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He’s a bully and a dullard and is one who seems to relish being the center of attention.
WHICH
IS WHY I wonder how much it would hurt him emotionally if we paid little
attention to him – treated him for the triviality he truly is, rather than
regarding much of anything he says as significant.
I
think that would be the cruelest blow we could dish out to this egomaniac whom
46 percent of the electorate chose to be our nation’s leader.
I’m
having these thoughts leading into Independence Day; the date upon which we
celebrate the creation of our nation and the ideals of social justice for all
that it supposedly stands for.
It
is one upon which I can’t help but feel a little bit of shame over the
pathetically-partisan nature our society has taken a turn to. We’re in an era in
which some people are determined to turn back the advances we have made in our
society toward achieving the American ideal – and those who voted for Trump did
so largely because they think he supports their vision.
THAT
IS WHY it shouldn’t be a surprise to learn of polls showing that Trump’s
support levels remain ridiculously high amongst those people who voted for him.
Many
are the kind of people who find themselves intimidated by people who actually
understand government and its procedures and find Trump’s simple-mindedness
easier to comprehend.
Particularly
if it repeats to them over and over that everything wrong is somebody else’s
fault!
Which
is why I can’t help but chuckle at the recent outburst caused by Trump using
some doctored video from the days of old when he tried boosting his public
persona by becoming a character in professional wrestling.
ONLY
NOW, INSTEAD of taking down a real wrestler, the video shows that wrestler
being representative of CNN – the national news network that gets demonized by
people who don’t want a dose of reality in their reports but want to be reassured
that everything wrong is somebody else’s fault!
There
are those people who are concerned that Trump has crossed over a line and is
trying to incite violence against reporter-type people. As though he’s nothing
more than one of those third-world tyrants who likes to criminalize people who
dare to speak out against him.
Personally,
I think that’s giving Trump way too much credit!
While
it always is possible that some irrational sort is capable of taking anything
out of context and turning it into a gross over-reaction, we also can’t go too
far in terms of trying to limit this kind of stupid talk. People do, after all,
have a right to be wrong.
IT
SAYS SO in the Constitution – that document we’re supposedly celebrating
Tuesday that says we have a right to free expression of our ideals. No matter
how trivial or ridiculous those ideals may be.
In
the case of Trump, personally I don’t think he has much in the way of a
political philosophy. It wouldn’t shock me if his presidency winds up being a
collection of contradictions, along with many trivial outbursts. Personally, I
do believe that the political structure created by our Founding Fathers is
capable of withstanding the nastiness we’re going to endure during this Age of
Trump.
Which
is why as a reporter-type person myself, I actually think the best way to
respond to Trump’s doctored image of a body-slam of CNN is to come up with an
alternate reality follow-up.
Perhaps
one in which a symbolic American people puts Trump over its knee and gives him
a spanking worthy of an insolent and bratty child!
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