Saturday, January 16, 2016

Why do I Like Donald Trump?

WHAT SCARES ME MOST about Donald Trump is the fact that, for whatever reason, I like him. What, for heaven's sake, does that say about my judgment? I'm a left wing socialistic liberal who worships at the first church of Bernie Sanders, yet, I like Donald Trump, and I find that puzzling and frightening. If I can like Donald Trump, anybody can like Donald Trump, and he has a chance to win, and maybe that's the frightening part. For one thing, he doesn't prepare his remarks in advance, obviously. Everything he says is obviously something that just happened to come to his mind, often from God only knows wherein. And maybe that's what I and a lot of other American voters like about him; he seems spontaneous, natural, unprepared, genuine. All other politicians seem to be reading a memorized statement, off cue cards, using sound bytes, just about all the time. Not Trump. He never seems to be doing this, and you never have the slightest idea what he'll say next, which makes him highly entertaining, and, as we all know, being highly entertaining is the most effective way in America to enhance one's popularity. Plus, Trump doesn't seem to give a damn about liberal or conservative. On any given issue, he could go either way, and presents a tantalizing, unique mix of ideas and opinions. If the Donald can trade national health care for personal popularity, he will, in a New York heartbeat, like a good socialist dimocrat. And the Donald would be perfectly happy to tax the wealthy, himself included, if enough potential trump supporters insist on it. For donald Trump, taxes are but a temporary setback, and, like everything else in life, a challenge to be overwhelmed. You just have to love that kind of optimism. Trump's fear mongering, confident boasting, and optimistic confidence in himself are remindful of Hitler in 1933. Let us pray that is the only way in which Donald Trump is ever remindful of Hitler.

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