while I think that Trump is a huge asshole, I do think he will protect the interests of America. more than I can say for Bernie or Cruz.
On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 1:26:06 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/it_has_come_to_this.html > > > > December 30, 2015 > It Has Come to This > > By E.M. Cadwaladr <http://www.americanthinker.com/author/em_cadwaladr/> > > The United States of America that we grew up in, and in some cases fought > for, no longer exists. I would like to write something stirring in defense > of our Constitution, but it isn’t under attack. It is simply ignored. Some > have proposed that we have a Constitutional convention to add new > amendments. What would that accomplish? Would our present Federal > government respect a set of new amendments when they don’t respect the old > ones? What good does it do to insist on one’s rights as a citizen, when in > fact mere citizenship has lost its meaning? Americans have no rights > officials in Washington feel bound to recognize. Both Republicans and > Democrats overrule majority opinion as a matter of course. They do not > doubt for a moment that they are the best and brightest, and that our > voting franchise is merely an antiquated inconvenience. My elected > representatives represent no one but themselves. They make war on my > culture, my faith, and my security-- then they insult me in front of the > elitist media on TV. The executive branch, the congress, and most of the > judiciary have no more respect for me as a human being than colonial > empires had for the most backward and primitive of their subjects. The > elites that live inside the beltway and in the bubble of academia should > try living in Ohio or Missouri for a few years. “White privilege” isn’t > doing all that well in rural West Virginia. We are here, now, in this > country at this time. We are real people with real lives. We are not > statistics in a sociologist’s model, nor are we third and fourth generation > perpetrators from some politically reconstituted version of history. It is > all too obvious that our most unrepresentative of representative > governments neither knows us nor respects us. They despise us. It is too > much to ask us not to despise them in return. > > I am tired of being told by Barack Obama on the one hand, and Bill > O’Reilly on the other, what my American values are or ought to be. I can > work those out for myself. I am tired of living in the dumping ground for > whatever group of hostile immigrants the social engineers in Washington > import to ease their guilty consciences. Let them move their Mexican > underclass and angry Syrian colonists to Martha’s Vineyard or Marin County > north of San Francisco.Maybe this would help our legislators and “opinion > makers” alleviate a bit of their never-ending narcissistic angst. I am > tired of nameless, self-righteous bureaucrats levering open the restrooms > of my local schools to the confused transvestites that a liberal education > churns out, then lecturing me about tolerance and individual rights. Where > is their tolerance of *my* culture? Where is their respect for *my* > rights? Where is the brotherly concern shown to my neighbors? I am tired of > living in an ill-planned social experiment. Of taboo words and taboo ideas. > I am tired of being called a racist by people who are, themselves, the > worst of racists -- and who have denuded the word itself of any meaning. > > To be quite honest, I have no particular love for Donald Trump -- but he > is what we have. He doesn’t speak well. I don’t think he has any idea what > a republic is. Then again, his last two predecessors didn’t really > understand the concept of a republic either. No doubt it’s not a word they > use at Harvard. Although I may not especially like the erratic, often > juvenile Mr. Trump, it isn’t lost on me that he at least doesn’t hold me in > contempt. He may make war on illegal immigration and Muslim fundamentalism, > but most of the alternatives are making war on me. Twenty years ago I would > have worried about a man who scares resident aliens, and even a few > citizens, to death. You will forgive me if I have come to the epiphany that > protecting absolutely every minority’s *feelings* is not a rational > government’s primary purpose. You will forgive me, too, if I stop ignoring > fourteen centuries of Islamic history, the stark brutality of Islamic > scripture, and the barbarism of contemporary Islamic states. Give me a > gated, crime-free community to live in, and maybe I can have the luxury of > worrying about the planet’s weather. > > I would prefer to have a genuine conservative candidate to vote for, and > will probably vote for Cruz if he looks viable enough. But if Donald Trump > is what it has come to -- I will happily take the risk and check the box > next to his name. Republican, independent, or Bull Moose party -- I could > not care less. Conservatives don’t have a party. We cannot be choosy. > Better Trump than the Democrats' mad rush to national Hara-Kiri. And better > Trump than the Republican establishment’s facilitation of the same national > Hara-Kiri, plus the now intolerable old lie that “it’s the best that we > could do.” It has never been impossible to build 700 miles of security > fence. Eisenhower built most of the interstate highway system in under a > decade. It has never been impossible to balance the budget. Over the course > of American history balanced budgets have actually been the norm. Moral > cowardice has never been an attractive trait, and no amount of clever > advertising really makes it so. Ivy league “experts” who fail, then get > congratulated for their failures by the Ivy League talking heads, do not > impress me more than Trump. For all of his ratings appeal and flamboyance, > he did at least accomplish something in his lifetime other than being > popular and being famous. That’s better than “I made a great speech at the > ‘04 convention,” or “I married Bill Clinton,” or, the perennial favorite, > “I waited my turn.” > > We have nearly died of the disease of too much compromise. Of “reaching > across the aisle.” Of “building a coalition of our Muslim allies.” We have > no real friends in either quarter. How can a free people compromise with > totalitarian ideologies, either socialist or Islamic? Let’s not fool > ourselves. America has bitter enemies -- both foreign and domestic. Donald > Trump, for all of his flaws, must do. He speaks his mind. He understands > and acknowledges at least the plainly obvious. 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