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Despite the shame brought upon Americans by torture scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Donald Trump, the Republican Presidential Nominee for 2016, believes that torture should be used against America's perceived enemies. He has also proposed randomly killing the families of terrorists. Never in modern world history has such a blowhard politician brought such disgrace to the United States. (Those who consider themselves pro-torture should watch the movie "Railway Man" which details the barbarity used by Japanese forces during WWII against captured British soldiers. The film offers a harsh understanding of the brutality of waterboarding.) This aloof pro-torture candidate believes he is above the fray and so far he has been able to buy his way out of problems that would swallow most people whole.

Trump is proving to the world once and for all that the only thing one needs to succeed in US elections is cold hard cash, a big mouth, and a willingness to appeal to the deepest fears of the voting public.

Moral requirements fall to the wayside with this man who is allegedly at the center of a number of sexual harassment claims and accusations. The Guardian article, "Sexual assault allegations against Trump resurface as Super Tuesday nears", details some of the alleged sexual misconduct the candidate has committed in the following paragraph.

"The woman accused Trump and his associates of using the American Dream Festival as a vehicle for seeking sex from women. At one stage, she alleged, Trump asked that she 'provide [Trump] with access to a 17-year-old Czech contestant whom he described as a sex object’. At another point Trump made denigrating, lewd comments about all women in general as ‘sex objects’, according to the woman."

Somehow that is no challenge to believe. This is the man Americans could elect as their next president. His enormous wealth has the power to stop many who would expose his reportedly sundry behavior.

Trump the businessman

He is touted for his business savvy but in truth, Trump was born to a millionare father and he has walked over the backs of people to expand his own wealth and power. His long list of failed business ventures include Trump University, Trump Airlines, and his attempt to market Trump Vodka, Trump Magazine, Trump Steaks, etc.

His audacity appeals to people who believe he "says things others won't" - but these supporters miss the point that there are sound reasons why people don't resort to distorted, racist hate rants. It is all part of an election campaign that is neither classy nor wise. Trump has alienated swaths of people all over the world who know his act would never begin to fly in other countries.

As I revealed in the article, "Donald Trump's Dirty Secret in Cincinnati", Trump refused to rent apartments in Cincinnati to African Americans in the early 1970's. This, from a man whose father was a member of the KKK. Perhaps these simple facts help to explain why Trump has refused to renounce the Ku Klux Klan supporters attending his rallies. He certainly doesn't hold back when attacking political opponents, or politicians like Mexico's former President Vicente Fox, or talk show hosts like Rosie O'Donnell, or news reporters like Megyn Kelly of FOX News. Vicious, Trump goes for the throat, but with the KKK he straps his kid gloves on.

Ignorance abounds



Donald Trump may have traveled all over the globe, but he still isn't worldly. Trump lacks even a basic understanding of what has caused upheaval in Muslim countries, where people look straight to the United States with blame for destroying Iraq, and funding and encouraging the havoc in Syria and Libya; secular nations that were attacked by US backed terrorists intent on bringing their version of the Saudi Wahhabi sect, Salafist and Sharia law into play.



He refers to Islam as though the religion represented one single belief system, which is far from the truth. Trump has been too busy running beauty pageants and TV shows to know what it takes to be a world leader. He fails to understand that the people who harvest food in America are almost all from south of the US border, and they are simple, hard working individuals who are not "criminal" in nature as he has claimed about immigrants crossing into the US from Mexico. Like GW Bush, Trump has had so much for so long that he fails to comprehend what life is like for the average person in America or any other country for that matter.



The unfortunate truth is that Donald Trump has fully hijacked the Republican party in America. The GOP (Grand Old Party) has adopted platforms in recent yeas that define it as Christian, (albeit they widely support unjustified wars of aggression) and Trump drives that train right off the rails, though he surely would support any war that guaranteed profits. His ridiculous attempts to align himself with religious "conservatives" has had little success, though most Republicans will likely vote for him now that the field has been narrowed. It is interesting to note that former US President Ronald Reagan was the first to bring religion to the GOP, a party that primarily advocates only for the rights of the financially elite.



Election 2016



Hillary Clinton and Trump will likely square off in the actual presidential election. Bernie Sanders may have proved himself to be the absolute best choice for American president in 2016, but this 1960's radical's reputation for leaning toward socialist causes brings disdain and mistrust from many. Sadly, Americans may look back at this current time as the last chance we had to vote a serious candidate into office.



Hillary Clinton remains at the center of a scandal involving the deadly events in Benghazi, and her email server. As Politico wrote, "Her dishonesty over her email server has turned into a legal problem that keeps bubbling..." Clinton has a long history of blindly supporting the treacherous Saudi government and Israel, an apartheid country that operates almost completely outside of international law.



Many are familiar with this scripture from Matthew 19:24, "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." What a mess this whole debacle has caused for the Republican party. Trump hearkens back to the 1950's when sexual and racial harassment were everyday America.