As Howard
Zinn once said, “If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have
given us candidates.” Well we do have candidates, and lots of them. But I would
like to focus on one particular candidate: the Donald. Mr. Trump coins himself
as a socialite, investor, business aficionado, and author. But his latest publicity stunt is his
candidacy in the Republican Party. This is strange to me for a couple of
reasons.
First of all, he identified as a democrat
until 1987. So that means the fun-loving bundle of joy who headlines the hate
train that we now call the GOP, has completely flipped sides, as if a soldier
started defending enemy lines. Aside from his political infidelity, people are
concerned about his volatile nature and impulsive, non-premeditated statements.
According to Business Insider, Trump attempted to copyright his signature
phrase, “you’re fired.” It seems as if the shocking comments are endless. Almost
instantaneously after he makes direct blows to the people he is speaking to,
his ratings will go up in the polls. All while mimicking to nearly perfection a
certain era of Germany that I need not remind you of.
Not
unlike other candidates of his party, Donald Trump uses fear tactics to scare
his audience into following him, for example, the infamous speech he gave about
the dangers of Hispanic immigrants. They
say, “Fear IS the greatest motivator,” in his case, I guess it is. To top it
all off, he is the most hateful to other candidates and other humans alike. His
comments towards Rosie O’Donnell are quite unorthodox to say the least.
The
Donald Trump Campaign manager (Corey Lewandowski) sure seems to have a tough
job keeping up with his boss, but what is his game? Well according to ABC News
he worked for the Republican National Committee and spent seven years at Koch.
Also according to politico, he once had an entire debate with a cardboard cut-out
of Governor John Lynch. He must not have it too badly off because the
Washington Post stated he feels that he has the best job in politics. Good for
you Corey Lewandowski!
As
a bystander watching the world continue as it is today, I can see the patterns
of the economy and the world. The supercycles of economic infrastructure, which
are basically 50, 60, and 80 year cycles of the economy. Predict every economic
bust and break. They also predicted Mr. Donald Trump. This campaign is no new
feat of humanity. There have been depressions and fluctuations throughout
humanity and all we can do as individuals is evade the chaos. My call to action
is move to the Netherlands and dodge the largest scar in American history. Is
America already great? I think not, but if we keep focusing on building walls
and guns, we won’t be able to focus on the things that matter like the 17
trillion dollar debt and counting.
This was a paper i recently did for a class. i hope you enjoyed it! -GP
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