Public Comment

Prominent people in the Republican Party aren't backing Donald Trump in his desire to be our President. Recently, the two former Republican Presidents, George W. Bush, and George H.W. Bush, have indicated that they are not attending the Republican National Convention, also Mitt Romney isn't attending, and also, John McCain. And now, the House Majority Leader, Paul Ryan, has indicated that he can not endorse Donald Trump. Is this a case of Mutiny on the Bounty? What is going on here?  

Should we interpret this as a signal that Trump is too progressive? Or that he is too anti-establishment, and the corporate establishment, the corrupt cronies, and the people against change, are against Donald Trump, because Trump is just too revolutionary?  

None of the above. Trump isn't liberal. Trump can't even claim to be against the one percent, since, as a billionaire, he is part of the top .001 percent. No, this is something else entirely.  

The Republicans have turned their backs on Trump, because they don't want America to be ruined--it would put them out of a job and it would mean that their millions of dollars that they have would not be worth the paper it is printed on. Trump's proposals and his behavior frighten the Republicans, and the Democrats, and, anyone who can think, because it is very clear that there is something wrong with this candidate.  

It isn't that Trump is going to redistribute the wealth. It isn't that he is going to make everything better for common citizens and everything worse for the "establishment." It is a case of the U.S. going down in flames. Everyone is on this boat--if this boat gets sunk, every one of us will have to learn to swim. And that's why Trump is so scary.  

The Republicans and the Democrats don't have any interest in the U.S. becoming ruined, so both sides are in agreement, at least in this instance, that electing him would be disastrous.  

So, what is wrong with Donald Trump, anyway? Well, to put it bluntly, Donald Trump is a crazy person.  

Now, the last thing I want to do is to step on the toes of mentally ill people; good people struggling with bad illnesses, most with inherent dignity that goes unrecognized. It would be an insult to mentally ill people to give Trump a standard mental health diagnosis.  

Trump in many ways resembles persons with mania or who have a personality disorder. However, most people with mental illness do not have malice toward their fellow human being. Many may have delusions of grandeur--but much of this goes away once medication is introduced.  

Trump is definitely a Narcissist. He definitely has malice--toward anyone who isn't Donald Trump. He definitely has a poor connection with reality--as exemplified in his policy ideas, which completely will not work, and which will be a total disaster if put into effect.  

Trump promised that if elected, he will prosecute Hillary Clinton for the problem with the emails--this too much resembles politicians' behavior in oppressive countries, in which the persons who lose power are either forced into exile, or executed.  

Trump promised to deport all of the illegal immigrant workers in the U.S. In that case, who is going to do all the manual labor? You would need to release the prisoners from all of the jails and prisons, and put them to work. Is that what he plans? He hasn't said so. Who, then, is going to do all the work?  

And this is just the tip of the iceberg of Trump's proposals, ideas that are nice to think about, but which, realistically, would spell the end of life in the U.S. to which we are accustomed.  

Is this candidate mentally ill? Trump in many ways resembles a mentally ill person, but lacks good intentions, lacks the basic dignity that most of us have, and lacks the ability to concede error.  

Defeating Donald Trump is no longer a liberal vs. conservative issue. It is an issue of basic sense. Yes, he has millions of voters who adore him, who will vote for him, and who believe everything he says. However, millions of people are mistaken.