America has a problem. It has been such a force for the last 100 years it hasn’t had anytime to be afraid. And underneath the veneer of the great Republic that ever existed lies fears that have seeped there over a long period of time and accumulated. Presidents have come and gone. None of them have alivated these fears. In fact, they have repressed them and added more to the platter of everyday Americans: more wars, more conflict and more dangers.
But those fears still lurk and it hasn’t been until Donald Trump came to centre stage and awoken this beast within the hearts and minds of millions of Americans.
Love him or hate him The Donald has done something that no president much less presidential hopefully has done in a long time–to get the average American upset, riled up with emotions and one of the most powerful of them all: fear. But this isn’t a 9/11 fear, this is an honest to god right from the bowels of our subconscious-mind fear that Americans haven’t dealt with in such a long time that they have forgotten about having any fears at all. The fear is that monster under our bed. Its that shadow the around the window. Its that dark closet beckoning us to come and find out what’s there.
Trump has truly brought these fears out. The fear of immigrants, the fear of war, the fear of political inequality and the fear of a rigged election. These fears aren’t necessarily true and they aren’t fabricated from Trump’s mind. We want a wall by golly to keep those who will harm us out. We want to make America great again because we haven’t been staring down at our fears.
Trump is on his podium rambling, and finger pointing and blaming a lot of people for the failing of America. He wants answers and he wants Americans to demand answers and he knows they will continue to be unanswered because that’s how it’s always been. Donald Trump has dragged our fears from the deepest recesses of the average Americans’ mind and thrown it into the middle of the street and has yelled at us to look at those fears.
You can call him whatever you want. You don’t have to agree with him. He can be who ever you want: an enemy or a friend. But I can tell you Donald Trump knowingly or unknowingly has made America expose its irrational fears of immigrants or politicians and how the system is not working the way it should be working. He isn’t a calm reassuring voice like Barack Obama or politically savvy like Hilary Rodham Clinton nor he is like the great Presidents of yore like Abraham Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt. He’s a white rich man born with a silver spoon in his mouth that isn’t making apologies for who he is. It doesn’t look like he’s pretending because he says what he feels like at the moment and that has captured the attention of many Americans since late last year. The script has been tossed and the teleprompter neglected.
Trump is a reflection of what America has been craving: no bullshit. He has quickly become our therapist and the slayer of our fear–real or imaged–that has lingered in the average American for the last 100 years. He stood up in front of us for months and told us about these fears. He has told Americans how he will help them exorcise these fears and make America great again.
Although I am not American, I believe that if Trump is elected and becomes President his naivety and bluntness will give America a chance to start over on the global stage. He has promised to slay these fears and has become a strangely truthful voice in a landscape populated by truly corrupt politicians fueled by nothing associated with the American Dream. And Trump despite being wealthy is a fear-slayer that is also an outsider. And you know Americans sometimes like to give an underdog a chance albeit the distinct chance that the ballot machines may malfunction in Florida.
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