I Can’t Believe I Can’t Believe That Some Americans Find Trump Presidential!

I Can’t  Believe That Some Americans Find Trump Presidential!

I have kept quiet about politics for a year or more pretty much. I am trying to balance my zoo (dog, cats and chickens), a newspaper, and many other things, and just decided am too busy to write. I haven’t lost my zeal as a Democrat, however.

i was having a conversation with a woman in Plainview a few weeks ago, who just likes to repeat dribble…I call her a shallow-thinker.  I was explaining to her about the importance of the pre-existing condition ban now in place because of Obamacare. Before I could even finish my sentence, she said something like, “Those people.” I told her as I left the business where she worked that she is a racist. Pre-existing condition must be a code word to her for people she perceives as free-loaders. Puhleez! That is just plain ignorance!

I had wanted to register some Hart voters, but haven’t taken the time to learn how to do that. I’m embarrassed I haven’t gotten more done now that I’m semi-retired. I want to get into my family genealogy more. Oh, well. Good to have goals.

I have never liked Donald Trump, or at least his persona. I, like you, don’t know him personally and don’t want to. I have never watched (except for bits on news programs) his Celebrity Apprentice. And, I found out today that he was with Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment for 25 years. No wonder he’s a bully.

Watching wrestling is way down on my list of things to do, along with watching and listening to Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and The Donald. Have you noticed how Trump repeats himself.? I think he feels his thoughts are so important that he must tell us twice. I often mute the TV when I see him on.

I am appalled at the number of people who vote for Trump. I have heard Republicans who should know say many of these people haven’t voted before.

Surely, one must know his in-your-face attitude is not something a President should do. Surely, one must know he is, in the words of David Brooks (a reasonable, smart Republican New York Times columnist and commentator for PBS)  a “bigoted buffoon.”  Surely, one must know that he can’t (and shouldn’t even entertain the idea) make Mexico pay for a fence along the Texas-Mexico border. Surely, one must know that he knows who David Duke is. (Puhleez, Donald, we don’t buy the faulty earpiece story.)  Surely, one must know that he frequently lies and changes his positions. Surely, one must know that he calls himself a Christian, an evangelical Christian (2 Christians – ha!), but really. Of course, forgiveness is a priority in Christianity, but Trump  has his name emblazoned on a casino that features a strip club, said in talking about his daughter’s figure that if she weren’t his daughter, he would be dating her (OMG).

Some of Trump’s supporters believe, in spite of the facts, think that Obama is a Muslim and wasn’t born in America. How terrible! I tell some people that likely if they have been to a “foreign” doctor, he/she likely might be a Muslim. Who cares? There is a difference in radical Islamists and being a Muslim, just like there is a difference in being a good Christian and a bigoted Bible-thumper.

The GOP, like me, thought the voters would see through Trump, a con man. And, far too many candidates held back. Rick Perry tried, Lindsey Graham tried, George Pataki tried and Jeb Bush tried. I think Trump has gotten way too much media time. He is willing to be on TV all the time and talk and I guess the networks only see dollar signs.

The New York Times, in an editorial, calls him a shady,  bombastic liar. Think how he treated Megyn Kelly of Fox News; think what he said about Mexicans; he wants to keep Muslims out; the list goes on and on.  And, just because he says he’s going to do something, surely enough Americans know that politicians promise a lot, but can seldom deliver all of it unless they have a supporting cast in Congress.

And voting for an outside isn’t always bad, but voting for an outsider who is nothing but hot air and knows so little policy isn’t the answer.

Now to Hillary. I am again supporting her. I voted for her the last time she ran, but fell behind Barack Obama. Perhaps he should do more to work with the Republican Congress, but I don’t think they want to work with him, but I am proud of what he has been able to accomplish in spite of their negativity.

I don’t dislike Bernie Sanders, but too many of his ideas are too socialistic and would be very expensive. I can see taxpayers paying for community college (two years’ worth), but not four years. Obama has pushed this community college idea.

The young women supporting Bernie have never been where the women my age, Hillary’s age, Gloria Steinem’s age and Madeleine Albright’s age—these women, excluding me, helped push women toward equality.