TRUMP APPEAL: FIGHTS BIG MONEY

MR. TRUMP'S APPEAL: UNTETHERED FROM THE BIG MONEY MACHINE. ITS THE MONEY!

Mr. Trump's campaign has unintentionally underscored and exposed the evil influences of big money donations on our political campaigns and the sinister effects it has on the way our government operates.

Donald Trump has garnered massive support during these 2016 Republican nomination elections. To date, Mr. Trump has out-voted, out-appealed and out-lasted all but one of his opponents, almost all of whom were highly experienced politicians, who were massively-financed and well connected politically or descended from established political dynasties. He has (almost) withstood all the many ambushes, and mine fields planted for him by his many enemies in the political establishment and the media, two groups who too often collude and closely support each other. The Donald remains the GOP front runner with nearly double the delegate strength of his closest competitor. Yet, the print and electronic media elites, the nation's top editors, TV talking heads, and the blogosphere pundits have all been at a loss to explain his popularity.

He appeals to "the racists, the anti-feminists, the under educated and ill informed," they claim. "He's a bully, a brute and a fascist..and worse", they rail, claiming that is why voters like him. He appeals to "the angry white men" in the population, they state. But all of these Trump voters could not all be ill-informed, women-hating, angry white men, and these proffered reasons simply can not explain his massive popularity, the enthusiasm of his supporters and his manifest success at the polls over wide geographic ranges of this nation and with a highly diverse demography.

What is Mr. Trump's real source of popularity? The primary answer is that unlike all of his competitors, this candidate is untethered from the GOP money machine and its failed ideology. Mr. Trump can speak his mind. He is free of ideas framed and controlled by the big donor class, the monied oligarchs of the party. These 400 or so super wealthy ideologues have for too long commandeered the party of Lincoln with lucre. For the last decades they have doled out funds to their favorites. They have controlled the pick of candidates, the message and the GOP's governing policies. Their power is based on their ability to provide campaign funds, and as importantly, it rests on the threat of withdrawal of financial support. And even more fearful is their ability to quickly shift cash from a uncooperative (independent, perhaps a patriotic ) candidate to a different, more compliant one. Oftentimes these powerful oligarchs can squash a politician's long career by financially supporting an opponent in a primary challenge. You see---It is the money! The pols are so scared they almost always do exactly as they are told.

Mr. Trump is in large part financing his own campaign. He is not controlled by the the monied elites. His message can thus stray from their prepared script. His message can actually serve the needs of a the wider American electorate. The prepared script and policy serves only the needs of the one-tenth-of-one percenters who control the message and messengers.

Where has Mr. Trump taken us with his free message? His stated goals are clearly more in tune with the vast majority of voters than those espoused by the controlled establishment candidates. The electorate has responded favorably to Mr. Trump and rejected the establishment types. One has only to examine the list and pedigree of the failed establishment darlings: such as Mssrs Walker, Rubio, and Bush, who mouthed their prepared talking points and went down in flames in front of the unhappy voters.

Mr. Trump has shined a much needed light on the failings of the GOP policies of the past...and its slavish attendance to the needs of only a small sliver of the electorate--the donor class-- the one percenters---the Singers, Koch brothers, the Adelsons--while the Washington elites abandoned the vast middle, the working classes, the small businessman, farmers and the independent voter. The strategy of throwing the dry crumbs from the political table to these millions of hard working, voting men and women in the form of wedge issues, like abortion, marriage regulations, flag waving, a "strong military", and phony trickle down economics issues etc. etc. while astutely toeing the line for the rich to cut taxes, cut entitlements, deregulate banks, maintain a porous border, expand free trade agreements, and finance military adventures abroad, all in support of big donor wishes. These domestic and foreign policies have backfired and the failings have been duly noted by voters. They know that the Bush- neocon adventures in Iraq were a disaster. They know that our infrastructure, our roads, our bridges and transportation system are crumbling about our ears. They see us deploy troops abroad, expand foreign bases, butt our noses into the affairs of nations far afield while our own people suffer with poor wages, non-existent or poor-paying jobs. They find their expensively educated children still living in their basements. And in face of the government bail out of wealthy Wall Streeters, they find they are no better off then they were thirty years ago. They are still paying dearly in gold and blood for the misguided policies of the GOP.

Yes, Mr. trump is correct! NATO should be reevaluated and we should not be asking the American taxpayer to foot the vast majority of that bill to succor foreign nations who can well afford to pay for their own defense. What purpose do all of those 900 military base serve abroad? Yes we must staunch the flow of illegals at our porous borders. Yes we must bring back jobs to American workers and prevent the flow of jobs offshore. Yes we need better, wiser deal making with our trading partners.

All these issues would not have been raised or placed into public debate without the unfettered speech by Donald Trump a candidate untethered from the political money machine.

The appeal of Mr. Trump? Do not defame and berate the electorate as racists and fascists. It is the Washington money machine that is the cause.

TRUMP ACCUSED BY NEOCONS AS SECURITY THREAT

TRUMP ACCUSED AS SECURITY THREAT (? TO ISRAEL?)

Donald Trump was attacked again by the neocons. This time is was Max Boot of Commentary magazine who penned a piece entitled: "Why Trump is a Security Threat". Boot, like the others at "Commentary", have a world view colored too deeply by their unwavering, knee jerk, allegiance to Israel to act as objective observers of US foreign policy. In light of the pain of the Holocaust, I respect and understand their position. But they can not be taken seriously when, as in this piece, they try to make judgments concerning the positions Americans take as a nation regarding our foreign policy, our military stature, our relation to NATO, our economy, and the best interests of the majority of tax paying, working people of this nation who find we can longer sanction, support or afford the overly aggressive foreign policy the neocons favor.

Viewed only by those who see the world through the pierced ear of Benjamin Netanyahu could Mr. Trump be seen as a "security threat". But that view should not overly concern an American voter, and is no recommendation for a commentator, or advisor to the US electorate or to its leaders. The Republican primary election voters have spoken out loudly with their enthusiastic support of the new, sensible, practical policies that Donald Trump has espoused.

The crew at Commentary and their neocon allies may not like what Trump has to say. As our late Supreme Court member, Antonin Scalia was fond of saying: "Get over it!"

NATO: TRUMP RIGHT AGAIN

TRUMP RAISES ISSUE OF NATO. UNFAIR TO US TAXPAYER, NEEDS RESTRUCTURING. KUDOS TO TRUMP!

Our homeland is in trouble. We have been on a wrong-way course now for decades. Our nation is today a land of big debts, faltering economy, lost good paying jobs, massive inequalities in wealth and income, porous borders, unfettered immigration, trade deficits which favor our foreign partners, as well as losses on the battlefield, and deep seated corruption in Washington. I envision our homeland in a foxhole, like those the doughboys dug in basic training. I see all the other candidates, the "presidential hopefuls" busily digging themselves down deeper and deeper in the bottom of that hole, while proclaiming they are "going to solve our problems"...but applying the same shovel to the same dirt and going down, down, down.

The sole exception is Donald Trump, who seems to be able to rise up to look over the rubble-piled edge. While the others are busy digging deeper, he peers outward and views another option, a possible solution. He raised issues the other candidates have ignored..our waves of immigrants, our porous borders, our illegals, our unequal trade balances, our loss of jobs overseas, and now our relationship with NATO.

My career happily gave me a wonderful opportunity to travel widely in Europe. Coming home after a long stay abroad, I always marveled at the Europe I left, and their up-scale life style. They had then and still have some of the best highways, most advanced infrastructure, fastest broadband, longest vacations, best services, abundant social safety net and world class healthcare. Yes, we have to admit it, we may make more money here, but our life style is only second rate. Those Japanese, the French and Germans live pretty nice lives. How could that be?

The ready answer is that, here in the USA, we as taxpayers are saddled with the costs of a massive military establishment, which at over $600 billion dollars annually, 900 bases around the world, and millions in uniform, is designed and projected to protect the entire free world...not just our shores. Yes, we are paying not simply for our own "defense", but to defend them too! The abused American taxpayer pays through the nose to make life safe for the Japanese, the Koreans, the French, and Germans and the rest of the so-called "free world". These people, unburdened from their own defense costs, get to spend their energies on beating us at trade and to live it up, while, we have to shell out our meager earnings to keep them safe. NATO is one of our biggest foreign military expenses. We foot the major part of that bill.

Looking over the edge of the foxhole...the Donald saw the stupidity of our NATO position and called it right again. Let's restructure NATO to reflect the modern reality. Make our so-called allies pay their fair share of legitimate defense costs. Let's refocus NATO on terrorism rather than a land war with the now extinct Soviets.

Let us use those freed-up funds to rebuild our infrastructure, our highways and our nation. Kudos to Trump who again sees the world as it really is and is not afraid to say what he thinks.

GOP VOTERS REJECT PARTY DOGMA

The GOP dogma of mass migration, deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy, budget cuts for the middle class, and "war war war"..has been soundly rejected by the party voters. Now it is time for the adherents of these failed policies to come to terms with the facts. As Antonin Scalia said..."get over it".

Just like Marco Rubio, caught repeating his now infamous talking point.."Obama knows exactly what he is doing" over and over again during that fateful pre-Super Tuesday debate, the party big wigs continue to repeat their phony mantra to "cut taxes, cut spending, cut regulations, make endless war, and support Israel." This rich man's prescription for success has manifestly worked well for its target group the top one percenters and the donor class, but unfortunately for the GOP we still have some remnants of a democracy to deal with, and the Republiacn Party must actually be elected by a majority of voters. The policies the GOP has been touting over these last decades has been an abject failure for the mass of working, middle class Rpublican Americans. The GOP CAN NOT BE ELECTED TO OFFICE WITH THE VOTES OF THE 400 WEALTHIEST, THE DONOR CLASS, THE KOCH BROTHRERS, AND A FEW PARTY ELITES. THEY MUST FACE THE FACTS. GOP POLICIES HAVE IGNORED THE MASS OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

This is a time for renewal and change...the party big wigs have to begin talking out of the other side of their mouths. They are politicians after all....that is part of their make up.

GOP REJECTS MATH

GOP GOES INTO SELF DESTRUCT MODE

The party that has too often rejected reality for an alternate one, preferring concocted, flawed myths regarding economics, science, evolution, and global warming (and immigration) has is now firmly rejecting MATHEMATICS too. GOP party elites, the donor class and the neocon wings of the party are all united in a concerted effort to overturn a clear equation for success, the manifest math of recent nominating elections giving a massive plurality of votes to Donald Trump. They would ignore the math hand the election over to Hillary Clinton. Their insane need to support myth rather than reality, their rejection of fact for an alternate cosmos are preventing them from making the wise and sensible decision---- the bottom line...to support the winner. When one candidate has a good forty to fifty percent of the Republican electorate tied up and committed, how can party leaders reject that candidate and swing support to a minority candidate who has won only one state, and polls in the low double digits, or another who has won a few states but polls at the twenty percent level? The neocons, National Review editors, mega donor class and party elites it seems, have all failed remedial College math.

They somehow can not bring themselves to face the numerical reality that by rejecting the candidate who has been selected by vociferous, determined and energized pluralities of Republican voters in almost all demographic categories from the north south east and west of this nation, they are tossing away the election. The rejected voters will certainly stay home on Election Day. The is no winning without Donald.

It seems these party elites would prefer to keep their cushy jobs, perks, and positions of authority as members of a losing party and under the thumb of a Bill and Hillary Clinton regime, rather than be flexible and change course to win. They prefer loss in the general election rather than face a real world in which vast numbers of previously ignored and sidelined voters have roundly rejected their long-honored three-legged policy-stool, smashed and broken by Donald Trump. The fact is their mythic world has been demolished by TRUMP and is no more.

TRUMP DEFEATS NEOCON MARCO, ENDS EVIL DALLIANCE WITH GOP

NEOCONS GO DOWN WITH MARCO

The disastrous decades-long dalliance the GOP has had with the neocons, is over. Trump savaged THEIR candidate, Marco Rubio, in Florida. Then Trump went on to win in Illinois, and North Carolina and squeezed out a slim, win-tie in Missouri. The tally of delegates he has and the map of upcoming states will eventually put him well over the 1237 delegate count he needs to win the nomination in Cleveland. Today he is the nominee. The remains of the Republican establishment will now have to come to Donald hat in hand or face another lost election and the end of their control of the Supreme Court.

And best of all..the neocon plague (Bill Kristol, Max Boot, the Kagans, and their ilk) is over. Thorough they never faced a voter or were elected to any office, the powerful and insidious neocon virus, supported by billionaire donors of like mind, insinuated and infected the halls of Congress like a staphylococcus aureus super bug. Their Rasputin-like control of certain weak minded leaders, controlled the party's foreign policy and led to the disastrous "three trillion dollar war" in Iraq. In that awful, unnecessary conflict of preemption and choice thousands of young American lives were lost, tens of thousands were horribly wounded, a half a million innocent Iraqi citizens were killed and millions became refugees. The disruption of the long Iraq conflict initiated a destabilizing wave which passed though the deserts of surrounding lands like an earthquake, overturning long held political stasis in nation after nation. Thus, misguided neocon policies in the US contributed to the today's contiguous series of failed states left in smoldering ruins across the northern part of Africa. It contributed as well to the downfall of Syria, in good part generating the awful refugee problem in the millions now shaking the political and economic foundations of Europe and America too.

Nearly singlehandedly, Donald Trump, who was free of the control of the MEGADONORS class and uninfected with "neoconism" or its controlling money, Thumbed his nose at the GOP establishment. He was unpolitical. He told the truth as he saw it. The American people enthusiastically responded to his message. And last night, weathering a storm of negative propaganda paid for by big money donors, while taking incoming barrages from the Democrats on the left, and the Republican establishment on the right, as well as potshots and trip wires set by the media...Trump came through a winner.

It gives one hope that our democracy is still strong enough to withstand the effects of influxes of massive amounts of money, powerful and sinister Washington influences, media complicity and cowardice, and still the people's will can be heard.

HILLARY AND BILL: LIBIDINOUS, LIBELOUS INGLORIOUS PAST

THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY SET THE STAGE FOR THE GREAT RECESSION, THE RISE OF THE NEOCONS, THE IRAQ WAR, AND THE CURRENT DEVASTATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST.

DO WE WANT TO REPEAT ANY OF THAT WITH ANOTHER CLINTON?

Many of Bill Clinton's key foreign policy and economic decisions and signed legislation were too often based on faulty reasoning or political weakness. They set the stage and paved the way for the disaster of the Great Recession of 2007-2008, the neocon takeover of the GOP, and ultimately the Iraq War, the chaos in the Middle East--- and the rise of ISIS.

I recently came across Thomas Frank's new book, "Listen Liberal", on display in our Manchester VT, bookstore. Waiting for the grandkids, I leafed through a few chapters. It is recommended, as are the earlier Frank works. What stirred my interest was the clear-eyed retelling of the history of the Clinton years. Too many of us have fuzzy memories and a mistaken positive view of that era. Author Frank reexamines those years critically. With Bill's so-called "co-president" running for a seat in the Oval Office now...it seems wise to examine that era with more circumspection--with an eye to avoiding a reprise of many bad decisions and lingering ill-effects from those days. And yes, since the Clintons introduced the term "co-president", it is fair to saddle Hillary, today with their joint mistakes.

Thomas Frank conveniently excerpted a good deal of his book in a fine piece in Salon (March 13, 2016). In that piece, Frank reminds us that it was Bill Clinton that deregulated the derivative market. At the behest of his Republican detractors, he also deregulated telecom and signed off on a bill to kill the Glass Steagall Act too. That post-Great Depression law wisely kept banks as savings institutions distinct from the Wall Street "gambling casinos" and preventing these two types of institutions form intermingling depositors funds at great risk to depositors. The loss of Glass-Steqgall also set the stage for the costly bank bail-out tqxpayers are still paying for.

Bill also rammed through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which when implemented caused that loud sucking sound heard across our great land as good high-paying American jobs and industries headed south (and north) to relocate over the border. Bill Clinton's NAFTA deal eliminated millions of well paying jobs and contributed to the decline of middle America and hollowing-out of our middle classes. Clinton also initiated the policy of mass incarceration, and the harsh restructuring of the welfare system, both of which we realize today hace had such a negative impact on our social structure.

Bill's uncontrolled libidinous activities in the Oval Office (and under his desk) led to the ugly Monica Lewinsky affair. When discovered and faced with a disgrace and lying under oath, he and Hillary hung on. Instead of honorably resigning his Presidency, as had Nixon under similar circumstances, and leaving the affairs of state to his more than competent Vice President, Al Gore, Clinton selfishly dragged the nation through his seamy personal sexual peccadilloes. He limped on in office, a weakened political,force, and then an impeached President. During this time of political vulnerability, he acquiesced to pressures from Congress that he might have repulsed and avoided prior to his embarrassment. It was during this period of weakness and of preoccupation with the Lewinsky charges that Clinton signed on to the neocon-sponsored Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 which gave legal status to the overthrow of the Iraqi government...the first such law in American history. It radically altered our foreign policy in the Middle East and was frequently cited by George Bush in the run up to the Iraq War as evidence that Clinton supported the Iraq invasion and overthrow of a legally constituted government.

Many of Bill Clinton's key economic and foreign policy decisions set the stage for disaster. His triangulated economic policies of deregulation and freeing the markets paved the way for the most profound economic downturn since 1929,---the Great Recession of 2007-2008. We are still in the throes of that recession, living with an economy characterized by weak growth, weak demand, and low inflation. We have millions underemployed or unemployed. Massive wealth and income inequality plague the nation and continue to stymie a full recovery. In foreign affairs, the Iraq Liberation Act signed by Bill Clinton, altered our foreign relations and precipitated the neocon takeover of the GOP foreign policy portfolio. That law ultimately gave credence to a disastrous interventionist policy initiated by Clinton, and then unwisely implemented by his successor, George W. Bush. Bush led us ultimately into the fifteen year long "three trillion dollar" Iraq War. With the the acquiescence and inaction of President Obama, that conflict morphed into the utter devastation and chaos which presently characterize the Middle East today, and most recently, contributed to the rise of ISIS.

Do we want to send the Clintons back into the White House? Never!

HILLARY'S LIES AND VERBAL UNCERTAINTY FACTOR.

HILLARY CLINTON'S "VERBAL UNCERTAINTY FACTOR" SHOULD ELIMINATE HER FROM CONTENTION AS PRESIDENT

William Safire (NY Times Opinion) Jan 8, 1996: " Our First Lady is a congenital liar."

This week Hillary Clinton attended the Nancy Reagan Memorial service. There was no obvious reason for Hillary to pad the truth at a wake and funeral. But Mrs. Clinton, did so anyway. Her relationship with the truth is so tenuous she can not help herself. She apparently believes she has rights concerning the factual world that the rest of us mortals do not have. Then too, she was at funeral service where she must have felt particularly free of any hesitation on invention, the deceased obviously could not respond to correct her falsehoods. So on that occasion, she felt absolutely free of interruption or rebuke to create her own self-serving-reality about Nancy Reagan and her role in the AIDS epidemic with a flat out lie.

"Nancy Reagan was the first to start a conversation about AIDS," she claimed. Perhaps those standing close to the coffin may have heard the muffled sounds of the frail corpse of Mrs. Reagan spinning around and around in her tomb.

Clinton's patently false statement immediately raised a lot of eyebrows. The LGBT community-internet network, well aware that the Reagans were mum on this epidemic and even shunned their old Hollywood friends who were dying of AIDS, glowed red hot with angry tweets and emails concerning this massive whopper. The Clinton clean-up and spin-campaign quickly posted a retraction stating that the candidate "misspoke". The turmoil continued today March13, 2016, when Hillary was forced to take time from her campaign schedule to pen a long dissertation entitled: "On the fight against AIDS and those who really started the conversation", Huffington Post, the Blog, March 13. Though, reported as an "apology"by the Post, no where does the candidate apologies or claim she she misspoke. Why did she do it? Out of a habit of deceit.

No one in the modern media had enough chutzpah to call the front-running Democrat candidate a "liar", as had the bold Mr. Safire of 1996, though that would have been fully appropriate. This nose- stretching Pinnochio-lie was only another deception, falsehood, and invention in a long list of prevarications extending back for this habitual perjurer to the days she served as "First Lady" of Arkansas. Her difficulty with the truth, should be a major factor in eliminating her from contention for our nation's highest office. With her history, the uncertainty factor in any and all of her formal pronouncements would be so high, who would believe her? How could she ever lead the nation?

A PARTIAL LIST OF HILLARY WHOPPERS

Sniper-fire in Bosnia in 1996 : "Chelsea and I came under sniper fire when we landed at Tuzla, Bosnia in 1996".

Travel gate: " I had no role in that decision."

Cattle Futures: (Re: $100,000.00 windfall on a $1000.00 investment). "All I did was read the Wall Street Journal."

Disappearance of Vince Foster Documents: " I don't know if my secretary Maggie removed any documents."

Castle Grande Real Estate Scandal: "I know nothing about Castle Grande."

Billing Records For Castle Grande: "My billing records for Castle Grande have vanished."

Monica Lewinsky: "The Lewinski story has been concocted by the right-wing conspiracy press"

Clinton Finances: "We left the White House dead broke."

Keystone Pipeline. " I never took a position on Keystone Pipeline."

Home Brew Email Server: "I used a private system for emails because it was more convenient".

Classified Emails: "I never received or sent emails marked 'classified'".

Benghazi: Email to Chelsea, "Benghazi was a planned terrorist attack." To grieving parents of Benghazi victims over their son's coffins: "Benghazi was the result of that awful YouTube video."

YES MOSLEMS DO HATE US--WITH REASON

TRUMP: "ISLAM HATES US"

Review our recent foreign policy, failed invasions, nation building in the Middle East and military adventurism in Moslem lands , and then ask yourself, how could they NOT hate us?

Is there any question? George Bush invaded Iraq, under false pretenses and unleashed a terrible religious war. During the long conflict, millions of Iraqis, (Moslems all ) were displaced to become refugees, and more than 500,000 Moslems were killed. Numerous examples of American brutality, torture and mistreatment of Iraqi--Moslems were widely and graphically reported in our press and overseas. President Obama extended and intensified "W's war" into what has become a modern Crusade, invading and killing in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and other Moslem nations. The President kept a "kill list" of---- Moslems. His drones assassinated American-born Moslems ( US citizens ) and their innocent relatives abroad outside of any war zone. His drone war policy often killed innocent bystanders, and relatives of targets, and often mistook wedding gatherings for terrorists confabs where hundreds of innocents were blown to bits. Since 9-11-2001 we have been routinely killing Moslems on a daily basis. Just a few days ago, the USA reported a drone and manned aircraft attack against what was described by the Pentagon as a "training camp" in Somalia...where 150 Moslem "terrorists" we're summarily killed. One hundred fifty Moslems..killed in a only few minutes. The press and citizenry raised no questions about this slaughter. The slaughter was simply accepted as normal US behavior. Do these events have consequences? By all means. It generates hatred.

If you are Moslem, these sad facts must have their effects. It is only human nature. Kick over the bee hive and face a swarm of angry bees. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. How would a Christian, Jew, or Hindu respond if there were similar concerted efforts and attacks against those religious groups? Can one expect that they would not respond with anger and yes hatred--- as have the Moslems? History is rife with examples of Christian wars, violence and hatred that was an equal or even more violent to what we are experiencing today.

Do Moslems hate us? With our foreign policy and military history, how could they not?

Donald is right...yes 1. 6 billion world Moslems hate us.

We have sown the wind.....and are now reaping the whirlwind.

The irony of this attack against Mr. Trump is that, his opponents---the other candidates, especially Rubio, Cruz, Bush, and most egregiously Hillary Clinton were more in favor of the Iraq invasion and the expansion of the the "Bush Crusade" than is Mr. Trump who opposed that war and has espoused a more restricted view of foreign invasions---and Moslem Wars. K

WE ALL WIN WITH TRUMP

WE ALL WIN WHEN WE DEFEAT THE OLIGARCHS

On the eve of " Super Tuesday II" Mr. Trump is weathering a massive barrage of super pac-funded negative ads funded by the establishment. The media are all against him too, having taken their orders from higher ups to bash this candidate. The airways are thick with anti Trumpisms. But Donald is still holding his own in the nation's polls--north, south, east, and west. The voters all over the nation continue to support him. We will see who wins in Michigan and Florida, that will tell the tale of who has won the battle. Those results will reveal who has won..the 400 megadonors, or the millions of American voters. It will reveal to us all whether we are living in a democracy or an oligarchy.

Mr. Trump is not the ideal candidate. He speaks in hyperbole, and off the cuff. He is not your typical programmed politician. And he is not an ideologue. He is a successful businessman...there is no question. One has only to look at what he has actually built...the many structures which stand over our cities as monuments to his success. One hopes he might bring those talents to Washington, DC. Also, he is a loyal American who loves his country. He is an adequate candidate to sit in the Oval Office. There have been many lesser men there, to be sure.

Trump's great positives for the American nation, and its faltering democracy, are first and most importantly, that he is fracturing the decades long iron-grip of the wealthy few on the Republican Party. The Donald, who takes no money from the oligarchs, can be his own man. He has in plain spoken words parted company with the 400 single issue mega donors, the war mongers, GOP phony myth makers, the political elites, the neocons and "Israel first" lobbyists. All of these elements have had a negative effect on our Nation, in the way the GOP has addressed (or ignored) our foreign policy, our economic imperatives and the existential issues which are the desperate concern of the vast majority of Americans. These so-called "establishment types" have selfishly controlled and directed the Party for too long. The powerful few have used floods of money to elect and banish officials and through cash contributions control the party and its policies. They have contributed to the nation's decline and the depauperation of a vast swath of the Republican coalition....the average working American. All Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, will profit from a renewed democracy when we soundly defeat these groups at the polls and put them back into their respective place (as only a tiny minority group) in the political sphere.

Don't let the elite and monied few destroy what we have left of our democracy. We all win with a resounding slap in the face for those who wish to control our nation for their exclusive benefit at the cost to the many.