Some day there may be chapters in history books (not in Texas) regarding the terrible, awful, mind boggling, horrible, very bad Republican Convention of 2016. It should certainly be an object lesson about what happens when you succumb to small minded bullies. McConnell, Ryan, ALL of the GOP endorsers, ALL of those who did not call this racist pig out, and all of those who embrace the same barely veiled hate for all things not white, old and monied and attack with such vicious joy, like Christie the unindicted felon, and Guiliani the self proclaimed hero who is broken heated it did not bring him higher office. The chapters will deal with the utter and complete incompetence of this campaign and this convention.
They can’t schedule, they can’t prioritize, they can’t run a plagiarism check like every college professor in the country and their students. This is a result of several factors in my opinion.
Laziness — running things takes hard work. The Donald just takes the money and runs expecting his minions and former partners to clean it up.
Intellectual indifference — what difference does it make — there are lots of words right? And lots of soldiers, bombers, countries, dictators, taxes, regulations, wing nuts…………
Organizational ineptitude — where do we even begin to start with this………….
It all adds up to INCOMPETENCE WRIT LARGE. This country has weathered many hard times and soldiered on. A revolutionary birth, a war to try to erase that revolution, a war to expand our manifest destiny, a civil war that almost killed the country, an expansion and growth unheard of previously or since, a world war that was the first of the modern age and killed unheard of numbers viciously, a depression that wiped out our banking system, the stock market, and the burgeoning American middle class, a second world war that was started by a fascist who’s diabolical cruelty leaves deep scars until today and who tried to wipe out a whole religion. The list goes on too, Vietnam, Gulf 1 & 2, the twin towers of 911, Afghanistan, Iraq, the crash and burn of the housing and banking & stock markets, and now Isis & the entire Middle East mess. ALL the challenges America has had, America steps up and perseveres, figures it out and does the hard work of governing, living and prevailing.
Does anyone think for a minute that this Trump Three Stooges franchise could handle any of that? Does anyone think for a minute that they will know how to handle Putin in the Crimea or how to reach an agreement with him to push Assad out? Does anyone think for a minute that his tax cuts will help average families, or that we will have access to affordable health care. Does anyone think for a minute that he will actually pay attention to what is going on?
I don’t. Not him, not his advisers, not his family, not his apprentices. I read once and I forget who said it, but the comment was “It is not as important who the actual president is as it is who the 1500 people they bring with them are.” I find that terrifying.
The most important issue in this election is not the economy, or Isis, or Hillary’s server, or BLM, IT’S THE INCOMPETENCE STUPID! Because without basic competence and accountability we can’t possibly fix anything else.
