The above is the most important question of our time.
We see a huge swath of America – the “fly-over country” as it is known – that supports the bombastic, less-than-political resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This current President has propelled the markets to record highs, empowered businesses to expand and hire more workers, allowed businesses that were on the cusp of going under keep the doors open (and saving those hundreds of thousands of jobs), lit the fuse of increasing wages and cut thousands of needless regulations from the Federal Register of Regulations. Water is NOT dirtier….air is just as clean as it was before the current resident. Add the tackling of the major security issues of the day – NoKo and ISIS – and you have a man of achievement.
We also see a deep, blue streak along both oceans of strident opposition to the current resident of the White House. These denizens look to the more ethereal values as the measuring stick of acceptance. They value the emotional values of being “liked” and exuding a countenance of being “cool” and “hip” and other red carpet values. For the eight years of the last resident of the White House, we saw stagnant wages, the lowest labor participation rate in history, the majority of new jobs being part-time, foreign powers boldly blowing past our “red lines” and terrorism metastasizing around the globe. The urban elites, however, believe this incompetent President was the “be-all, end-all” who embodied all of the virtues they adore. Of course, these elitists live in a “Facebook” society where the measure of a person is how many “likes” and “followers” they have amassed – not what they have accomplished in life.
And that is the basic choice:
Do you want a person who will ruffle a few feathers but produce benefits for millions of Americans – making their lives better and providing a future for our children?
Or do you prefer the posing, incompetent who mortgages the future to implement policies glorifying non-achievement through give-aways to those who don’t work, runs from confrontation and leaves the heavy lifting (North Korea: Would any true “Leader” slink out of the White House while informing the next administration their most pressing issue is NoKo nukes – an issue he deliberately avoided) for those that follow?
The answer seems obvious.