heavyblinker
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ORIGINAL: Greta75 I am not a wealth worshipper. I simply respect that, it's not easy to be wealthy. It's not something just anybody can get there. It's a talent. Just like not everybody can win an olympics medal. For some people, it will never be possible. Because it takes a certain talent. Not all kids born to silver spoon are able to be wealthy. Because they could easily bankrupt their entire old wealth. It has happened many times. I wouldn't discredit his ability to maintain his problems. He had been in billions in debt, and bouncing back up. Even his own dad's wealth could not cover the debt he used to be in. I admire anybody who is able to do something impossible. Like I admire a cleaning lady who only made $600 bux a month, and is able to pay for her children's university education as well as save 800k for her own retirement. Again. Not something everybody can do. I don't know alot of people who can recover from billions in debt. Trump has done something quite amazing that many other pampered rich kids would have died and probably committed suicide from it. And whatever is happening with Trump with this election right now, is in the realm of impossible feats. Winning Republican Primary, was an impossible feat on it's own. I'd challenge anybody to attempt it. Even other billionaires or Millionaires. If Trump had taken his $40 million inheritance from 1974, put it in an index fund and simply watched it grow, his net worth would actually be higher today. It's not the most exciting way to make money, but it's the smartest... and yet Trump simply could not resist playing around with it for no reason whatsoever (except of course to serve his own ego). He is the very definition of wealth and privilege, and what's worse is he's also stupid about it. His bankruptcies HURT a lot of people who invested in him, and he doesn't even care... they didn't get their money back, and they weren't all wealthy either. They invested in him because he tricked everyone into thinking he was some sort of incredible success, but it wasn't real. He's a con man. His own words from one of his books: “For me, you see, the important thing is the getting, not the having.”-- so how exactly do you think he feels about the presidency? Do you really think he's interested in anything beyond not losing the election? He has absolutely no concept of what it is to be the president, doesn't care to learn, and is embarrassing the entire country, forcing it to reveal its profound stupidity. Of course, winning the GOP primary isn't easy... but he did it by catering to the worst impulses of the worst people in America-- racism, xenophobia, misogyny, antagonism, selfishness and ignorance. He is the end result of ignorance being considered equal to fact. He won because none of the other candidates could lower themselves to his level. He saw that people were stupid, angry, frustrated, hopeless, looking for scapegoats... and he stoked up their anger and frustration and hopelessness and has convinced myself and others that democracy is a terrible idea. So does that really make him a winner? No, it makes everyone losers. I knew that there were a lot of idiots out there but I never thought that the establishment would ever come so close to indulging them. I would honestly prefer rigged elections to the prospect of someone like Trump ever gaining power over government decisions. I'm really not happy about the wealth gap but now I realize I would be perfectly content to see the rich get richer if it meant the nasty, racist, scum of the earth people would feel marginalized by a tolerant, compassionate society... but now they feel validated. Their champion has arrived, he is leading one of the only two relevant political parties, and total, unforgivable ignorance is winning the day. Honestly Greta you seem like a nice person and I have no idea why you would want to support this 'man'.
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