Donalds, Demagogues and Despots

I guess I’ll start this article with a definition. Demagogue: noun - a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.

Here is a basic, logical and demonstrable fact. Biden, if you were depending on him for your freedom, is not going to save you from the bad guys. The evidence should be quite apparent because if you are on the political left, the political right is still a threat to you. Right?

I mean that if Joe Biden was our country’s savior and was as brilliant as his supporters claim he is, then everything would be great. Right? There is no excuse for a supposed brilliant leader to fail in this way assuming he is everything that he is cracked up to be. If he were right in every way, as his supporters claimed of him, then he’d be the greatest president ever and we’d all be free and happy.

Here is another basic, logical and demonstrable fact. Trump, if you were depending on him for your freedom, is not going to save you from the bad guys. The evidence should be quite apparent because if you are on the political right, the political left is still a threat to you. Right?

I mean that if Donald Trump were our country’s savior and was as brilliant as his supporters claim he is, then everything would be great. Right? There is no excuse for a supposed brilliant leader to fail in this way assuming he is everything that he is cracked up to be. If he were right in every way, as his supporters claimed of him, then he’d be the greatest president ever and we’d all be free and happy.

In the case of Donald Trump he would still be president if he was indeed everything his supporters claimed of him. The “GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER!!!” who was “RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!” would not, and could not, be defeated under any circumstances, by honest election or cheating.

Right?

How could someone who is so wise and brilliant ever be defeated? Unless the greatness of his wisdom somehow didn’t include the fact that people cheat when political power is at stake. Wouldn’t the greatest president ever have known this and compensated for it? Shouldn’t the guy who was right about everything have seen the outcome of the 2020 election and compensated for it to the effect of his victory? If he really was the greatest president ever then shouldn’t he still be president?

So now he is running again in 2024. Already I see the same old same old lining up. “Donald Trump is the only one who can save the country!”

Well, why didn’t he save it last time? If he in fact could, shouldn’t he have done so then? How did such a “brilliant man” get defeated by something as simple as political cheaters?

“Oh! But the Twitter files and the FBI suppressed the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and that swayed the votes of enough people to throw the election to the Demoncraps!!!” Either that or the voting machines were corrupted. Or Pence betrayed him. Or the States cheated in their elections. Or the Main Stream Media were against him. Or the establishment RINOs undercut him. Or he was subject to more abuse than any other president in history. Excuses for failure, all of them.

And your point then is that Super Trump, who his supporters are counting on to save the whole country, couldn’t handle something like that? Isn’t that the very thing a political superman should be able to handle?

Now it seems like I’m bashing Trump, as well as Biden. It’s true. I think they both deserve it. A good leader gets good results. Good results aren’t when your opponent wins and crashes the country into the ground. No excuses.

The only reason I’m talking about Biden and Trump is because they are the current issue.

Here is a basic, logical and demonstrable fact. Obama, if you were depending on him for your freedom, is not going to save you from the bad guys. The evidence should be quite apparent because if you are on the political left, the political right is still a threat to you. Right?

I mean that if Barack Obama was our country’s savior and was as brilliant as his supporters claim he is, then everything would be great. Right? There is no excuse for a supposed brilliant leader to fail in this way assuming he is everything that he is cracked up to be. If he were right in every way, as his supporters claimed of him, then he’d be the greatest president ever and we’d all be free and happy.

So…

Here is a basic, logical and demonstrable fact. Bush, if you were depending on him for your freedom, is not going to save you from the bad guys. The evidence should be quite apparent because if you are on the political right, the political left is still a threat to you. Right?

I mean that if George Bush was our country’s savior and was as brilliant as his supporters claim he is, then everything would be great. Right? There is no excuse for a supposed brilliant leader to fail in this way assuming he is everything that he is cracked up to be. If he were right in every way, as his supporters claimed of him, then he’d be the greatest president ever and we’d all be free and happy.

How about Clinton?

Here is a basic, logical and demonstrable fact. Clinton, if you were depending on him for your freedom, is not going to save you from the bad guys. The evidence should be quite apparent because if you are on the political left, the political right is still a threat to you. Right?

I mean that if Bill Clinton was our country’s savior and was as brilliant as his supporters claim he is, then everything would be great. Right? There is no excuse for a supposed brilliant leader to fail in this way assuming he is everything that he is cracked up to be. If he were right in every way, as his supporters claimed of him, then he’d be the greatest president ever and we’d all be free and happy.

Ditto; Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt, Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson, Taft, Roosevelt, McKinley, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, Garfield, Hayes, Grant, Johnson, Lincoln, Buchanan, Pierce, Fillmore, Taylor, Polk, Tyler, Harrison, Van Buren, Jackson, Adams, Monroe, Jefferson and Adams.

Every one of these guys had something that they were supposed to save the country from. Every one of them had supporters who said he was the greatest president ever and detractors who said he was destroying the country. Every one of the people who they ran against was either someone who was going to save the country from the ultimate evil or was themselves the ultimate evil from whom the country had to be saved from.

The only one ever elected unopposed was Washington, without whom we would likely not have had a country with our Constitution to begin with. Greatest president ever? He gets my vote for that and even he wasn’t perfect.

Presidents are not Gods. Presidents are not super heroes. Presidents are not saviors. There are none of them who are so brilliant as to be “RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!” Right about everything would include being right enough to prevent the other side from beating him. Right about everything would include following the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” rather than cranking up the national debt by eight trillion dollars, jumping on board with corrupt and tyrannical Covid “emergency measures” and banning firearms accessories by executive order.

The only being in the universe that is right about everything is God.

Did Donald Trump save the country the last time? If the answer to this is “yes” then why is Biden president? If the answer is “no” then why would someone think he would save it and make everything okay the next time around?

With regard to Biden, I have a half rotten potato in my cupboard that I think would be a better president. With regard to Trump, while he was very, very, very, very far from perfect (and again the evidence is in his defeat, stolen or not) in my opinion, he was a better president than Biden.

This is something that I hate to point out because it does not gain me any followers but it has to be said. Being a better president than a half rotten potato does not constitute being the greatest president ever. Really, it is kind of a low bar.

Demagogue: noun - a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.

The “savior of the country,” “the greatest president ever,” “right about everything,” etc., all of the way back to the beginning of the country are appeals to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people. Every single election cycle all of the way back contained the same arguments in some form or another.

I think we as a country have to take a step back and realize that there is no political leader who is going to save us. The second we start to go down the road that there is some great somebody who will come along and make everything alright, We the People cede our own power to demagogues. It will only be a matter of time until one of them is also a despot.

Presidents are supposed to be servants, not masters. Presidents have a written out list of things that they are and are not supposed to be involved in. That list of things is included in the Constitution.

How do I think a person should choose who the next president should be? Surprisingly enough my choices for president do not have anything to do with memes I see on social media that claim a past president did everything he promised when in fact he couldn’t even follow his oath. My choice is based on what the candidate says they will do when in office and how much of it is or is not supported by the Constitution.

It’s an objective standard.

If he says he’s going to put a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot I mark it as a reason to against him. If he says he’s going to take care of my healthcare I mark it as a reason to vote against him. The president of the United States is not there to provide for us by giving us other people’s money or stuff. If he uses executive orders to do things in violation of the Constitution I mark it as a reason to vote against him. Likewise if he says or does something that is in keeping with the Constitution I mark it as a reason to vote for him.

Between the Trumps and the Bidens all I keep hearing is that same old thing. They are going to give us this or that for their support and save us from the other guys who are an evil worse than the country has ever faced before. Forget the British. Forget the Nazis. Forget the Communists. Forget the “Civil War.” Forget the potential of nuclear Armageddon. The country is in more danger now than it ever has been… Or so they say. And we, now more than ever before, need our candidate to save us from the other candidate. And only our candidate can do it.

They are going to save us from ourselves and the country for us, rather than getting themselves out of the way so we can save the country for ourselves; which is exactly what the Constitution says they are supposed to do.

Someone asked me the other day what I thought would happen to the corrupt Demoncraps if Trump gets back into the White House. That’s predictable. The same thing as happened the last time he was in the White House. Four years later we will be again where we are now.

When it comes right down to it nobody is going to save us from the hazards of a bloated and dangerous government except us.

The next time you hear a political candidate talk take what they are saying and find what part of the Constitution authorizes whatever they say they are supporting. If it isn’t specifically listed in it then the 10^th Amendment applies and it’s supposed to be a power of the States.

You will never view any political candidate the same ever again.