Explaining Trump’s appeal
It is interesting to me how certain people can selectively point out that one political candidate is abrasive and “loathsome” while overlooking the obvious flaws of other candidates.
The appeal of Donald Trump is that he is a political outsider, and the American public is sick and tired of self-serving politicians who arrive in Washington D.C., elected by us as public servants, and then indulge in self-service, emerging as multi-millionaires because they took money from special interests and masked it as public-speaking fees.
I am a conservative businessman who employs 31 staff members and up to 45 skilled-trades people in this region. We have a commitment to our business and a commitment to our people that they can experience continuity of employment, competitive earnings and benefits. I have continually reinvested everything in our business and have taken enormous personal risks. We pay federal taxes at a rate of 39.6 percent, have watched our employee health insurance premiums increase by 30 percent in the past two years, are encumbered by the bureaucracy created by Obamacare, and have great concerns about our domestic policies as they pertain to job creation and taxes. The current administration has done nothing, and the situation for the middle class has not improved in the past 12 years. I apply that blame to the political class in Washington D.C. So, even though I find negative politics despicable, I want a change. I would prefer someone with dignity and honor. I may be willing to forego that preference, however, if I can be convinced that the person taking office will be a political outsider and will assemble a team of experts that will attack our biggest problems – drugs, the economy, health care, education, and national security.
We can be assured of one thing – politics creates too great a wealth motive for the insiders to change anything. Lying to the American public is just as bad a character flaw as egotism.
Bill Wilson
Washington
Wilson is president of Specified Systems Inc.