DONALD TRUMP IS A VERY DANGEROUS POLITICIAN

…As president, this man would seriously embarrass America as he is today.

 

Trump continues to show his ignorance.

 

Have you noticed that a couple of “ism” words have been bandied about since the beginning of the 2016 election campaign season. 

 

On one side, because of Bernie Sanders jumping into the fray, the word “Socialism” has re-inserted itself into the discussions because Bernie identifies himself as a “Democratic Socialist”.

 

Being a “Boomer”, the word “Socialism” did not bring on a positive response because of the former cold war between the US and the USSR.  Those letters stand for the “Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic”.  The word “Socialist” back then meant being on the wrong side of that cold war.  It was the true “Free World” population against those that were the oppressed, living behind the “Iron Curtain” and the “Berlin Wall”.

 

It meant that in the Communist “Socialism”, there were no companies or farms owned by corporations or individuals.  It was the Communist Republic's bureaucrats that ran the farms and all of the nation’s factories.  Being a Socialist was not a positive situation and it was totally counter to the populations of free people living in democratic nations.

 

But for today’s young American Millennials, being a “Democratic Socialist” just means  that you are advocating for a democratic political system and a socialist economic system.  For these younger individuals, that would mean the total accepting of what Bernie  Sanders is selling.  That being: free college education; single-payer health care for all US citizens; and for getting rid of the nation’s poverty and income inequality.

 

For these idealistic young adults that are living with mountains of college loan debt, dealing with high unemployment for young Americans and high health care costs, what Bernie is offering sounds pretty good.

 

Now the other “ism” word that has arisen is the one that applies to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.  That word is “Nationalism”.

 

Now, when most Americans are asked about the definition of “Nationalism”, those Americans usually don’t know what being a “Nationalist” means.

 

So to get this “ism” off to a good start, let’s look at what a dictionary definition is of “Nationalism”.

 

Dictionary:

“Nationalism is an extreme form of patriotism.  It is many times demonstrated by flag-waving patriots that display a feeling that their nation is superior to other nations.  In extreme cases, it can exhibit extreme personal chauvinism, strong fears of people from other countries, and citizens who believe that their nation is always in the right.”

 

Wow!   An extreme and “tunnel-vison” way of thinking.

 

But this is also a good explanation for the candidacy of Donald Trump.

 

Just look at the statement of what Donald Trump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2011.  “The reason I’m thinking about running for office, is that the United States has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. . . . I deal with people from China, I deal with people from Mexico. They cannot believe what they’re getting away with.”

 

Since becoming the strongest and most free nation on earth, the United States has always been the nation that was very strong, but was also highly benevolent.  The goals have always been to be the nation that other nations should want to emulate, and that has generally been the case. 

 

 

People from all over the world want to come to America because they believe that here they would have the best chance to be both free and personally successful.  People during the cold war didn’t try to escape from America, or other free nations, as they did in trying to escape from behind the Berlin Wall.

 

But from Trump’s point-of-view, he prefers a strong America that is occasionally roused up to kill its enemies.  But once the killing is done, he says America should divorce itself from becoming involved in international commitments. The United States should then stick only to its own national interests.  America should always seek to be feared, rather than admired and loved.

 

Just look at what Trump says about many political issues, and these aren’t just against the Democrats.  But they are sometimes what many average Americans also believe.

 

·       Trump believes that the US allies in Europe and Asia should no longer depend on the US to protect them.  They should defend themselves and pay their own way.

 

·       Mexico is “ripping us off” and is sending us criminals.  Mexico must pay for a continent-wide border wall.

 

·       Trump calls the US-Japan Security Treaty unfair.  In exchange for the protection of South Korea, he says, “we get practically nothing.”

 

·       Trump wants to “tax China for each bad action”.  He has also raised the possibility of a posting a 45% tariff on China’s goods.  (Which would almost double China’s product costs to all Americans.)

 

·       Russia’s Vladimir Putin, should be given a free hand in the Middle East to go after Sunni radicals and other opponents of the Syrian regime.  (And make Russia the supreme power in the region.)

 

·       United States should focus on killing terrorists including all their family members, for the terrorists committing American murders.

 

With all these issue, one would think that Trump kind of sounds like he knows what he’s talking about in foreign affairs.

 

But the reality is that Trump is basically ignorant on many things that a president should know.

 

As an example.  The president is the only individual that has a hand on the nuclear button.  Therefore, anyone wanting to be the American president should know something about America’s nuclear capabilities.  But in one of the GOP debates, it became clear that Trump had no idea what the US Nuclear Triad was.  (For those who are not aware and not running for president, the Nuclear Triad refers to the American military doctrine of having three nuclear abilities.  That being, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-based ballistic missiles, and air-dropped bombs, all tipped with nuclear warheads. In an atomic shootout, all three could fulfill different strategic and tactical uses, based on whatever the situation is at hand.)

 

Trump had no idea what for decades has been called the "Nuclear Triad".

 

Trump does have some ideas of the difference between Muslim Sunni’s and Shia’s.  But he has confused the Kurds in Iraq with the Quds Force, which is Iran’s expeditionary military force.  (Not two groups you would want to confuse.)

 

Trump’s idea is that the great need today is to ‘beat-up’ our core allies such as Mexico and Japan, but we should be working closely with Vladimir Putin.  George Mason University’s Colin Dueck, an expert in international politics & policies explains very diplomatically. “On the contrary, the urgent need is to constrain aggressors such as Putin while supporting core US allies like Mexico and Japan.”

 

As one international analyst put it, “A Trump would-be a president could not reliably tell America’s enemies from its friends. He contemplates actions such as weakening US security assurances to South Korea, and that might actually invite a war.”

 

The conservative opinion writer Michael Gerson wrote: “Trump promises actions — like forcing the Mexican government to fund the great Wall of Trump — that in the formal language of international relations is, ‘loony, unhinged, and bonkers’. His move to impose massive tariffs against China would earn derisive laughter at the World Trade Organization (WTO).  If he persisted anyway, it might blow up the global trading order and dramatically increase tensions in Asia. “

 

The point is that Trump’s severe “Nationalism” makes him a very dangerous individual that you would not want to have this man’s hand on the nuclear button.

 

As the Nationalism definition stated:.  In extreme cases. it [personal Nationalism] can exhibit extreme chauvinism, strong fears of people from other countries, and citizens who believe that their nation is always in the right.”

 

Sound familiar?

 

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