The "Trump Phenomenon" is Phenomenally Pathetic

Yes, admittedly the following riddles may not be terribly clever, but here I go anyway. What do you get if you cross Donald Trump’s bid for the White House with a death row inmate? A politically dead man running for office. What does the campaign of Mr. Trump now have in common with a fish floating in a lake? They’re both dead in the water. What does Mr. Trump’s chance of becoming the next president of the United States have in common with an antique? They’re both a thing of the past.

Mm-hmm, thanks to the tape that’s just surfaced we can write finis to the dream entertained by Mr. Trump’s ego of becoming president. He can soon go back to doing a single program on NBC, The Apprentice, as his reality show set in the White House won’t be picked up by CNN, MSNBC, The CBS Evening News, etc. Nope, the American electorate doesn't care to watch and live through that kind of garbage for the next four years. So ta ta, Mr. Trump, your political reality show has proven to be quite the flop. So much for you always being a winner. You're going to go down in American history as an especially vile clown.

 

Well, conservatives, when you make a demagogic, egomaniacal character your candidate what do you expect. Oh well, by making this sexist, racist, capitalist monstrosity, The Donald, their standard-bearer conservatives have shown their true, their dreadful true colors.

 

Hmm, it's quite interesting that no one has replied to disagree and to defend The Donald recently. Perhaps this is a good, hopeful sign. And, btw, what's that splashing sound that I hear? Oh, it's the sound of more prominent Republicans finally jumping ship in an attempt to salvage what's left of their respectability and political viability.

 

Yes, a very entertaining election, in an appalling sort of way, that is.

 

To paraphrase a famous slogan: It's his mentality, stupid. Or, even better, if one is addressing Trumpites, as they seem to need things spelled out: It's his stupid mentality, stupid.

 

Hmm, apparently Mr. Trump would like to think that refusing to resign as Republican nominee is a sign of strength of character, but actually it's just another sign of his irresponsible egoism; of his tendency to put the needs of his quite pathetically needy ego first, before the greater good or the principles that he disingenuously claims to stand for. In short, we're ironically simply seeing more evidence that he's a rather pathetic character who lacks the requisite mental and moral character to be a good president. At any rate, it certainly looks like he's going to continue to do his party the great disservice of remaining its candidate. The Republican Party has my condolences.

 

Yes, it certainly seems that I'm now beating a terminal if not dead horse, the Trumpite crowd here no longer appears to have any enthusiasm for defending the thoroughly disgraced Donald. Excellent.

 

You libs are trying to blow this up to just hide from Hilarys failed character and temperament which is far worse.

 

Yes, here we have it, the lame tactic of trying to shift the focus back on Mrs. Clinton. Well, of course, what else can folks in the Trump camp do.

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What's truly absurd and difficult to credit, of course, is that anyone is at all surprised that Mr. Trump is such a sexist cliché and throwback.

 

He is a little bit a throwback, which is the reason I am voting for him.

Hilary believes that whites are deplorable white supremacists and wants to destroy us with open borders.

 

Hmm, so as a Trumpite you admit that support for Mr. Trump, and specifically for the central anti-immigrant plank of his platform, stems from a primitive mentality!

 

Well, of course if a person who genuinely possesses integrity realizes that his/her standard-bearer is a supercrude sexist, his/her integrity will plainly dictate that s/he withdraw his/her support from said outed supercrude sexist standard-bearer. One’s integrity would demand that one stand by all of the women who are hurt by sexism, and by one’s higher principles, not by a leader who personifies lechery, male chauvinism, and anti-feminism. But of course Mr. Trump’s diehard supporters are themselves “politically-incorrect” (as they euphemistically like to describe themselves) specimens, i.e. misogynists, heterosexists, xenophobes, and racists, and as such lack integrity, so of course they’re persisting in supporting Mr. Trump, and lamely resorting to the tactic of trying to refocus our critical attention on Mrs. Clinton’s sins. No, sorry Trumpites, but what absolutely demands our full critical attention right now is the disgusting and dangerous mentality of your candidate. Try to muster up enough enlightenment, conscience, and character to renounce your misplaced loyalty to a bigoted, unprincipled, characterologically defective, women-degrading demagogue of a leader, and resign yourselves to another Clinton presidency. This is really the only choice for anyone with any genuine patriotism and decency. But then of course hardcore Trump fans are indeed people of a benighted mentality and are quite unacquainted with the meaning of genuine patriotism and decency.

 

In short, Trump supporters, I urge you to stop being all anger and no integrity; to leave off embracing misplaced loyalty to a candidate, to the exclusion of genuine patriotism; to desist from fooling yourselves, and to instead begin forthrightly facing up to the exceedingly ugly reality of Mr. Trump. I know that you latched on to him because his demagogic schtick made you feel like you finally had a viable presidential candidate in your corner, but now you're simply embarrassing yourselves with your continued support of a thoroughly discredited, piece of ... excuse for standard-bearer. Yes, finally wake up and smell the foul odor of the piece of ... to whom you're self-sabotagingly remaining loyal.

 

Or don't, and see how well things go for you. Well, I suspect that that will turn out to be a rather pathetic choice. Yes, there I go with the word "pathetic" again, but the theme of the OP, the patheticness of the Trump campaign and camp, is quite frequently apropos.

 

No form of government lasts forever. The problem with communism is how quickly things go to hell. Democracy has its own systemic failings, but communism seems to be so fundamentally flawed that they're bad right out of the gate.

I would venture to say that Christianity benefited from a very timely death of Yeshua. It was a short-lived cult while he was alive, and if he had not been executed, it would have become an unfortunate footnote in the history books, somewhat akin to the anabaptists of munster. It has, of course, veered off course over the centuries, but what it is now has quite a bit going for it.

You bring up a lot of wars, but I'm not sure that christianity had much to do with the bad aspects, except the 30 years war. That resulted in separating church and state, which was a good thing. Now all we need to do is separate the state altogether (and as a communist, you might agree with me there).

I agree with you. The problem is that communism is fundamentally flawed. There is something in it which is inherently at odds with human nature, and I don't think you can separate the flaw (central planning and public ownership) from the ideology. You have to identify that problem first, and then go about proving that it can work on a limited basis. If it expands naturally without coercion, then you're on to something. But don't just keep doing it again and again and again, hoping that maybe this time, things will turn out like you think they should.

You want to teach people about the evils of class, thus eventually eliminating them? I know this is the desired end game of Marxism, but so far, the opposite has happened. I admit they do exist in capitalist societies, but teaching people about the evils of class isn't blowing much air up our skirts these days. They exist, but it's not to be rubbed in the faces of people. I like to think of it more as an achievable goal. I think the SJWs refer to it as privilege, and that's a good thing. If you don't have it, then work your butt off and get it.

 

To continue this conversation in this thread would be a bit of a digression, so I've taken the liberty of creating and posting my response in a separate thread, here's the link, http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=478748&p=1066709659#post1066709659