Two must see videos.

I'd like anyone considering a vote for Trump to consider what a huge step down Trump would be for the symbol that is the American Presidency.

I'd like anyone considering a vote for Trump to consider what a huge step down Trump would be for the symbol that is the American Presidency. Here are a couple of points to consider ... perhaps more in future installments.

Point #1: Do an internet search for "marriage" and "presidency" and you'll find multiple articles detailing how important it is for anyone considering major political office -- particularly the White House -- to stay married. Reagan is the only president ever to have been divorced and he had been in his 2nd "marriage" for over 25 years before he became president. Now, we're considering a man who is not only on his 3rd "wife", but ended the first in an affair.

As an example of the down slide, here's a recent comment form Ivana Trump:
[Ivana] said that she had encouraged [Donald] to run for president in the 1980s, but "then he got involved with Marla Maples and America hated him."

So, we hated him in the 80's, but now it's 2016 and we couldn't care less about his infidelities!

The person who holds this office is the one school children are told to admire and strive to become.

Point #2: What kind of message does elevating the Trump family to the oval office send to the nation's children? I'll pass on Mr. Drumpf for the moment and have a look at the possible future first lady.

Exhibit A: Dover Children's Books -- I get their weekly emails, they have lots of nice things for kids.
Here is one of their paper doll books of the first ladies in their "glamorous apparel". Now, feel free to do a search and see how well Melania would fit in with these ladies. She couldn't even manage a birth announcement without showing off her impressive new-mother cleavage! I could only find a few images that would be appropriate enough to post here, but they'd be so contrary to her normal public image that it wouldn't do the point justice.



You can forget about having school children do a research paper on Mrs. Trump! They'd all lose their library internet passes for accessing inappropriate content. And what would they learn from all of her outstanding qualities?? Achieve a supermodel level of physical "perfection" and you too could be purchased by a wealthy man some day!

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to say that past presidents were always upstanding people or that the other candidates are beyond all reproach. Rather, that the norm has always been that your public face had to be that of an upstanding person of high character who was ashamed of being "caught" doing something the average American would consider inappropriate. Now, if we choose Trump for the next president, we're either officially tossing that aside, or we've seriously lowered what Americans consider to be inappropriate conduct.

Drumpf and the American people are unworthy, but better than Goldman Sachs and the Caliphate. Those are the political possibilities at present for the West. Nationalism, international socialism, and Islam - nothing else. Significant portions of formerly Christian Europe will be unsafe soon, possibly in a year or two. North America is circling the same drain. Drumpf is now a symbol, European nationalists are shouting his name in defiance of the plotters and schemers in Brussels.

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Drumpf and the American people are unworthy, but better than Goldman Sachs and the Caliphate. Those are the political possibilities at present for the West. Nationalism, international socialism, and Islam - nothing else. Significant portions of formerly Christian Europe will be unsafe soon, possibly in a year or two. North America is circling the same drain. Drumpf is now a symbol, European nationalists are shouting his name in defiance of the plotters and schemers in Brussels.

Right, because every Protestant/Atheist nation that became uber Nationalist had a happy ending. nαzι Germany ringing any bells? Lets not forget Hitler was quite the symbol as well for the common man fighting the "plotters" and the "schemers".

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Drumpf and the American people are unworthy, but better than Goldman Sachs and the Caliphate. Those are the political possibilities at present for the West. Nationalism, international socialism, and Islam - nothing else. Significant portions of formerly Christian Europe will be unsafe soon, possibly in a year or two. North America is circling the same drain. Drumpf is now a symbol, European nationalists are shouting his name in defiance of the plotters and schemers in Brussels.

Right, because every Protestant/Atheist nation that became uber Nationalist had a happy ending. nαzι Germany ringing any bells? Lets not forget Hitler was quite the symbol as well for the common man fighting the "plotters" and the "schemers".

I'll do your reductio ad Hitlerum better than it deserves and pen a short rebuttal. If you based yourself on political reality and not on whatever ready-made comparisons appeal to your torpid imagination you'd realize that Hitlerian nationalism of the 1940s is, for better or worse, not possible in the 21st century USA. The cultural, ethnic, and legal contexts are far too different. The burgeoning American nationalism will reflect a far more heterogeneous base of cultures, races, and states eager to defend their own spheres of influence; it will not be racial, neopagan, or totalitarian, but a confederate effort to protect America's sovereignty and reclaim its morale. The precondition for all future Catholic political action in the US is heading off the global governance agenda while yet possible, and no presidential candidate intends to do that except for Drumpf.

That's the thing though, there can be no political Catholic agenda in a Protestant nation. So America deserves to have it's sovereignty ripped away.