Sunday, November 13, 2016

Underdog Win!

Maybe it's because I've always felt like an underdog I was very happy the way the election came out. Contrary to what most of my liberal friends thought, I believed that Donald Trump had a chance to win the election. Even after he cast slurs upon every minority and ethnic group there is, I still felt that he had a chance. Even though I disagreed with many of the things he said and the way he said them and how rude and insulting he was I thought that he might have an opportunity to become the 45th president. And of course, you all know the results.

A couple people asked me why I felt the way I did about him, about his chances of winning. Really there are several reasons. The first one was that any man who has the ability to manage 500 companies has certain skills about him that the rest of us don't have. It takes a lot of ability to put together that much management talent and to get them all to work together. Another reason that I felt he might win is because even though he appeared to anger easily, he really didn't have very thin skin. Let's face it, when everyone in the world seems to be against you it is tough to keep from being depressed and giving up. Yet in Donald Trump's case his own party was against him as well as the whole democratic establishment – but he never let it get him down. In other words, he didn't take things personally.

No matter how badly he get beat up in the press, on television, on talk shows, he just kept trudging ahead without any hesitation.

Another reason that I thought he would win is because he didn't need the money. In fact, reports are that he put $100 million of his own money in his campaign. So that told me he wasn't being greedy. That he wasn't in it for the money. Ego and fame – maybe. But the rest of the reason he ran is maybe anybody's guess.

 No matter how you may feel about his crude behavior or treatment of others there is little doubt that he loves our country. And is tired of seeing it turning into a Third World Socialist Republic. Let us be generous and hope and pray that he is able to turn our country back into the great nation it once was.