When I listen to Trump, he sounds stark-raving-crazy. Many of the things “HE” says he will do when he is in office are not possible. They require acts of Congress. Yet, he is acting like he’s running for dictator. Obviously, even if he were elected, after pissing off 100% of Democrats and 49% of Republicans (or more) in Congress, he wouldn’t be able to govern effectively.
But I know he is not stark-raving-crazy. He has a plan. A man does not become a billionaire without a detailed plan, a lot of self-discipline, enormous commitment, and without being a skilled negotiator.
That tells me that all the bluster we see is a game or a show. He must be conscientiously pandering to his followers. There are the birthers, the gun-gun-gunners, the make-America-great-again-by-installing-a-dictators, the Christian fanatics, and the xenophobes, to name just a few categories.
A billionaire becomes a billionaire by USING OTHER PEOPLE. That’s how it works. Trump is using a frustrated and demoralized electorate, the former middle-class that has been trampled on since Reagan and has almost been eradicated, those people who want their part of the American dream back again. He is using that overpowering sentiment in our society for his own aggrandizement.
Trump does not sound interested in America, other than what it would do for his ego to be elected president. Men like that have accumulated great wealth throughout history. Who can stop them? Our system is designed by them for them – and not for the people. Men like that have also bought great power. That’s what Trump is now doing. It takes a billion dollars to buy the American presidency. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates spend billions eradicating diseases and fighting hunger. Trump spends them on his own brand.
Like other narcissistic people, Trump, if elected, would destroy our country, not make it great again. Napoleon destroyed an entire generation of young French men – by sending them into war and literally killing them. Hitler destroyed Germany and several generations of German lives. I myself, so many years later, still see the terrible damage Hitler’s actions inflicted on my own grandparents and I still see the traces in my parents today.
Trump is using us for his aggrandizement. That’s what narcissists do with other people, and that’s how a man who thinks like Trump becomes a billionaire in the first place.