One day, most likely far into the future, the American
Democratic party and the national news media may step back and say, "what
did we do wrong?" as Trump is finishing his second term as President of
the United States.
You see, the news media, liberal world, and to some extent
the conservative world in the USA
find each other in the midst of a non-stop political maelstrom and the source
of the political potpourri is none other than the most unlikely president in
our history, Donald Trump.
All of these potential enemies of our new president share a
few common bonds called conceit, arrogance, elitism, a holier than thou
attitude, and a serious lack of historical knowledge and common sense.
"MSNBC Is 'Shocked' That Donald Trump Followed
Through on His Campaign Promises"
As a result, they fail to understand that President Trump is
not of the same mold, cloth, or temperament of any of them. Oh, he graduated from an Ivy League School,
Wharton, but he did not receive the same indoctrination those other elitists
absorbed.
No, President Trump learned the game of life and survival in
the school of hard knocks, the streets of New
York City , where winners survive and losers just
disappear. In my years in New York and New Jersey ,
after growing up in the Midwest and college in Arizona , I came to understand the incredible
disenfranchisement between the grass roots American and the eastern elitist.
In the Midwest , public
service was an honorable activity but was seldom a career. Out East, the political parties and
politicians tried to make it a dominant force over society. Money ruled the hallways of government out
East while patriotism ruled in the Midwest .
Call it an attitude, a superiority complex, or putting on
airs, as far back as the 1960's it was well established and obvious and the
result was those out East took themselves far more seriously than the typical
Midwestern American.
When I traveled more extensively over the years, I noticed
the same detachment between the East and South, Great
Lakes , and Southwest.
All the while, the political and news media elitists out
East became more alike than dissimilar except over a few basic issues while
becoming more and more ideologically polarized.
Political party platforms became a joke never to be seriously pursued
once one was elected president.
Among the greatest mistakes of the elitist politicians and news
media are they continually underestimated the knowledge and wisdom of Americans
outside the Northeast corridor, the area from Washington, DC to Boston where 54
million people live.
Long ago, the silent majority of Americans saw the growth of
money and corruption in politics and government. As the two political parties fought it out
for the minds and votes of Americans, the people were deserting the parties in
record numbers.
So dramatic was this ignorance by the elitists they did not
notice in 2016 when for the first time in our history there were more voters
registered as Independents than either Democrats or Republicans. Even more ominous for the elitists, almost 50
percent of the eligible voters did not even register to vote.
For those pollsters and political pundits too blind to see
the truth, that means nearly two-thirds of all the eligible voters in America
were fed up with the political system as presented by the news media and two
political parties.
At the very same time the polarization in politics and the parallel
rise of ideological bias in the news media caused a disastrous collapse of
trust in that most sacred of US
protected classes, the news media. By
the time the 2016 election was in full swing, just six percent of the public
trusted the news media.
"Is the Liberal Media Trump trashing finally
over, or is it now destined for oblivion?"
Again, for the benefit of the brain dead media and pundits
who failed to read the tea leaves, that means ninety-four out of every one
hundred Americans did NOT trust the news media.
Yet the media arrogance continued to grow as they tried to project their
bias into all aspects of reporting and Trump was the target of the growing
venom of the media.
Donald Trump sensed this frustration, dissolution, and
disgust of the forgotten Americans that was accelerating as the Obama years
ground to an end and once again, the agenda of another political leader had
failed to materialize.
Here is the real news Trump was not an ideological
candidate. Trump was not a
politician. Trump was not even a real
Republican. He was not interested in
being politically correct and he sure hated the status quo. Because he was rich, he did not need to sell
his body and soul to the financially powerful.
Each of these characteristics made him more and more valuable to the
vast and growing silent majority.
In the end, the vast majority of the people who voted to
elect Trump did not vote for Donald Trump, they voted for a voice, an ear, a
doer, an outsider, a disrupter, a person who just wanted to make America Great
Again.
Whether he registered as a Republican or Democrat mattered
not because he was certain to alienate anyone standing for the status quo, for
preserving the establishment, for accepting the dominant rule of political
parties, or one who catered to the needs of a needy news media.
People did not have to like him to vote for him, they just
had to believe he would fight for change, disrupt the Establishment, and in the
end fix the many problems now facing our nation.
Donald Trump understood his strange bond with the silent
majority where a billionaire becomes the ombudsman for the ignored masses. There are no favorites in Trump's worldview,
only those willing to play.
Trump believes in a world that leaves no one behind. That including those many voters lied to and
mislead by the political parties over the years. Trump recognizes everyone is a victim of a
failing political system and a biased news media establishment.
The Trump juggernaut is dominating the establishment
politicians and news media because they insist on playing by their own rules (he
does not), and because urgency is not a part of the bureaucratic way in our
nation's capitol. President Trump, on
the other hand, thrives on action and chaos.
One day the politicians and news media may realize that
Trump is not the favorite, but is certainly the chosen, to do what American
citizens believe is necessary to save our American institution.
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