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In reply to the discussion: We must face reality. Trump is not a stupid man. Far from it. [View all]Caliman73
(11,760 posts)There is a problem with the SYSTEM. It is very vulnerable to people like Trump with wealth, power, and no ethics. When you assign Trump with "smarts", you give him more credit than he is due and you take the focus away from the SYSTEMS that fail us regularly.
Think about it this way, if Trump were not born wealthy, and had no connections yet he had the same pathologies of character, where would he be today? Would he have become president, or would he have ended up in the criminal justice system?
There are MANY MANY people out there just like Donald Trump, but they were not born with half a billion dollars to play with. They aren't useful to other powerful people because they do not have the material resources to remain close to power. Trump is a stooge, being used by powerful people. He does however, present a serious danger that we should not underestimate. People underestimated Hitler and his followers too. It isn't one person, it is groups of people that fall under the sway of a message and put their hopes into people with no morals and a desire for personal power.
We need to pay attention to both.