Posted on 09/19/2016 11:58:48 AM PDT by jazusamo
There is no point denying or sugar-coating the plain fact that the voters this election year face a choice between two of the worst candidates in living memory. A professor at Morgan State University summarized the situation by saying that the upcoming debates may enable voters to decide which is the "less insufferable" candidate to be President of the United States.
My own take on this election is that the voter is in a situation much like that of an American fighter pilot in World War II, whose plane has been hit by enemy fire out over the Pacific Ocean and is beginning to burst into flames.
If he bails out, there is no guarantee that his parachute will open. But even if he lands safely in the ocean, he may be eaten by sharks. If he comes down on land, he may be captured by the Japanese and tortured and/or killed.
In other words, there are huge and potentially fatal risks. But, if he remains in the plane, he is doomed for certain. To me, Donald Trump represents multiple and potentially fatal risks. But Hillary Clinton is a certainty of disaster. Her vaunted "experience" is an experience of having repeatedly made decisions that turned out to be not merely wrong but catastrophic.
The most obvious example has been her role as Secretary of State during the Obama administration's decision to undermine and help destroy the governments of two nations — Egypt and Libya — that were no threat whatever to Americans or to America's interests.
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While I usually agree with Thomas Sowell, I disagree with him totally on this one.
Romney and the kenyan was far worse choice than Trump and Cankles.
Maybe.
I think he’s basically right, though. Just because Trump bellows what you want to hear on a few things, does not mean he is truly reliably conservative. Or has finese that can help undermine liberal bluster. He is no Reagan.
This has not been a good year. But as always, we have to do what can only be done legally. We have virtually no choice.
He is no Reagan.
Trump is consistent in his message just like Reagan but I don’t think Reagan could do what needs to be done in today’s culture.
Well he is not a severe conservative like Romney thats for sure.
And he is definitely not a H.Bush, G.Bush, J.Bush, B.Dole or J.McCain either.
He may not be as conservative as Reagan.
Although, neither were any of the others.
Trump i believe is strong were it counts. He also is a leader in that he knows how to pick the right person for a particular job.
Not to mention he is definitely stronger on illegals than was Reagan.
Dr. Sowell is a good man. One disagrees with him with due caution.
I think Trump is EXACTLY who we need right now, he is the enema to purge the country of the fetid waste of liberalism.
Why yes.
I think he is like Xerxes of the Bible. He had a few issues like those pesky Spartans, but he also played a pivotal role in preserving the Jewish nation, according to the book of Esther.
He is a flawed man, I’ll grant you that, but I think he has been given to us for such a time as this.
My take on Trump is kind of the same as Mr. Sowell’s. I also do believe and have believed that Trump is the only one among the forest of Republican candidates, most of whom would have been good nominees in the last century, who has the character, the instincts, and the insight to be able to wrench the country back from the abyss. Do I believe he will do that? On that question I am ambivalent. I wish he had a better acquaintance with the Federalist Papers and with Free Market economics. His background as a businessman does not necessarily give him knowledge of he Free Market. He is not an economist. He understands the mechanics of moving money and profit. That is a different field though the laws of Economics still apply. All that said, the alternative is Certain Death for Liberty, the Economy, the Society and the Nation.
BS, Trump has surrounded himself with great people and IS listening to them. Sowell makes it sound like Trump’s an island and too stubborn to listen.
The ideology underlying that movement is one which, at its heart, leads to policies which are antithetical to the underlying philosophy of the Constitution of the United States of America. For example: their insistence on "political correctness" is simply censorship by another name--the opposite free speech and freedom of expression.
This election features a woman whose entire political career has been dedicated to promoting "Progressive" ideas, not the "ideas of liberty," as described and identified in the writings and speeches of America's Founders and early devotees of liberty.
Voters face a choice between someone whose entire life and purpose is to "change" America from its roots in a Constitutionally-limited government and a free citizenry, or do they try someone who has participated in and enjoyed the fruits of that American idea and who is surrounding himself with advisers and leaders who embrace the Founders' ideas and who may enable him to restore some measure of the kind of "people's" government envisioned by the Framers of our Constitution?
Will it be "America's Choice: twilight's last gleaming, or dawn's early light?"--as businessman James Evans once titled his great little book?
Oh I disagree.
I don’t like to hang on Reagan but he is the greatest we have in the last 50 years or more.
Generally I’m really hoping for a Washington. :)
You think Hillary is a less dangerous choice for POTUS?
</sarcasm> I don’t know why there is so much caterwauling about people who are uncomfortable about Trump. But then, my own first reaction to Trump was disgust. He may turn out to be quite good, actually - but it’s certain we are doomed to live in interesting times . . . perhaps for the rest of my life.
At least Sowell is a NeverHillary. That will have to do. Trump was never going to really unify the GOP, after ruthlessly trashing all the other GOP candidates. For example, Trump has pretty much burned the bridge to nominating Cruz to SCOTUS, tho the senate would confirm him unanimously just to get him out of the senate.
Yeah, Sowell is up my “Ignore” shelf along with George Will, the National Review, and the Weekly Standard.
Sorry, Thomas Sowell is the best of the best.
Agreed and I trust Dr. Sowell to vote correctly.
Just think, for once in my life I can feel smarter, not wiser, than Dr. Sowell and that is extremely rare.
May God bless Thomas Sowell.
If you live long enough as guarded as you appear your shelf will soon be full with no one left to listen to.
Did you listen to Trump’s economic speech last week?
And yet, I am pushing 75 and have more to read than I can keep up with. If you don’t have a Kindle, get one.
“I think he’s basically right, though. Just because Trump bellows what you want to hear on a few things, does not mean he is truly reliably conservative. Or has finese that can help undermine liberal bluster. He is no Reagan.”
Not intelligent. Thank you for playing........
Yes, you’re truly a great debater. Thanks for your insults. Really helps the cause.
Got news for you. Lots of us are voting for Trump because that is what we are left with. Lots of us are dissatisfied with most candidates ever put forth. But we just do what we can with what this system deals us.
2 choices isn’t really much choice.
An argument could certainly be made although I like the names you mentioned very much.... I put Sowell in the same class as WF Buckley.
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