When This Blows Over

"People can’t tell the difference between someone who sounds as if
he knows what he’s talking about and someone who is actually
serious about the issues."
This is an elitist view commonly shared by liberals… Liberals really
believe this supposed deficiency of American voters to be fact.
*Tellingly, that's how the Affordable Care Act was presented and sold to
the American public by its developers and President Obama.* Liberals
take it for granted that the public is stupid, ignorant, selfish and easily
swayed - it's the basis of all their entitlement laws, restrictions, policies
and bombast. Of course Trump is boorish - but to any clear thinker, so is
a Hillary Clinton; and she is far more skilled at bending the truth.
Maybe this speaks to the lamentable lack of obligation to good citizenship
of so many Americans. Many of these Trump supporters don't vote and find
it easy to condemn politicians in Washington. Yet Trump and other nonpolitician
aspirants have never done the heavy lifting of actual governance
or legislating and would almost certainly make awful political leaders.
In order to get a perspective on current events politically, perhaps two things;
either one might need to be born in the late '20's, or be a student of our history.
Love him, or hate him, Trump is forcing the political system to acknowledge
where they really stand ideologically. WWII brought this country together in one
common goal. One really had to live those years to understand the magnitude
of effort it took to mobilize on two fronts. We were as one. Not so much today. I
really view it much like the Middle East. We have polarized, and allowed
complacency to separate us in to 'tribes'. This is not the America that helped to
win WWII. This is the America that has not responded to the call of potential
invasion of a different kind. Yes, Trump is provocative, and unlikely to be
president, but he has definitely exposed the underbelly of what is eroding this
nation today.
What this all boils down to is an argument that says “Trump is saying and
doing all the right things, the things we want a leader to do, so, by god, we
have to find somebody else who will parrot his message.” Why is that?