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.
“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. “
Bears repeating.
love it!
His humor makes him very likeable, as well as keeping the audience tuned in because you don’t know when it will be coming. Like ‘you guys write this stuff.’ It can be condescending and is done in a memorable way that lasts longer than if he just said his point straight out. It appears to be off the cuff, and could be, but has a lasting impression.
Just some quick thoughts ;)
Why not just believe the man when he says he is fed up with the way the country is going and has decided that he can get the job done?
It is honest and straight forward... pretty much like most of Donald’s statements
Yeh I’m not in tune with this article completely either. The first Amendment was not designed to protect acceptable speech.
And I would say most people are not thrilled with an influx of Muslims.
“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.”
I would submit that it’s been more like 28 years. Ever since Ronnie left office. All we’ve had since is Booshes Clitons, and a Mullato who hates his country (that is if he’s even really a citizen).
Why the Obama ‘O’??
It’s his stand on immigration (illegal and legal) PERIOD! Americans are getting tired of being undercut on everything from wages to housing to emergency room access.
It’s a mockery of the Obama logo.
It’s Trump’s signature thumbs up and famous hairdo.
I like it! 8^)
Got it!
:)
Ok.. I have to bump that one. We have Ted Cruz who is as close to a Constitutionalist than we have come in decades... And the Trumpeteers just keep making noise. They are talking about his campaign party trail and thinking everyone should just don the hats and noise makers.
This is a critical time, our husbands, wives, sons and daughters are in combat gear in every ME country.. Except Israel.
A Muslim executes Christians in Roseburg, a deranged psycho in Charleston...
And the Trumpeteers want to party. How disconnected is that?
I think your image says it all.
All I hear is the Mickey Mouse theme song spelled D-O-N-A-L-D.. Donald trump.. I can’t help it..
All of Hollywood hates me, all of the press hates me and the colleges including even the secretaries all hate, really hate me and my family and everything we stand for.
My solace is in God Almighty, as I have so much more in common with Him, they hate Him too!
Excellent article!
They are of the world. And we have seen what the world will do, for thousands of years. That’s why I keep my legal self-defense. One never wants to be under any illusion with some of them.
Took the liberty of pinging you - more delightful Trump humor:
RUSH: It’s exactly right. That’s what he thinks. Obama doesn’t want the hell that we’re all headed for erupting while he is in office and at the golf course. And a reporter said, “Can Jeb Bush make a comeback, Mr. Trump, and can you do your impression of Jeb for us?”
TRUMP: My Jeb impression? Nah, I don’t want to do that. I don’t like showing a person sleeping at a podium.
chuckle Thank you for the ping, CottonBall!
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