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To: BlackElk
How many times has The Donald been married?

I keep hearing that multiple marriages is a sign of some major character flaw, so its interesting to find out Levin has that in common with Trump.

299 posted on 01/22/2016 11:13:17 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck
If we can end abortion and end "same sex" "marriage," we shall have done more than I expected to see in my lifetime. When those are accomplished, I would end "no fault" divorce and aspire to a society where divorce at least becomes somewhat less than respectable. I have been quite fortunate in my own marriage but I know that many others cannot say the same.

Having practiced law for several decades, including divorce law as maybe 10% of my practice, I think it is unrealistic to imagine that we can return to a society in which marriage for life is normative. Our divorce rate is at about 50% although that contains many repeat parties to divorces.

We no longer have much moral formation in our gummint skewel system, and divorces (among the declining number who marry at all) will occur at still higher rates. Men shamelessly turn in aging wives for trophies. Women shamelessly become serial gold diggers. This paragraph probably reflects my age and advancing social obsolescence but I do think that the world and mores of my increasingly distant youth made that world a better place than the one we now occupy.

Yesteryear, two fine young people Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan married in what appeared to be a studio arranged marriage and divorced after a relatively few years in what was then a nasty divorce for its time. Her career was waxing as his was waning. His interest in matters political was accelerating and she did not much care to hear about it. They were not a good match. Yet asked by the usual media suspects how she reacted to his 1980 campaign for POTUS, panting for fresh dirt to throw at Reagan, the media were devastated when she would say only something to the effect: "Ronnie is a very fine man and this country would be very fortunate to have him as president."

It was a far better time.

Trump has been married three times: to Ivana, to Marla Maples and to his current wife. This is not particularly remarkable at his level of wealth and celebrity. That it is not says more about our Kardashian society than it does about any particular celebrity. OTOH, maybe a miracle occurs and Trump becomes a very fine POTUS but the evidence seems to be against that being likely except by a morally relativistic comparison to Comrade Obozo, Comrades Clinton and Comrade Sanders and Moral Monster Mitt Romney. That is a very low standard.

323 posted on 01/22/2016 2:24:47 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline: Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society/Rack 'em Danno!)
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