Richard Ojeda, a military veteran, former member of the West Virginia Senate and former candidate for the United States Senate, is one of the most common sense politicians I've ever heard from the state of West Virginia. He does a great job of commentary on the linked interview of a Trump supporter interviewed prior to attending a rally in Iowa. I honestly don't know if they pre-selected this person from among several interviews, or whether this just happened randomly, but they could not have picked someone better to characterize exactly what a Trumpie looks and sounds like when trying to answer questions of a political nature.
If that interview had been a high school civics test, she'd have earned an F, since she was unable to answer any of the questions with an actual fact. In fact, even with regard to the political position of her favored candidate, she was unable to actually answer a question about his position, or what he had done. She was unable to articulate a single fact or identify a source of facts during the entire interview.
She did an outstanding job of making a case for voters to support Joe Biden.
President Obama is Secretly Running the Country
Perhaps this explains why Trump seems to forget who he is actually running against, or the fact that he never did actually run against Obama, but keeps mentioning him in his speeches as if he ran against him and won in 2016, and is running against him now. I must admit, I've heard some crazy things from Trumpies (my personal nickname for his supporters) before, but this is a new one.
I will say this--if President Obama is secretly running the country, he's doing a fantastic job, even better than he did when he was actually the President.
I guess she hasn't noticed Trump having to be helped on and off stage, either by one of his sons, or by one of his aides.
So, What Exactly is the Problem with President Biden?
Asked several different times in several different ways, the only thing she could come up with was an accusation against Democrats in general, ruining the country with Communism, but socialism first. And when she couldn't come up with an example of socialism that was ruining the country, she shifted over to the "two million" illegal immigrants in the country that "nobody knows about." The interviewer didn't ask, but I'd like to know how she knows about them. Where'd she get that number? And how do we know if there are two million if nobody actually knows they're here?
Aside from that, she couldn't come up with anything. And she couldn't come up with any reason to support Trump, either, But, "God bless him, we need you," was what she said she'd say if she had the chance to talk to him.
Can it be That Bad? In This Country? In the Twenty-First Century?
Did you notice, in the background, the appearance of the people who were gathering for this particular Trump rally? Not in the kind of numbers he likes to brag about, obviously, but this must have been way out in the sticks in Iowa somewhere, to get even that many people together who all look like, as Ojeda suggests, they came out of the movie "Deliverance." Hillary Clinton's term "deplorables" came to my mind.
This is what we are up against, and why our constitutional democracy is in danger.
In a country with the kind of resources we have, the fact that people like this exist, walk around and enjoy the freedom that they have is a miracle, because their presence is an indictment on the effectiveness of our educational system. I'm sure that Ojeda sees this around him in West Virginia, and that makes him an expert in the "deliverance culture" so he can certainly identify and address the problem. But the bigger issue is how in the world is it possible to talk with these people reasonably? They not only are not educated, but have no respect for education, are unable to recognize facts and so, are vulnerable to any kind of scam that comes along.
Trump, from his life's experience in business, is a master scammer. Listening to this woman in the interview makes it easy to understand why some people are taken in. She is almost completely unaware of the reality of American politics, and her field of awareness and understanding is very limited. As she says, she's not very articulate, which is the result of not being very knowledgeable, and running more on feelings than facts. Avoidance is her defense mechanism, moving the conversation away from uncomfortable reality.
It is this bad. There are millions just like her. Fortunately, there are more people who have a better grasp of reality. Her conclusion, that Trump offers nothing, but she's going to vote for him anyway, says it all.
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