Make America Great

Since, I’ve been asked, I’ll make my political stance clear. Then, I’ll wrap up my personal takeaways from Mary L. Trump’s book.

My political stance

I want to see America become great, but that requires a different kind of leader.

• A leader who’s an adult who thinks and behaves like an adult.
• A leader who will address the civil unrest in this country with intelligence and empathy, and the goal of fixing the root cause. Feeding bigotry and using federal force against citizens only fuel the unrest. It’s beyond crazy when folk feel comfortable enough to attempt a lynching in broad daylight, but that’s what follows when a leader calls white supremacist “good people”.
• A leader who will bring this nation together instead of sowing discord and using divisiveness as a political weapon and winning strategy.
• A leader who will work toward restoring the US back to a place of strength and power at the negotiating table with foreign nations, instead of rendering us weak and impotent.
• A leader who can bring the US back to a place of respect and influence from one of ridicule and comical jeering on the world stage.
• A leader who will not minimize and politicize the rising death toll in this nation but will seek to pull us together as one united force to halt the pandemic that’s ravaging our families and economy.
• A leader who values truth instead of “living” in a place of corruption, lies and half-baked conspiracy theories.

Republican, democrat or independent—I really don’t care about party affiliation. I vote according to my principles, not a party line. The bottom line is we need a different kind of leader to pull the US out of the cesspit into which we’ve been led and make America great domestically and globally.

Final words on the book

An adult with the mental capacity of a child can’t handle grown folk business. Instead of dealing with hard issues that are beyond them, they’ll exhibit childish and destructive behavior that result in dire consequences for which they refuse to take responsibility.

When someone fights tooth and nail to keep something hidden, it’s obvious they’ve done something wrong and want to keep it from being revealed. Examples: withholding tax returns, stopping book publications, blocking subpoenaed documents and testimony, etc.

Flashing “shiny new objects” as a distraction doesn’t work on grown people. Committing a horrible act to distract attention away from a previous horrible act does not cause people to forget about the previous horrible acts. Instead, folk see it for what it is, and the result is a pile on. All the horrible acts are remembered, tallied, and considered to be one big mess of awfulness.

For me, the book was a very informative read that added definition to the darkness…