Jul 28, 2015 2 min read

While all of us sit back and watch and listen to the candidates for the Republicans’ 2016 presidential nomination run their mouths about who is the best and who is the worst for their party, we should try to look below the surface of the pretentious and pompous attitudes of those who are condemning Donald Trump.

Many of us have noticed or felt that we weren’t getting what we are paying for in our government. Trump has given a voice to those feelings. I’m absolutely sure that those of us who have lived long enough remember when we were a world leader in productivity, public education, health care and border security. Our elected officials focused on the very basic responsibility of working for the people who put them in office, and were paying their outrageous salaries, health care and retirement benefits. These people in Congress have become the royal class of welfare recipients. We are giving them what they want without question, and they are only taking care of themselves.

We are the greatest country in the history of civilization, but we have no right to condemn a self-made man who has the means to stand on the same stage as politicians and call them out for their incompetence and dysfunction. This is the point Trump is making.

Sure, he may come off sounding rather brash, but isn’t it about time someone called these politicians out? Not one of these politicians are talking how they can improve anything. We should all applaud Trump for taking a few swings at our henhouse of politicians. Those people are worried that if Trump advances, he will expose what we have all silently suspected.

Jon Bauduin

Hickory