LS, I understand how people feel about him, and I cannot blame them or belittle them. I understand it. it is just that I don’t trust him or believe anything he says. I haven’t watched television now going on 15-20 years, so I missed all that “You’re fired” stuff.
The fact that something inside me doesn’t like or trust him doesn’t mean I don’t like hearing the things coming out of his mouth, because I am glad someone is saying them. So, that does set him apart from people like the GOPe candidates and would make me vote for him over any of them.
But to me, that is damning with faint praise.
The only thing I can see he has going for him (for me, at least) is that he has capitalistic tendencies and knows the ins-and-outs of business, how to run one, how to make money running one, and how to lose money running one.
That does count, but then, Ross Perot had that going for him too, and he had someone like Admiral Stockdale vouching for him.
My inner radar, from the first time I ever saw or heard Donald Trump, has not changed even a little bit. My inner voice does not like or trust him. Doesn’t mean I won’t vote for him, but it discourages me that in these times (times that I feel will become desperate at some point in the not-so-far future) this is our Churchill, as another poster said. This is the best we will get.
It is extremely discouraging to me. I have come to the hard end that our political system is broken, because we don’t follow the guidelines that are supposed to regulate our political system, and the representation it has given us has long ceased to be representative. Politically speaking, this is extremely distressing and discouraging to me.
I feel politically adrift. I cannot, in good conscience, support the GOP because it is embracing leftist concepts that are anathema to me, albeit in a slightly more diluted form. I have stopped believing in compromise, because I believe that compromising with evil is supporting evil. All compromising amounts to now is a series of delaying actions in a losing campaign as we back closer, and closer to the precipice.
So, yes. I might vote for him. But this is the hard end I have come to, after a life of believing that we can be great and live up to the dreams of our founders. I believe our country is broken, politically.
And I don’t think I can explain to anyone how that makes me feel.
You couldn’t have expressed my feelings about Trump and today’s politics any better. Trump has that Mussolini aura about him. However, I truly believe that he loves America unlike our current Mussolini occupant.
It is a sad state of affairs that this country might need some kind of junta strongman to get us back on keel. Every man and woman should be fearful of one man rule. Perhaps it’s a necessary temporary righting of the ship, but will it remain temporary?
But when courts act as legislators and legislators surrender and succomb to executives and the electorate are emojicon bots; what is left of the American Republic?
I get it. For some reason, while Walker doesn’t raise the hairs on my neck, there is something about him that doesn’t feel right/presidential. I think he’s a great governor. But the Peter Principle . . . .