Donald Trump is not only making a mockery of America in the eyes of the world but he is potentially ruining her along with all of the dreams that many Americans have but have not yet been able to fulfill. He does not seem to care that this is happening as a result of how he is conducting his campaign for President because he is a narcissist and Donald Trump is the center of his universe. Everything else revolves around that so everything is about him; as long as he is okay, the world is okay.
There was a time when the race to become president of the United States evoked a since of national pride and although you wanted your candidate/party to win, even though in private you, as a voter, might denounce your opponent and their ‘stupid’ ideas about how the country should be run, a sense of respect for the office and the candidates permeated party lines and those personal feelings were not voiced publicly; especially by the candidates. Candidates would argue policy, as they should, but they did not attack each other personally with a vitriol with which they would not even attack the head of state of America’s worst enemy.
That is no longer the case in American politics. Mr. Trump might be leading the charge now but this kind of politics as of late did not originate with him alone. Since President Barack Obama entered office the disrespect for the Office of President by Republican elected politicians has skyrocketed. And because Republican leaders, whether or not they agreed with what was happening, were reluctant to address the problem and fix it, it continued to grow and is now spiraling out of control. So much so that now Republican Party leaders are conspiring with one another in dark corners in dimly lit rooms to keep one of their own from becoming the 2016 nominee even though Republican primary voters are saying that Donald Trump is their preference to run against the Democratic nominee.
There is nothing wrong or bad about Mr. Trump’s desire to protect the American people first and foremost if he becomes America’s commander-in-chief but is it necessary for him to first become the ruiner-in-chief in order to do so? I watched the Republicans debate in Las Vegas this evening on CNN. It was really long but I watched the whole thing and I must admit that it was well run this time and all of the candidates discussed the issues rather than spend most of their time attacking each other.
They did, however, relentlessly attack President Obama and his administration and each time that they did this they also mentioned Hillary Clinton as if she and the president were craniopagus twins. They did this because they are convinced that she will be the Democratic nominee. And since so far connecting any Democrat running for office to President Obama has worked so well in bringing about that politicians demise, why not toss Secretary Clinton into the mix? To serve them up as conjoined twins is just icing on the cake.
It really hurts me to see what is happening in our country during this 2016 race to become president and I am still struggling to accept the fact that this is what things have come to in our political process. About the only upside to it, and this is a stretch, is that the billionaires and millionaires have less overall influence than they had in the last presidential election. They too, although to a lesser degree than the average voter, are on the outside looking in when it comes to determining who the party nominee will be…yay!
Right now almost everyone in the Republican Party seems to be at a loss as to how to come up with the best nominee for their party and hopefully – from their perspective, the best person to become president and lead America forward. If they are unable to come up with a nominee other than Donald Trump, then Mr. Trump will have a fifty-fifty chance to ruin America and then rule it… in his Donald J. Trump kind of way, of course. Is that a scary proposition or what?!
Eulus Dennis