Last week, Donald Trump made headlines when he suggested that if Hillary Clinton is elected president, gun owners couldn’t do anything about her coming violations of the Second Amendment. He added, “although for the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”
Sitting behind Trump was a man by named Darrell Vickers. He gave a painful look to the person sitting next to him. Some thought the comment was about assassination.
Vickers was interviewed by CNN where he said that Trump should be ‘taken out to the woodshed, ’ although he still plans to vote for Trump. He asserted that we simply don’t say those kinds of things in public – those are the kinds of things ‘you say at home.’
The man didn’t denounce Trump’s comment — he simply said he shouldn’t have made it on stage. For a while, I’ve been writing about the ‘be nice’ crowd. The ‘be nice’ crowd is the millions of people who tell you one thing and do (or believe) another. Vickers is part of the ‘be nice’ crowd.
What was lost in last week’s fallout is that the Second Amendment is not about hunting or guns. It’s about the ability of the American people to defend itself against an oppressive government which our founders thought could become possible, even in America.
This Trump fallout reveals just how fake our society has become. Countless Republicans denounced Trump by succumbing to pressure from the media regardless of their true beliefs. It’s what the arbitrary rule-makers tell them to do.
Mr. Vickers believes that Trump should not appeal to his supporters using candor. For that we have Hillary, but I digress. Trump’s comment could have meant any number of things, but our country has devolved into assuming the worst with no benefit of the doubt. This is partly because most people think in deviant ways but are afraid to admit it. You tend to hear in statements what you think in your own mind.
The enemy wins when they are able to define the rules. Republicans and Democrats are defining the rules in numerous ways: what you can say to a gold star dad with deviant intentions, what’s in someone’s heart when they talk about a disabled reporter that was lying and, accordingly, defining the meaning of Trump’s Second Amendment comments regarding Clinton.
Clinton follows all of the political rules using a focus-group, tested message that handlers believe appeals to the majority of Americans. Few people investigate her pattern of distortion to ask, “is her ‘presidential language’ truthful?” We are told by many ‘experts’ that Clinton has one of the best resumes of any American, presidential candidate. We hear that Trump cheated his way to the top and didn’t earn his wealth.
Does it not matter to the country that Hillary Clinton has been caught in dozens of scandals, illicit behavior and has made more money, as a politician, than any other person in American history? I’m less concerned about words and far more concerned about actions.
Vickers pointed out that our culture has shifted from a dominance of candor and straightforward talk to a sea of manipulators competing for who is the best liar. The best liars are winning.
We all have a Trump inside of us. We have a strong negotiator who can hit hard and get deals done. We have a dreamer who can state the outrageous and actually make it happen. We have a person who gets angry and shows his/her emotions in the heat of the battle. Inside of us, we have a fighter who will occasionally step over the line to win. We are all like Trump. The difference is that we cage our purpose and abilities because society tells us we should. We become sheep and thus offended at the mere suggestion that we are being ruled by elites.
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Inside all of us is a person who can tap into their purpose and potential and achieve success and influence beyond our wildest imagination. In order to do so, we have to tap into the individualism, candor and bravado of the Trump inside all of us.
Fake people find success in moments; real people, like Trump, find success constantly.
I’m not offended by Trump’s comments even if some of them make me cringe. I see past the media’s jealous rage. Donald Trump has always performed beyond and exceeded the expectations of the naysayers. Clinton has exceeded as well. The results created by Hillary Clinton have always been far worse than anticipated.