It Gets Scarier...

...and scarier by the day.

I just can't imagine Don Trump as a President, let alone a candidate for President.  I find it very frightening.  I think he's a charlatan.  I think he just tells people what they want to hear.  He flip-flops on many issues.  And, you say, "What's the difference?  That's what they [politicians] all do."  Of course it is--and that's my point.  Americans are looking for somebody different.  We want somebody who won't lie to us, who will do what he/she has told us he/she would do.  I really don't think Trump is the guy.  Yet, if he does well next week, on Super Tuesday, is it "Katie Bar the Door?"

I wrote to a member of the Republican Party a while back that Trump is the fault of the Republican Establishment.  Oh, the Establishment will blame us, the peons, certainly not itself.  (Note how I lump "the Establishment" as one!)  We, to it, epitomize the Hamiltonian view, that common folks can't government themselves; we aren't capable of it.  It doesn't realize or refuse to recognize that because of what the Establishment has offered us, Trump is the answer for many folks.  Again, as I've written many times before, it's not Trump; it's the reaction against the Establishment.  People are tired of "holding their noses" and voting for the least terrible candidate.  People are tired of Establishment candidates promising this and that during their campaigns only to refuse to do this and that once elected.  People are tired of candidates who are elected based on their promises only to find those candidates, once elected, marginalized or ignored by the Establishment.  The Establishment Republicans should read a little Shakespeare (as difficult as I find reading him, too):  "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves......"

I wonder where we'd be now if, in recent past elections, more people had decided not "to hold their noses" and vote for the least bad of the candidates.  I have a sneaking suspicion that the Establishment would have taken no notice, but what if it had?  Would it finally awaken to the fact that people are tired, frustrated, and angry?  The Establishment claims that if so many Republicans hadn't stayed home in '08 and '12, Obama wouldn't have been elected.  Maybe so, maybe not.  And certainly things would have been different--such as ObamaCare.  But look at W. Bush.  Isn't that what "holding our noses" earned us?  Oh, he no doubt was far better than the clowns Gore and Kerry, but, again, have we become relegated to choosing the least rotten of candidates to be President?

Are we ever going to see a Lincoln, a Washington, a Jefferson, etc. as President again?  Are we stuck with the mediocre or worse of candidates?  I sometimes think that, but it wasn't too far in the past when we did have good Presidents.  Truman and  Eisenhower (note, one a Democrat and one a Republican, but surely the parties have changed since then) were very good, I think.  Some might say even more recently, Reagan.  I'm still conflicted by him.  But can we find, among 310 million people, another Truman or Eisenhower?

I wrote of this last week, I think, maybe before.  If the Establishment Republicans want to behave like Democrats, e.g., more Big Government, why don't they become Democrats?  Hmmm......  Is it, as many suspect, not really about us, about the US, about governing in the best interests of America and Americans?  Is it really about power?  It sure seems like it.  Oh, they posture and sometimes even put on a good and convincing show (almost).  But when push comes to shove, they are always on the side of more and more government.

I think it was confirmed this AM.  Obama didn't attend Justice Scalia's funeral because he was burdened with the work of finding a replacement for the Supreme Court.  Oh, there was the required photo showing him with a massive tome, purportedly of candidates for nomination.  Wasn't that as predictable as the sun coming up in the AM?  Yep, he was hard at work.  Except, Sunday he was out on the golf course.  I guess, maybe, he found his Supreme Court candidate on Saturday??????