Trump's Genuineness Appeals To Dissatisfied Americans
There are other reasons for Trump's popularity. This is accurate as one. New York business rewards direct and honest (even unpleasant) people. Corporations like to get jobs done well. Truth is important in New York City. Unlike Boston where false academic politeness rules, and uncivil speech is censored. BTW Harvard University rules Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston. The current White House speaks academic fakery.
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He does not practice the sort of calm demeanor, tone, and professionalism we are accustomed to seeing in political candidates who run for the White house.
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in the last fifteen years, America's cultural tone has changed. Donald Trump's mannerisms and antics simply reflect changes in American culture. The change was signaled by the sudden and unexpected popularity of a television program that portrayed people as rude, argumentative, condescending, petty, and engaging in all kinds of treachery and improper behavior in order to become top dog on an island.
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The great dancers in 1930s movies like Fred Astaire used to film their routines 20 or 30 times or more until they were perfect. Viewers wanted to see what was perfect, what a great achievement it was.
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Into this new zeitgeist comes Donald Trump. He is very accomplished in the private world, very competent in the business arena, but very impatient and insulting. He is intolerant of traditional politicians and calls them incompetent, stupid, political hacks. No major political figure would speak this way in the past.
But just as TV has changed and viewers no longer need to be reassured that all is right in the best of all possible worlds, TV viewers want to see arguing, anger, failure, loss, and destruction. They want reality.
Those who feel it's insightful to call Trump a reality TV star are only half right. He is reflecting reality, but there are two aspects to this portrayal. One is that politicians always screamed and yelled and called each other names; it just wasn't shown on TV. The other issue is that Trump's critics are behind the times. Trump is much smarter: he knows that people want to see reality. He knows that the most successful TV commercials don't show people with perfect hair and makeup; rather, they show the sweat, blood, and mishaps of real life.
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But while mired in reality rhetoric, Trump has also triumphed in reality. He built real estate projects when everyone else failed. He files for bankruptcy when his companies are no longer profitable.
Americans have decided they want a realist in government – a realist who can get things done and avoid the quagmire of the failed federal policies of the past. Americans want someone who is not connected to federal failures. They want somebody to kick people out of Washington, fire the incompetents, and not shelter uncaring VA officials in their overpaid jobs.
The move to reality started many years ago. Trump is the first person to understand it.
Most important, since he speaks off the cuff and does not read a lifeless teleprompter as Obama does, reciting the tired rhetoric needed to get elected, voters sense he is the real thing. He intuitively gives the right answers, has the right perspective. And even though he is wealthier than any of the candidates, he didn't have to sell government influence to get high speaking fees like Bill Clinton in order to become a millionaire.
He earned it in the real world, the tough world, the world of arguing, loss, failure, and anger. Voters are tired of phony success. This standard doesn't apply to Trump.
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No one can spontaneously answer politically dangerous questions the right way as does Donald Trump. Everyone else is so carefully manicured and his words so carefully controlled he is not spontaneous. Trump is. These qualities cannot be faked, cannot be set up in controlled interview sessions.
Because Trump appeals to how the voters feel, and automatically understands their lives and their need for a real person, many voters are seeing him as the real deal.
Trump is popular not because he is manipulating the voters. He's popular because the culture has changed. The voters changed first.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/trump_reflects_changes_in_american_culture.html
February 22, 2016
Trump Reflects Changes in American Culture
By Michael Bargo, Jr.
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