My admiration for America after 9/11 took a knock
when in the
2008 election
the
American voter fell for the naive and useless
Barack Obama.
When they re-elected Obama at the
2012 election,
that was it for me.
I am no longer pro-American,
any more than I am pro-France or pro-Germany.
Instead, I am pro-West.
The West has multiple leaders.
Now, after two terms of that good-looking celebrity fool Barack Obama,
they elect an immature TV celebrity full of random ideas,
Donald Trump.
It feels like a long time since I really admired America.
Now it must be said that Trump is better than Obama.
He may talk like a ten year old, but some of his instincts are good.
His actions are better than his awful words.
But
I still dream of a Reaganite, neo-con, intelligent, muscular America.
Come back.
At one point in 2016, he looked like a hero for standing up to Trump.
But then he threw away his dignity
by endorsing the vulgar con man
who insulted
his wife
and father.
Cruz said (see below) that those who are not devoutly religious should not be US President.
Ted Cruz
says
no atheist should be President. "Any president who doesn't begin every day on his knees isn't fit to be commander-in-chief of this country."
Ironically, he said this at a religious "liberty" conference.
Ted Cruz was introduced by a maniac Christian pastor,
Kevin Swanson,
who supports the death penalty for homosexuality.
Shame on Ted Cruz for sharing a platform with this Christian fascist. This is as bad as sharing a platform with
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.
Thomas Jefferson
(US President 1801 to 1809)
in an 1825 letter
says he has always regarded the
Book of Revelation
as
"merely the ravings of a Maniac, no more worthy, nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.
...
What has no meaning admits no explanation. and pardon me if I say, with the candor of friendship,
that I think your time too valuable, and your understanding of too high an order, to be wasted on these paralogisms."
Well that puts Ted Cruz and Kevin Swanson in their place.
Ben Carson
is another Christian religious conservative.
He is hard to take seriously since his religious beliefs are so completely ludicrous.
Republican Presidential candidate
Ben Carson believes Noah's Ark existed. (Tweet of 29 Oct 2015.)
What embarrassing ignorance.
Ben Carson speaks about science,
Nov-Dec 2011.
He has a whole talk attacking science.
He says Darwin was encouraged by Satan to come up with evolution.
He basically rejects all science since the 18th century.
See transcript of quotes
from this religious nutcase.
There was one person a sane conservative could vote for in 2016:
Evan McMullin.
He stands for Reagan values, not Putin values.
He was endorsed by people I have long admired.
Endorsements
include
Mona Charen,
Erick Erickson,
Jonah Goldberg and
William Kristol.
Yes! Exactly!
One single tweet, 15 Oct 2016, destroys the entire foreign policy of both Obama/Clinton and Trump.
For the love of God, America.
I know Hillary Clinton isn't impressive, but this guy?
What in the name of God was wrong with Romney in 2012?
Three celebrity fools in a row (2008, 2012, 2016).
The days of me admiring the American voter are long gone.
Michael Wolff
sums up how incredible this is:
"Ads don't work, polls don't work, celebrities don't work, media endorsements don't work, ground games don't work."
Trump had none of those things. And he still won.
Great post-election analysis:
You Are Still Crying Wolf, by Scott Alexander, 16 Nov 2016, argues that Trump is not really a racist or fascist. He is just awful.
"I don't think people appreciate how weird this guy is.
...
If you insist that Trump would have to be racist to say or do whatever awful thing he just said or did, you are giving him too much credit. Trump is just randomly and bizarrely terrible. Sometimes his random and bizarre terribleness is about white people, and then we laugh it off. Sometimes it's about minorities, and then we interpret it as racism."
He says there are a million things to talk about
apart from calling Trump racist:
"Stop calling Trump voters racist.
...
Stop centering criticism of Donald Trump around this sort of stuff, and switch to literally anything else.
Here is an incompetent thin-skinned ignorant boorish fraudulent omnihypocritical demagogue with no idea how to run a country, whose philosophy of governance basically boils down to "I'm going to win and not lose, details to be filled in later", and all you can do is repeat, again and again, how he seems popular among weird Internet teenagers who post frog memes."