I am not a Trump fan. I am not a
Hillary fan. For the first time in my voting
life, starting in 1972, there is not a presidential candidate that I want to be
my president. That thought alone makes me sad.
That thought alone make me frightened for the future of our country. I initially thought Trump was an uninformed showman
and dismissed the possibility that he could be the Republican nominee for
president let alone that he could possibly be the president of the United
States. Now it is apparent that he will
be the Republican nominee and there is a good chance he will be elected
president. I no longer think Trump is a joke.
Trump may or may not be a
racist. He may or may not be uninformed
about foreign policy. He may or may not care
about constitutional rights for minorities.
He may or may not care about the rule of law. Each of those things scare me but more and
more I am thinking that Trump is unbalanced, maybe even mentally ill.
It seems that every day his
asserted positions change from those he expressed the day before. Not only does his position change but he
claims he never said what he previously said.
When Trump was in New Mexico last
month for a rally, the Republican Governor of New Mexico (Susana Martinez) did
not attend the rally. That caused Trump
to go on a bizarre rant during the rally about Governor Martinez allowing large
numbers of Syrian refugees into New Mexico and that she was not doing her job
as governor. Over and over he said “she
was not doing her job” as Governor. He said that “maybe he would run for Governor.” Apparently, since Martinez has been governor only
ten Syrian refugees that have come to New Mexico but her sin was not coming to
his rally. Nine days later Donald Trump says
he wants Governor Martinez’s endorsement. He stated
“I’d like to
have it,” (her endorsement) the presumptive Republican presidential nominee
told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Thursday. “I respect her. I have always liked
her.”
Does that sound like he likes her
or has always respected her? Did he forget what he said at the rally?
Over and over again, Trump has
said something and then reversed his position, sometimes several times in 2 or
3 days and then claimed he never said what he said. It is not a mere point of a
person having a heart felt change of a position after thoughtful consideration,
he has claimed that he never said what he previously said.
Is he a liar or is he in fact delusional?
In the middle of a campaign Trump
has continued to take time to allege that a federal judge presiding in a civil
fraud case against Trump is unable to fairly preside in the case because the
judge is “Mexican” and Trump wants to build the wall. In fact, the judge is an
American citizen born in Indiana. Trump
followed that up by saying that if the judge was Muslim he too would be biased
against Trump. If Trump is elected
president, who would he nominate as judges, old orange men with goofy hair?
Trump’s behavior is not merely “just
politics”. I believe he has some
problem. If your son, daughter, friend or spouse, over and over told you
something totally different that he or she previously said and then claimed he
or she never previously said what they in fact said, you would wonder if they
had a memory problem or a psychological problem.
Are they a serial and
pathological liar or are they mentally ill?
It would seem to be one of those options. Which would be worse for a president of the
United States to be; a serial and pathological liar or mentally ill.
Trump does not talk about
coherent policy positions rather he personally insults and attacks people. In the last year how many times have you heard
Trump insult and personally attack someone that did not totally support him or
agree with him? Dozens of times, maybe hundreds of times?
Liars, cheaters, criminals, losers,
involved in the Kennedy assassination, sleazebag, blood coming out of “wherever”,
Mexicans” are rapists, let’s kill the family members of terrorists, regardless
of international law I will make the military do what I tell them. John McCain
is not a war hero “I like people that weren’t captured.”
It is not just that I might
disagree with Trumps’ political positions, I disagree with most of my friends, I
genuinely believe something is wrong with Trump. As people used to say about strangely acting
people, he is not right in the head.
Conservative, Republican
Columnist Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal has referred to Trump as a
“Crazy Man”.
This week, TV journalist Mika
Brzezinski said Trump looks “Unhinged”.
Delusional? Crazy Man? Unhinged?
Mentally ill? I don’t know for certain,
but to my untrained eye it certainly feels that way.
If Trump were your six year old
son, you would put in him time out. If
he were your grandpa would you be thinking about putting him in a home? Maybe.
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