Message #47721

[mccoy]

Steve, I do understand your animosity and that you would much rather like to have a president with an impeccable story of good behaviour and rectitude. That was Obama, a quintessential figure of a president. But do we like better an image, an icon, or we rather prefer substance?

Obama at the end of his mandates did not exhibit, with a few exceptions, overwhelming excellence as to ruling the USA. His global politics was catastrophic. He allowed the neo Marxists to spread out, with the subsequent virus of wokism, critical race theory, transactional theory and absurdities. He did not rein in these pernicious underlying currents.
In a few words, he kinda of failed as a president, in my view.

At the other spectrum, Trump is a convicted felon, he acts crazy at times, he says crazy things at times, really not a perfect figure of a president, but during his mandate there were no wars initiated, he started the Abrahama accords, he tried to uplift economy and so many more things which I do not know.

So, if there is a previous record of good outcomes, or just non-disastrous outcomes, why people do criticize him so harshly, demonizing him and comparing him to Hitler? I find no other logical solution than political enmity.

I have no knowledge that he raped any women. Unless it's a derogatory term to describe what other presidents like Bill CLinton, John Fitgerald Kennedy and many others did.

Again, Steve, I insist that there is some karmic issue between you and this figure, as detestable as he may be, the substance is not that of an antichrist at all. You may say: I don't want such a boor as a president, I understand it. But that's an ad-personam judgment, not an objective judgment on his policy.

I also understand that you have issues with some of his policies, like non-intervention on climate, like fossil fuels exploitation, demographic growth and so on. But these should be addressed separately from personal judgments.

You may say again, "I do not want a convicted felon as the POTUS." I may retort, "He was convicted according to judicial rules, and then he outsmarted the enemy judges by applying more rules issued by friendly judges. We need such a cunning person as the head of the first global superpower. We need him to tackle the real demons outside: Putin, Kim Jung, and Xi Jinping."