It’s Time to Give Up on Them – The Anti-Trumpers

I am sure you have tried just like I have. Every time you make a point based on facts it does not matter – you are shot down. It does not matter what good is being done or who has benefited. You will never convince them there is redemption. He could cure cancer, create world peace or jump into a fire and save a relative of theirs; but, still no salvation. There will be no acceptance and no atonement. He is a lost cause and convincing them otherwise is like nailing jello to a tree.

This was recently displayed again when I was meeting with a friend. I received an alert stating that the United States had again been ranked No. 1 on the Competitive Index according to the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland. We had slipped from that spot in 2016 and were slotted in at No. 4 in 2017. This is a ranking of competitiveness on the global business stage. One would think that any American would be happy about this development since it means our country is doing better in the world compared to other economies, and that means more Americans would be employed and thus self-sufficient. My thought is the bastion of freedom and capitalism, America, should always be No. 1.

Even though I never mentioned President Trump, my friend leapt at the opportunity to attack Trump stating (and I paraphrase) that there was no redemption for Trump in his eyes. I then commented as I always do that it is about the policies for me.

Since what I showed him was about the economy, I brought up that the unemployment rate for women is 3.9 percent -- the national average. He did not react. I then stated that the unemployment rate for blacks is its lowest in history. He responded by stating “But what kind of jobs are those?” I did not respond that they are full-time jobs, unlike during the Obama era when the employment numbers were feathered by part-time employment.

What about the insensitivity to the fact that someone having a job as opposed to being unemployed is something that raises the humanity of that person and their self-image? You can’t get a better job if you don’t have a work history by being employed. I wanted to hand him the book I read about In-N-Out Burger by Stacy Perman, where almost all their managers and top leaders started out by sweeping the parking lots and worked their way through the company.

This came on the heels of a recent discussion with a family member. When that person brought up Trump they spewed a venomous barrage of how disgusting a person he is, indicating there clearly is no salvation for him. When they mentioned his lies (which is a favorite topic of Trump haters), I brought up the fact that he lies about unimportant things and asked that person to name one lie of significance. Of course, I heard nothing. I asked to be given one that equals “You want to keep your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” I stated my wife and I wanted to keep our health plan and could not because of Obamacare. Or how about lying about the money that was returned to Iran? These are significant lies that have consequences and effect/costs lives. Exaggerating the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration affected no one. It hurt no one.

It stands to reason why people feel everything is wrong when individuals in the public eye have similar or worse things vomiting from their mouths. Bill Maher recently stated on his HBO show “I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy.” Otherwise, he is praying for millions of Americans to suffer economically just because of his perverse hatred of Trump. That is while he and his comrades will maintain their opulent lifestyles.

When did internationally known celebrities get license to go on national television broadcasts like Robert De Niro and yell obscenities at the president?

The interesting thing is that the people I see and hear who express this deep hatred of Trump are people who happen to be safe in their personal lives. They have no understanding of what an improved economy does for millions of Americans. They have no understanding of how their economic policies and hatred for Trump would hurt millions because those people are nameless and faceless to them as they reside in their comfortable homes in their comfortable jobs in their comfortable lives.

I have been active in national politics since 1980. I have had huge philosophical differences with some political people and I found some of their actions deplorable, but I never had this unhealthy inner rage some people have about Trump. To them nothing he could do would ever be commendable. I applaud any elected official who does something I think makes sense, but I could never harbor such ill feelings for anyone (except maybe Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Che Guevara – all mass murderers).

I feel sorry for them. It is obvious they will never be converted on this matter. If you bring up a political point with them that has nothing to do with Trump, they reflexively attack Trump for something non-germane to the topic. There are other matters in this country of concern other than our president, but they don’t accept that.

There are plenty of Americans who are open to seeing that Trump’s policies are improving the lives of many Americans and appreciate those actions. They don’t focus on the Trump sideshow.

We need to focus on those people, but the others are a waste of effort and can just bring you heartache and/or heartburn.

"I have been active in national politics since 1980. I have had huge philosophical differences with some political people and I found some of their actions deplorable, but I never had this unhealthy inner rage some people have about Trump. To them nothing he could do would ever be commendable." - Bialosky

The spectacle we, as American citizens, have watched over the past several days where establishment Progressives from both Parties have immersed themselves in coordinated dissembling, pontificating, and exchanging clever and sometimes nasty semantic swipes at the current President, even as they made a pretense of glorifying a purported "high road" leader--that spectacle has been a sad example of political bias, considering that the philosophical foundations of the Republic had been being destroyed for decades by leaders of both major Parties.

Those so-called "leaders" from both Parties have sat by and watched their children and grandchildren being dumbed down by a so-called "education" establishment which, for years, has abandoned the teaching of the principles and ideas of liberty upon which the American Republic was formed. They have participated in the very "departure" described by Jefferson in his First Inaugural--a departure from the "road to peace, liberty and safety" for all Americans, and, yet, they reject and protest the attempt of an "outsider" to reverse that departure and guide "We, the People" to return to our proper role in the great experiment in liberty called "America":

The Author of our Declaration of Independence and President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson, in his 1801 Inaugural Address laid out what might be considered to be "qualifications" for the American presidency:
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;
- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."

I think you hit the nail on the head. Trump exposed all of these career politicians as the useless hacks they are, and in the Beltway that is an unforgivable sin.

Someone gave a perfect analogy on a local media site the other day. The D.C. political class is like a bunch of professional tennis players who have lived and breathed tennis for their entire lives. They've trained and prepared for their careers since they were kids, and for decades they've been striving to reach the top of the game.

One day Donald Trump comes along, and he's never played the game in his life. He isn't even close to "athletic" by any definition. The first time he picks up a tennis racket, he goes out and wins the Wimbledon men's championship.

The professional tennis world now descends into a pathological, seething hatred of the guy for making them all look like such mediocrities:

"Yeah, he got lucky and won Wimbledon -- but he's such a jerk and he's not a real champion because ... he berates officials, smokes cigarettes between sets, and even (heaven forbid) violates the Wimbledon dress code!"

So the @ssholes of the "professional tennis world" go about their sanctimonious ways, not realizing that every criticism they make of this champion only exposes their own limited "tennis skills" even more. They even prop up this jerk John McCain, give him a royal funeral, and act as if HE is the standard by which all tennis players should be measured. Never mind that he's a two-time loser himself.

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