It has become apparent to me that true of Donald Trump and everyone else are speaking two different languages: Different concerns, different priorities, different ways of seeing the world and there can be no convincing of the other side in the virtue of what you believe.
What is truly amazing since Donald Trump wants to roll back the global economy through which many have prospered (and he will not roll back technology which is what has cost many of his economic believers their life style) and yet the establishment GOP will vote for Dangerous Donald because he will nominate politically correct GOP Supreme Court Justices. That is more important to the GOP than anything else:
This election should be about serious issues: tax reform, Social Security/Medicare funding, Security in a world where guns and bomb making materials abound, rising sea levels, 11 mm undocumented members of the economy who are critical to our level of GDP, and war refugees & the decline in movement toward democracy in any number of countries including Russia, China, the Middle East.
Instead it is about trivia. Now some of this trivia is important to the everyone else crowd, but it does not matter to the Trumpists. So Dangerous Donald will not conform in those areas. But what Dangerous Donald does understand is the Trumpists are tired of political correctness and will support anything he does to end political correctness. It is a circular loop that cannot be broken just like there can be no compromise with the GOP because the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus made compromise a four letter word unless they get exactly what they want, which is what the Democrats cannot and will not allow if they have any political power to deploy. All these people view politics as a zero sum game. You win, I lose, I win, you lose.
Of course the entire theory of modern political economy (including trickle down economics) is that everyone benefits from a bigger pie, even if those benefits are uneven, and people should be satisfied with their improved situation. That is why income inequality is the root cause of much of this anger, but when technology and globalization are the root causes of this inequality, how is shrinking the pie, which is what Dangerous Donald wants to do, going to help anyone?
The New Republic, has an excellent examination of the people advising Dangerous Donald. It is really terrifying to think these people could be advising a President. They believe in false conspiracies, they believe in using lies to manipulate public opinion, they believe in power politics and that what is good for the rich is the best thing, and they believe authoritarian government benefiting cronies (i.e. Putin's Russia) is a good thing to emulate.
I don't have an on-line account at The New Republic, so you will have to get one or buy the magazine to see how terrifying a Donald Trump presidency would be. In my 45 years of voting, I have never been so afraid of the other candidate winning and I am stunned that the GOP establishment believes the Supreme Court's philosophy is more important than international relations (the U.S. could become a pariah state under Donald Trump) and global peace and prosperity (I really believe Donald Trump could destroy the global framework on which our personal savings are valued).
Yet I know that I could not convince a Trump supporter to change their mind because I am on Mars and they are on Venus.
I usually feel better after writing this blog, I do not feel better. I am truly afraid for our nation and the world.
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