Make America Great, Again?
I am trying to understand, I mean Really Understand, what is meant by the slogan “Make America Great, Again” used by the “billionaire” front runner, Donald Trump (“billionaire” is in quotes, because so far, Trump refuses to release his tax returns… so his claim of being a lavishly wealthy billionaire are unsubstantiated, just as his claims of giving proceeds of events to veterans groups have never been proven to be factual).
How is America not already the greatest, most prosperous, most upwardly mobile, most tolerant, most multi-cultural, wealthiest Western Democracy with the most freedom (of movement, of religion, of speech, etc) in the entire world? How will Donald Trump (thrice divorced, thrice bankrupt, outsourcing both his brides and his Trump brand manufacturing to foreign countries, never held elected office ever in his life) make it “great again”? I am struggling to understand the reasoning behind this nationalist slogan, and I cannot come up with a cogent argument in favor of it.
Some people would say that Trump wants to reform campaign financing, since he is self funded and not “beholden to special interests”, but that’s Bernie Sanders whose been saying that. Trump just lambasts his Republican primary “opponents” as representing special interests, but he has not proposed any plan to roll back or repeal the Citizens United decision
link: http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-and-citizens-united-a-modest-proposal
In fact, Trump has been intentionally vague on any details about his plans, be it Citizens United, getting Mexico to finance his fantasy border wall, how he’d round up 12 million undocumented immigrants, or how he’d get the US Armed Forces to intentionally bomb civilians in Syria and Iraq in violation of the Geneva Convention.
If an intelligent person can make a rational argument as to
1) why America is not great now
and
2) how Donald Trump will make it “great again”
… I would be very happy to have a civil dialogue with that intelligent person, so I can understand better what I am missing about this jingoistic, vocal bully, who appears to be America’s version Jean-Marie & Marine Le Pen, combined.
I am really not looking for trolls or rhetoric, or some profanity or obscenity filled emotional rant by a devout Trump supporter who is caught up in the moment, and who just likes Donald Trump because “he’s strong” or because “he doesn’t take crap from anyone.” Those arguments don’t hold up for what qualifications are necessary to be POTUS, or to lead the strongest & wealthiest democracy on the planet. I AM looking for a cohesive, intelligent, logic argument as to why Donald Trump would “Make America Great Again”. And, why is not still great, now? It was great when my father came here in the 50s. It was great when my great grand parents on my mother’s side came here before the Depression. Why is it not great now, and how will Donald Trump & the policies and proposals he’s articulated make it “great again”?
I promise to post any comments that are not profanity or obscenity laced, whether they make a cohesive argument or even if they just reinforce my point that there is no logical argument to be made and voters in primary states are coming out in droves because of an irrational emotional response, voting for a candidate who makes them feel good, but they can’t articulate why he makes them feel good.
I really hope someone can help me understand this. I’ve been troubled with trying to wrap by head around the fervent embrace of Donald Trump by 100s of thousands of US voters for the last month… and cannot comprehend what they see in him, logically and rationally.
I really though I'd draw all sorts of trolls and angry rhetoric... but so far... no one has commented.
ReplyDeleteI honestly want to understand why SO MANY of my fellow Americans are passionately drawn to this celebrity personality who changes his mind and his positions more often than my wife changes her shoes. I truly do not understand inexplicable and apparently powerful draw has on droves of primary voters.
Kasich has been a reasonable candidate (in comparison to the other kids at the table)... but like Huntsman before him, I think the Ohio governor will not survive the evolutionary process that Reince and his buddies have engineered following the devastating loss the GOP suffered in 2012.