I’ve written some pretty negative things about Trump in the past. This time, I have decided to focus on the positives of his campaign!
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I have been involved in politics in one way or the other for many years. I have worked in campaigns, and political parties. I even ran myself a few years ago, unsuccessfully by the way, but I am not bitter about losing an election by less than a hundred votes!
I have never in my life seen anything like Trump.
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I have seen a lot of candidates; good, bad and even a few absolute unmitigated disasters. I have never in my life seen anything like Trump. Or should I say nothing like him that was successful? Oh, I have heard it all before. Wild, inflammatory rhetoric, that was used to whip some fringe base into a frothy frenzy. What I haven’t seen before is any of this garbage work long term, not in my lifetime.
Until Donald.
He’s done it, in spite of himself, in spite of his lack of knowledge, qualifications, experience, or even a real plan. Let’s face it, nobody really knows what he is going to do in the next fifteen minutes, much less if he actually gets elected, even him.
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Far too much time, though, is focused on the negatives of his bs and the red hats that fall for it. I like to look at the positives of his campaign. You know, lemonade out of lemons and all that! Truth be told, I think Donald may have done some good for this country already. Even before the first block is laid in his new wall No, I am not just talking about the latest hair style trends or upgrading our national vocabulary. I am talking about solid, tangible results!
He’s made us more aware of the process. Should I say, he has made us more aware of how screwed up the process is. We are talking about a system that can take 18 people, some of which were very qualified to be POTUS, and somehow still end up with Donald Trump as a nominee. There isn’t any explanation for that. Nowhere is that logical. If you had those resumes in front of you, and each candidate wrote a cover letter outlining their plans, Donald Trump wouldn’t have even received a callback. He would have gotten that nice form letter that says, “thanks for applying, we will keep your record on file if anything comes up that matches your qualifications.”
Somebody will need an override code when this guy has a bad night at the craps table and blames the Chinese business person next to him.
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He makes us appreciate thing. You know, things like qualified, well-versed leaders. Not that we have an overwhelming amount of those, to begin with, but the few we have just became much more valuable. Mainly because we are going to need them desperately if he gets the nuclear football. Somebody will need an override code when this guy has a bad night at the craps table and blames the Chinese business person next to him.
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He’s made us aware of a lot of smart people. We don’t know who any of them are, and we don’t know when they will get here. But he knows them, and there are a lot of them. They also apparently have a lot of plans on how he’s going to do any of the things he has dreamed up in his head. It’s not like a major party candidate for President should have any real solutions or thoroughly thought out ideas, so let’s all be thankful for the smart people in this country that will do that stuff for him.
He’s made us appreciate our neighbors to the north. We always looked at Canada as that weird cousin that you only saw at family reunions. Oh sure he was nice enough, but he had a funny accent and dressed weird. Basically, we looked at Canada as just taking up extra space we didn’t want. Not anymore! Now we are actively trying to figure out how to move there and to adapt to the cold. The cousin we always made fun of now gets to sit on his porch while we stand in the rain begging to come in and stay at his house somewhere between four and eight years.
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This election cycle has indeed taught us a lot. Mainly it’s taught us that we have no idea, even after 240 years, what we’re doing. For a country to make it this far only to screw it up this bad proves how unadvanced the human race truly is. We are still swayed by hate and fear, and we still fall for the same tactics over and over again. Usually, though they are far more subtle than this.
When this election is done, we all have to live with the results. It will no longer be about campaigning; it will be about leading.
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All jokes aside now it’s time for all this to stop; we have to move past the rhetoric and emotion of it all. A politician making inflammatory statements doesn’t solve our problems. We have a duty to future generations to advance ourselves, to learn, and to grow. Quit getting stuck in the same mud over and over again. We are better than all of this, and it is past time we prove it. This side show simply isn’t funny any longer; this is far more severe than many want to admit. When this election is done, we all have to live with the results. It will no longer be about campaigning; it will be about leading.
It can’t be about Donald Trump.
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Photo: Flickr/Gage Skidmore
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