Ignore Donald Trump, Please

Even if a weird amount of good happened while he was president

There’s a part of me that’s continually surprised that people insist on giving Donald Trump airtime. That part of me is the one that believes that everyone is basically good. It’s the part of me that thinks people will make good, moral choices when provided with good information.

But that part of me is not right about politics. This is because politics are a system for people in power to remain in power - and they’ll only let new people in power if those newbies will help the fossilized power structures refresh and renew and strengthen. The obsession with seizing, increasing, and keeping power is fundamentally an immoral one, and that’s in direct opposition to people making moral choices for good reasons, based on correct and complete information.

I should probably talk about that politics stuff in another article. This one’s about the narcissist that is Donald Trump.

If you put any effort whatsoever into looking at Donald Trump’s history and past, you will see it’s riddled with immoral choices, bad business, self-obsession and inflation, and narcissism all throughout. The Apprentice was a huge hit because people like watching train wrecks out of morbid fascination. That’s the entire reason that show did so well.

Donald Trump is so obviously a narcissist and so blatantly is seeking the presidency - again - for the same reason he did the first time: because he wants attention and power.

He’s a smart narcissist. He knows exactly how to make the mostly left-leaning media lose its mind and give him constant coverage - and he knows precisely how to get the right-leaning media to boost him. He knows what to say, what to do, how to press people’s and media’s buttons - all of it. That’s what narcissists do: they learn to manipulate others for their own gain and for more attention and control.

How do you deal with a narcissist? How do you deflate them? How do you take away their power and send them packing?

Actually, it’s simple.

If leftists actually wanted to defeat Donald Trump, they would ignore him. There are some smart people on the left side of the aisle, and they have to know that. But they don’t want to defeat Donald Trump - they want to keep him on everyone’s mind and have their battle against his hOrRiBlE evil be front and center. It makes them look good and keeps people angry - on both sides of that manipulative and fake battle. Leftists are terrified of a reasonable, even-tempered, moral candidate who the people of America could actually get very much behind - so they’re propping up Trump so no other candidate gets enough airtime to capture the hearts of voters.

And the people on Trump’s side play right into the battle the leftists want - which is all entirely playing right into Trump’s key motivation: attention and adulation.

Ignore him. Stop reporting on him. Stop talking about him. Pretend he doesn’t exist.

Because leftists are so insanely devoted to the battle, rather than making actual positive change, that there are times the stuff I say sounds like I’m actually defending Donald Trump! And I can’t stand the guy. You see, when leftists set up straw man after straw man, and make up such egregiously stupid false narratives and then go all in on that stuff, it’s very hard to not call them on it. But calling them on their lies sounds like support for Trump.

As Trump loves and counts on.

Please send this immoral, philandering, corrupt, narcissist packing to retirement. Let him have a radio show like Rush had and his acolytes can spit and spew at each other in an easily-forgotten corner of the airwaves.

Then give us a serious candidate who will take on the national debt (Trump’s admin oversaw an increase of $8.18 trillion, Biden so far has overseen an increase of $4.7 trillion), foreign policy with both restraint and strong teeth, a complete overhaul of our immoral and anti-national security immigration system, an overhaul of our education system (DeVos was ineffective and kind of dumb), and a serious change to how we do economic and political business.

Ignore Donald Trump, please. He is not in this for you, me, our nation, or for any kind of altruistic reason. He’s in this for himself.

Maybe I’ll do a piece on Joe Biden too.