August 2015. Anyone who loves America easily sees why Donald Trump leads in polls. One reason. Look at the big picture.
As America moves from tolerant and politically correct to an America
that's fraught with discontent and despair, people look for blame,
reasons to understand and soothe their pain.
Who or what caused this feeling of hopelessness? How can HOPE be restored to the home and hearts of America?
More than any other generation, people of all ages, from tots to senior
citizens, have access to current events. From radio to television, main
stream news to cable news, the Internet, social media, cell phone apps
and email, not to forget the increasing violence in movies, mini series
and video games — violence is everywhere.
It invades our lives, soaks into our being and gives unhappy Americans permission to act out frustrations.
That's only half the equation, isn't it?
The WORLD we see makes Americans ache. The little corner of our world, our communities and neighborhoods, our home, takes our breathe away and not in that good way.
When violent people threaten American lives, it hurts, makes us afraid. When criminals rape our women, murder our children, behead Americans on TV, when freedom is diminished by our own government doing nothing, it wears the hardworking American SPIRIT down.
But that's not all of the story either, is it?
Life can deal a big blow, can't it? A debt-ridden American economy strikes hard when families least expect it.
Americans have trusted government politicians too long. Who thinks our government will suddenly do something different than it always has?
One day, you graduate from school and can't find the job that matches your education. Moms and dads get cut from companies that downsize, relocate across the border, even close down altogether.
When there's no paycheck to pay the mortgage or car payment or basic needs, it crushes the American soul, doesn't it? Some people feel anguish, hollow. Some cry into their hands. Others do worse.
It's not easy to say the way it is. No one wants America to feel HOPELESS, yet many do. No one should ignore that, should they?
Healthcare costs that were once a burden to America's wallet are now a hardship. From forced participation, unreasonable monthly payments to high deductibles, it's a huge HARDSHIP for many families, isn't it?
Being FORCED to signup for medicaid to qualify for healthcare credits and lower payments is a SLAP in America's face. It strikes at the PRIDE of Americans.
It causes people to feel WORTHLESS… less than able to take care of themselves, flourish from the sweat of their own labor, pay for what they need, themselves. Most Americans do NOT want a handout.
That's always been the American way despite misguided progressives forcing the "handout" down America's THROAT -- Good people choke on the INDIGNITY feeling that it's demeaning.
Young people see America's wounded Veterans on TV. They agonize over the broken arms and legs, and then they hear how America's brave men and women Veterans are treated. Disrespected. Made to wait for days and months for needed healthcare when they didn't wait a second to step up for America. Veterans are NEGLECTED by our government led by the United States military's so-called Commander in Chief. It's depressing.
The humiliating public debate over abortion and whether conception is a fetus or a baby demeans women. Why is it the government's business and why is it alright for politicians to speak openly about something so very personal to a woman. Shouldn't the right or wrong of abortion be left to the woman, clergy and the courts. The "national" debate invades a woman's sensibilities. Young people witness the narrative and who knows how it affects their hearts and minds. Whether pro or con, the public conversation feels depressing to many. Is it the government's job to govern women in so intimate a way?
Of course, there are other issues that politicians think they have a right to discuss publicly, but should they?
It may have taken a few years. It may have taken President Obama and his socialism policies, but Americans do NOT want to be dependent on government and do not want politicians controlling lives, making personal decisions for them. No more. Not anymore.
Americans want their American Dream. Period.
What many Americans see as the permitted LAWLESS behavior of both individuals and State governments, upsets people. America is supposed to be a country of laws. It's DEPRESSING.
Too many American voters, 30% of registered voters, did NOT even vote in the 2012 election. "Why bother," they think to themselves. "The political machine is stacked against us."
Too many good people believe America is not as great as it once was. There's no hope to achieve their American Dream.
Both of Washington's political parties have sewed up the process, kneed down to lobbyists and special interests -- and it's not to help the American people, is it? No one has evidence of that.
The bow down to special interest groups and obedience to chieftains who lead the political parties, the old guard who have been re-elected time and again, "they all" pronounce the way it is, and the newly elected do as they're told. They know all too well what happens to their "political career" if they don't.
Families SUFFER without hope on the horizon. Men feel DESPERATE. Women feel DISENFRANCHISED. Young people feel DISILLUSIONED.
People act out, shout, raise their fists, riot and loot and burn down buildings. Some form protest marches and wave signs. Some murder innocent children, Christians praying, runners running in a marathon, workers doing business in buildings.
Professionals and experts offer up their reasons that sound plausible. Blame goes to labels like racism, mental disorders, access to guns, lack of religion, terrorism, jihad.
The REAL reason that fits all of it is despair. The feeling that life is HOPELESS unless they act. Do something.
Psychotherapist, Dr, Karen Ruskin, agrees. Ruskin disagreed with The Factor's Bill O'Reilly, last evening. O'Reilly believes it's nihilism, a lost of moral principles stemming from the decline in religion in America. O'Reilly also quotes the "me" mindset, which is more narcissism, excessive self love.
Certainly, threads of nihilism and narcissism and the other labels can be a catalyst, but Dr. Ruskin makes more sense when she sticks to her analysis that the root cause is the loss of hope.
Desperation is all over, all around, and hope is NO WHERE.
No one argues that desperate people do desperate acts.
When America's young people leave this great land for ISIS, our leaders, pundits and politicians still don't see it.
There are a million reasons from the obvious to the subtle. Americans have LOST hope, and if the attraction of America's youth to ISIS doesn't prove how depressed America has become, nothing will.
The "left" had their chance. The liberal mentality doesn't work. So called "progressive" ideology doesn't work. Socialism doesn't work. Not in America. Not anymore.
American people have been thrashed. The Obama ideology and Bush and the Clintons and the "old guard" politicans in both parties have oppressed this great nation long enough.
Do you feel depressed about America and your future? Or do you think everything in America is just peachy keen?
Any American who supports the "party guy" supports the status quo. The status of despair and desperation. That's NOT good for the future of America, is it?
The DISCONTENT has to stop. The mindset that causes people to riot and murder and defect to ISIS has to stop.
How can anyone believe a politician who reads from a teleprompter script that someone else wrote?
How can anyone support a candidate who is the epitome of politics as usual? It's not about solutions or decorum or adhering to the "way it's always been done." It's about hope, a vision for a better America. For Americans. For our children. Today. Tomorrow.
Donald Trump leads in polls because he stepped up, cracked open the door, and America sees the light of hope. Real HOPE.
It's not Whites or Mexicans or Blacks or even Illegals. It's not Women, either, or even America's Veterans.
It's everyone. Everyone wants to feel hopeful.
The good in everyone doesn't want to feel HELPLESS. Not anymore. "We the People" finally have a chance to speak and be heard, change things, make America great again.
Woe to America if the Washington machine and their paid pundits rob the American people of their HOPE. Woe to America if that happens. Desperate people will become more desperate. That's just common sense. It won't be pretty.