I’ve been on record saying that Donald Trump, the republican front runner to be next President of the United States of America, is the greatest social experiment of the 21st century. A psychological study that goes deep in the minds of the American public, and makes them reveal the sketchy and dangerous ideals that have not been felt since the times of complete racial injustice. In order to comprehend what I’m trying to encapsulate with this Trump phenomenon, it will be of immediate requirement to look at him differently, something many refuse to do for the pure hatred they have for this man. It is, nevertheless, important to do this, because quite literally the fate of the world lies on the understanding of it.

Forget for a moment all the racist and sexism he and his supporters share, and think for a second exactly what is his plan? His thoughts on foreign policy, the state of the economy, the eminent threat of ISIS looming over the world, etc. What has he said on these pressing issues that require a thorough, elaborate, and positive planning? Much like everybody else, if forced to ask this question, the answer is still quite nebulous, not because they get lost in his persona, but because he has actually never said anything related to this issue which we can form a concrete answer on. How come a man, with no real plan or capabilities, is leading the polls to be the republican nominee for POTUS? The answer to this question, like the latter one, has been lost inside the discussion, even by those who oppose and hate Trump.

They fail to grasp the big picture essence of what Trump is actually doing. He’s playing a game of words, fooling his supporters into believing a fake grasp of a grim reality put into hyperbole for them to enjoy and cry upon. Key words such as “we need to bomb ISIS”, “I will fix the economy”, and “I will get it done” among others, give people of low intellect and the incapabilities of discerning between gibberish and a true plan a comfort zone to pan out and relax with the idea that perhaps maybe Trump can actually fix all of this. He never says HOW he’s going to fix this, he just says he will over and over again. A mixture of words they can relate to and the passion behind these problems makes them shut down from the normal and political thoughts these topics need to be discussed with. Watch any Trump speech, and you can hear the repetition of words like “destroy”, “evil”, and “bomb” that serve as a trigger mechanism for them to believe he may have a point. This is no accident, and it’s not because Trump is incapable for a more elaborate choice of words. Anyone who knows his background knows perfectly well he’s capable of it. The question now is, are his supporters capable of understanding them if he chose to express himself in such manner?

Making people like Muslims and Mexicans the problem and not forcing Americans to challenge themselves by realizing their mistakes the way Bernie Sanders is doing only fuels their passion and hatred even more, and pushes them on the brink of voting for a mad man who nevertheless does know how to talk to people of this caliber, simply because they’re easy to convince. Think of it as him playing a game of chess with the player on the other side looking at the board as if it was checkers.

The issue with Donald Trump goes beyond just his supporters. Knowing most Trump supporters are uneducated, and knowing how many supporters he has, the logical deduction to be made by this assessment is that the United States has a large gap on the education of its people, and their abilities to think critically to make important decisions that cannot be bought by some con man like Trump. Americans have to face the inevitable truth that their education system is broken, and in its worst state in perhaps a century. Sure, the worldwide surveys on education have indicated this was a reality a long time ago, but now that the consequences of them have produce such scary results, Americans should be paying more attention than ever to this problem they’ve longed ignored by clinging to their incredibly prestigious educational institutions, failing to realize that the education these institutions give is not shared with a bigger percentage of the American public.

On a more micro model, the perception and at times accurate depiction of the US governmental system has made a candidate like Trump a hot commodity for outside voters tired of the same repetitive cycle of corruption. Feeding off the unwarranted pessimism of these persons, Trump goes on to paint as if everything in America is horrible, clinging back to his campaign slogan of “making it great again”. This may be the only valid point one could give to Donald Trump supporters, but this mere truth is far outweighed by the more complicated issues his presidency can bring to the American society.

Donald Trump has never been the problem. His supporters have been and continue to be the problem, and to some extent, even those who vehemently oppose him are too. Trump feeds off on the uneducation of his supporters, and we as an American society ignored a clear problem in our education system for years, and those same people we have been ignored are the same ones who are voting for him and will continue to vote for him until November. Whether you wish to admit this or not, we are all at fault for letting this man get as far as he has, and as far as he’s going to get. His constant lying, racism, sexism, immaturity, and vulgarity never hurt him because for his supporters, the line of truth has already been broken. They’re illiterate zombies, unable to comprehend or truly care about having a decent conversations of the issues that plague this country.

At times like this, where the American people are far apart on issues of pressing matters, one person needs to awake the grim reality we were living in on a more conscientious way. This person is Donald Trump, the most important wakeup call Americans have had in a very long time. This is the direction their education system is heading, where they can be manipulated by the use of radical adjectives that invoke a sense of dread toward something that’s not there. It’s not too late to get a grip on reality for these “lost souls” who find themselves on the brink of voting for a narcissistic, racist, spectacle loving president with no real plan and no real motive, but these issues are unresolvable on a short term push.

What Donald Trump has done to great success, on the other hand, is spark a clear needed reform on what has led to his rise to power in the first place. It’s forcing Americans to face issues of racism that still dawn at the heart of many sectors. It’s forcing them to truly question the ideals and mistakes they have made as a society and their misdeeds with the system even more than Bernie Sanders ever could. Trump has served as the creator of an environment that embraces violent behavior against minorities and channeling the darkest side of our human existence. These problems have been dormant in the American psyche for decades, but thanks to Trump, they have come to light in a more mainstream fashion, and as any real fighting member for a scared but salvageable culture would do, it is the duty of those that can see through the bullshit, those that accept the responsibility for their problems, and those that have the power to even make the smallest of change, to act now.

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