Postby jwocky » Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:57 pm
Well, if the worst you can do is call Trump "choleric", then he is definitively a viable option. The problem is, America had the decades of enforced "political correctness". You can't always play it weak and nice in the role, America has in the world. I doubt, Germany for example is ready to uphold at all times a troop of roughly 28,000 with all the equipment for 50 years along the 38th ... or keep up a carrier strike force and a whole fleet in Asian waters to protect half a dozen allies from the Chinese expansion? Maybe Germany wants to take over the role of the Mediterreanean fleet? Humm?
When the EU and basically it was the EU, started the Libya mess, you all together were out of ammo after two weeks. Obama jumped in and America paid every remaining day of this campaign roughly a 100 million dollar for ammo which were alo used by European planes. Every day, for months. But still, Obama refused to take more influence on the strategy, preferring a pure air strike scheme. That allowed Al-Qaeda affiliated groups to take control over some parts of the country and led to Benghazi and to the troubles, Libya is still in right now. It also made sure, Ghadaffi's C-weapon arsenals fell in the hands of radicals. Some of them re-appeared in Syria, if you remember.
So, people are tired of this kind of failure, they want leadership and they want a leader with spine again. No Hilary Clinton (she claimed, she put the rest button on the relation with Russia ... yep, she restarted the cold war in her naivité).
We don't want to pay for fighter jets for the Muslim Brotherhood anymore (Obama gave 16 F-16s to Mursi), we don't want to pay for weapon support to partis in Syria who weren't even vetted (there is a reason, ISIS has so many American weapons and it is not because so much was left behind, it is part of the support deliveries which originally also went to Al-Nusra).
And people start to see the numbers. When Obama entered the White House, depending which source you looked at, every 15-th to 20th child in the US was under- or malnourished. Now it is every 5th to 6th. Projects that could bring jobs were denied for ideological reasons. Racism runs wild. Police was threatened with disarming by the White House while the thugs ran around setting fires in Ferguson.
So, people are tired of all of this, and they go to the other extreme. And while I am not a freind of political extremes in general, I can see, that Trump has experience as businessman. Of course, he made mistakes, that is how people learn, but in the overall, he has experience. He knows a lot more about economics than Hilary will ever learn. And if some third world dictator tries to play all big boy, chances are, Trump will rather tell him to screw himself than to fall down and lick the dictator's shoes.
So, Trump came through that strong because all other people who ran for the job were either too much "established" or fell victim to the liberal Führer-principle (means, Sanders for example was basically already stopped by his own party brass before he started, they merely let him run to look like they would adhere to democratic rules, but the back door deal was made long before).
So on one side of the aisle, a bunch of career politicians to pick from, who more or less openly wanted the brass to confirm their role against the voters ... on the other side ... there was not really a choice. Regardless how the Democrat voters would have voted in the primaries, they would have got Hilary.
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