Very well reasoned and written. It resonates a lot with me and I’m sure many others out there.
You’re actually better at this than George Will.
I don’t know if that’s a compliment or not.
I must have written this in my sleep and used a pseudo name because from the very first word to the last period this sums up my thoughts exactly.
He wins the internet! My sentiments exactly!
Great point!
Yeah, this bugged me WAAAAaay less than George Will.
I think our own people are better than presstitutes.
WHO in their right mind would PAY to go to J-School today..??
I didn’t agree with all of it, but this was still a good post.
My thoughts, too, except I am only 69 so I may have a couple of decades to see where the bottom of the chasm is and how sharp are the rocks. We went over the edge some time ago but we have half a combat parachute slowing the fall a bit, not enough to change the ultimate result or the direction, though.
“I’m skeptical about Trump. I think his lack of restraint will be his undoing.”
I find his lack of restraint refreshing. I think many others feel the same way.
You must be a speed reader!
I was watching Fox the other night when they were waiting for Trump to speak and they kept repeating the meme that his claim to fame is being a reality TV star.
But this is not true. He was a star of REALITY long before reality TV was invented. Trump has been in the national eye since the 1980s.
So why does he appeal to the only truly disenfranchised people in the America: the working middle class? He isn’t one of us. He didn’t work his way up from blue collar beginnings.
Here’s why: in a nation that creates wealth through overpriced startups that are invented just for the IPO and an eventual buyout long before anything useful is produced, Trump is a builder. He actually puts up casinos and hotels, instead of building a virtual casino on the internet and then selling shares via GoFundMe.
Yeah, he did some time on Reality TV, but most of America’s Trump experience has been with him doing stuff and being larger-than-life. The allure of a President who DOES CONSTRUCTIVE THINGS is powerful since we haven’t had one of those in a very long time.
Trump is that Man on Horseback that appears during the breakup and collapse of civilizations and great nations. In history some of them have been good for a few years of glory but not for any restoration of what was before. Napoleon. Octavian. Schickelgruber. Peron.
Kivin Williamson is a one man list to which I would add the name Michael Medved.
“That’s why the rest of the candidates should be scared. To get these crowds for Bush or Walker or Kasich, you would have to round up the people at gun point. Even then, you would probably have to lock the gates to keep the people from fleeing the arena once the dreary dullard started talking.”
Hilarious! All of it is, I just picked some sentences I could copy.
Social ferment is building that this country has not seen since perhaps the 1970’s.
Only it has a different flavor this time, not so much in favor of the “Flower Children”, but for the restoration of something like taking pride in BEING an American citizen, when the value of that commodity has fallen to perhaps its lowest level in the existence of the concept known as “the United States of America”, founded in 1776, and matured into one of the fairest and most equitable system of society and economics ever evolved on this planet. There are no hereditary social or economic classes, and mobility, both up AND down, has been unrivaled by any other republic the world has ever seen.
Whether I agree with him about Trump or not, it’s refreshing to read someone who is as cynical as me.
Nailed it!
Watergate was about Republican political party operatives stealing election strategy plans from the Democrats political operatives.
This is about Hillary allowing National Security secrets to be out in the open (and she not-so-coincidentally dismissed the murders of four Americans, including a sitting Ambassador, by asking "what does it matter?")
The two situations are hardly comparable.
Our country is being stolen from us by fraudulently documented foreigners assisted by our own government and both political parties.
There had to be a reaction.
Trump is benefitting from being the candidate willing to stand strongly for the citizens.
It is our country.
We should have some say.
