The Trump Imperative
Dear readers, as I’m sure you are all aware, this election cycle is unique, and that’s putting it mildly. It requires the electorate to see this contest in different terms, I believe, than any before it.
I have endeavored, in previous posts, to pass by the smoke and mirrors, the distractions, and the subterfuge. I have tried to paint the true substantiative issues that are on the table, and the reasons why voting for Trump, despite his many flaws and shortcomings, is imperative none-the-less. The voter must look critically beyond the superficial issues that have been thrown up deliberately by the Democrats and the Clinton Campaign to keep America from seeing the naked truth: that Hillary has NO RECORD of achievement and NO COHERENT PLAN. THAT HER PROFESSED POLICIES ARE ALL WRONG AND HER MORALS AND ETHICS ARE PRISON WORTHY. IF we focus on the issues (By the way, isn’t that what they’ve always told us we SHOULD do?), Trump becomes the ONLY choice. DESPITE his shortcomings and flaws.
Coming to grips with all of this is, I’ll admit, a bit of a “brave new world” for many voters. We are accustomed to seeing the best ideas and policies coming forth from the most polished and poised candidate. We are accustomed to seeing style and substance melded in a single personage. And, often, the choice was easy: Kennedy in 1960, for example, and Reagan in 1980. We MUST now, of necessity, dissect style from substance, and focus on what is really important. The media has NOT given this imperative any play at all. Not even mentioned it, really. Not a word, of late, about substance! And they have been abetted by some self serving Republican politicians as well. No, ladies and gentlemen, we can’t go there! No substance, si vous plaît!
I was viscerally pleased, therefore, when I was made aware of an editorial (thanks, LRM) from this past Saturday in the Wall Street Journal. The article was by David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale. Mr. Gelernter makes the very clearly reasoned case that it is IMPERATIVE to vote for Trump, basically, whether we like it or not and whether we like HIM or not! The alternative, he explains, is to court disaster.
Since Mr. Gelerntner’s exposition is so good, and the article is such a good read, I would like to direct the reader right to the article itself.
The title of the article is “Trump and the Emasculated Voter”. In order to find the article, I simply Googled, verbatim: “trump and the emasculated voter, wall street journal, october 10, 2016”. The article popped up at the top of the search list. Once into the site, I simply declined a free three month online subscription to the Journal (we get the printed version), and the article populated for free.
It’s a must read! In fact, it’s imperative!