I listened to Trump on TV and here is the problem: he sounds sincere. Except for when he says “I’m an Evangelical” and “I like the Bible”, he sounds like somebody who believes what he says.
Hillary, on the other hand, has once again started slipping back towards sounding fake and scripted. It’s clear that she is once again allowing focus groups and aides to write her lines, and that as somebody who is not a naturally good liar, she doesn’t know how to make this parroting sound passionate and convincing.
There was a time when Hillary overcame the fakeness and started sounding sincere but now this new-found skill is disappearing. When she delivered the stale old “Trump’s words are a recruitment tool for ISIS”, she sounded so rehearsed and boring that I cringed. Trump, on the other hand, never repeats stuff that has been said on every website and in every newspaper in existence. He comes up with his own material, and this, once again, sounds more sincere.
Many voters are not intelligent enough to process and analyze content. They respond to visual stimuli and the vague feelings of comfort or discomfort those stimuli arouse in them. These are people who are baffled by the world’s complexity and become enraged whenever they realize that, once again, somebody is manipulating them.
Hillary is, unfortunately, trapped in fakeness because the most engaged and activist part of her base is deeply into scripted, rehearsed statements delivered verbatim an endless number of times. And the voters who’ll come to the general election don’t respond well to that.
Don’t worry, Hillary will win the election but it will not be a super easy win. We can all help Hillary by letting go of the scripted pronouncements we tend to love so much. Let’s give her a chance to be competitive by allowing her to speak her mind every once in a while.
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This Pat Condell video was posted yesterday. It explains why Trump’s positions resonate with many conservative, and even some non-conservative, voters.
Trump seems to speak his mind. According to the last sentence in your post,
It’s her fight to win or to lose. Who/what is stopping her and why just “every once in a while?”
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The base is stopping her. Our base is very much into self-censorship to the point where there is a number of statements and formulations that you are allowed to pronounce and can’t deviate from. Conservatives also have a couple of such formulae that they insist on promoting (e.g. “radical islamic terrorism” and one other I’m forgetting right now.) But overall, they are not nearly as scripted as Liberals are.
Unfortunately, today’s American liberalism is very much into reproducing the dogma verbatim and that hurts the movement enormously.
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I’m not worried about damaging American “liberalism*”. I’m worried about what the country, and what’s left of its civilization, will become. The “snowflakes,” at what were once our best universities, demand that they be shielded from anything inconsistent with the dogmas to which they have succumbed. In a few years, they will be our national leaders. Where will they lead the country?
*Liberalism, as I learned about it and as it actually was years ago, demanded much the same as Condell says in the video that current American voters demand — facts and honest discussion about them and their implications. They have little interest in secular dogmas of the type now being spewed forth by “snowflakes” and even some of our “leaders.” When the “snowflake” generation leads, where will it lead and what will be the consequences? Approaching seventy-five, I probably won’t be around to find out. That, I guess, is something for which to be grateful.
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Believe me, conservative students are just as snowflakey, oversensitive, emotional and immature. This is one issue that knows no party divide.
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That does not make the future of America appear to be brighter.
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