Focusing On the Campaign

The Greene for Representative Committee is focusing on the campaign, and solutions to problems, like unemployment, housing, infrastructure and the upsetting of the environment, among others.  Trying not to get sidelined by squabbles with columnists and people that don't particularly want solutions to the problems of commoners, but may be more interested in grandstanding; we'll save that for the comments section, the on-line footnotes.

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Bob Roegner got up on his smug, moralist "columnist soapbox" and all but called President Donald Trump Hitlerian last week, which besides being absurd, does a disservice to the word "hyperbole." The president's most renowned non-politically correct utterances, even crude at times, that come every-once-in-a-blue-moon, are not particularly racial, unless someone wants to twist them that way to advance their own anti-Trump politics. Unfortunately, for Roegner, it's going to strain his credibility to call out the president this way, when it's obvious it's all about politics.

As far as I can see, Trump's run-of-the-mill when it comes to presidents' mindset on race, there are no saints among this group of 44; nonetheless, he reaches out to different races and hires people across the board for top-level positions. Exceedingly better Trump's sometimes Archie Bunker-esque candor and faux pas than regime-change invasions of countries, for reasons that have no national imperative, as with Bush II (Iraq) and Obama (Libya). Taking apart someone's fairly mundane or possibly crude words about one thing or another, and parsing them out so that they can be placed in a nefarious Political Pandora's Box, something that can be done with just about any politician, or anybody that just speaks or writes a lot, is too easy.

Probably 99% of the world's people have one form or another of other-ism (you don't ascribe to some large group that's different from you, not necessarily race-related). Other-ism has many forms, the good kind, such as forming a family or a nation, and being loyal to them, the practical kind, such as forming a neighborhood watch group, and the bad kind, such as forming a group banded around hate. We don't need "Rogue-ner's" demagoguery to tell us what we already know; there are very few saints.