Well Assessed - And Trump Beats Obama, ... But ...

From: John C Bates, Lancaster, USA.

I am a proud native of Leeds and I have lived in the US for 30+ years. I understand that many Britons think that Americans are stupid because they are entertaining the idea of Donald Trump becoming President.

Sure he is a braggart, in a way that is less subtle, but not significantly more offensive than the other candidates telling how well they ran their State, company or whatever.

He paints people and situations in black and white; this is many times simplistic and not realistic, but some issues are so egregious (to a reasonable conservative) that they must be called out forcefully.

Just a few items – the $19 trillion national debt (almost doubled by Obama), the treatment of the only democracy in the Middle East vis-á-vis Iran, the invitation to Muslim refugees with no screening, the ballooning of crony capitalism, the encouragement of illegal immigration, the subsidisation of the lazy and of partial birth abortions. Success is vilified; victimhood and failure are glorified.

Of course a more thoughtful message and a more reasonable tone would be more appealing, but we have tried that; Republicans won majorities in the House and Senate but nothing has changed. The direction of the country is more regulation, more freebies. So what to do? Support another mild mannered candidate who will be eviscerated by the Clinton machine and the press?

One alternative is to back someone who will attack Clinton’s corruption like a Staffordshire terrier and will not back down. OK, so if he gets into the White House he will be too authoritarian and protectionist for many, but if he can stop the incessant leftward swing from an enterprise society to an entitlement society, a vote for Trump will prove to be a good vote. The authoritarianism of the left is more to be feared than any that Trump might try.

A significant side benefit of the Trump campaign is the push back against political correctness; if he wants to say a woman is ugly (as Churchill once memorably did) he says it and the sky does not fall in.

If he is nominated by the Republican Party, many Republicans will not support him, but I suspect that a great many Democrats will.

Please don’t see Trump’s support as a sign of stupidity, but of desperation or frustration.

Read more: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-my-donald-trump-support-is-not-a-sign-of-stupidity-but-of-desperation-1-7737020#ixzz40Um3tX4u