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Perspective: The Trump Phenomenon, a Reluctant Convert

<p>When Trump quite literally came crashing into the 2016 Election I&comma; like many of you&comma; thought the man dead on arrival&period; &nbsp&semi;I thought this man was crude&comma; I thought him an arrogant ass&comma; and I pegged him for the first to drop out of the race&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet here we are in April&comma; and not only is he not out of the race&comma; he is ahead&period; &nbsp&semi;How in the world does a man like Trump flourish in the American political system where one gaffe is enough to not only lose a race&comma; but a ruin a career&quest;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trust me&semi; you know this to be true&period; &nbsp&semi;This country is obsessed by scandal&period; &nbsp&semi;No&comma; let me rephrase that&comma; the media is obsessed with scandal as they are opportunities to expand their profits&period; &nbsp&semi;They ruin careers over the most mundane events and rile up public outrage over little things&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I mean&comma; Howard Dean was the leader of the Democratic Party&comma; the frontrunner &lpar;at the time&rpar; in the 2004 Election&comma; and one of the Democrat&rsquo&semi;s most popular people&period; Yet he does one cowboy &ldquo&semi;Yeehaw&rdquo&semi; during a moment of excitement and the man was RUINED&excl; &nbsp&semi;Where is Howard Dean now&quest; &nbsp&semi;Exactly&comma; I have no earthly idea either&period; &nbsp&semi;I assume he still lives&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What about when Todd Akin made a really stupid comment about a woman&rsquo&semi;s body choosing not to get pregnant when raped&quest; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Admittedly that was an incredibly stupid thing to say&comma; but when you boil that situation down you have defined a man by a single sentence&period; &nbsp&semi;He was a man of faith who believed all things in life are God&rsquo&semi;s Will&period; &nbsp&semi;Therefore&comma; a rape-victim&comma; from his perspective&comma; would be saved by the Grace of God from an unwanted pregnancy and if becoming pregnant occurs&comma; it too is God&rsquo&semi;s Will and should not be rejected&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But ask anyone of the streets about Mr&period; Akin and you&rsquo&semi;ll hear how he&rsquo&semi;s a chauvinist pig&comma; an apologist for rapists&comma; and a Pro-Life Mongrel who wants to legislate a woman&rsquo&semi;s uterus&period; &nbsp&semi;That is a whole lot to take away from a single sentence&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Did Mr&period; Akin say those things&quest; &nbsp&semi;Did he imply those things&quest; &nbsp&semi;Did he convey his opinion in the way that he meant&quest; &nbsp&semi;Then where did the above vitriol come from&quest; From the Mass Media Organizations&comma; of course&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If this is the modus operandi of the Media&comma; than how does a guy like Trump survive and even flourish where he has offered more than enough material for the media to grasp upon&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His first day on the trail was enough to destroy any other politician in America when he called illegal immigrants coming across the border as &ldquo&semi;rapists&rdquo&semi;&period; &nbsp&semi;&lpar;By the way&comma; a fun activity for the class&colon; go back and watch that speech and replace the word &ldquo&semi;They&rdquo&semi; with the word &ldquo&semi;Some&rdquo&semi; and you&rsquo&semi;ll see how silly this semantics game has become in America&rsquo&semi;s media circus&rpar;&period; &nbsp&semi;But Trump still stands&period; &nbsp&semi;Why&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For one&comma; I believe the American people are sick and tired of the profit-driven scandal culture of the American media&period; &nbsp&semi;They hear so much crap come off their screens&comma; so much misdirection&comma; and not to mention the wide spectrum of analysis towards political events depending on which way the media organization in question leans in ideology&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People just don&rsquo&semi;t listen to the media pundits when they tell people Trump is a racist&period; &nbsp&semi;They instead are listening to him&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another reason is because Trump has taken on the PC-Culture and there are a lot of people in this country who are sick of being oppressed by the PC police&period; &nbsp&semi;Think about it&quest; &nbsp&semi;How often do you stop and consider your words before proceeding&quest; You have lost your freedom of speech in this country&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The liberals have their ideology&comma; have declared their ideology morally superior&comma; and have declared that any who does not agree with their ideology is a bigot of sorts&period; &nbsp&semi;We the People are too afraid to speak our true feelings out of fear of a public backlash somewhere along the way&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These same people see a man standing up to that and taking his licks like a martyr for Free Speech&period; &nbsp&semi;And people love him for it&period; &nbsp&semi;You can see it in the way people have been acting lately&period; &nbsp&semi;They are losing that fear of being labeled offensive for speaking their true feelings&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A third reason is that Trump is saying what people have wanted to say but have been too afraid&comma; as per my above paragraph&comma; of the PC-culture&period; &nbsp&semi;The majority of Americans have issues with a porous border where people come across at will&comma; whether for good or evil&comma; instead of going through the immigration process&period; &nbsp&semi;Somehow&comma; according to liberals&comma; that is offensive and racist&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Incredible&comma; isn&rsquo&semi;t it&quest; &nbsp&semi;Being told you are a racist because you disagree with an unsecure border is like being called a genophobe because you disdain rape&period; &nbsp&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s a ridiculous argument but yet it&rsquo&semi;s perpetuated and enforced by the PC police&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump has made that stand on behalf of people who feel they don&rsquo&semi;t have the voice to speak their true feelings on the matter&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump is truly a phenomena&period; &nbsp&semi;He has upended our accepted ideas on politics and electoral process&period; &nbsp&semi;He has made Free Speech a thing cherished again&period; &nbsp&semi;He speaks his mind and does not apologize for it&period; &nbsp&semi;He says the things people want to say&comma; but can&rsquo&semi;t&period; &nbsp&semi;He calls for things that the people would support&comma; but won&rsquo&semi;t&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He is for the &ldquo&semi;Silent Majority&rdquo&semi; in this country who has been cowed by Soviet-style tactics of the liberal left&period; &nbsp&semi;That is why the man can do the things he does and continue to win&period; &nbsp&semi;Even if he loses this election&comma; he has done something important&period; &nbsp&semi;He has given you back the God given right to say what you want to say&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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