IF “IGNORANCE IS BLISS”, DONALD TRUMP IS A HAPPY MAN

…You don’t want this man in the White House.

 

Trump’s foreign policy would start another war in the mid-east.

 

I found it refreshing when the conservative columnist Michael Gerson for The Post wrote the following: “Donald Trump’s foul mouth is just a cover for his ignorance.”

 

Then Gerson went on to write that when the Watergate tapes were finally released, it had appeared that Richard Nixon was also a real foul-mouthed politician.  That was until it was realized that most of the “expletive deleteds” in the president’s private conversation transcripts were just his use of swear words like “hell” or “damn”.   They were nothing like Trump’s use of the “F” word while on camera at one of his big rallies in New Hampshire. 

 

What Trump said was disgustingly crude when he said: “We’re gonna have businesses that used to be in New Hampshire, that are now in Mexico, come back to New Hampshire, and you can tell them to go F_ _ _  themselves!”

 

As to Trump’s ignorance, it is not his lack of knowledge on how to connect with the masses.  He has learned from his decades of exposure as a millionaire celebrity how to manipulate the crowds and how to tell them what they want to hear, not the total untruths in what he actually says.

 

As Gerson refers to Trump, [he is] “unburdened by any knowledge of economics”.  But what is more important is that with Trump’s lack of offering language that is suitable for decent company, he is signaling that crude and foul language is acceptable across the board.

 

We are all aware that due to cable TV, they have taken a leave of absence for allowing the kind of language that at one time would have removed them from being on the air.   But they just write it off today as “This is the way ‘real life’ sounds.” Well, that may be true, but it’s not what we want to hear when we’re hearing from someone that is asking for our vote for becoming the US president.

 

As an example of Trump’s ignorance, this man’s tough sounding rhetoric is just a “Trumpt up part of his bogus and frightening foreign policy.”

 

For showing this foreign policy ignorance, Trump is now proposing that the United States sponsor a coalition of US, Russia, Iran and what remains of al-Assad’s Syrian regime.  This coalition would be for fighting the Islamic State and the rest of the Sunni rebels. To do this would immediately recognize Russia’s dominance over the region that still produces nearly 40% of the world’s oil supplies.

 

Besides that, a move like this would also support Iran as the regional leading Shia Muslim terrorist nation and it would be abandoning all the Sunni allies.  It would encourage the Sunni nations such as Saudi Arabia to consider highly desperate acts such as going nuclear.   And it would be a reward for the Syrian Dictator Assad and his mass atrocities against his own Sunni civilians, which is a major recruitment tool for the Islamic State.

 

Being a good communicator means having the ability to present good ideas in a concise and professional manner.  Using profanity when someone slams their fingers in a door jamb is considered an acceptable excuse.  But in working to become the most powerful president in the world, professional authenticity is more important than the use of the language of sailors, soldiers, or in this case, the words of a New York real estate mogul.

 

Trump’s authenticity is real, but it’s not in being what the nation needs as it’s leader.  He does say what the angry and upset American citizens want to hear, even if what he offers is ridiculous and unattainable.  This is his real authenticity.

 

So if “Ignorance is Bliss”…….Trump must be the happiest man on the planet.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016