Oh how I cringed every time I heard their slogans. Whether they each really were playing to “majorities” would only be known in the end (and that part, tragically, played out in the real world). Fortunately, though only with hind sight, there was, and is, no possible way to deny the dishonesty of their respective characterizations.
That bastard Nixon called his white, rednecked following “The Silent Majority”. The “Silent” was an insult to truth, and the entire trajectory of recent human affairs would have been vastly improved had he not been extremely adept at counting (and, of course there were dirty tricks, on top of standard campaign chicanery). Hard hats busting the heads of hippies, gunning down students at Kent State, blah, blah, blah qualified as a lot of things, but silent was never one of them.
That bastard Reagan called his white rednecked following “The Moral Majority”. Morally superior to exceedingly few human groups who have ever rode this planet, and embarrassingly deficient in virtually every aspect of their personal affairs. “Moral” only because that sorry excuse for a human being said so. Period!
So, what’s with Trump? Here and now, what’s with Trump? Is this an implicit acknowledgement that our society no longer has to suffer through our older aged white cohort (one member of which, by the way, is me) acting all superior, all entitled? Are we now grown up? Are we now mature enough to to exercise our overriding responsibility to cast our votes in our own national elections in a manner that respects all humans, all life, on the sphere that our own photos show us to be too small for us to escape/forsake, yet abundantly sufficient to fulfill every possible dream of true human glory?
If Trump really feels that he has the necessary majority to upset all of that, I wonder why he has yet to come up with some trade marked slogan to describe exactly what his rallying cry to the various white rednecked fools out there is this time around?
Perhaps the count has now changed so dramatically that even he can now longer self justify support of a white rednecked voter base that adds up to anything but some group of fools holding on, hollering, and pretending that The Donald will be the next Tricky Dick, or Ronnie Rayguns!
Good luck with that!