And then Donald Trump stepped forward and announced his candidacy, and suddenly everything changed.
Now, I have to say from the start that I've never been a huge Donald Trump fan. I've always thought he was an egotistical, self-centered, overbearing, pompous ass, and to a large degree he truly is. But he's a smart man, smart enough to become a billionaire several times and several times over, and he's got enough balls to say what he means without mincing words. And the thing is, unlike most politicians he means what he says. He also has leadership and management experience, something that the Buffoon In Chief is sadly lacking.
And then "The Donald" goes and opens his big mouth, saying something that, while true in the large sense, is said with such candor and honesty that it immediately pisses off every liberal and Democrat in the country. And to be honest, when he first made his now-infamous remark about illegal Hispanic immigrants it took me by surprise as well; but then I thought about it a bit, getting past my first gut reaction of "WTF?" and realized something that more and more people have come to realize in the weeks since.
He's right. And the more time passes, the more people realize the same thing - he's right, and he had the balls to say up front and in plain language what every other politician knows in their hearts to be true but won't say because they don't want to lose re-election.
In short, Donald Trump had the balls to speak the plain, unvarnished, unpolitically correct truth. And I admire the hell out of him for that.
Since then I've been paying close attention to what he's been saying about what's wrong with the country and what he'd do to fix it. And the more I listen the more I like what I'm hearing.
Take paying taxes, for example. Trump has openly admitted in the media that he tries to pay "as little taxes as possible," and not because he's cheap. Far from it. He said he feels that way because he sees how the Federal government led by NObama and his band of merry idiots are wasting our tax dollars, so he wants as little of his money to be pissed away as possible. And when you get right down to it, don't we all truly feel that way? I know I do. So he's come up with a tax plan that is so simple that it's brilliant, and it goes like this:
a) If you make less than $30,000 a year you pay 1% in federal taxes.
b) If you make $30000 to $100,000 a year you pay 5% in federal taxes.
c) If you make $100,000 to $1,000,000 a year you pay 10% in federal taxes.
d) If you make more than $1,000,000 a year or more you pay 15% in federal taxes.
What this will basically do is totally eliminate the tax code as we know it, enabling us to file our taxes basically on a form the size of a post card. No more special exemptions, deductions, etc. And the big thing is that it will increase your paycheck by a whopping 40%, since that's how much the average American pays in taxes under the current tax code.
Now I don't know about you, but I sure would love to see my paycheck increase by 40%! This would mean that the millions of hard-working Americans who are paying taxes and supporting those who choose not to work but to instead suckle from the federal government tit would be able to stop living "paycheck to paycheck" and start enjoying life for a change. For those who barely have enough - or who don't have enough - to pay bills each payday and still have enough left for food and gas so they can get to work, those days of stress and worry would be gone.
Of course, the liberals and Democrats are 100% against this idea, because that would mean the "cash cow" from which they draw the money to pay for the federal give-away programs would be gone which means all of the programs would be gone, and they would in turn not get re-elected by those aforementioned tit-suckers who rely on these free programs instead of working for a living. And that, friends and neighbors, means that the liberals and Democrats would lose power in Washington, and my God we just can't have that, now can we?
Trump also feels the same way about securing our borders as I do - namely, secure them. No free ride for illegals, send them back where they came from and take active steps to ensure that our borders are secure in every sense of the word. This is something that the liberals and Democrats won't do, either, for the same reason previously stated - they'd lose re-election and be out of a job. But mostly, they'd lose power, and Democrats just can't stand to NOT be in control and have The Power.
But the main thing about Trump that impresses me is he's not afraid to say what needs to be said, and he doesn't care who he pisses off. With him you're going to get the truth in plain, unvarnished language, and if you can't handle it then that's your problem. He has the intelligence, experience, and balls to lead our nation as it needs and deserves to be led, and all we have to do now is give him the chance to do it.
One of the things I've never had any interest in watching are political debates of any kind, because for the most part all it is is politicians saying what they need to say in order to get elected, all the while knowing that they're lying out of their asses and have no intention of backing up what they say. But with Donald Trump in the running and planning on taking part in the upcoming Republican debates, I may just sit down and watch it to see how badly he mauls the competition. His popularity has been on the rise in the past few weeks in spite of his comments about illegal immigrants, and I have a feeling that after these debates are over he's going to be the #1 Republican contender.
So to answer the question, "To Trump or Not To Trump," my answer is simple:
TRUMP.
Deo Vindice
IHC
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