Discussion»Questions»Politics» Candidates are desperately presenting their plans for 20/20. Trump has none. He goes on circuit and attackes Hillary Clinton AGAIN.
You are forgetting the obvious - He is rallying his base. Nothing more, nothing less. In that from what I saw he was successful. His base will bring others into the fold, simple
Obviously, many of us know her better than you. His attacks on her sound a lot better(And will prove to be more successful) than the "plans" of the "candidates", which sound more like poorly written science fiction. But they are easily dismissed by the sane and rational among us. We could ignore these people as disconnected and out of touch with reality, but the sad and chilling truth is that some of them hold seats in Congress. This is much like an infant playing with a loaded pistol. That can be remedied for us all in the next general election. Of course, I'm voting for the president. My only regret is that I can't vote several times as the "Democrats" do. And finally, No one cares about the Clintons, least of all me. They would do us all a favor by taking the millions they've stolen and change their address to the other side of the world making the Western Hemisphere a better place in which to live. They've outlived their welcome as well as any possible usefulness they may have had at one time.
I can't speak for the sane and rational among us---but those of us who are the most sane and rational among us know from our values and education that Trump is a cancer on our democracy.
Trump is one reason for the admonition: Beware of the dangers of people in large groups, even when they are in the minority.
This post was edited by tom jackson at June 19, 2019 5:50 PM MDT
Dredging up old grievances against now-irrelevant foes from past elections for personal affirmation is not competent leadership, nor is promoting a platform of fear, misleading claims, incivility and division a formula for the common good. This is sociopathy. The way of the tyrant.
A truly sane and rational person should be well aware of this, yet we are beset by the misled and the pretenders who embrace the irrational, indulge conspiracies and foster deceit, yet speciously claim sanity and reason.
”The Base” is, as yet, insufficient in size to win a General election by itself, and compulsively preaching the same message to the same choir is not a draw for new converts.
Again, a truly sane and rational mind would understand this; yet somehow, or for lack of these qualities, Trump and his acolytes don’t.
I am not so personally consumed or threatened as to consider these folks my enemies, merely unfortunate or gravely misled. Abdicating reason is a precursor to chaos and failure in my view. I do not entertain mindsets of insanity or incompetence.
Benedict Arnold 