Skylar
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Those who could never have imagined voting for Donald Trump just a few years ago find themselves in the midst of a hundred year paradigm. Even though Trump is a billionaire, his history of managing carpenters, painters, welders, electricians, plumbers, janitors and hotel workers endow him with street cred and endear him to the plebeian sector of our society. His work ethic is our work ethic.
Trump is the consummate realist and a concrete thinker. Unlike our insular, privileged political establishment that sees national goals as glittery bags of manure like Climate Change and European style national health insurance, Trump considers a goal to be an actionable reality that relates directly to the personal space of the average US citizen.
His unabashed disgust for political correctness is like a breath of fresh air to the rank and file workers who pay the taxes and do the hard work that makes us the most productive nation on Earth. Trump’s whole life has been that of man keeping his nose to the grindstone and like the rest of us who sweat and toil for a better life for our children he doesn’t address the public with the Larchmont lockjaw of a Franklin Roosevelt. He speaks very good blue collar English.
The political establishment and particularly the left leaning political establishment are aghast at his popularity. After eight years of Barak Obama, a contrived, politically correct action figure festooned with an esoteric, Cracker-Jack box education, the people had had their intelligence insulted long enough. The people realized that Obama was really just a cardboard cutout crafted and served up to the public as an icon of ideological ventriloquism.
They were also aware that his replacement, Hillary Clinton, was a textbook example of crooked politics and an absurd manifestation of a latter day Imelda Marcos with no particular skills, just a connection to a former popular leader.
Our back stabbing political establishment has been selling us out to the rest of the world for decades and like Marx, Stalin and Lenin they thought they could do it by raising a standing army of the stupid; only with a twist-the importation and implantation of interlopers to degrade the cultural stability of the republic and destroy it from the inside out.
They have no crops, only fertilizer and they throw it at the president-racist, mentally unstable etc. They’re desperate. The collective wisdom of the people will triumph. Trump will survive.
Trump isn't a concrete thinker nor a realist. He's living in his own bubble, making up blithering nonsense to feed his ego. He's claimed that Global Warming is a hoax made by the Chinese (it isn't), that he won the popular vote (he didn't), that he had the largest crowd at his inauguration in history (he didn't). He's had to be educated on the most fundamental basics of international politics, often by other world leaders who are astonished at his ignorance. He's claimed that ridiculously difficult things like repealing Obamacare would be 'easy' and takes responsibility for *none* of the failures
Worse, he lies to himself. When questioned on why he met so few of his goals for the first 100 days in office, he insisted that he didn't create the list. He's made up blithering nonsense about being able to tell the generals how to solve Syria. Or inane rambling diatribes on how loved he is around the world.
That's neither 'concrete thinking' or 'realism'. But impulsive self delusion powered by a fragile ego that puts a far higher priority on being popular.....that being competent.