Making America Great Again. What Does It Mean?

Making America Great Again?!! Slave era great or great like back when
Trump was going bankrupt again and again. America is great for billionaires.

Each of us who vocationally follow, digest and regurgitate bullshit on the regular have apologies to give to anybody that dared to listen.


The New Face of Conservatism?

Nobody really knows what's wrong with America which is the only place to uncover the details that have Donald Trump threatening to lap the field of 16 republican candidates for president. A 16 candidate field should offer some really smart people in our country the chance to uncover a viable candidate for themselves but it presently has only worked to segment the vote into 16 segments.  Right now Trump owns roughly 24% of the conservative electorate.  So long as the field remains so wide and vast, the educated, middle class, mostly white people party will be forced to spread their love across a broad sea of options and hopefully gather the dust back together again when it comes time to "Make America Great Again" or whatever slogan becomes the final banner for republicanism.

Undoubtedly, Trump will have to gobble up some of those other 15 segments of voters as his running mates fall off one by one.  If the falling off doesn't begin soon enough, Trump can walk his way to the republican finish line while the others run ragged trying to look tough enough to become president.  If Trump were to triumph during the primary season because his conservative compadres didn't quit quickly, could he be the first modern winner to be rejected at the convention?

Fox News tried their darnedest to give these candidates an opportunity to look both tough and presidential at the same time while Rand Paul kept trying to give us the entertainment that we came for; sad, yet safe entertainment that doesn't include bullets ringing out at a movie that might not actually live up to the expectations anyway.  Minus the fear of guns or machetes, this debate was much like the unfulfilled shows that we all might be getting too afraid to go see anymore thanks to domestic terror that NO ONE has a solution for.

Trump refused to pledge an allegiance to the republican party
because he is not a republican, he's a political business man.

The only fulfillment that we enjoyed was the honest admission that Trump gave regarding his giving money to Hillary Clinton as well as most of the people on the stage.  According to Trump, his money has afforded him the opportunity to get his back scratched at a later date by the very politicians he is accusing of being in the pocket of the rich people.

Huh?!  

If you are a billionaire entertainer that gives money to every political person for business
reasons, and your political positions have shifted as readily as your donations, America
is the greatest place on earth for you already.  Complaining about immigrants from Mexico, that are actually coming from the other South American countries much more than Mexico, when you launch your campaign to Make America Great Again begs the question of what greatness means to you and to the people you are touting.

Trump admits "I have more political experience than anybody".

Making America White Again?

Greatness in the fashion that Trump supporters are hoping for requires a return to the days of Leave It to Beaver when we still had the middle class manufacturing jobs in Cleveland or Detroit that are NEVER coming back again.  Education and training for the jobs of the next generation is the only hope for GOOD job growth in a nation that should be willingly getting rid of the jobs that used to break our backs or blacken our lungs and our skies at the same time.

During Fox's really boring and overly controlled interview session with crowd cheering in the background that they called a debate, no one came up with any ideas of changing America without the age old approach to change the growth potential of corporations combined with some deep, unspoken hope and belief that corporations will increase wages appropriately enough to represent the kind of economic greatness that a few Americans had actually seen in the past.  For way too many, America hasn't lived up to the promise of greatness.

The Donald could be talking about radical extremism and the impact it has had towards sullying America's worldwide image when he talks about being "Great Again", but he rarely seems willing to touch the topics that require smart talk and smarter ideas like international politics, abortion rights or the historical voting rights act which republican governors are attacking. Trump only wants to make America great again while building a fence, which tells me he's playing in to a racial animus that is low hanging fruit.  That there is so much support from among these low hanging republican fruits is still a bit of a sad mystery.

When asked how he would handle international matters, Trump says "I will do the polar opposite from the guy that's in office now", and then proceeded to describe how awful the guy in office is right now without answering a single question of his own plans or his plan to defeat his friend Hillary.  To the best of my analysis, the fence that Trump will build, that Mexico will pay for, is the extent of his developed policy plans as president, though Mexico hasn't signed on to Trump's payment plan as of yet.

According to republican strategist Steve Smith (MSNBC contributor), without achieving at least 40% of the Hispanic vote, the republican party will NEVER return to the White House again.  Blacks are not the growing electorate that Hispanics are and can easily be disregarded during presidential elections.  On the other hand, almost every legal Mexican American has an illegal person in the family.  To disregard Hispanic voters by suggesting a fence and deportation against their family is not going to make America great again, just whiter.


Read My Resume

The best comment of the night came from Ben Carson who happened to be the only non-career politician.  When pointing out all of the things that the other candidates spent the entire night touting, Carson closed by finally touting his surgeries that none of the other candidates have ever performed including taking out half of a brain, though he wondered if someone had gone to Washington and beat him to that surgery.  He also seemed to be the only visionary who wasn't locked on problems and blame and resume nearly as much as the rest of the candidates.