I appreciate you sharing that!
Let me share with you a few frames I have existed in and which frames I am in now, I will try to keep it short:
1) I used to be a communist sympathiser not even that long ago.
2) I lived under communists in the eastern bloc as a kid. I remember what they did to my family. Many dead and dissapeared.
3) I grew up in Canada and absorbed the values of my context here which is basically weak, female, naiive and communist sympathy oriented via ignorance of history and science.
I thought it was a value system of righteousness and the highest value. In retrospect, it is a value system of weakness and ignorance (not that my current position is much better, I admit).
4) I have had the opportunity to not only work at highly technical levels, I have worked at C levels in companies up to 1000 employees (so on the small size) and had my own companies up to a max of 20 employees. I have also done sales and other persuasion and leadership.
Basically I have seen leadership at middle and c levels. The lesson about leadership that you learn is this:
a) When people say they want a LEADER, what they are saying is they DON'T want a leader they want a middle manager that will tell them what to do and organize their schedule. Basically people mostly want to deal with are McDonalds store managers.
Middle managers are not leaders. They are executive secretaries, the create, implement and apply policy. They DO NOT lead anyone anywhere new because they don't have the skills to do that.
b) LEADERS (think Alexander III of Macedon) do not do middle management, they get people to do that. LEADERS take their people to a new place, usually where the people don't want to go.
5) I tell the above to tell you the following:
a) I WOULD DIE FOR TRUMP. I am not kidding one bit. If somehow there was a coup in Canada and we balkanized, I would ally my self with Trump, his faction, pick up a gun and shoot. People that hate Trump simply do not understand how loyal we are to him. If the fight was that real, I would have no problem laying my life down for someone of his caliber.
It looks like Biden will win so there is great dissapointment on our side, but we will not be rioting, looting or burning. Obviously.
b) The reason for the loyalty has many many many dimensions. The list is too long. First, he takes no money for his service. Second, he correctly identified the core problems in USA (Canada and the rest of the world has the same problem) which is something along the lines of no more immigration, stop our high technology and industries from moving out, create a super competitive marketplace locally, show people that anything is possible, and on and on and on.
When he started his run in 2016 I thought he had all of the gifts of a top performing sales person and very shortly after it was clear he was a top line leader. Then, when they kept on hitting him, he never gave up and he kept on fighting and fighting and fighting, it was clear he was no ordinary leader. He had leadership qualities of the great leaders you are taught about in places like business shools and military academies.
You knew hew doesn't drink either? Man, that is just icing on the Trump cake as far as I am concerned.
Today, he is the only leader to walk into North Korea unplanned and unnanounced, he has stuck half a dozen peace accords between Israel and their sworn enemies, he has started and re-established the correct negotiating position with with China, started to re-establish American sovereignty by building the wall, renegotiated UNILATERALY the trade accord between usa, canada and mexico (he just did it when everyone told him he couldn't), he pulled out of the tragic Paris accords, and on and on.
Basically, we in the west have been electing McDonalds managers to lead our countries and negotiate, and in Canadas case we elected a drama teacher.
What Trump has shown us is what true leadership looks like. It looks exactly like him, what he does, how he does it.
We have not seen this kind of thing since General Patton. Maybe even since Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a brilliant field tactician and leader.
6) Obviously, our side wants Trump in the leadership role. We need to complete the wall, complete the China negotiations and begin the re-alignment of the west from weak positions led by women and feminized men into strength and a fully offensive position economically, financially and militarily.
This may not come to pass and we are going to have to regroup of course.
But, that is the context of my loyalty to him. You mention a couple of intersting points:
TRUMP INSULTS - I will only gently point you to him only attacking people that are in the game. He has never insulted normal people, he only insults those in the game and the high and mighty. And rightfully so, he is a prize fighter.
TRUMP DOESN'T LISTEN TO EXPERTS - If you know anything about leaders, no leader listens to experts. They take their advice, they take in information from everyone they think is of value and they move the scrimmage line forward. Leaders are NOT WOMEN. Women look for emotional validation and want to make everyone happy and safe. A leader takes measure decisions to move the play forward and make a difference. The skills required of a leader are almost diametrically opposed to those of a McDonnalds middle manager, so much so that most people have never seen true leadership.
We don't want Trump to take orders from Fauci, CDC or anyone else, especially since they are politically compromised and unable to provide independent guidance. He has a great gut instinct and has done as good of a job as any leader on the planet. For example, for all of the yacking on about Europes socialized medicine, they did totally shit and managed to do no better than anyone else on this planet, thereby negating any argument for the efficacy of socialized medicine at the same time.
FOX NEWS - It is okay to not know that FOX is actually a left wing rag. No one on the right actually watches them beyond squinting to see what. There is no real right wing news, but we are buildng that.
Just wait until you see REAL RIGHT WING NEWS.
You won't be very comfy watching what we have planned.
I respect your opinion, I wanted to share with you my perspective. There are some extremely right wing people walking next to you, we are everywhere.
Oh, as a side point, please feel free to insult me and say whatever you want. I may respond back, but, just remember I have no expectation that you will see me as anything BUT evil. That perspective is perfectly fine. I am just happy you shared your perspective with me!
If you want to expand on where Trump did wrong, bad decisions, his various flaws, I would be up for reading that from you or anyone.
Thanks dude.
