He Is Not Running For President, He Is Running For King.

[DonRedwood]

As a teacher it is all too obvious to me.

Bullying is epidemic in this country. Across the nation schools have paid millions after millions of dollars in settlements because bullying is out of control. And as a teacher I know exactly where they are learning this behavior.

If you were born in this country after 1996 you have never lived in a world without FOX TV. There has never been an escape from the constant bullying of the religious right. Even those who would never dream of watching Fox still hear it in waiting rooms, in the background at the airport, that quiet non-stop flow of hatred and bullying. A constant wink-wink-nudge-nudge as they blamed the African Americans, and the Muslims, and the gay people, and the liberals for every woe that has descended on mankind. Got fired for poor performance? It's because of the gay people. Don't have a job? It's because of the Muslims.

We, as a society, have allowed bullies to take over chunks of the media. Talk radio has brought bullying into homes all over the country. Our elected Republicans think nothing of slurring anyone that isn't a white man who goes to their church. Every time an anti-gay law gets passed, that is bullying, just upped to an industrial level. Fox News has allowed hate speech to be cleaned up and shipped out to every corner of the country.

And it has created an atmosphere where a whole segment of the country sees this bullying hatred as nothing more than communication. It's on the tv box so it must be true, it must be acceptable.

And the right kept throwing fuel on the fire. More hatred. More bullying. A racist free-for-all against an African American President. And in that volatile mix of hate, anger and twisted religious ideology a monster has been created. Not a green Frankenstein monster, but an orange monster with the heart of a madman and the blackend soul of a narcissist who wallows in the hatred bred by Fox News.

You see, as Fox piled on bully-after-bully Donald Trump rose to the top of the stinking heap. He is not running to be Presidident. He is running to be King. King of the Bullies.

[narnian60]

1. Very well said.

[DonRedwood]

2. Thank you!

i wanted to rant but decided to try to be a little more elegant than usual.

[2naSalit]

3. Amen!

[ailsagirl]

4. kick

[jtuck004]

5. He still doesn't sound as if he gets this whole voting thing. He approaches this

as if he is appointing people to positions of "voter", where they will do his bidding.

Slimy real estate swindler.

[DonRedwood]

6. If you read up on narciccism and how they react to things not going their way....

it makes a lot more sense!

[jtuck004]

11. I got that, and he wouldn't be the only one we have had or have. But even a

narcissist can get the whole idea of voting and what they have to do.

This really is more like he is delusional.

[tblue37]

16. He is a 70-year-old man whose father had Alzheimer's. I have long suspected that

he suffers from dementia. If not caused by Alzheimer's, dementia can also be caused by small strokes, and he sure does look like he has high blood pressure.

[DonRedwood]

27. His memory isn't that good....

[DonRedwood]

18. The phrase "so angry he couldn't see straight"

Is a good way to describe how a narcissist deals with not getting their way. Blind anger that causes them to lash out.

[womanofthehills]

28. The slightest bit of criticism really turns the anger on too

Also, have you noticed that he always responds to criticism with name calling - another sign of a narcissist.

[DonRedwood]

30. Fear of failure!

[malaise]

7. Great post

Rec

[DonRedwood]

14. Thanks Malaise!

[DonRedwood]

19. You have any idea how many times I have tried to squish your bug on my IPAd?

[malaise]

41. Hehehehehhe

[DonRedwood]

51. it messes up the window!!!

but then i laugh at myself and wonder how many times am i going to do that? (but to be fair, i read in bed next to an open window in the dark...so i'm always having bugs land on the screen)

[byronius]

8. Highly appropriate post.

[localroger]

9. He is running for circus barker

Seriously, while Scott Adams of Dilbert strip fame is more than a bit of an asshole, I think he has correctly identified that Trump is very skillfully and mindfully using hypnotic and propagandistic persuasion techniques as his primary weapon. He is unlike any candidate we have ever seen because he using those techniques exclusively, with total disregard for facts or consistency, and the thing is it's been working. He is exploiting the fact that, on the whole, people aren't rational and respond to certain emotionally resonant cues and prompts consistently.

On the one hand you can't really read anything real into anything he has said, because he has said only what he thinks will create a bonding emotional reaction among Republican primary voters. On the other hand that means we don't have any fucking clue at all how he would govern, because he hasn't been telling us anything real, just jerking our chains.

[DonRedwood]

22. The proverbial snake oil salesman?

[mopinko]

10. few things will get me to vote against someone faster

than showing that they dont know what the job they are applying for really is. especially the limits.
promise me you are going to do things that you are just not gonna be able to do, and i am done.

[DonRedwood]

26. Especially this job!!!

[mopinko]

36. no shit.

abolish the second amendment donnie? like, go to the library of congress w a blow torch or something? get real dude.

[DonRedwood]

44. He is used to his yes men making it happen!

[TNNurse]

12. He does not give any indication

that he has even the slightest idea how our government works. He thinks he can do what he pleases. He is wrong about almost everything.

[DonRedwood]

20. He is a mess maker

Who pays people to clean up the messes he makes.

[womanofthehills]

29. Especially, a few days ago when he said he could do it all alone.

[DonRedwood]

31. Lol... He can't even get his own McDonald's order!

[ErikJ]

13. I can only hope he breaks the stinking corpse of the GOP apart.

[DonRedwood]

21. He is doing pretty good so far!

[YOHABLO]

15. Perhaps when he loses he'll go away never to be heard from again. HA HA .. YEAH RIGHT.

[gordianot]

17. We need to find out who encouraged Trump to run.

Any ideas the person or persons who would have done this?

[csziggy]

23. Remember the rumors that Trump talked to Bill Clinton?

I wonder if Bill was joking with Trump and said, "Maybe you should run for president!" With Trump's ego he could have thought Bill was serious.

[gordianot]

24. It may have been at a golf course.

Then there was Bobby Knight! It does make one wonder!

[Hekate]

34. I always took it as a joke. But Trump is a megalomaniac whose ego needs constant stroking...

For whatever reason, maybe just another notch on his belt, he decided this was for him and that he could treat it like he treats every other transaction. The guy is a nightmare.

But that thing about a conversation with Bill Clinton? If true, I always had this image of Trump bringing it up in his self-aggrandizing way, and the Big Dog laughing and saying, Sure, go ahead. Figuring it couldn't possibly come to pass.

Just like the rest of us. SMH

[csziggy]

40. Same here - I can't imagine anyone would have taken it seriously

Before the last year or so.

[gordianot]

39. Bill denies the recent phone call but there are blasts from the past.

See link: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/06/trump-bill-clinton-photos-library-224447

[lunatica]

38. I've always believed he did it on a dare or a bet

He may have been bragging to a friend or acquaintance about how he knows how to get followers because he knows what they want to hear and the other person maybe scoffed or laughed at him and The Donald then argued that he would prove it by running for President. At which time the bet was on.

The fact that he's simultaneously exploding and imploding right now shows he didn't know what he was really getting into. I think he may be regretting his total conceit, not because he's losing, because he isn't losing, but because suddenly he has no privacy and it's beginning to dawn on him what that actually means. All his nefarious past actions will be scrutinized now. Every word he utters will be spliced, diced and ground down to the last letter and too many people are going to see who and what he really is. That and the fact that he simply can't punish anyone, not even the media who have taken him on after he insulted them.

[radicalliberal]

46. Perhaps the sweet-tempered Bill O'Reilly?

Seriously.

[Initech]

25. King? He wants to be America's Kim Jong Un!

[DonRedwood]

33. Maybe he already is!

[eastwestdem]

32. Nice analysis! nt

[pampango]

35. Well said. Conservatives, in particular, seem to have a soft spot for authoritarian, father-figures.

The strict father logic extends further. The basic idea is that authority is justified by morality (the strict father version), and that, in a well-ordered world, there should be (and traditionally has been) a moral hierarchy in which those who have traditionally dominated should dominate. The hierarchy is: God above Man, Man above Nature, The Disciplined (Strong) above the Undisciplined (Weak), The Rich above the Poor, Employers above Employees, Adults above Children, Western culture above other cultures, Our Country above other countries. The hierarchy extends to: Men above women, Whites above Non-whites, Christians above non-Christians, Straights above Gays.

There are at least tens of millions of conservatives in America who share strict father morality and its moral hierarchy. Many of them are poor or middle class and many are white men who see themselves as superior to immigrants, non-whites, women, non-Christians, gays — and people who rely on public assistance. In other words, they are what liberals would call “bigots.”

Donald Trump expresses out loud everything they feel — with force, aggression, anger, and no shame. All they have to do is support and vote for Trump and they don’t even have to express their ‘politically incorrect’ views, since he does it for them and his victories make those views respectable. He is their champion. He gives them a sense of self-respect, authority, and the possibility of power. Whenever you hear the words “political correctness” remember this.

http://yonside.com/why-is-trump-winning

[DonRedwood]

43. Yes, great points!

[lunatica]

37. I absolutely agree

The shock jocks, as they used to be called when it was still shocking to listen to their hate filled spewing, have beat that drum for more than 2 decades.

But I would add that once the viewers and listeners of this hatred were fuming their resentments into hot flames along came Sara Palin and threw the doors open for them to emerge from their dark hovels and closets. They are what she branded as "real Murikans!"

And one of the things they don't every allow is one of their leaders to back down from the vicious hatred. Anyone who gets their support is never allowed to move back to the middle. And this is Trump's problem. He can't become "Presidential" because they won't let him. This is also the problem that so many Congresspeople have. Their base are vicious to them if they try to be moderate.

Limbaugh, Hannity, Ann Coulter and their ilk have done their job very well.

[DonRedwood]

50. yes...

but even they are just puppets. :0(

[Dem2]

42. yep. And dictator too.

[niyad]

45. k and r. actually, I think he is running to be emperor palpatine.

[radicalliberal]

47. The Emperor says . . .

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[niyad]

53. I wish that didn't seem to be so very true.

[reign88]

48. He is running

to make a fool of himself. He has zero chance.

Unless Hillary starts running around putting babies on spikes (/nod Eddie Izzard) this thing is already over.

[99th_Monkey]

49. "Bullying is epidemic in this country." <--This

Militarism plays a YUUUGE role, worshipping uniforms & weaponry, constantly
being reminded that "good guys finish last" .. it's so sad really, that this kind
of deadly nonsense seems to prevail all-too-often over the truth and power of
love, kindness and forgiveness.

And Trump is a bully's wet-dream candidate.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

52. Maybe his coronation name should be "Louis XVI"

Although I think he would think of himself as King Charles ("The Hammer&quot Martel.

[spanone]

54. K&R...

[gopbasher452]

55. That's why I find Trump to be especially scary

It's been clear for some time now that he isn't running for president with the intention of improving this country. Rather, he wants to treat it as one giant corporation, with him as a CEO.

[99th_Monkey]

56. Privatize the USA Gov't in one fell swoop: elect Trump