This morning as I was watching the news and later listening to my podcasts, I heard replays of the front running candidate's interview about his advisers on foreign policy. The answers were enough to drive a saint crazy, as my mother would say. Makes me shake my head in disbelief.
Speaking of heads, I was thinking of an episode of "Seinfeld" about the bad breaker upper. Elaine was dating a handsome young man who was regularly having other women come up and throw a drink in his face or something similar. When asked about it, he'd explain that the person was someone he used to date. At first she was impressed that this guy would stimulate such emotional responses from former girlfriends, until she stopped dating him. As she left the table after telling him good-bye, he made a remark to her about the size of her head, indicating it's too big for her body. She shrugged it off, so to speak, until she started having troubles.
Walking through the park, a bird flew into her head, pecking her before flying off. A man on the bench who witnessed it, said, "It was like the bird couldn't miss her head..." In a taxi, the cab driver kept asking her to move over so he could see out the back window. Until the boyfriend's off-hand remark, she never had a problem with her head being too large, but, now, she does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EElxuL3AFC4
These are the type of tactics the presidential candidate uses against his opponents, calling them names, belittling their efforts, mocking their being held prisoner of war (really???), criticizing physical attributes, when all the while building himself up, though he doesn't have far to go. He would criticize Jeb Bush as low-energy over and over until Jeb became low-energy. Not comparing his position on an issue with Jeb's, no, but used personal criticism instead. And it worked. What is surprising to me is how those who support him don't seem to notice the behaviors or the problems with this guy, don't hear the words he actually says, how inane they are.
On the other hand, after claiming his opponent, Ben Carson, as being 'pathological', like a pedophile, Ben threw his support behind him after dropping out. What? This man who saved the lives of thousands of children, separating conjoined twins, etc. was accused of being pathological?? Next to that word in the dictionary is a picture of the front runner! As they said in "The Godfather": 'Keep your friends close, your enemies closer...' Ben was been promised some sort of position if this candidate wins the presidency in return for his support. I wonder if Ben already regrets the selling of his soul, so to speak, for a position in the administration, especially since the candidate is getting his foreign policy advice by talking to himself, because he's said 'a lot of words'. What?
Calling another candidate 'little' made him seem little and then eventually behave 'little' as he tried to play the front runner's game. Just because he was called Little Marco does not necessarily mean he was little. Just like Elaine's head was not big, she got thinking and believing and acting like it was. The front runner calls another candidate a liar over and over until folks begin to believe it, even though unsubstantiated. Hopefully this Constitutional candidate, the one I am supporting, does not believe it, and become a liar. I think his head is just the right size for his body.
This particular candidate DOES actually have a big head, by some accounts is a full-blown narcissistic personality, not at all unlike the current man in that position. What makes that so difficult for the supporters to see? Or why do they not care? Or, why does it not matter? One of the talk show hosts I listen to has said for years that after this current president, he was sure the next leader would be a slob of a guy with gravy on his tie (figuratively speaking), less an academic and more a man of the people. Oops! From the looks of things, that isn't going to happen, unless Bernie gets in!
