This Week's Political Circus

According to a CNN article, Trump is starting to shift, psychologically, into a mindset that will not crush his sense of self-worth if he loses. And, psychologically speaking, there is a point there. Humans are not thinking animals, despite the common definition. We are rationalizing animals. Most of us unable to go through life unless we make up little backstories to explain our circumstances in fashions that treat us kindly. Very few today are able to live with themselves without a high self-opinion to shield them from the random vagaries of the Universe we inhabit.

CNN's article points to language being used lately by Trump to the effect that "the only way he could lose is if the voting is rigged". Or that "his polling numbers are dwindling because of unfavorable media coverage". The reality of the latter is that if not for all the media coverage, Trump probably wouldn't have made it this far, in the first place. Another truth is that he's become an expert at needlessly alienating large groups of people by saying the wrong thing, or sometimes by saying something too open to interpretation and, yes, the media is eager to tear him down now that he is a viable candidate and not an insider joke among within the political circuit.

I happen to agree more with Trump's general ideas than I disagree with them. And I happen to disagree with Hillary on just about everything. That's me. I'm entitled to my own opinion. I just felt I should share that lest I be lumped in with the dastardly media as being committed to trashing Trump. Far from it. I find this worrisome with 3 months still to go before Election Day.

At the same time, I need to point out that I am very cynical these days to what Democracy is looking like in our country. I don't believe in any change for the better coming out of Washington, DC no matter who gets elected. There are powers behind the scenes with their own agendas, and quite adept at advancing them. A President, Congress, the Supreme Court, even, are just bit players in some of these far reaching plans. If anything, the morass of laws and regulations that make it impossible for anyone to really understand what they can or cannot do, makes it impossible to successfully navigate the system without a battalion of shady lawyers at your beck and call. The common citizen has no hope, no matter who wins. The point of no return happened before we were born.

To close this article, even though this week's Circus looks unfavorable to Trump, it's still recoverable. But Trump needs to start listening to the handlers and advisors he doesn't think he needs. His charisma and the simmering resentment a lot of us have today for the Establishment have propelled him this far. I hope he realizes that he can't advance much further by being a loose cannon. Sadly, being a loose cannon was precisely what got him this far, and he may be reluctant to change the approach, through being unable to recognize the difference between the first stage of the campaign and the current one.

Can someone forward this to him? Thanks...