Donald Trump: The Latest Strain of Political Cancer (by ContraSuggest):

The American people are a lost breed with no identity and no real legacy.  Our children's cultural inheritance is nothing more than a scorched earth.  You can be anything you want to be, we tell them.  But in a country where we have allowed objective morality and ethics to die of neglect in order to justify our own libidinous urges, we've put our children on a collision course with emptiness.  We've essentially taught them, since they're nothing more than apes with iPhones, that the fulfillment of their impulsive whims is limitless.  And so we continue to gleefully swim in the direction of the undertow flowing towards the secular/socialist black hole along the Potomac River.

Nature abhors a vacuum: enter Donald Trump.  There are so many phonies running around pretending to be things that they are not in these biblically inflected end times.  Donald Trump is the consummate, archetypal phony.  His political opinions are all over the board.  For the better part of the last 40 years he has expressed the views of a Progressive Democrat; then experienced a supposed conversion to conservatism on the road to capture the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.  In reality, he continuously shoots from the hip with the bad aim that comes from a lack of core principles, so his policy positions are a muddled hodgepodge of contradictions.  It's painfully obvious from listening to his nasty, cacophonous, and empty blather, that he understands neither the Constitution nor conservatism.  Since most Republican voters don’t understand those things either, Trump enjoys wide support within the party.  His loathsome personality, and perception as a political outsider have endeared him to the ignorant.  Half of what this insufferable gasbag spews contradicts the other half.  If Trump's knowledge of American history and politics were chocolate, it couldn't fill an M&M.  However, it would seem that Trump's zombie-like supporters are impenetrably ignorant, as he continues to rack up the lion's share of delegates in the Republican primary race.  And so, this political flim-flam man, empty suit, and dangerous cult of personality, who stands for absolutely nothing, marches ever-closer to the presidency.

Arrayed against the presumptive Republican nominee are a self-styled socialist and a progressive, (as if there's any real difference between the two).  If by now you don't recognize these as euphemisms for tyranny, then you're probably already backstroking toward the event horizon of that black hole.  But where does all of this leave conservatives in terms of the choice that we're most likely going to have to make at the polls in November?  Personally, I am well acquainted with choosing the lesser of two evils in presidential races.  Let's review; below are all the presidential races in which I've voted, the blue highlights denote who I voted for.  Particularly note the nose-holding done in 1996, 2008 and 2012, where I was forced to vote for inarticulate big-government technocratic Republicans in order to avoid bigger problems.               

1984: Reagan v. Mondale

1988: Bush 1 v. Dukakis
1992: Bush 1 v. Clinton
1996: Clinton v. Dole
2000: Bush 2 v. Gore
2004: Bush 2 v. Kerry
2008: Obama v. McCain
2012: Obama v. Romney


Why did I cast those votes?  Because, although there weren't huge differences between the candidates, there were enough differences to vote for one over the other.  I assessed that my choice would result in the country doing slightly less terrible than if I had selected the alternative.  Now, let's play a game.  I'm going to list a bunch of political policy positions and statements, and I want you to figure out which current presidential candidate has held or said them all.  Ready?  Here goes: supported TARP, the bank bailouts, single payer health care (expressed great admiration for the Canadian system, and wanted to abolish Obamacare because it didn't go far enough); supports private property seizure, supports and wants to expand federal Ethanol subsidies, favors a massive increase of tariffs, supported Putin's military incursions into Syria, believes George W. Bush was responsible for 9/11, has hired illegal aliens, claims to always have had a great relationship with Nancy Pelosi, gets along great with Harry Reid, and is in many ways very close with (Senator Chuck) Schumer, but has said that Ted Cruz is a guy that nobody likes and nobody trusts and that he’s a nasty guy who is sick and is a liar.  Donated campaign cash to Harry Reid; in 2008 said that Hillary Clinton would do a good job as president and donated a large sum to her campaign. 

So who has held all of these positions and said all of these things?  Donald Trump.  This begs the question, what the hell is the difference between Trump and the Democrats?  In the end not much.  At least we know what Bernie Sanders (aka Methuselah) will try to do as president; with Trump it will depend on his mood, making him the most unpredictable man to ever occupy the oval office.  This voting for the lesser of two evils thing is becoming untenable now that evil has taken on so many different faces.  For the first time in my life I'm considering not voting in a presidential election.