The one question on my mind about the current state of American politics is WHY people continue to support a candidate whose relationship with the truth is best described as fluid, who had demonstrated over & over a stunning lack of basic empathy, who has a vast fortune in spite of a spotty success rate because he learned decades ago to risk other people's money in ventures that rake him in millions, who has issues with apologizing, who embraces being described as a blue collar billionaire while he literally lives in a gilded tower with the most opulent of furnishings & possessions, who talks of the common man & appears to have no genuine connection with the masses.
Nothing of what I've described above is conjecture or opinion - each is a quantifiable fact.
A friend mentioned yesterday during a current events discussion that what we are experiencing in this election is nothing new, that we always vote from our feelings rather than our brain. True. But I cannot recall a previous election where the evidence before the electorate's eyes has been so defiantly rejected by the sense & sensibility of millions.
Why do people continue to passionately support a candidate who ballyhoos "America first" but is clearly all about ME first - ME most - ME best? Why? Why? Why?
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