NEITHER TRUMP NOR SANDERS ARE REALISTIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

…Interesting candidate choices for either political party.

 

Only a few of the programs offered by either candidate have a real chance .

 

It is time to fully understand why two anti-establishment candidates from two political parties won their New Hampshire Primary with such resounding election totals.  Both individuals out-did even the polls, which had them both well in the lead.

 

So, what’s going on?

 

The first reality is that the voting public is rightly up in arms and angry.  Both of these outside candidates were appealing to voters who believe the system is rigged, and that both parties have failed them. The concerns that the public speaks to are for real.  There is a real sense out there that the economy is leaving too many Americans behind and that our nation is headed in the wrong direction.  In addition, that the so called world “globalization” is helping the few at the top, while devastating the many below.

 

Now, the Senator Sanders’ successful campaign has gone after “the greed of the billionaire class that has rigged the system against America’s working class”.

 

Of course, Bernie’s answer to this is: “Tax the 1%, and everyone else can have free college and free health care.”  He also says that America’s enemies abroad would be dealt with by a Sunni Muslim coalition of which, as of today, is only a figment of Bernie’s imagination.

 

Unfortunately, Bernie never tells America how difficult it would be to get his programs through a Republican Congress, and he has not made it clear about the true costs of a national single-payer health care system.  I won’t even go into Bernie’s lack of experience in foreign affairs.

 

Even though Bernie’s proposals are very far-fetched, they are very well meaning for all Americans.

 

Now, on the Donald Trump side of the equation, the situation is equally unrealistic, but for the most part Trump’s ideas are mostly ridiculous and many are impossible.

 

To start with, in the first area that he opened his campaign with, there is no way America is going to round up 11 million illegal immigrants and deport them.  Who would want to live in a country that spent trillions of tax payer dollars in attempting such a ridiculous move.  In addition, you can bet that most Americans would not agree to having the government deliberately kill the innocent relatives of terrorists, as Trump has suggested. 

 

But these are just a couple of his ludicrous ideas.

 

Today, Donald Trump mocks America’s democratic process. He never feels an obligation to explain how he would implement his bizarre ideas.  He tells untruths on a regular basis such as that thousands of Muslims in New Jersey publicly celebrated the downing of the World Trade Center towers in 2001, and he repeats that lie regularly.  Unfortunately, his lies come easily because, unlike Mr. Sanders, he does not believe in anything except his own perceived personal brilliance.

 

Mr. Trump is a hard-liner on immigration today because, when he called Mexicans crossing the southern boarder "rapists", he struck a chord with the American public, and that is what launched his candidacy.

 

Neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump are offering their major programs that would have any real chance in becoming reality.

 

But there is a big difference between the two campaigns, in that Senator Sanders is truly offering programs for trying to improve the lives of all Americans, especially the American Middle Class.

 

Unfortunately, that is not the case with Donald Trump’s election campaign.

 

Trump’s campaign is very ugly and is only for furthering his personal ambition.  He gleefully demeans Hispanics, Muslims, Jews, people with disabilities, blacks and anyone else he can present as “the other”.

 

There is no way that as president he would be able to deliver on his promises.  One can only imagine the scapegoats Trump would use to distract Americans after his programs fail.

 

If these are going to be the two final nominees for the two major political parties, God help all Americans, but help them for two very different reasons.

 

For Sanders, it would be to help achieve as much as possible of his programs for the American public.  For Donald Trump, help to keep him from damaging the nation beyond a point-of-no-return.

 

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