Posted on 11/02/2015 11:09:34 AM PST by Kaslin
For months now, pundits and establishmentarians have depicted American anger at upside down government as a phenomenon that will just go away. It won't.
Whether you like Mr. Trump's manner or his manners, whether you like his positions or his politics, what has attracted so many people to him is his willingness to tell it like it is, to cut through a lot of political baloney and get to the point of a matter. To him goes the credit for upping the game of most other candidates to a clearer level of needed in-your-face passion and energy about things that have gone wrong in our society.
Those few sentences may describe what happened, but they don't fully explain why it happened, why nearly all the rules of standard politicking have gone up in backyard barbecue smoke. It's not enough to say that people are angry and frustrated with government. Oh, it's true we live in an upside down country where the government makes us fight against ourselves, where sanctuary cities can harbor criminals, where law enforcement personnel are disrespected at the very top, where our borders are sieves, where our position in the world is moving to the has-been category, where jobs are devalued by millions of illegals, where politicians are forced to deny that all lives matter, and on and on.
When you stop to think about it, there must be something else helping to drive that anger and frustration. Maybe it's this. For nearly a decade, perhaps more so during the nurturing environment of the Obama Administration, abetted by State Media the SuperPAC for progressive issues the thought police have begun slashing away at two of our most basic rights: freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Great influencers here have been a decade or more of college graduates who have been duped by their liberal professors into hyping their irreligious, progressive world vision. We see it and hear it constantly.
Of course, free speech doesn't mean calling other people racist, insulting, or demeaning names. Around a hundred years ago Justice Holmes reminded us that free speech does not permit anyone to yell, "Fire!" in a crowded theater, so we get that, but when we're bullied into calling illegal immigrants "undocumented workers," when you can't refer to Middle Eastern jihadists as "Islamic terrorists," when pro-lifers are portrayed as backward religious zealots, when students in school can't show the American Flag, when everybody has to press 1 for English, when terror on American soil is "workplace violence," when we're forced to throw our children into killing grounds called "gun-free zones," then it’s time for Americans to shout out, "Enough!" Some may call it political correctness, but it's nothing more than progressive speech control.
Having said all that, most Americans are not anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti-gay, anti-Muslim. Ours may be a less than perfect history when it comes to race (Slavery and WWII Japanese camps) and religion (antipathy toward Catholics, Jews, Muslims), but nearly all of us have turned our backs on hatred. Yet, we're being forced to pray in more carefully defined spaces. Reagan reminded us the "Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, (it)…was to protect their freedom to pray." Too, we have been famous for opening our doors egally to "the tired, the poor, and those yearning to breathe free,"†and we have been generous beyond fault to peoples around the globe needing our help.
What we don't want now is to be told not to judge Muslims by the actions of a few, while we all gun-owners are broad-brushed by the aberrations of a very few. What we don't want is to be told that retirement benefits, including Social Security, might run out or be cut though we worked for them while we have an unending supply of money for welfare, food stamps, and support of illegals. We have a society where half the population is subsidized in some way earned benefits or free stuff yet we're on the verge of shrinking our military to a size smaller than before WWII because "we can’t afford it." As someone once said in another context, having a good military is like a parachute. If you need it and don't have it, you'll never need it again.
Want to understand what Trump is doing, how, and why??
Study the election of THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
It’s glaringly obvious that Trump has...
Speak for yourself, Mr. Warren.
“Of course, free speech doesn’t mean calling other people racist, insulting, or demeaning names.”
The rot is there even in its criticism. This author is soaking in what he detests.
Rambling. But how can it not be? Vets waiting for care and compensation over combat injuries have to stand in line at the 15 or less checkout while tge non English speaking bet card user unloads 34 items pretending rules don’t matter and the wimpy co shoppers and checkout guys tell the vet to shut up and take it
She. ? Rambling
The press 1 for English might be bigger than they think. It comes from the corporation heads and the chamber of commerce approves
But it’s repetitive.
A lot of people might, instead of being used to it, getting just more sick of it
I am anti-anyone who is for the downfall of my country. The list includes all muslims, hood-rats, gimme dats, democrats, at least half of republicans, and illuminati types.
Correct but there is more to it than that. Trump seems to have what can be called a "superpower" which all other candidates lack. Part of his "superpower" is the ability to quickly absorb information and use it to his advantage. Note that he went into the first debate saying he never debated before and didn't know what to expect but by the third debate he had absorbed enough debate info to master the format.
Trump is also a master of absorbing certain elements of HUMOR and use it to his advantage. Some of this has been alluded to before but never really highlighted. I have watched his speeches carefully and have observed how Trump employs this humor to his advantage.
I could go into greater detail on the latter but I don't want to give his game away. However, if any of you ever catch up with me personally, my tongue is subject to be loosened under the influence of VERY GOOD alcohol.
“He's (Jeb’s) meeting this weekend with mommy and daddy”
I was ROTFLOL at that one. A beautiful slam on Jeb and the Boosh dynasty.
Everyone is trying to make excuses for Trumps popularity.
It’s OK Jeb, you would be the frontrunner if it wasn’t for this reality TV guy. They also use the tv show as a excuse for the debate ratings and the size of his crowds.
Why are we pissed at the establishment? I think it varies from person to person. For me, we gave the GOP control of Congress only to do absolutely nothing. We had a candidate last election we didn’t want. The list goes on.
Trump seems to be the only one that is able to capture & channel this anger to his benifit. And he looks to be able to draw people from across all sections.
I like Dr Carson, but last two debates he is like a deer in headlights.
Of the sitting or former politicians left, I like Cruz, at least he has bucked the establishment.
Rubio is slick, like a GOP version of Bill Clinton..... Wait.... Never mind.
Trump seems to know how to undermine his opponents without really calling them a name. examples are: Jeb has no energy; Kasich’s poll numbers are negligible which is why he is ‘down there at the end of the stage.
He is very quick on his feet.
He’s a nationalist that talks like the PO’d Americans have been for the past 8 years.
People know he dreams big, and executes big. He isnt afraid to go out on a limb, nor tell people their ideas suck.
In a nation backed into a corner in a very dangerous time, people see him as a guy that will get things back on track.
People cant be too sore that this is the case. When we let this place go as we have the past 12 years, you cant paste over the water damage, you have to rip the walls out and rebuild.
People are certainly fed-up with the status quo.
I know I am. I wouldn’t help the GOPe whores out of a slimy pit.
They’re no different than the DNC.
I put nothing past either one of them. Nothing.
You know, I never watched his show; didn’t care for the tone of it.
But I am loving how he’s smacking these paid liars down again and again.
We should all be praying for him.
“We should all be praying for him”.
Yes!
Very powerful enemies do not want him to become president.
not singling you out, PJ. You’re just the first to mention it on this thread. I enjoy your posts very much.
People keep referencing Trump ‘using [how we feel] to his advantage’, as if he’s picking up on how we feel & exploiting it. Apparently, it never enters anyone’s mind that HE is as p*ssed off as the rest of us. Anyone who goes back to interviews from 5, 10, 30 years ago could see that he, too, was reaching the point where he’d have all he was going to take. That’s why he’s running for president.
The ‘phenomenon’ is that somebody who COULD has stood up & given a voice to how we all (himself included) feel. For the first time in my lifetime, it’s not all smiles & handshakes.
I’m referring to his SECRET (but in plain sight) superpowers. I don’t want to mention his secret (but in plain sight) humor weapon because I don’t want to jinx it although I have seen a few posts that sort of alluded to it.
:-) I know what you’re talking about. I agree. His policy positions are dead on, but what you’re talking about is the point where people start to ‘love this guy’. It’s totally endearing.
He *relates* to people & they relate to him. Nobody else has that.
WHY WOULD WE ELECT PRESIDENT A GUY WHO...?
Why would this country elect as president some guy who was known to regale friends with nigger* jokes, had a history of depression, was suicidal from time to time (in his defense, probably due to the death of his young son, but suicidal nonetheless) and eventually started an internecine war that took the lives of over 700,000 troops and civilians and...
What? Oh, yeah. That was LINCOLN! never mind!
* A corruption of another word now freely used by blacks around the world when referring to one another. To NOT have written the word here would be to accord the dark forces of political correctness an inappropriate and destructive victory of which Orwell’s Thought Police would be proud.
Why would we elect president some guy who was not healthy and smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day, married his fifth cousin then had a notorious affair with his secretary and...
What? Oh, sorry, that was FDR!
And why would the American people put in the Oval Office a man who, while overseas running the war in Europe another 3 pack-a-day smoker who was schtupping his secretary while his wife was back here tending to the family and...
Oh, sorry. That was Republican DWIGHT EISENHOWER. Moving on...
How about another Democrat who, to his credit served honorably in the Pacific but DID manage to get his PT boat sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer but redeemed himself by getting his crew rescued. Running against Nixon in the 1960 race, this same married chap, whose handlers thought he was a bit “tense†before the first televised debate, took him out and got him laid. (That certainly relaxed him as he won the debate.) Once in office, this fellow had numerous extramarital affairs with mob molls and several Hollywood stars, Marilyn Monroe among them and...
Oh yeah. That was JFK. never mind.
(For an interesting aside re. that event and the role a leftist media type played in that debate, please see the footnote below. If you’ve watched the current debates, you understand that THEY STILL DO.)
And then there was this character from Texas who, after his friends counted the ballots and reported him barely ahead in a close race for the Senate, was shocked – just shocked –that the very night before the recount, would you believe it? — the courthouse burned down, destroying the ballots! Like Lincoln, “nigger†was a regular part of his crude vocabulary. This fellow was a notorious womanizer and drunk whose favorite technique for reprimanding errant subordinates was to call them into the lavatory while he moved his bowels. Classy, huh?
Then he...What? You say that was LBJ? never mind.
How in the WORLD could we elect to the presidency some guy who was a 60s socialist radical, later married one even more radical than himself, wangled multiple deferments from MILITARY SERVICE while other kids his age were humping through the bush in Vietnam dodging bullets and who was a woman abuser and engaged in sexual misconduct in the Oval Office with a young intern then, under oath, perjured himself about it and...
What? Oh, right, that was BILL CLINTON! never mind!
But why the heck would we elect some guy raised by grandparents and some pornographer — all three of whom were on FBI “Communist Watch” lists in the 50s and 60s (back when the FBI actually did its job of trying to protect US) – and whose mother posed nude for the pornographer before abandoning him and who has openly admitted to have been – and probably still is – a pot head and user of harder illegal substances and whose every action bespeaks a hatred for the nation he allegedly heads...
What? Oh, right. That’s BARACK OBAMA! never mind!
I haven’t researched all the other folks we elevated to the highest elected office in this country. If I did, I’m sure I’d find warts and blemishes on ALL OF THEM. And why would that be? BECAUSE, LIKE YOU AND ME, THEY’RE ALL IMPERFECT HUMAN BEINGS AND ALL FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY.
Until some leftist “journalist†comes up with a fully documented list of reprehensible things MY candidate – who doesn’t drink or smoke and has raised his kids to be responsible, successful adults – has done to other folks, I’ll stick with TRUMP. And until these same media mavens provide me with a list of associates, friends, employees, clients and others he has screwed over and, further, convince me that he is attempting to prevaricate his way into the presidency (as the last guy did!) or that his profession of LOVE for America is as egregious a lie as the last guy told us, I’LL HANG IN THERE WITH TRUMP.
But my support for The Donald is based more on how the current crop (or is that crAp) of political elites and their media lapdogs and handmaidens are GOING NUTS because he is articulating problems in terms WE USE IN OUR CONVERSATIONS OUT HERE IN “FLYOVER COUNTRYâ€, AND NOT TALKING ABOUT HOW BEST TO ARRANGE THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE FOUNDERING SHIP CALLED “AMERICAâ€.
Because the entrenched forces he faces have a 3 way program for dealing with outsiders (1. IGNORE; 2. DISCREDIT; 3. ELIMINATE), all we have to do is pray he REMAINS ABOVE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE through the debates, the election and, hopefully, on to January 20th, 2017 and an inauguration.
Dick Bachert 9/26/2015
FOOTNOTE:
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy Debates were directed by one Don Hewitt, creator of CBS’ “60 Minutesâ€. Hewitt told Nixon, who had a serious “5 O’clock Shadow†(beard, for you youngsters not familiar with that phrase) that he didn’t need to shave just prior to the program. Hewitt then directed the studio lighting to flatter Kennedy while arranging Nixon’s to make him look like an extra from “The Walking Deadâ€. Not satisfied, Hewitt slowly tightened the shot each time Nixon spoke so that his head loomed and filled the entire screen on TV sets all over the country. And as we all know, things that “loom†are clearly dangerous and should be avoided. The voters did so and, as we all know, Kennedy won.
I need to add that, warts and all, Kennedy did a pretty good job. While he got it completely wrong at the Bay of Pigs, he defused the Cuban Missile show down with the Soviets. And he was moving in the direction of unhooking our monetary system from the Fed (to which we PAY INTEREST on the currency they create from THIN AIR!), had begun speaking out about lowering taxes and getting us out of Vietnam. Some of us believe that’s why some folks blew off the top of his head on November 22, 1963. As with so many events like these, we may never know the truth.
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