WILL THE SILENT MAJORITY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

            In two weeks Americans will elect a new president. The last Presidential Debate is now in the history books and both sides claim victory. The campaign for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton continues to wallow in the mud pit and nobody seems interested in important facts or the issues most urgent to the United States economically, socially, or what is most important to the welfare and safety of its people.

            According to the pundits and poll takers it is all over for Trump so everyone should get used to four years of extended Obama care in all its facets. Yet there still may be a fly in the ointment; The Silent Majority.

            Reviewing history November 3, 1948 proved a historical landmark. It was on this date that the Chicago Daily Tribune blazed the headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman.” Only one problem—Dewey lost!

            Harry S Truman, a Democrat, was the incumbent president. He was elevated to the office of President of the United States after President Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly died on April 12, 1945, during the later stages of World War Two. As the 32^nd president, he had been elected to his fourth term and the burden of office finally took its toll. He died at his retreat at Warm Springs, Georgia of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Truman was his vice president and on notification of Roosevelt’s death he found himself as America’s war-time leader.

            When Truman took office he had no idea of exactly where the United States stood as far as foreign relations regarding Russia, England, France or China, or anything to do with the atomic bomb which was nearly ready for warfare. The war with Japan was raging and the United States was preparing for a bloody high casualty assault on mainland Japan following the invasion of Okinawa.

            After Truman was finally briefed on the atomic bomb he made no concessions; Japan was to immediately quit the war or the bomb would be dropped. He had no intentions of spilling American blood trying to invade the Japanese homeland. So, the order was made and a B-29 bomber named the “Enola Gay,” piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets, flew over Hiroshima and dropped the first nuclear bomb in history thus opening Pandora’s Box.

            A few days later when the Japanese government refused to surrender a second B-29 piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atomic bomb. The estimated deaths of those who died in the explosions rose to a number of more than 199,000.

            Truman had no regrets about his decision to the use of atomic bombs. Military experts believed that in order for America to invade Japan U.S. loses would have reached at least a million causalities.

            When the bombs were dropped there was a sense of euphoria that quickly passed when the number of Japanese deaths was reported.

            And that was when Truman started to lose the support of the American people. Coupled with the ending of war thousands of servicemen returned home to an insecure future. There was no housing, no jobs and no idea of where the nation was heading in its post war years.

            The ironic thing was that in 1948 when Truman ran against Dewey it was expected that this untried former vice-president who was never elected to the presidency would be easily defeated. But something stirred the heart of the American people; they were willing on going along with this brash, sometimes foul-mouthed, stubborn man and trust him to continue to lead. With that election history was rewritten when the “silent majority” showed up at the polls and contrary to everyone’s expectation, Truman returned to office.

But things are different today. In our present we have an elite group of politicians, an arrogant self-serving media and an inbred system of corruption never before seen in former times. There is no such thing as “America for Americans” anymore and regardless of the scandals, lies and political double talk by Hillary Clinton, our country’s citizens seem to hold to the old idea that “anything goes,” is alright.

It seems that Americans have little or no regard where the country is heading. Yet some 74 per cent say that we are heading in the wrong direction but seem willing to continue down the same old path even though the consequences may prove disastrous.

And there are those who say they are disgusted with both candidates but still not sure where they stand on Election Day. But there is a buzz in the background; in Florida early Republican voters casting their ballots outnumber the Democrats. Trump who gathers thousands at his events continues to be popular with the masses. How many of these folks will show up on November 8? Most of them it is believed.

It will be interesting to see if the “silent majority” shows up in enough numbers to make a difference. This could be another “1948.”

WILL THE THIRD DEBATE BE A KNOCKOUT PUNCH?

            With the third and final Presidential debate only hours away who wins is paramount. Donald Trump is trailing in the polls and is hampered by unsupported allegations by nine women claiming he made inappropriate sexual advances to them. This strategy by the Clinton campaign is keeping him on the defense.

 On the other side however are the WikiLeaks revelation of Hillary Clinton’s email scandals that show how deep her corruption runs such as how she has continued to lie to the American people regarding her numerous cover-up attempts to destroy evidence requested by Congress, destruction of cel phones and other unlawful activity. As Secretary of State she violated her oath of office as proven by the Congressional Benghazi hearings, the “pay to play” money paid to the Clinton Foundation by foreign interests, and much more.

As far as Trump is concerned Hillary Clinton attacks him on a single point—his temperament! This includes the infamous tape of his vulgar comments to Billy Bush about women which allegedly makes him out as nothing but a sex-crazed goon. It’s interesting to note that the women making the accusations surfaced in a coordinated fashion just before election time and none of them ever filed a police report. If any of the claims are true it’s impossible to prove at this point of the campaign.

So the American people have a choice; do they want a proven, corrupt lying professional politician who has managed to accumulate a fortune at the people’s expense or do they want someone who has honestly earned their wealth by creating thousands of jobs, actually built things and proved his success in business but happens to like beautiful women?

The real problem with Trump is he is not an insider,

Many Republicans who make a living time after time again with promises of great things (and never seem able to deliver) belong to the outfit known as “The Grand Old Party.” Maybe it is time that those folks who belong in either party (the Democrats) who seek their individual power and fortune over others need to be replaced.

It’s just a thought.

The America people selected Trump over numerous other candidates for a reason. They want their country to take another direction and they are tired of the same old political hacks coming around every two to four years asking for their votes. True there are some in political office who do care for the country and the people but they appear to be few in number.

“Lawmaker” is the title those in office cherish. Their main job is passing laws. It seems little matter if the law is good or bad. As long as it is a law then they did their job! And this is what Clinton cherishes. She makes no bones that she is in favor of a One World Government, restriction on religion, more liberal abortion including late term, continuation of Obama Care, and much more.

Her idea is the subjection of the American people to her views. And the outcome is more power and wealth for her and her husband Bill.

Trump on the other hand is something else. Money isn’t his goal—he has plenty of it and he has proved that he is willing to spend his own fortune on his campaign without dinging the people. He now accepts donated money and is grateful for it. But in comparison to Clinton who has not spent a dime of her own money to run for the presidency, he also has proved a deep love and appreciation of the average guy and gal who are trying to stay alive in a stagnant economy.

Listening to people being interviewed on television gives you an idea of how far from reality the majority of those questioned are. Some can’t even identify who the current vice-president is. Asked why they would vote for Clinton many of the college kids say that it is time for a women president! Issues never seem to attract their attention.

Yet with the world in the condition it is in, the threat of war exploding beyond the borders of the Middle East, ISSIS running wild, radicalized terrorists killing innocent people throughout the world even within our own country then what is the solution? Trump wants to make America great again; Clinton wants to continue down the path that has led to nothing but one disaster after another!

So the clock ticks. Every hour brings us closer to Election Day giving voters the choice between someone who wants to continue down the current path to nowhere or the selection of someone who wants to answer the cry of the American people to make a change for the better.

This last debate will center on personality and insults by Clinton who will drudge up unfounded assaults against Trump and do everything within her power to dodge issues that are most important to the well being and safety of the United States. Trump, however, may be gearing up to deliver a knockout blow that will force people to wake up and smell the roses! Personality defect is one thing but corruption of office is another and Clinton has plenty of experience in that field.

HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE

            The disclosure of a video of Donald Trump making disgusting and vulgar comments about a female host has smothered every major news outlet in the country since last Friday. Last night, October 9, at the outset of the second Presidential debate he stepped up to the plate taking responsibility and apologizing to the American people.

            That should have been the end of it but the left-leaning media won’t let go even though the incident happened more than 10 years ago. People change. Who we are now, compared with the person we were a decade ago, isn’t the same person. That applies to everyone!

            Smacking with self justification and posing as leaders of moral purity the beat goes on within the Republican Party. Hypocritical positions, it should be noted taken by these folks, is no stranger to the truth of the matter. It would be interesting to know the number of these self righteous critics gloating about the tape who are secretly guilty of the same sin.

            What comes to mind is when Jesus Himself, who was confronted by a mob on the verge of stoning a prostitute, was asked if he justified the killing? In response he said,”…He who is without sin cast the first stone.” The mob dropped their stones and quietly dispersed and the woman was spared.

Can Trump’s comments be justified? No. Does he regret the comments? Apparently yes. Has he learned a tough lesson? No doubt. But all of that is the frailty of a human being. There is nobody on earth who hasn’t said or thought much the same thing—and in reflection all of us are ashamed of such lack of virtue.

Yet the media won’t let go. And it can be assured that this is only the tip of what Clinton and her campaign have managed to dig up. She can’t run on policy or accomplishments. She can only rely on slandering opponents—and at that she is very good!

But what is more interesting are the pious, righteous, pure politicians of the Republican Party who had thrown their candidate under the bus. It all started at the conclusion of the National Convention when Trump was named as the Party’s candidate. Those self-righteous contenders as Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and Congressional Majority Leader Paul Ryan, along with numerous other RINO’s, climbed aboard the “dump Trump” train with the intention of destroying any chance of Trump’s winning the Presidential election.

These hacks believe that rather than the American people select their candidate they, the Party, are the ones who make such a selection! That’s how the party wound up with such folks as Bob Dole and John McCain as the Republican nomination for Presidency. It mattered little that both of these men were completely unqualified for the job. It mattered little that the election of Obama would cause such harm to the United States. The party believed that the nomination was owed to them for their loyalty and service to the party! Nuts to the people—they ran the show so take it or leave it!

Today some 74 per cent of the American people believe the country is going the wrong way. The economy is stiffened, the Mideast is falling apart, terrorists have now invaded every major government in the world and the threat of nuclear war is on the horizon. But we should  not worry; the party hacks of both parties have everything under control. Also Santa Claus is comfortable at the North Pole making toys for Christmas, the Easter Bunny is saving eggs for distribution this Easter and the Tooth Fairy is taking a course in tooth extraction.

And then came along Trump! When he announced he was running as a candidate he was buffowed by the press, political “experts,” television commentators and radio critics. But everyone forgot one following—the American people.

His approach to common sense, straight talk and true solutions to the nation’s problems has attracted people who have never voted (because of distrust of politicians), those who stopped voting because the candidates put before them didn’t agree with their beliefs of where the country should be going or those who simply believe all politicians are crooks!

In Hillary’s case this is true.

As a non politician the Republican Party couldn’t believe Trump could pull it off. But he did. One high ranking congressman spouted on national television that it isn’t the people who nominate a candidate, it’s the party! The people have nothing to say about it!

When this news hit the television and print newspapers the people were astounded. Why vote for a candidate? If the fix is in where does that leave the people? And then there is the issue of illegal voting. The Democrats have depended on graveyard votes ever sense their party was founded. That’s why they are so desperate to allow illegal immigration. If given amnesty these same illegals will vote for their candidates and when that happens you can kiss goodbye to the Republican or any other opposition party. At least that is their hope and Hillary is all in favor of it.

In less than a month the decision will be made. If the American people are so offended by some locker room comments rather than the actions of a former Secretary of State who has time upon time put America in harm’s way at the loss of thousands of innocent people, someone who claims that when she and her adulterous husband left the White House broke, and within a year was worth millions, who has constantly lied to the American people and besmirched her enemies while continuing to cover-up her own incompetency, then all that can be said is—you asked for it!