COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON A SITE CALLED WOMEN SYSTEM
Make No Mistake,
Trump's Government Shutdown Is About Racism
The incident is just one more example, as if any more were
needed, of Trump's genuine insensitivity to others.
"That book" tells us clearly that all the he tends
to talk about is some aspect of himself - his view, his experience, his old
story, repeated countless times.
A truly tiresome man, apart from all his other demonstrated
inadequacies.
The only thing giving this man continued traction with his
own political base is his junk pile of notions about migrants, Muslims, and
Mexicans.
He offers nothing else, all of the more encouraging words of
his campaign having long since fallen into the gutter.
It's xenophobia and prejudice disguised as policy over
legitimate concerns.
The fact that his base, although a minority, is as large as
it is, of course, says some pretty unpleasant things about America.
Trump will never live down the revelations of "that
book.'
But equally, he will just ignore the stark facts revealed.
He always has.
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Response to a critical
comment:
A truly uninformed statement on your part.
Your tone sounds much like one of those American evangelist
types, pointing at people, talking about sin.
Sorry to disillusion you, but I hate no one, not even Trump.
I do hate dishonesty. I do hate violence. I do hate
arrogance. I do hate the unwillingness to learn anything new.
And unfortunately, America does appear to have a good many
people with exactly those as featured characteristics. And Trump has played on
them as his political base.
As to the book, again, you simply do not know what you are
talking about.
I've heard the author interviewed at length. I've read the
book. He is a dependable old-fashioned journalist type.
After all, you live in a country where at any given moment
you can have no idea of what is actually happening, there are so many extreme
claims in different directions.
You have to trust someone sometime. I'll put at least some
trust in an intelligent, soft-spoken, old-fashioned reporter type. He won't get
everything right, but who does? My God, Trump contradicts himself from month to
month and thinks nothing of it.
Does he make mistakes? Of course, he does. But an open-minded
person who hears him out and reads the book will say without a doubt, that what
he says largely has the ring of truth.
And I can virtually guarantee you, as a person who has read
a great deal of history and biography over the years, that that will be the
main verdict of history. Trump stands naked before the world, but as a very
great writer said, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
I do consider myself a pretty sound observer of human
beings, and while there are a couple things in the book where I say "I
wouldn't be sure about that," but, overall, I think he has it right.
I actually wanted Trump to be elected, hoping for just a few
changes in the awful practices of the American government - as in killing about
2 million people in the Middle East in the Neocon Wars and assuming a rational
relationship with Russia and China - but he has done nothing but disappoint.
He delivers nothing but more war more stupid spending on war
and a lot of filthy words about refugees. You do understand, do you, that the
bulk of those refugees are the direct result of all of America's bombing and
horror in the Middle East?
