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In reply to the discussion: My father had a run-in with Mitt Romney years ago. [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)it could perhaps have been considered an aberration.
But placed in context with similar episodes (forcible hair-cutting, getting a blind teacher to walk into a door, posing as a highway trooper, ruining companies without considering that there are real people and whole communities behind the spreadsheet numbers, etc., etc., etc.), it definitely manifests an unpleasant character trait. It also exhibits an unbridled sense that he is to be treated in a more privileged manner than anyone else and most certainly never ever held to account for his actions.
That is not what I want in a leader. Not at all.
I cannot believe that any thinking person would want that in a leader. But there are apparently quite a few of those in America.
That is perhaps the most frightening thing of all.