Temporal Relativity: Trump vs. Clinton
The Trump and Clinton campaigns seem to move in two different universes as far as the relativity of time goes.
The most famous historical line of the Clinton campaign was given by Sen. Bernie Sanders, when he said “Enough about the emails”. His point was to get to the issues that really concern the people of the United States. The Trump campaign is instead hyperbolizing any hint of improprieties that may be found there after years of the Congressional investigating committee and Fox News carrying out an inquisition over them. If you don’t like inquisitions, stay away from Trump. These emails were from four to eight years ago. Does anybody remember their emails from four to eight years ago. Are we all not wiser now than we were then? The strident attacks on Clinton over the years have caused her to rate as untrustworthy.
In terms of any records for Trump at all, start with income tax. We have no records of his income tax except for 1997-8. We have all of Clinton’s, through 2015. In business, even in court cases, his company destroys emails after two years.
In national security, it seems upside down that Trump is not being investigated instead of Clinton. He hired Manafort to head his campaign, a man who should have been registered as a Russian agent. Trump hired Lt. Gen. Flynn as his international security advisor, who worked for the Russian propaganda news agency. Trump himself guaranteed us that Russia would not invade Ukraine.
Clinton’s policies are well studied and evaluated, approved by large numbers of citizens and politicians, coincident with science and economics, and advances on firm policies of the present administration.
In contrast, in the doldrums of summer, we wait breathlessly for the latest new statement of Trump’s pendulum swings on his pledges of ruthless deportations of illegal immigrants. Supposedly, this is going to help people decide to support or excuse their support of Trump. Does it not occur to these voters that for someone who is so unstable on policy now, they should have no expectations that any of these policies will be followed when Trump gets into office. We should expect that with every bit of knowledge that filters into Trump’s know-it-all attitude, and the fact that Congress would have to change any laws, the Supreme Court would slowly weigh in, and any other countries may respond in unpredictable ways, that Trump will continue to change policies on a daily or weekly basis.
Immigration is just the issue of the day. We know almost nothing of Trump’s other “policies”, and neither does he. Expect a continuation of developments in all areas. Switching from the Russian agents dominance of Manafort to the Brietbart-Fox conspiracy and racist-misogyny axis would be enough to remake any policies, if there were any. After the election there may well be a Democratic Senate to deal with, and, if Trump wins, an entire new set of advisors and administrators. I don’t think that the country can take the daily questions of Where Trump Stands Today for the next four years.
