[on the rise of the "Trump Democrat"

Hillary’s liberal enough for me, was 8 years ago.

I didn’t think Obama could get done everything they were claiming,

and mostly he didn’t – 8 years later, the economy’s mostly recovering,

employment’s up, even manufacturing’s coming back. Too cautious

and surrendering towards Republicans, but then they control most all the cards too.

Trump vs. Cruz is the epitome of the “big blowhard who knows little except

how to throw his weight around effectively and brow-beat people” (see Chris Christie)

and the “craven atavistic omnivore who’s probably not human and would slash up

his own mother to see even the promise of one tax cut” (see the rest).

Oh, and then there’s Lindsey Graham, who as probably a closeted gay really symbolizes

all the Republicans who’ve closeted their actual conscience towards anything in order

to enable and play this tough guy Rambo image of not-so-compassionate-conservatives

and abandon any sense of being an adult to the romper room kindergartners who’ve

totally taken over the party.

Dumb vs Dumber is hardly an enlightened outcome of supposedly 16-20 of the GOP’s best

and brightest competing for their party’s top slot. Obviously there are enough dumb Democrats

to build a cottage industry, and since Trump’s made a career of suckering the easily deceived,

that’s his natural constituency, from whatever walk of life. And yes, there are people who

will always love a “straight-shooter”, someone who unchains their voice from any cognitive

throttle and just vent, however unhinged. Adam Sandler is a multi-millionaire and I’m not for that and many

other reasons. Supposedly grown up men still go to his movies and laugh at all that wasted pent-up

juvenile behavior they’ve suppressed so long (at least 5 minutes), so why would anyone

find it strange that Donald Trump can draw a crowd as well. Presumably “short fingers” will

lead to a round of fart jokes in our next Reality Show gross-off, maybe with the moderators

providing lighters to “let it rip”.

Meanwhile the intelligent side of the aisle doesn’t give a rip, and is instead content to debate

how far to push dreams to institute policies that help people. I’ve tried to avoid even discussing

the Trump phenomenon, because I learned long ago from a college dormmate that

you end up being what you oppose. Yeah, there was a guy who talked about how boring his

old roommate was, someone who’d go around saying “Bummer” all the time. And this guy had

inherited that meme, would only say “my roommate said Bummer” and acted fairly lifeless

and robotic, so soon we called him “Bummer”. Trump will win by people raving against him

and then emulating him & his methods if not message, and soon we will all be assimilated.

So as Ken Kesey noted, just walk away – do something else, smell the flowers or recycle or

support someone with a plan. Don’t fret the lost souls all around – I think Jesus said there

have always been the poor, and I think he included with that the stark-raving lunatics as well.

We’re mostly not equipped to transfer their burdened souls into a herd of swine that we then

send storming suicidally into the a vast pit of water to drown in a bubbling frenzy. Alas. So better

to live within our own puny limitations and enjoy life just thinking about it.