TRUMPETING TRUMP

If I can control myself this will be my last political Blog.

In psychology speak they say, "We trust and cooperate more readily with people who look and sound like us. We expect them to share our values and norms." This is my 77th Blog posting in 3 years. Generally, the content centered on politics. It was sent to people who mostly "look and sounded like me." After the first few months those who didn't agree with my take on politics, who didn't share my "values and norms" dropped off They didn't attempt a dialog; they just stopped reading. I then spent the next 2 1/2 years preaching to the choir. It is said that "politics are sports for old people." Well, I'm getting too old for this sport. I no longer understand the rules. Facts mean nothing and lies are expected and accepted. After the following posting I'm going back to writing about something I've done a lot of--living.

TRUMPETING TRUMP

How many of you know Donald Trump's stand on foreign policy, budgets, immigration, abortion, guns, economy, crime, climate change, taxes etc.? How many of you know what Trump said about women on the TMZ video, what he said about a Mexican judge, about illegal immigrants, about Rosie O'Donnell or what he paid on his taxes? To elect the best President of the United States which of the above two aspects of the upcoming election are most important for the voters to know, which one do you hear most about?

One must give the Democrat party its due. They are excellent in working with their attached-at-the-hip media brothers and sisters. Let's face it most of us know little or nothing about what’s going on outside our front door other than what we read or hear from the media. The party that controls the media controls the thought. Liberal media try to misdirect by saying the media is in the tank for Conservatives. Anybody dense enough to believe that just has to watch which story leads the news and consumes more time; the latest gonzo thing Trump said or allegedly did, or the daily dump of hundreds of Hillary emails which expose the kind of person she is and the inner workings of the Democrat party. These emails have given us if we ever heard about them, a hint of the kind of people Hillary associates with and the kind of administration she would run.

Let's pretend that there was such an animal as a purely bipartisan person, a person not afraid of being called a racist. During the 2012 election, this person, given the condition of the economy, I believe would have selected Mitt Romney with his experience, to be the best person for the job. The Democrat Propaganda Wing (DPW) realized this. The problem they were going to have was, yes he was the most qualified for the job, but also he was squeaky clean. They were up to the task. They found out that one summer vacation, the Romneys took the family dog with them and put the dog in a travel crate firmly attached to the roof. Also, in middle school he bullied a younger boy and then the straw that broke Romney's political back was that he told the truth about 47% of the population not paying Federal income tax. Even the truth in the hands of real DPW professionals can come back to bite a person. To be fair, Romney did shoot himself in the foot by not running the best of campaigns.

Now to 2016. Let's take a look at the Big 4 non-issue reasons that the DPW came up with for not voting for Donald Trump. Immigration--he painted the illegal Mexican immigrants with a single brush as low lives and Syrian and Muslims as a potential terrorist. Now this of course was not a politically smart move. You should never alienate any group of people when you are looking for votes. The DPW got busy labeling Trump a bigoted racist. They forgot two things. Trump is not a politician and his first thought here was not votes but was what was necessary to keep America safe. He was willing to commit a mortal sin in Liberal land. He profiled. Trump's core loved it.

Trump was then labeled a misogynist because he reverted to his base self and verbally counter punched women who he felt had attacked him. He called the women unflattering names. Trump calls everybody unflattering names. These were women who when it benefits them want to be considered equal but when they are called names just like the guys are called names they become blushing wall flowers needing to be treated with kid gloves. Trump's core loved it.

Then a Trump tax return miraculously turned up at a far left newspaper (insert any name) that showed Trump did not pay any more taxes than he was required to pay. For some Liberal reason, the Left thought that was a bad thing (even though Hillary did likewise). Trump's core loved it.

Then the coup d'etate, they caught Trump talking "dirty" a decade ago. They even had an audio of it. When they realized how flimsy that was, given the actual actions of their candidate's husband while sitting awkwardly at the desk in the oval office, they went out and scrounged up women (one from 30 years ago) for a "he said, she said" circus. The DPW actually said that made Donald Trump unqualified to be President even with documented proof of, to be kind, "womanizing" by sitting (or is it laying) past Presidents. Just in my lifetime: FDR, JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton, and to show infidelity is not solely a Democrat thing, we'll throw in Ike, have slapped and tickled in the White House. Trump's core loved it.

Full disclosure--I would not want to have a beer with Trump. He is not my kind of person, but I would not even want to be in the same bar as Hillary. I will do what I would hope many people would do and that is to vote for the political philosophy they feel is best for the country, the philosophy they would like their children and grandchildren to live in and not to let themselves be mentally diverted by nonsense.

My main objective for this last political post is not to get Liberals to vote for Trump; but it's to get Conservatives to vote for Trump. To dislike Trump as a person is not that hard to do, but to dislike him enough to give up your principles and the principles upon which this country was formed to show a personal dislike, is detestable and short-sighted. I agree it's scary to vote for Trump and not know for sure what he is going to do, but I personally find it scarier to vote for Hillary knowing just what she is going to do.