One of my favourite poems in high-school was Walter de la Mare’s ‘The Listeners’ and it comes to mind when I read about Trump’s critics going hysterical every time he supposedly makes a campaign-ending statement.
“Is there anybody there?” asked the Traveller
“But only a host of phantom listeners … that dwelt in the house .. stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight”.
“Tell them I came, and no one answered, that I kept my word, he said.”
“They heard his foot upon the stirrup, and the sound of iron on the stone, and how the silence surged softly backward when the plunging hoofs were gone”.
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Unlike The Listeners in de la Mare’s poem, Trump’s Listeners are neither anonymous nor do they hide in the shadows; his Listeners are well known as they impatiently watch & wait for him to fatally slip up; their eyes focus in on him like an entomologist’s microscope on a bug.
When a perceived ‘slip’ comes – The Listeners’ eyes bulge in contrived shock and mocked outrage … they turn to one another, speaking in gleeful tongues, high fiving, trying to convince one another that this time Trump has gone too far and will not recover.
But then come the new polls showing once again that Trump’s popularity continues to rise.
And it’s back to the microscope awaiting his next pronouncement which will surely result in his undoing.
Why are the Left and indeed many Insiders on the Right aghast at The Donald’s success?
The major reason I believe is that he is their antithesis; they who like to tell others how to live and what to think cannot stand it when a ‘clown’ dares to respond to them in kind.
And the ordinary Joe and Jane are sick and tired of these Elites, Politically Correct Politicians and a Left Biased Media lying to them day in and day out.
Indeed, ever since Obama’s Election in 2008 the average American has watched in utter disbelieve as their once powerful and proud Nation has descended into irrelevance.
Its allies no longer trust it, its enemies no longer fear it and to boot – its national debt will exceed $20 Trillion Dollars, (more than its total GDP) when Obama’s term ends in January of 2017.
So America is not only broke but is a shadow of its former self. But the Movers and Shakers act as if everything is A-OK.
But of course everything is not okay:
- ‘Islamist Terrorists’ have declared war on America and yet the President cannot even bring himself to say who these Terrorists actually are while continuing to pretend they are just run of the mill criminals, bandits, and jv’ers.
- All the while its Southern US Border is a sieve.
- Guantanamo Inmates are cut loose to fight again.
- It has given Iran the right to build an Atomic Bomb at the end of 10 years – their stupidest decision yet.
- Followed closely with its buying into… or more appropriately… selling out to Climate Change Charlatans. So we go to War against a colourless, odourless gas used by plants for growth and the production of life-giving oxygen; a War wet hopefully lose.
And at every turn these self-styled Elites dismiss anyone who dares criticize them as racists, homophobes and the like.
In the face of this, Trump, has come along to poke these know-it- all-primadonnas in the eye. And I am particularly incensed when these Bozos compare Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler. Hitler, like Trump is an Egotist but the comparison ends there since Hitler was also a Psychopathic-Hater.
That said, as many of you know, I am not a Trump supporter - from the start, my preferred candidate has been and continues to be Marco Rubio and I still believe he will ultimately win out.
I am glad though that Trump has appeared on the scene to shake things up and get Americans focused on the really important issues – many of them set out above.*
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
* One issue that I did not specifically deal with above is with respect to Muslim Immigration. I would like to see a freeze on it until the War with the Islamic Terrorists is over. On the other-hand, The Elites’ /The Politically Corrects’ attitude is ‘the more the merrier’. So for you, the Reader, I pose the following:
Why is it that in Muslim dominated Countries Non-Muslim Minorities cannot be left to live their lives in peace?
THE COROLLARY -
Why would the West expect Muslim Immigrants to be able to live in harmony with others in their adopted countries?
