Your Party created Trump after decades of selling out. Now the corruption? It is Democrat Party never a Republican? The donors donate and dictate to both.
Bottom Line you are missing What Trump is selling. Violence. Authoritarianism, Race baiting, ect ect.
Any American that does not shut down this violence baiting has lost it.
Trump has a history. He is no more than a greedy buffoon.
What we have is an ignorant, lazy population. Education went out the window and we are a nation of controlled by media Idiots.
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
Now we live in the results of this memo
I finally figured out why everything is Marxist to Tina… While no one approves of Marxism, Marx was correct about capitalism. It has finally hit the fan by forced austerity for their own greed.
We use to say we are capitalists balanced with socialism. Those were the good days.
Now we have Tina on social security trying to pitch taking it away from those who would receive it next.
“Marx was wrong about communism. Where he was prophetically right was in his grasp of the revolution of capitalism. It’s not just capitalism’s endemic instability that he understood, though in this regard he was far more perceptive than most economists in his day and ours. ”
More profoundly, Marx understood how capitalism destroys its own social base – the middle-class way of life. The Marxist terminology of bourgeois and proletarian has an archaic ring. ”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14764357
Capitalism without the balance of caring about Human Life called Socialism by Democratic Standards will kill all humans as we see today.
We do not even have the right to clean food and water at this point.
Dewey your party created Trump if any did. All of the leftist PC BS, all of the race baiting and divisive politics, the economic disaster of the last 71/2 years, even the unions are unhappy. A big block of Trump voters are disgruntled Democrats and Independents.
That memo caused the journalist it was leaked to question Powell’s ability to make a sound legal decision, not exactly an endorsement. The US Chamber of Commerce has been a left leaning organization for at least thirty years if not more.
You read an awful lot into this memo! For every Heritage Foundation there are at least two lefty think tanks…it’s balanced Dewey. And since when has thinking ever put created law all by itself?
” Marx was correct about capitalism. It has finally hit the fan by forced austerity for their own greed. ”
My Sweet Lord, you are a calliope of words…lotsa hot gas…funny sound….
Capitalism can’t “force austerity.” It also isn’t a “they.”
“Now we have Tina on social security trying to pitch taking it away from those who would receive it next.”
A BLATANT LIE!
Capitalism isn’t a person, Dewey. It cannot destroy anything. Capitalism is simply a means of trade by individuals. Many capitalist PERSONS have been philanthropists donating millions to charity, the building of schools, colleges, hospitals, and libraries, and investing in breakthrough advances in science, medicine and technology! In a free nation, capitalists from every walk of life have the ability to give through their churches and through charities. America’s private citizens have been the most generous nation on earth. WE CAN BECAUSE WE ARE FREE TO TO PROFIT FROM OUR LABORS; OUR PROFITS ARE OUR PROPERTY!!!
Socialism has many forms. Under socialism the individual has no value other than as a placeholder in the collective. His rights are diminished and blunted for the sake of the state which controls all means of production. Freedom is diminished as are creativity and the desire to work hard. Why work when the state will take care of you? Why invent when you can’t direct your own progress or profit from your invention? Why bother being charitable when the state takes care of that?
Socialism sucks the life out of the individual and gives all of the power and wealth to the governing few.
“We do not even have the right to clean food and water at this point.”
Believe it or not food and water are not rights. You live in America and have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…go get it! Find bottle water and clean food in any grocery outlet.
Must be an election year since Chris and Dewey are providing more wind . . .
And a mighty stink of a wind it is. Not even a lighting a pipe could kill the stink of that wind.
Dewey, I agree with Tina 100%…you, your party and everyone that thinks like you created Donald Trump. You pushed, pushed and pushed and now comes the push back and you don’t like. But, you and the liberal crazy crowd started it. I’m not happy Dewey, I don’t like this situation one bit and I BLAME YOU Mr. Smug and confused.
Sad. The real Ben Carson self-exposed.
Ben Carson: I Didn’t Want To Endorse Trump, But He Promised Me A Job:
Two videos.
http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/03/14/ben-carson-trump-promised-place-administration/?utm_content=buffer32f34&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Oh, now that’s disappointing … and highly gratifying at the same time.
So, you will, put to it, vote for Trump.
Do it. And give me years’ and years’ worth of ammunition.
Fire away…they’re all blanks anyway!