My mother and Donald Trump

MY MOTHER, who, like Hillary Clinton's mother was born the day women got the right to vote, was non political. I don't think she ever knew the difference between a liberal and a conservative, nor cared. But she made one thing perfectly clear, to borrow a phrase from Richard Nixon; neither she nor her parents voted for Franklin Roosevelt. I don't think she knew why, for sure, but probably my grandfather told her tat FDR was a "socialist", and that socialism, whatever it was, was bad. Some people just don't think in polarizing political terms. Donald Trump doesn't. He doesn't seem to know the difference either, probably doesn't care, probably doesn't think in ideological terms. For Trump, the world is divided not between liberals and conservatives, but rather, between stupid people, and himself. For this reason, we who are leftward leaning ought not fret about the possibility that Trump will become president. At least he is isn't Ted Cruz. True conservatives smell something fishy; they realize that Trump is no conservative, and that he rarely makes any statements that provide any clues to his political ideology. True conservatives correctly fear that the Donald, In the white House, might be just as likely to promulgate a socialistic idea as a free market; whatever he thinks would enhance his prestige among the masses. Trump is one of those people who desperately needs to be loved and admired. Trump is a loose cannon, unpredictable. He was pro choice, then, pro life. At one point he favored, so he said, a single payer socialized health care system, although he didn't call is "socialism". My mother never used to word "socialism", but I think she had a vague sense of what it is, just as i think both she and Trump have a general idea of left and right, but simply choose not to think in those terms. Mother resented paying taxes to support women who had children out of wedlock. That's understandable; she endured an unpleasant marriage solely for the sake of raising her children in a two parent family. if my mother were still alive, i don't think she would be very happy with either candidate; she didn't think much of women in politics, although she favored gender equality, and Trump? Well, him she would doubtless regarded as a big mouth blow hard with very bad hair, without ever stopping to consider what she and Donald Trump have in common.