Today I am going to talk about a troubling trend that is growing rapidly. Intolerance is being fueled by those who think that some people are right when they are just sprouting political rhetoric.
Both Donald Trump and Ben Carson are both doing this. Many of their followers think that because both of these men have no political experience, they are ideal candidates for President of the United States. It seems that many from the right wing of the Republican Party have lost faith in their political leaders and see these men (and women) as a viable alternative.
Mr. Trump has been spouting more and more off the wall ideas as he continues to bid for the favor of those who are going to actually vote. And Mr. Carson also has been making remarks that remind me of Ross Perot who ran for President as the head of a new political party many years ago. Mr. Perot looked like an ideal candidate to many back then until he too started to say some very strange things that did not make any sense, at the least in the political context of the Presidential campaign.
Why are people favoring those who have no political experience and are we the public fed up with the pandering of our politicians to get our vote? Be they local or national many candidates have been catering to small, but vocal groups who do not really represent the majority of America. The gun lobby is one, as is those who oppose abortions of any kind or how about the anti-immigration groups who think that no one who comes from certain undesirable countries, which I will not name, should be forever blocked from coming to our country.
Mr. Carson is a right wing religious candidate who seems to be trying to rid himself of what he wrote in the past and not seem to be a politically undesirable Presidential hopeful. At first he did seem like a man with well thought out ideas and now he has been devolving into someone that I would not even have as my doctor. I know that there are people who support him with all their heart and think he can do no wrong! Well no one, including myself is perfect, but the way his thinking is going- watch out for a political meltdown.
As for Mr. Trump he is now exaggerating the numbers of those who celebrated the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11th 2001. Yes there were people openly celebrated the attack in Jersey City, Patterson and Passaic New Jersey in small groups, but not in the numbers cited by Mr. Trump! And the idea of a wall to prevent illegal (undocumented) immigrants from crossing into the United States from Mexico is kind of a joke. Our government did start to do just that and it has never worked as promised.
I really think that both of these candidates are trying to hold the public’s attention with this crazy political rhetoric in order to gain followers that will enable them to become our next President.
As to the public being fed up with all this political pandering, well as long as there are PACs (political action committees) there will be pandering to special interests. And yes there are some signs that the voting public is fed up, just look at the polls and you see that the non-politicians are the leading candidates in the race for President on the Republican side of the fence.
That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike
