Exposed U.S.! Trump's Exhibitionism Of America

When Trump tried to tell us that he is surprisingly good at uniting people all while functionally dividing the entire GOP, we should not have been so surprised.  Actually, he chose to preface his statement with how surprised we are going to be in his ability to unite people, so never mind. Feel free to be as surprised as you'd like as Trump proceeds to expose US- to US.

Speaking of pledges, did you see the Hitler pledge to Trump?

After stealing Florida from Marco Rubio and forcing him to bow out of the race, Donald Trump has each of his remaining Republican opponent's fighting just to keep him from the delegate count (1273) that would force them to finally stop giving Hillary so much general election ammunition against the entire party. Soon, they all must choose to either endorse no one, or endorse Trump while trying not to  look like Chris Christie does while doing it. 

I would love to completely focus on those television ads to come from Hillary, with those supporters of Trump's doing that hail Hitler pledge, but why bother?

Although modern Republicans behave like Democrats by no longer promoting trickle down economics or any economic idea beyond eliminating most regulatory agencies- and by not caring much about deficits anymore- none of that matters because voting for a Democrat is unreasonable to those raised staunchly against such an thing.

There is something ingrained inside of the political DNA of many American voters raised to disregard the bleeding heart intentions of the left, and to only see the futility of the liberal nature. Moreover, many Republicans have been taught that party trumps candidate for reasons of sustained strength. The concept proves valuable for state and local elections, but the party rejected it as well as their own internal autopsy report from the first presidential election defeat by Obama when they allowed the Tea Party and the Libertarian fractures to weaken their bone structure by pushing their own ideologies to the forefront of a party with few binding ideas.

Consequently, bewildered Republicans, angry Independents who still vote Republican along with those aforementioned fractures, have given in to the eventuality of Trump as a Republican in name only over the alternative of Hillary the Democrat, a Communist in Bernie Sanders (something Republicans called Democrats long before Bernie openly embraced the Socialist label btw), or not voting at all and functionally handing the election to either one. 

I would love to hate Trump for recognizing that some people will never consider liberalism- even over a megalomaniac- and for noticing how left leaning independents don't vote enough to have ingrained beliefs one way or the other, but I can't. Trump has drafted lots of former dem's into his cause, and is exposing America to the fact that fence straddling dem's who thought electing Obama meant 40 acres and a mule for everybody, and are still angry enough with Obama's right leaning presidency to cross over too. Trump also knows that Republicans don't care THAT much about policy or positions as long as you can win for a party they've sworn an allegiance to from birth. Because of losing to Obama, Republicans would rather trust a life long liberal donor in Trump than their own party faithful anymore.

I would like to hold Trump to account for his angry entrance into this presidential race riding on our fear of immigrants and the promise of a fence for those who seem to need one, but I heard him quickly say that he would deport people and then bring them right back, because we have to be humane. 

Didn't you hear it too? That statement from Trump came eerily close to being a policy position- which means it was probably a knee jerk response- so Trump doesn't repeat it anymore, but he certainly said it.

Trump's position that Mexico would build the wall was also nothing more than a counter puncher's approach to the question of funding the thing. Even if you hate his answer, you can't say he isn't ready for a fight, or that he doesn't stay on his toes ready to knock out potential objections before they rise. Politician's have always promised the world without any concern of how to harness the moon first, because details aren't necessarily their duty.

Trump is quickly adjusting to this demand for details that is an aspect of a political campaign, and nothing like business  or war where surprising your opponent is helpful for victory.  In a presidential battle, the most important detail is that your so called opponents are every voting citizen in this nation who quickly become your only hope for victory too.

Trump and his supporters are not going to mention details like more Mexicans are currently leaving America than are migrating in making it harder and harder for Trump to hire so many of them as he claims to do, legal or otherwise.

The Trumpians might be concerned that too many American corporations are starting to do business in Mexico, but they won't even follow that thought to it's natural conclusion which is, people who can find work at home don't need to migrate elsewhere for it. If someone tells you that Mexican's still prefer to come here because of welfare and jobs, don't believe them since no illegal immigrant is eligible for any benefit except emergency medical assistance if needed. Assuming American corporations have been perfectly happy with offsetting jobs into countries like China, Mexico was a no-brainer alternative to our immigration problem and our Asian trade imbalance as well.

Trump could easily offer to exchange a fair pathway into (or back into) America for a wall of Mexico's building, which might not be a bad way to sell the deal to Democrats or to Republican supporters who got interested in Trump because of his wall promise. What Trump is exposing us to is that republicanism is bound by an every man for himself business negotiation mindset in which the goal is to get the best deal possible for yourself. There's no doubt in my mind that if Republicans are considering the necessity of higher wages for millions who rarely vote for them, there has to be something in it for them.

While Trump took victory laps after winning Florida and knocking out Rubio, he was surprisingly humble enough to admit that the rich are indeed going to have to get a lot richer for any of you regulars to have your wage hopes realized. He declared this with apologies realizing that he is already extremely rich, so promising that he'll get richer first wasn't easy to admit. 

Powerfully rich people and those who long to be them, don't seek more power and riches for some altruistic promise to share with the poor. Their commitment is to the promise that getting richer and more powerful beats the hell out of any alternative. Besides, who would reasonably set an agenda for sharing power and wealth except people who don't already have it?

Food stamps, ObamaCare, college tuition assistance? If most middle class families can't qualify for  social assistance, all social assistance becomes means tested wastes of time to people with money, power and influence. Welfare is only worthy of salvaging or expanding in the eyes of citizens who consider it reasonable that every one of us will pay for the health and well being of the other, be that directly or indirectly. 

It is fairly reasonable to believe that every one of us is already paying for the ignorance and sickness of the other, yet people in America work with contagious illnesses all the time, as if their bills give them an immunity to spreading germs. Aside from the rare few, WE all complain about people working sick, yet everyone does it, because we are rugged individuals who don't need anybody to help us get by in life (cough, cough).

Trump and his rugged individualistic supporters didn't cause sick workers who feel pressured to make bills, and not public health, their greater priority.  The Trumpians might also be among those rare Americans who never needed some really great coach, teacher, professor, parent/s, neighbor who watched your kids, or all of the above in order to be who they are today.  Sometimes, ruggedly individualistic Republicans make me wonder if only Democrats do the daycare hustle or have kids that don't leave home after college due to the economy, so they support Bernie because they need a job.

Is segregation in politics part of a Republican creed or just a reflection of our other segregation issues?  Do parents of children from both parties work to indoctrinate their offspring or is this just a Republican thing?

Trump is exposing America to the ingrained problems of both parties and of the system as a whole that allows for the party elite to continually manipulate the rest of us into a corner of their choosing.  Currently, congressional Republicans appear to be compromised from a lack of ideology, so they survive on a steady diet of American segregation and gerrymandering. Hillary, on the other hand, has to promise a continuation of the right leaning agenda's of Obama and Bill while grafting the populist mission of Bernie Sanders into her plan at the same time.  

Populism versus Capitalism

Populism is entirely contradictory to capitalism because capitalism isn't a way of life, it is the economy of life, and no civilization functions without some system of exchange and profit. Conversely, populism is not an economic system but a means of disrupting and redistributing one; sometimes for the good, but there simply aren't enough great functioning examples of populism/socialism to brag about. Sorry Bernie.

You Can't Win The Deal 
Without Making One First

Capitalistic efforts like NAFTA or the TPP are Bernie's greatest contempt and key differentiation from Obama, Trump and Hillary, though Hillary has expressed some  "reservations" with the TPP too. Trade deals, past present and future, are also the reason that Bernie likely loses my support and the support of Obama who needs a capable successor to his tenure. Trade is simply a necessity of our world, and one that my Socialist brother Bernie will never be in a position of strength to handle while standing against it philosophically.

Trump won't really talk a lot about the TPP much because he is running so that he can dive head first into this deal, that deal and every deal in between.  If Trump gets his way, he'll be going TPP all over that entire world and beyond if possible. The author of "The Art of the Deal" can't possibly be against our dealing in foreign lands. In fact, he's certain that he can be the reason WE finish out on top of these deals instead of feeling like the biggest loser with every trade pact we make.

But deal he will.

Anyone who is still unclear that Trump is all for every deal that he can engage in is unclear about Trump.  When he says we'll get sick of winning, it's because he'll never get sick of dealing, whether it's negotiating to convince Republicans to vote for him regardless of what he truly espouses (or because of it), Trump even has a fix for angry voters who quit voting,which just so happens to be the same fix for those who got tired of supporting the losing team.

Trump has all of US trapped inside of a rare, life sized art exhibit called "Exposition"- masterfully exposing the harsh truth of who we are as a nation of voters and how miserably we respond to the duty of leading and governing ourselves.  

By virtue of the overriding sickness of ignorance, we've never taught ourselves enough details about our electoral process of selecting a president to know if we approve of it or not.  Trump is exposing to both his supporters and detractors, things WE never had reason to care about much before he made us learn and care about.

For example:

Did you know that each party has the power to rewrite the rules at the convention so that it benefits the needs of the party.  In other words, if the Republicans decide to broker their convention exclusive of Mitt Romney, who currently isn't running and needs to win 8 states to qualify as a potential nominee, they can simply rewrite those rules to allow Romney to overtake the convention and be the party nominee regardless of all the voting on behalf of other people.

In addition, while they are fighting to keep him from winning enough delegates, Trump could actually reach the delegate threshold and still be forced into a brokered convention because the parties write the rules as needed.

The Democrats can do this too, but their use of uncommitted superdelegates is their personal technique for avoiding the risk of entering the convention with a candidate who doesn't have a great chance to win  In essence, they've done their brokering on the front side by soliciting superdelegates that can do the party's bidding without voters recognizing their impact.

Trump's presence in this presidential race has exposed more aspects of our fractured republic than many of us were willing to recognize. Whether we are talking race, immigration or the manner of choosing a president, WE've got real problems.

I would like to take Trump to task for his assault on these Constitutionally designed party protections called delegates, but I can't.  He has single-handily exposed the absolutely undemocratic aspects of the very Constitution that WE hold near and dear, while simultaneously exposing the differences of emotions each of us feel when we talk about the sanctity of the U.S. Constitution itself.

Is the Constitution a divinely crafted guide from our founding father's and political elders, or is it the sanctioned way in which we allowed for "White Only" drinking faucets?

It is both.

Our Constitution has fully sanctioned our organized failures as a society, while offering both the light and a pathway towards correcting them.

Through the sturdy flexibility that the Constitution insures, Colorado and a couple of other states stopped giving citizens felony convictions and immense legal and life hurdles for small amounts of weed possession, even while weed still continues to make felons out of recreational and medical marijuana users all across the nation. It took a similar state by state rejection of Constitutional standards to kill the Prohibition of alcohol and bend the Constitution back towards the will of the people, even if our will towards alcohol green lighted one of America's most deadly addiction problems.

Trump doesn't talk a lot about confronting addiction problems or dealing with inner city policing issues with Constitutional measures, but he might start IF he wins the GOP nomination and enters a general election versus Hillary who virtually locked up her party's nomination with a Super Tuesday sweep (3/15/16) including the big boys, Florida, Ohio and Illinois. As a salesman, Trump is willing to do what every good salesman does to close a deal, and right now, feigning moderation is just not part of the negotiation.

Like any expert salesman, Trump is a master at reflective listening and leaving those he encounters with this odd sense of feeling heard and understood. What Trump won't have  to do is actually make good on his promise to make US great again because the great he's promising involves things being more great for US and less great for Trump and the one percent. In reality, Obama has already done the part of making the rich richer, so more of the same won't impress anyone. If Obama the redistributor could force open America's economic flood gates but can't force the poor people faucet to trickle even as the rich are getting richer, there is simply something wrong with the pipes.

Just call him sucker punch Sam. He doesn't deserve a real name.

As president, there will always be limitations to what a can be done to actually impact greatness because every move demands a long wait while the ship makes the turn.  As president, Trump won't be free to hire a whole lot of Mexicans anymore like he always brags about doing. even as those who support him express frustration from jobs lost to Mexico and its immigrants. He can encourage diversity, but he could not insure the diversity of Trump inc. or any corporation until after he serves in office.

If elected president, Trump will be able to finally ignore the angry people that he's basically using to usher himself into the final stages of this race.  That won't fix stagnant wages, or clear him of our fear that he'll preside as a Democrat even while he competes under the banner of Republican. But once elected, he can track as far left as he wants and just call it as right as he chooses. Essentially, president Trump would be free to govern as he pleases and then spin every decision he makes as he see's fit, since spin and marketing are is his top two skill sets.

Policy agenda nuggets that mistakenly slips from Donald's wealthy lips glistens of third term Obama except with a southern fence. He'll finish off what Obama started with ISIS. He'll humanely bring the Mexican's back after finding and deporting them.(??) He'll take care of people who need better wages and fix universal health care with something better than ObamaCare. (????) And he'll be a uniting force like we Hoped Obama could be, except for banning Muslim's from entering America until he can figure out what the hell is going on with Islamic terror.

All of this on the notion that he, unlike any president before him, is uniquely tough enough to make people do as he demands.  Instead of firing them like he did for years on television, he's throwing them out of his rally's and inciting his crowd to do his violent bidding by expressing what he would do if only he could.

Trump feeds off of this narcissistic exploitation of vulnerable people, and no one is more vulnerable than the angry.  He who angers you owns you- but he who can incite your existing anger has the power to evoke immature rage on command.  Trump has placed a segment of America's angry and afraid on a chain like a ravenous dog.  Some are actually immature enough to sneak a bite at departing rally protester's while the rest are prepared to blame the victims for getting too close. As one united coalition, the Trumpian's are answering the clarion call of their leader to get tough, play dumb and make America great by any means necessary- and Trump will clean up your legal mess if necessary.

How adults can be groomed to be more loyal to party than country is answered in the children they raise.  From a very early age, right wing offspring are given an image of liberalism attached with fear and loathing, not an endearing Republican theme that becomes their unified mantra of party loyalty.   As the Republican party becomes increasingly segmented, the various options of which way to go are slowly pulling the party to its death. Add a little populism spewing from every presidential candidates voice, and the only distinct ideas become that crazy Muslim ban and the Trumpian wall.

Trump has even exposed the fact that every politician is trying to figure out our preferences just to sale us a bill of goods exactly like the other candidates, only better.

Will Republicans alter the Constitution so that it mirrors their love of Christ and hate of abortion and gays, or do they love guns and freedom more and decide to leave people alone so that people will do the same for them?  If Obama and every other modern president have had no problem creating policies to make the rich get richer, why can't either party find a way to make America's wealth trickle down- and which party actually deserves another chance to finally make it happen?

If either party had an easy answer to issue of wealth disparity, they would have used it a long time ago. Now, Trump has exposed this failure from both sides of the two-party political conspiracy forcing both sides to join together in figuring a simple method to stop Trump and start opening pathways to wealth before America fixes this electoral college hustle and gives Trump a try.

Super Tuesday Marks Beginning Of War On Trump

Even Ted Cruz is predicting a Trump Super
Tuesday victory.  Which means he didn't send
out enough of these fake voter violation forms.

After today, the wheat should be sifted from the chaff.

Actually, that shit should have been sifted some time ago.  Now, only a miracle or some serious Ted Cruz type voter tampering effort will stop Donald Trump from exiting this day with anything less than a strangle hold on the GOP delegate chase for the party nomination.

The near certainty of his success has two of his opponents pre-predicting a Trump landslide today, but a comeback that will somehow begin once they win their own state caucus. Ohio Governor and presidential candidate, John Kasich has all but assured a Trump victory in most of the 11 states at play today, and so has Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who predicts the comeback beginning when he wins his home state.

Kasich has a similar theory, but neither he or Cruz seems ready or able to explain why the Trump train suddenly falls off of the track just because their train gets a shot of home cooking in the caboose?

Will Trump start to lose because of the ponzi scheme investigation into Trump university, the now defunct school that Trump created to teach hundreds of people how to master the art of real estate?

What should we make of that
endorsement from Chris Christie?

As I reflect on the many things that Trump hasn't had to be accountable for, the idea of a real estate hustle from a real estate hustler doesn't exactly rise to the level of
the thing that finally downs Donald.



Nor will Florida Senator Marco Rubio's veiled reference to Trump's genitalia.  

Why didn't Rubio stick to Donald's Duke
and not his..Richard?

Apparently, Rubio has decided that snatching the limelight with Trump style attacks is the last remaining way to win the game that currently Trump is leading and re-writing at the same time.

What Rubio doesn't seem to understand is that his reference to his opponents small hands makes an indirect statement about Rubio's more than ample hands, which must (in his mind) give him the girth to be the kind of trustworthy president we want.

Does that make the presidency something small hands need not consider Marco Rubio? What say you of women with small 
hands or hands larger than yours? 

Does it make them more or less trustworthy Marco?

If there was no need for a prior concern that Rubio is pursuing the presidency too soon and before his time of political maturity, there should be now.  Suddenly I have fears of Rubio conducting a frat style, beer keg party in the White House to celebrate big boobs, big hands and, oh yeah, winning the presidency too. Woohoo!!

Every time I think I've shaken my head enough over the GOP presidential process, something comes along and causes a crook in my neck from another case of excessive shake syndrome.  I'm not exactly sure if that is a real ailment, but I am certain that it needs to be after the many wrong directions the right, and my head, have taken in this race.

Again, not only is it too late for two or three GOP candidates to get out of the race and force the republican electorate to choose between Trump or somebody else (something each candidate keeps trying to suggest to the other), now they ALL MUST STAY IN  regardless of today's Super Tuesday results, just to fracture the republican vote for fear of allowing Trump an easy pathway to the delegate threshold that he's pursuing.

At this sad but obvious stage in the game, all that remains for republicans is stopping Trump from making it to the convention with enough delegates to force Reince Preibus (the GOP party chair) to hold to his party pledge form that all of the GOP candidates were forced to signed when they were only afraid of Trump jumping to a third party.

Now, they are being forced into one last, desperate plan of obstructing Trump's path to the presidency.  Their skill with obstruction is notoriously sound and well rehearsed, making these next few months of presidential politics of historical significance..

Let me repeat this for those who missed the point.

The ONLY hope left for the GOP is a brokered convention.  What was recently just a threat, has become the last remaining street on a one way road to nothing.

Nothing means that nothing you proud and hard working GOP voters are doing right now will really be worth a damn bit of difference if your party is working like hell to make your vote totally insignificant.  They are telling you that your massive turnout for Trump. and extreme support for the rebel voice are misguided and not allowed in our CURRENT system of governance,

They (two-party establishment) are doing something somewhat similar in the Democrat party, but Hillary isn't the wrong candidate like Trump is, so there is no real reason to activate the defense shields for what she's doing.

In other words, nothing you Bernie loving, registered Democrat voters are trying to do will matter much either. Even if you mess around and actually show up in mass as Bernie insists you must- but currently you've yet to do- he's not the right candidate on the left side of the ledger.

I say "you" because "I" am a proud, Christ loving, conservative socialist who might have caucused for Bernie, but is not allowed to caucus in Colorado on behalf of either party without dropping my steadfast disgust with labels and banding together with one of the two-party labels just to join a caucus process tainted by a design that demands party allegiance to participate.

After today, the non-Trump GOP candidates must band together to chop down the Trump tree to somewhere well below the base of nominee mountain, keeping him from a delegate majority and from bringing the war for the GOP's nominee to an end.

After tonight,  the right is in for the fight of it's life as the war to infiltrate ends successfully for Trump, and the war to overtake begins forcing Trump's opposition to respond in the only way they have left.  

Hand shaming and things of the sort.