We Get the President Who Acts Like We Do
I can’t watch Donald Trump speak anymore. Not because he’s a turd of a human being or that I disagree with most of his views on things. I can no longer listen to him because it’s embarrassing. This greedy, insecure troll is my president. He is the president of my country. An asshole with a persecution complex and no shame in the hopelessly ignorant spew pouring from his gaping maw.
Donald Trump is greedy. He is thin-skinned and easily offended. When wronged, he seeks revenge and usually uses social media to exact it. He is inarticulate, jumps to erroneous conclusions, exudes crassness like it is perspiration. He is sexist, bigoted, and a master manipulator. He unashamedly consumes fast food (so he’s overweight), is so vain that he wears orange skin toner and affects the most transparent hair disaster imaginable.
He has little understanding of the workings of government, of compromise, of basic ethics.
In other words, he’s exactly the mirror image of most Americans (including the extremist white supremacists and the Bohemian Woke).
Regardless of who voted for him, enough votes were cast for him to make him our president. Rather than vote for an extremely intelligent, highly capable but overwhelmingly dislikable woman, we voted for ourselves.
Perhaps (I mean, c’mon, we should at least try something different from 2016, amiright?) we should start from the ground up. Try acting presidential ourselves. Be more like your favorite president in demeanor and focus. Be the president you want to vote for.
What are the qualities of a president that we could all rally behind?
Thoughtful.
All inclusive.
A deal maker between two opposing ideologies.
Articulate.
Kind but firm.
Honest.
A scholar of the Constitution, the law, ethics, and international diplomacy.
Compassionate rather than vindictive.
Forward thinking.
Pragmatic.
Willing to make mistakes, own them, and correct them.
I submit if that’s the kind of President we want we should start by doing our level best to embody these qualities ourselves.
Or we can vote for another asshole or the same asshole because we are those assholes.
