Posted on 10/18/2016 3:19:49 PM PDT by PingPongChampion
If you turn on any news channel for five minutes, you'll see a pundit or anchor lamenting Donald Trump's inflammatory talk. If it's not Donald Trump's rhetoric they have a problem with, you'll catch them whining about someone else who said something inflammatory. More than often, the rhetoric isn't even inflammatory, but they'll pretend it is just to create social proof. Dropping their jaws and holding their hands over their fragile hearts is a custom among talking heads. Whether it's the perfect specimens on The View or guests on Anderson Cooper 360, someone, somewhere finds someone's words scary, dangerous and inciteful. While they shiver and whimper like frightened grade-schoolers, all that inflammatory rhetoric is accomplishing something that boring and cautious rhetoric doesn't. All those dangerous words are eliciting reactions and compelling people to move and shake, unlike the uninspiring safe-speak that keeps us in our comfort zones.
On November 8, voter turnout will break records because of Donald Trump. On one side, people will show up in droves to vote against him. On another side, people will show up in droves to vote for him. As the opinion polls get tighter, the turnout will climb higher. Donald Trump's inflammatory and controversial rhetoric scares just as many people as it inspires. If polls show Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a dead heat on November 7, turnout will explode. This wouldn't be the case if Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz or John Kasich had won the Republican nomination. It'll be Trump's inflammatory style that will have compelled millions of Americans to vote for the first time in their lives.
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They called Abraham Lincoln “a hatchet-faced nutmeg salesman” and NO ONE at the time even flinched.
Very true- debate is the antidote to hate. When people are talking, even if they are screaming, thy aren’t killing each other.
This nation has pressing issues our rich, fat, and self-satisfied leaders don’t want to discuss. We are increasingly a nation of marginalized and downtrodden people.
A rhetorical bomb-thrower is exactly what this nation needs at this stage in its history.
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