The Republican contest for the Presidential nomination is beginning to look like a combination of "Catch Me If You Can," and "Ring Around the Rosey ('ashes, ashes, we all fall down'). Donald Trump is singing out, "Catch me if you can." And everyone else is wailing, "No, I'm NOT falling down, no matter what it looks like." The one exception to the latter is someone named Dr. Carson; he has been growing rather more popular relative to Mr. Trump.
It all looks like something of a carnival, or a sideshow of games: craps, roll-of-the-dice or whatever. To some it is all deadly serious. But it is hard to treat this collection of Presidential "wannabes" terribly seriously. There is too much hubris, too little thoughtfulness as to actual foreign policy, and even less actual experience in this area.
It is sad and depressing for America to be subjected to this kind of a political party, one which is essentially fascist. (Just read the actual statements of Trump, Cruz, and others.) Even though I support what I call Smart Immigration (that is an orderly policy, which limits immigration, but doesn't do nasty things like break up families), the rhetoric of too many is harsh, even inhumane.
And the ordinary American doesn't fare much better, with domestic economic policy reducible to the ever-popular trickle-down.
I'll be dealing with the Democrats on my sister blog dedicated to the topic. For now, it is critical that a Republican of the nature of the current crop of candidates not be elected to the most powerful office in the world.
It all looks like something of a carnival, or a sideshow of games: craps, roll-of-the-dice or whatever. To some it is all deadly serious. But it is hard to treat this collection of Presidential "wannabes" terribly seriously. There is too much hubris, too little thoughtfulness as to actual foreign policy, and even less actual experience in this area.
It is sad and depressing for America to be subjected to this kind of a political party, one which is essentially fascist. (Just read the actual statements of Trump, Cruz, and others.) Even though I support what I call Smart Immigration (that is an orderly policy, which limits immigration, but doesn't do nasty things like break up families), the rhetoric of too many is harsh, even inhumane.
And the ordinary American doesn't fare much better, with domestic economic policy reducible to the ever-popular trickle-down.
I'll be dealing with the Democrats on my sister blog dedicated to the topic. For now, it is critical that a Republican of the nature of the current crop of candidates not be elected to the most powerful office in the world.
Here is an up-date to my statement about not taking these candidates seriously. There is a something which needs clarifying. In the sense that these candidates have no deeply serious answers to the problems we are witnessing, they cannot be taken seriously. However, just the fact they have achieved a degree of notoriety, they must be taken seriously, because with so much money floating around in the right-wing world, anything seems possible at this point. Non-fascists, if I may call them that, should be on notice, and acutely aware -- also active.
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