Donald Trump Doesn’t Believe In America

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by Goldie Taylor at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/01/donald-trump-doesn-t-believe-in-america.html

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It became clear in the hours and days that followed, as Trump engaged in public warring with Capt. Khan’s parents— people who dared question his draconian immigration policies, not to mention his familiarity with the U.S. Constitution—that he has precious little appreciation for our history or our traditions. He is abundantly comfortable, it seems, with placing his fragile, outsized ego ahead of our nation’s values. He certainly had no problem comparing his business pursuits, conducted in the garish confines of a New York office tower festooned in gold leaf, to the sacrifices made by members of our nation’s military on the battlefield.

Breathlessly posting insults to social media—using the sort of brutish rhetoric most common among gun-toting, Third World warlords— Trump revealed that he not only does not hold Gold Star families sacrosanct, but that he eschews the very nature of our highest ideals.

Trump does not believe in us. He does not share our values. Trump’s America is a decidedly bleak, dystopian wasteland that—without his leadership—will be invaded and pillaged by marauders. He, alone, is equipped to save us, at least according to him. His most ardent and demonstrable displays of patriotism are not to this country—not to our interest, both foreign and domestic—but to himself and his own interests.

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism,” George Washington told us in his farewell address, published in a 1796 edition of the American Daily Advertiser.

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[uponit7771]

1. Amen

[Hortensis]

2. Of course not, Goldie. Trump can't "believe" in anything.

He has no ideology, he has no values, and he is literally unable to care about anything but himself, and presumably those he sees as extensions of himself. He has a serious, disabling personality disorder.

Pointing this basic truth out to a nation that should be extremely aware by now is about as "new news" as noting, "Wow! our cats don't care about this country." But apparently still needed. The media's corrupt, almost criminally negligent "temperamentally unsuited" is not doing the job.

Btw, constantly contradicting himself, even from breath to breath, is a major characteristic of his disorder, and Trump does believe everything he says -- while he's saying it. Including when he says he loves this country, impossible as that actually is for him.