If the average Trump voter wants a strong man, then I am not the average Trump voter

I voted for Trump in the Texas primary.  I also wrote this post, which illustrates my point.

                               Federalist Papers v Anti-Federalist Papers

I wrote that the presidency is too strong.  How does somebody want to weaken the presidency and be for a strong man?  Of course I'm not for the strong man.   Yet there are so called conservatives who are for a strong presidency.  Try to square that one if you can.

How to lose an argument you should win

The conservatives seem  to be about principles.  They are really proud of their principles.  So, they say it is wrong to advocate violence in order to remove hecklers from a political rally because their principles just won't allow them to stoop to such oafish behavior.

But I don't agree.  If somebody is forcefully taking away my rights, then I feel that one must respond to that in a likewise manner.  A heckler isn't there to listen politely, and ask questions in a civil way---no they are there in order to disrupt the proceedings.  By doing so, they are depriving those in attendance from exercising their rights to participate in the process.

If you don't treat the hecklers forcefully, then why will they leave?  The answer is that they won't.  Force is necessary.  Therefore, to complain about the use of force is rather hollow.  Are we expected to believe that the conservatives will do nothing to stop them if the hecklers decide to come to their rallies?  None are said to have done it, but wait,  I think they have at some point.  Did they just sit around and let them disrupt their rallies?  They wouldn't allow it if it became a problem because then their supporters would lose confidence in them.  For instance, if they won't provide security for their own rallies, then what will they do when they have the reins of government?  In order to maintain credibility, they have to have security at their rallies.  No way they let hecklers disrupt their meetings whenever they want.

So they say some rather meaningless words about how it is wrong to shut down a Trump rally.  Does not a heckler do the same thing ( shut down a rally ) in principle?  The conservatives don't like Trump, so they just wink at the hecklers.  As long as the hecklers don't come after them, that is.

In other words, they don't care about it in principle because it doesn't affect them.  At least not yet.  But if they can shut down a Trump rally, then why can't they shut down a Cruz rally?  Just because Cruz is "nicer", they won't come after him?  Do you really believe that?

The conservatives expose their alleged high mindedness as nothing but hypocrisy.  If they cared that much about everybody's rights, they would condemn the hecklers and defend Trump.  Instead they join the hecklers until they have to say something in order maintain credibility, but now it is too late.  Their credibility is shot.

Alone in the Wilderness

Saw the video with the title above maybe a week ago, and then today, I found the same video as part of a playlist.

Some of the man's philosophy is what I'm discovering at a late age.

Maybe better late than never.

One should question one's assumptions from time to time.  Perhaps you can learn something.

Shame on the GOP

To let themselves be duped by left wing propaganda, and to be so spineless and weak



The alleged Trump violence serves the propaganda goals of the far left.  Why fall for this?


Update several hours later:

I am dismayed at how weak the response is from the so called conservatives.  Come to think of it, I have noticed it before.

Hitler comparisons

Those who are inclined to smear Trump as another Hitler ought to read William Shirer's book about the real thing.  Here's a quote from the book of one of Hitler's deeds as he rose in the ranks of German politics prior to becoming Chancellor and starting World War II.

from page 70

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These uniformed rowdies, not content with keeping order at their own Nazi meetings, soon took up to breaking up those of the other parties.  Once in 1921 Hitler personally led his stormtroopers in an attack on a meeting which was to be addressed by a Bavarian federalist by the name of Ballerstedt, who received a beating.  For this, Hitler was sentenced to three months in jail, one of which he served.  This was his first experience in jail and he emerged from it somewhat of a martyr and more popular than ever.  "It's all right", Hitler boasted to the police.  "We got what we wanted.  Ballerstedt did not speak".

Compare this to those who boasted about shutting down Trump's rally in Chicago, and then ask yourself who is the more apt to be compared to the Nazis.

Now if some hotheads got their way, they would retaliate against these, but to do so would confirm them as no better than Nazis themselves.  If Trump was foolish enough to let himself get mixed up with that, then he deserves to lose.  If he was smart, he would call for restraint, and let this sink in with the public who it was that broke up the rally, and should we applaud it or condemn those responsible.  As for now, Trump is not the responsible party.

Violence at Trump rallies

Another disappointing thing to me is how the so called conservatives are criticizing Trump for the violence at his rallies.

Sorry, but everybody has the right to self defense.  The people going to those rallies in order to cause trouble are the ones who are fascists.  If they go there to stop the rally from taking place, then they are interfering with everyone's rights at that rally to express their own political views in a free society.

Calling Trump a fascist for defending his own rallies is about as wrong headed as you can get.

It was the Nazis who broke up opposition party rallies in the run up to their totalitarian Hitlerite grip on Germany.  Those who try that stunt in America should get their asses kicked.  And the GOP should be applauding it instead of criticizing it.

But that's what's wrong with the GOP.  Not the "Grand Old Party", but the Godawful outlandish pussy party.

Maybe they ought to go away after all.  Wouldn't bother me.


Update:

Ted Cruz is starting to bug me.  My vote for him is not guaranteed if he gets the nomination.

You can't change a made up mind

Or to put it another way:  A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

Why bring this up?  Well, I was reading an Ace of Spades post that was anti Trump, and I was thinking about responding to that.  But as I said lately, I haven't been responding to these kind of things lately, because it gets a bit tiresome.

It is like that because I think I would be going up against a made up mind.  There are people in this world who can make up their minds about something, and that's that.  There's anti Trump people out there who are going to be anti Trump regardless of anything he says or does.  There's no way of convincing them otherwise.  So why respond?

Still, there are those who will say that I have a made up mind about Trump.  Or that I was for him at the beginning.  There are a lot of things that get said that aren't necessarily so.  There are things about Trump that have bothered me a bit.  I worry somewhat that it could be a mistake to elect him.

The thing is that my mind isn't that made up.  I can be convinced.  Only their arguments do not convince me.

Besides, it is too late for Texas anyway.  I already voted for Trump, and I do not regret it.

I wonder if guys like Ace are really open minded about Trump.  Or if their reaction to him is more visceral than factual.

Ace says Trump doesn't know what he is talking about.  But as I read his piece, I get the sense that he doesn't like Trump because he thinks Trump is dumb.  Yeah, the impression I got may be something akin to what you would hear from a snob.  Trump just isn't one of our kind of people type argument.

You cannot change that no matter how hard you try.  Even if you had somebody explain in a way that Ace couldn't fault for its eloquence, I would say Ace would still not be convinced.  This isn't based upon reason.  It is a visceral reaction.

It is not visceral with me.  I watch somebody and I have my reasons for not liking them.  Like Rubio.  Show me where I am wrong about Rubio, and I may well change my mind.  I will change my opinions when the facts warrant.

I don't get that with Ace.  I'm sure that there's nothing I can say that wouldn't make the slightest difference.  It is disappointing.