2/2/26: Update of post made on 8/9/15:
There's hardly not any comments on this blog. That's probably due to the fact that I ask people to identify themselves before posting a comment. That idea is to discourage abusive comments. It may have an unfortunate side-effect of no comments at all.
But there may be another way. Some posts get more clicks than others. This one seems to have come up. Ok, I'll use that, then.
It looks like I've changed my opinion of Trump from an earlier time. This post was written back in 2015. It must not have been long after he came down the escalator. I was suspicious of Trump initially.
It is probably true that there's a post somewhere on my change of opinion on Trump. Most likely it involved how others treated him a lot worse than he is treating others. Probably for that reason, I changed my opinion on Trump. If others behaved towards each other the way that I indicated that Trump should've, the country would be far better off. The fact is that they don't. The Democrats have been horrific in how they treat ALL their opponents. After all, they SHOT at Trump. They shot at Charlie Kirk too, and he didn't survive. Whatever Trump is, he's not THAT bad.
So there's that. Sometimes things aren't the way they're supposed to be. Trump may seem to have too many rough edges, but that lack of quality exists in a lot more politicians than just Trump.
George W. Bush was more of a gentleman, and look how they treated him. As I recall, they didn't treat his father very well either. The Dems couldn't get Reagan because he was too well-liked. They did run Nixon out of office. Eisenhower is the one that forced Patton to apologize. The left would've run off Eisenhower if they could've. You KNOW they would've. Or maybe not. Maybe standards have slipped a long, long way since those days.
I'll try to remember to look for opportunities like this to respond to the audience.
Thanks for your readership and feedback.
Patton may well have been the best combat general in the military during the Second World War. Yet, even he had to humble himself to an enlisted man. I think this was the correct thing to do. Why?
After studying the incident a bit, I figure that Patton was in the wrong. Actually, it was two men who were slapped, and both of them didn't do anything really wrong. One of the men was sent to the hospital, but not by his request. The other was definitely physically ill. Patton just lost his composure when he jumped to the conclusion that the men were shirking their duty due to cowardice. Slapping them and threatening to shoot them was definitely out of line. An apology was definitely required, or he couldn't continue his command.
So, what about Trump? Obviously Trump has something going for him. Like Patton, he is good at what he does. He is a successful businessman, and he may well be what the doctor ordered in terms of courage to face down an enemy. But to steamroller someone who is asking some legitimate questions is in no way acceptable if we are going to continue as a free society. There are no unfair questions to a politician, as far as I'm concerned. Trump has stepped out on that stage and must play by those rules.
Although there are no unfair questions to a politician, the way in which the questions are asked these days are indeed unfair. Democrats tend to get softball questions. Republicans get the tougher treatment. A complaint along those lines would be more acceptable. Going after Megyn Kelly for asking tough questions alone is bad enough. But to be insulting to her for being guilty of being a woman was is just way, way too much. Trump must apologize or he must get out of the race. He must do it the way Patton did it--- in front of the entire nation and in front of Megyn Kelly herself.
There is no other way to redeem himself. Our system requires that politicians be responsive to and subservient to the people. A man who considers that he is above it all is unworthy of being at the head of a free people.
