Sarah Palin, a war criminal who killed 24,000 Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, Willie Robertson, Chingy, Anne Coulter, and Hulk Hogan... With supporters like these, aren't you convinced that Donald Trump is gonna make America great again? Lmfao, what a joke....Donald Trump is running a freak show of a campaign, and it's working. The man is many things, but amongst them is a marketing genius, and he had a keen understanding of what product a portion of the Republican electorate wants to buy. He's giving it to them, not in the code of Reagan and Gingrich, or the policies of Nixon and Bush, but in a straight-forward package that leaves no doubts. Walls along the borders, bans on Muslims entering the countries, cultural pandering, and promises of a "return to a fallen glory," that many conservatives feel they need. It's great marketing. They want to be "made great again," in all of it's flawed logic, and he is offering them the mechanism to do so.
The problem is that America is already great, for all of it's flaws. In reality, the things he represents, the people supporting him, and the hate he is encouraging all actually pull us down. Banning Muslims doesn't make us great, it violates our ideals we have held dear, and it makes us cowards. Building a wall with Mexico doesn't make us great again, it tells our neighbors and friends that we want them to stay out, stay away from America. Donald Trump would make us an ugly, hateful country. The support he is attracting makes a mockery of our democracy.
America is a great place. I tell myself that every time I drive on a paved road, or send mail, or step foot into a public school. It's a great country when cops patrol our neighborhoods, firemen run into burning buildings, and men and women driving plow trucks dig us out after a blizzard. We are a diverse nation with a high standard of living, relative peace amongst us, and public services that make our grand society survive. We have amazing entertainment, brave military, police, and firemen protecting us, and caring doctors, nurses, school teachers, and social workers helping people. Yeah, sure, we're a changing nation, but that hasn't made us less great. The world looks to us morally, for leadership, and culturally, and is simultaneously critical of our mistakes, but wanting to copy our successes. We are more respected around the world than we were ten years ago, certainly.
We don't need Donald Trump to make us great. Our people are great. Our cities, farms, mountains, suburbs, and towns are great. Our sports and entertainment is great. Our standard of living and economy is the envy of much of the world. America is great. We certainly don't need the guy that David Duke endorsed to make us great, again.
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