I can't see what you find so marvelous about Donald Trump. Is it that he seems charmed, able to get away with things that others wouldn't dream of getting away with? Mobster John Gotti was like that for some years.
Class privilege is a reality in America, and it is intensifying every year. Decent people who have it do not use it as a pretext to do horrible things to people. Even if the industry is different, Donald Trump is a real-life J. R. Ewing, the sort of plutocrat whose every dealing is a burn of someone else.
Good people do not brag about grabbing women by their crotches. I understand such behavior as "sexual assault", which is good for prison time. Put me on a jury, and this "leftist" will vote to convict someone of rape if penetration is proved. Good people do not mock people who have endured any misfortune, whether having some form of autism or having been shot down by the North Vietnamese while serving America as a naval aviator. He showed no remorse about children of illegal immigrants being taken from their parents and warehoused, which is disgusting. Good people do not mock people of some 'wrong' religion who happen to have lost a son in warfare for his country. Good people do not excuse bad causes with the statement that there are good people in the cause. Anyone who admires a Pol Pot or a Che Guevara has a problem just as much as does someone who admires Adolf Hitler or Saddam Hussein. Our President has a rather low level of moral development or what is called in pop psychology, "emotional intelligence". We do not need our political leaders to be Francis of Assisi, but we can't afford Donald Trump.
Good leaders choose associates who do not get involved in scandals, and they create no culture of corruption. For all that you may say about Barack Obama, his administration was scandal free. Guess what? When he was President, Republicans had few scandals. That could be coincidence, but it could also be that if law enforcement is finding nothing questionable about the administration, then maybe it can persuade people in the other Party to do nothing stupid.
Donald Trump would be a horrible President if he did this in the name of boilerplate liberal ideology. We have never seen so much disgusting behavior by any President of either Party, liberal or conservative.
Please, John -- stop the labeling! The tariffs are already trouble, and they will not make things better. Sure, there are people doing things to beat the tariffs, which is good for one-time spikes in retail sales, but that will have a long hard time following it. When it comes to personal alliances with leaders, I prefer that our President not get chummy with people who snip off sections of their neighbors' land or attack opponents with poisons and nuclear isotopes. Even from a conservative standpoint, Donald Trump is awful.
Ideas are bad not because of who has them but on their own merits. Ideas are not good or bad because of their position on the political spectrum. Abolition of slavery was once a far-Left position. Conservatives had no qualms, eighty years after the abolition of slavery in America and seventy years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, to execute Fritz Sauckel, the Nazi official who was the biggest slave-trafficker of all time, largely for enslaving conquered peoples in the Nazi empire.
The idea that crime is largely a moral failure than a consequence of poverty was a conservative proposition until 'community organizers' such as Barack Obama found that there were good people worthy of trust in the nastiest ghettos and that there were criminals not to be trusted under any circumstances -- and that the difference was not that one group was better-off to begin with. The criminals in the ghettos were not going over to more prosperous areas where the opportunities for crime were better; they were largely victimizing fellow poor people. The good people from impoverished areas were taking the twenty-mile one-way commutes to get to jobs in suburbia in retailing and restaurant work that paid close to the minimum wage. I have seen morning commutes in Greater Detroit, and the traffic jams are in both directions: people headed downtown, and people headed from the wrecked zones to the suburbs where the fast food and convenience-store employment is.
OK, extremists are usually trouble-makers. But so are cranks, crooks, and sadists in positions of power even if they have insinuated themselves into the Establishment.
Class privilege is a reality in America, and it is intensifying every year. Decent people who have it do not use it as a pretext to do horrible things to people. Even if the industry is different, Donald Trump is a real-life J. R. Ewing, the sort of plutocrat whose every dealing is a burn of someone else.
Good people do not brag about grabbing women by their crotches. I understand such behavior as "sexual assault", which is good for prison time. Put me on a jury, and this "leftist" will vote to convict someone of rape if penetration is proved. Good people do not mock people who have endured any misfortune, whether having some form of autism or having been shot down by the North Vietnamese while serving America as a naval aviator. He showed no remorse about children of illegal immigrants being taken from their parents and warehoused, which is disgusting. Good people do not mock people of some 'wrong' religion who happen to have lost a son in warfare for his country. Good people do not excuse bad causes with the statement that there are good people in the cause. Anyone who admires a Pol Pot or a Che Guevara has a problem just as much as does someone who admires Adolf Hitler or Saddam Hussein. Our President has a rather low level of moral development or what is called in pop psychology, "emotional intelligence". We do not need our political leaders to be Francis of Assisi, but we can't afford Donald Trump.
Good leaders choose associates who do not get involved in scandals, and they create no culture of corruption. For all that you may say about Barack Obama, his administration was scandal free. Guess what? When he was President, Republicans had few scandals. That could be coincidence, but it could also be that if law enforcement is finding nothing questionable about the administration, then maybe it can persuade people in the other Party to do nothing stupid.
Donald Trump would be a horrible President if he did this in the name of boilerplate liberal ideology. We have never seen so much disgusting behavior by any President of either Party, liberal or conservative.
Please, John -- stop the labeling! The tariffs are already trouble, and they will not make things better. Sure, there are people doing things to beat the tariffs, which is good for one-time spikes in retail sales, but that will have a long hard time following it. When it comes to personal alliances with leaders, I prefer that our President not get chummy with people who snip off sections of their neighbors' land or attack opponents with poisons and nuclear isotopes. Even from a conservative standpoint, Donald Trump is awful.
Ideas are bad not because of who has them but on their own merits. Ideas are not good or bad because of their position on the political spectrum. Abolition of slavery was once a far-Left position. Conservatives had no qualms, eighty years after the abolition of slavery in America and seventy years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, to execute Fritz Sauckel, the Nazi official who was the biggest slave-trafficker of all time, largely for enslaving conquered peoples in the Nazi empire.
The idea that crime is largely a moral failure than a consequence of poverty was a conservative proposition until 'community organizers' such as Barack Obama found that there were good people worthy of trust in the nastiest ghettos and that there were criminals not to be trusted under any circumstances -- and that the difference was not that one group was better-off to begin with. The criminals in the ghettos were not going over to more prosperous areas where the opportunities for crime were better; they were largely victimizing fellow poor people. The good people from impoverished areas were taking the twenty-mile one-way commutes to get to jobs in suburbia in retailing and restaurant work that paid close to the minimum wage. I have seen morning commutes in Greater Detroit, and the traffic jams are in both directions: people headed downtown, and people headed from the wrecked zones to the suburbs where the fast food and convenience-store employment is.
OK, extremists are usually trouble-makers. But so are cranks, crooks, and sadists in positions of power even if they have insinuated themselves into the Establishment.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
