As a writer, my number one goal is to come up with a statement or story no one has ever heard before. It’s not easy, and even when I think I have done it, it is very possible I just didn’t hear it when someone else said it first. That being said I am struck by how the American electorate is so lacking in original thought. I see it on CNN, on FOX, in my daily interactions with people, and of course all over the internet.
I was motivated to write this piece when earlier today I heard an acquaintance of mine make what he thought was the revelation of all revelations. “There is going to be a brokered convention”, he said with a commanding tone of education and insider knowledge. With Trump looking more and more like he is on track to get the needed delegates to win the nomination outright, I can only assume he heard all about the theory of a brokered convention on cable TV or some radio talk show in the car. There are scenarios that lead to a brokered convention, but to come right out and predict it is just another example of someone parroting something they think will make them sound smart.
I don’t know what will happen, but my guess is that Trump will win the nomination and all this posturing by the establishment will morph into support for the presumptive nominee. One thing I know. Even when you look at the Republicans who do not want Trump to be the next President, the majority of them want any GOP candidate over a Democrat, especially if the Democrat is Hillary Clinton. Funny thing is, everything they are doing is setting things up for the Democrats to win, especially if it’s Hillary.
Meanwhile, many of the people trying to sound smart are also the same people thinking they are smarter than everyone else because they are voting for Trump. I’ll let you the reader take that one home. I guess whatever happens we can’t be surprised by an electorate that gets a significant portion of their candidates views from 140 characters or less (the Twitter limit). Just goes to show you how the attention span of many Americans is shrinking. It’s not like we are dealing with people switching back and forth between CNN and FOX. It’s more likely it will be people on Twitter going from their tweets from their favorite candidate to the feud between Kim Kardashian-West and Chloe Grace Moretz. Incidentally my knowing about this doesn’t automatically make me a Trump supporter, but in many other cases we can be sure it does. Something Donald Trump seems to be counting on.
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