Monday, August 08, 2016

Voting for Trump to fix Congress?




Talking to more people about who Trump voters are and why they are voting for him, I was introduced to another reason that I did not know about.

It appears there is a group of Trump voters that are voting for Trump for the express purpose of “blowing” the government up. By “blowing” I do not mean literally but to “dramatically” alter the government as we know it because the government in its present state is just not functioning in our best interest.

I will agree that the Tea Party Republican Caucus has rendered the Republican Party totally impotent but strong enough to block any attempts at governance by the Democrats thereby making Congress a worthless institution.

The rest of the government appears to be working as usual so when they say they want to blow the government up I assume they are talking about Congress.

I don’t readily see why electing Trump would somehow “fix” the do-nothing Congress. Obama has tried his darnedest to get things done or move things along so it seems a president does not seem like someone that can make Congress function so am I missing something?

Now if Trump gets elected Congress will have to wake up to protect the country from whatever Trump dreams up to do.

If this group of Trump voters thinks Trump, as a nominal Republican, will make the Republicans in Congress do his bidding, well they are mistaken. Trump is not a Republican and does not think or act like a Republican so why would real Republicans in Congress follow his lead.

Republicans have been known to be hypocrites so maybe just being in power could persuade them to join Trump. This I do not know but maybe this group we are talking about is counting on that happening.

The normal way to handle our current do-nothing Congress is to get rid of all those Tea Party Republicans that were elected as a protest move that backfired badly and some states are actually doing that already.

Once you get “true” Republicans into Congress, business may actually get re-started but maybe people are just totally dissatisfied with politics as well as the whole political system and prefer to blow things up and start from scratch.

I agree with that sentiment; is Trump the grenade they are throwing in?





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