Sunday, June 26, 2016

Will Trump Leave the GOP?

Hard to say right now.  Trump seems to have the GOP under his command, but he is not going forth to meet a bride, no, he goes forward to take charge.  And many of the old party members are very, very quiet. 

Some long term members are restless  Some, like George Will, are announcing their departure.  And the Repbulicans who are leaving are not becoming Democrats but offering wisdom to a new, still congealing mass of political ideology. 

There will be a showdown later in Cleveland, a city known to some as “The Mistake by the Lake”, when the GOP holds their convention there.  It is not at all improbable  – in my mind at least – that Trump may slam the door there and stomp out, claiming to take the “Real Republicans” with him.  

Well, that would split the Republican Party and hand the election to the Democrats, fancilly engraved on a silver platter!  Or, or would it?  This is the year of Brexit, after all! Could it be that such a stomp n’romp by Trump would open the door for an old socialist Jew to also consider running, seeking liftoff for his last flight into glory?  

Well, who knows?  Now, anyway.  But that would give both Trump and Sanders a chance to make America what it could have been, once upon a time . . . all this while the Democrats and Republicans are just running to make themselves great again.   And – that would throw the 2016 election into the realm of English glory.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Brexit!

Not the worst mistake that England has ever made, but it is a pretty good one.  Too bad they didn’t work harder at being a better member of the European Union.  Apparently, a large number of Brits figured that they could scare the EU folks by showing them how little England was concerned about the “union”.  Whoops.  Now, more than 2,100,000 of them want to vote again  But like too many things involving elections, it is too late to vote again – they (we all) have only one vote to cast.  

Of course we Americans understand the importance of voting.  In fact we turned out 36.4% of eligible voters in our last election.  That’s almost half of the eligible voters who turned out in Brittian this week.  They hit 72%. 


 We Americans may well face a similar problem this November.  We may have to decide in advance.  And like the Brits, we will only get to vote once.  And we don’t want to try to scare anybody!

Friday, June 10, 2016

Donald Trump and the Stairs

The truth about Donald Trump is he is the type of person that those of us who are parents had all tried to keep from raising our kids as.  He IS the Boggie Man Under the Stairs.   He IS the incarnation of the great concepts of Evil, Pitiful, and Ignorance and he shines in the great glory of brilliant greed. He was created by the power of wanton money.  He has attracted the Republican Party and they have begged him to notice them, and now he has grabbed them and won’t let go. 

Is this how the Republican Party ends?  Maybe.  They now have to decide whether an increasingly obvious errant committment to Donald Trump is more important to them than the duty they have to the American People.

Sunday, June 05, 2016

Trump's Biggest Surprises . . .


. . . are yet to come!  It is not so much that he will continue to tell us more, as it is that we will gradually learn to understand him better.  We will begin to see what he is trying to show us and some of us will become different people for his taking care of us.  He apparently knows which parts of our democracy work and which parts don’t work, He knows which judges can render “good” decisions and which newspaper and TV reporters can tell the “Truth”, and we really just have to hang on and follow Him.  

The Republican Party is doing as good a job as it can.  Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has come along and apparently accepts The Donald, although it is obvious that he really doesn’t understand a lot of the details.  It is hard to know where Mitch McConnell is, probably because the senate majority leader doesn’t want to tip his hand,  and he is an expert at presenting a “poker face”  under all conditions so that no one else knows whether or not he really understands an issue or not.  We really don’t know what the Republican Party means anymore, so this is a new opportunity for it.

The “grand OLD party” descended from the Whigs of England, which represented a forceable transfer of power from King to Charter.   Only certain actions were permitted by government and these all had to be few and concecrated in writing.  All other power was left to “the people”, meaning whatever you can get, grab!  This brings us to the era of Scrooge and this is where the grand OLD party has become deeply mired. Thankfully, The Donald has emerged, rising to a new crescendo of surprising guidance.  No longer do members of the Republican Party need to take positions on changing conditions of the world, no more stress and concern, just follow The Donald.  Just press the button . . . the head will pop up . . . and an answer will come forth in great glory!


Now The Donald has graciously offered to serve us as President.  He will rebuild our country and make it great again.  He will build walls, and approve religions.  He will choose judges and select reporters.  He will always know what is in our best interest.  He will lead us onward and approve our actions.  No longer will we have to wonder, and test our theories by discussion, there will be no more different issues, no more new opportunities. No more concern.  All we will have to do is just try to carry out orders.