Donald Trump is depressingly still around. For some really strange reason he decided to stand behind Sarah Palin as she rambled incessantly at a podium endorsing him. As much as I understand that Trump is a media tramp and by my estimation something of a narcissist and several four letter words that I can’t put in print, but is standing behind the original recipe for disaster while she talks about liking you a good idea?
More depressingly, it will probably have no effect on Trump’s campaign. I only wish that her manic rambling could’ve been the same death knell for Trump’s campaign as it was for John McCain’s. Honestly, what is it going to take for the Trump campaign to go belly-up?
No serious candidate would’ve wanted to be photographed or seen with Palin in 2012. Palin was, and to my knowledge is, seen by the public as a political joke. I once had a great math teacher who would often go on tangents (no pun intended) about life in general. He once told us never to believe the stuff that we see on television.
He would say: “The elephants at the circus are meant to keep your eyes off of how they set up the next trick. Never get caught staring at the elephants.” Meaning: a lot of people will create a lot of noise that means nothing, but will distract you from what’s really going on. In essence, that’s what Donald Trump has been doing for the past few months.
He’s created a campaign made of nothing but elephants. He’s done nothing but make a spectacle in order to get in front of the cameras and keep attention off of the important issues of any political campaign.
If you know someone who is a Trump supporter, don’t ask them what Trump’s positions are on certain issues. Ask them – without allowing them the aid of Google – how he plans to do any of the stuff that he promises. He promises a ban on Muslims travelling to America. How does he plan on getting congress to vote on something that would basically defecate on the First Amendment?
He promises to break the current trade agreements with China. How is he going to do that without creating massive economic and diplomatic fallout? Elephants at the circus, ladies and gentlemen.
It’s nothing more than shiny, mean-spirited rhetoric directed at the most bitter Americans. It’s fitting then, particularly in this political cycle, that elephants are the symbol of the Republican Party. It’s nothing but spectacle, no substance.
That and the fact that most elephants are good for nothing other than making a cacophony of useless, obnoxious noise from their trunks and taking massive dumps. That’s this group of Republicans in a nutshell (emphasis on ‘nut’).
You know what Republican I would vote for? The one who would take all of the elephants out of the circus and take the spectacle out of government. I just want to say before closing shop for the week, know that I understand that this will probably never happen and will likely only get worse from this point on.
But, to me, this epic crusade for sanity that I have been on for four years is not a lost venture until we have all stopped fighting for sanity. P.S. I also love when people talk about how they’re only voting for Trump because they hate the government.
Listen, I understand people being jaded and cynical. But, do we really want people who hate our government to run it? Think of this: your car is really dinged up. Would you ever take it to a mechanic whose business car or website reads: “Lucky Ed’s Fix-It Shop: We Hate Cars”? Probably not.
Brian Laughran
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