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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it too much to ask...
...that our President be decent human being?
I mean, he continues to act like a bully, a petulant child.
I have a lot of requirements of my President. I want him/her to be intelligent, compassionate, a dynamic leader, etc. If you can't be any of those things, you can at least be a decent person.
Donald Trump is simply not a decent man. He fails in this, the most basic of requirements.
What a disgusting human being.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)well, better late than never I guess..
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)Of course I didn't just figure this out.
If you must know it came from an essay I was writing which was essentially "A Letter To Those Who Voted For Trump."
I had seen what seemed to be an endless number of descriptive words when attempting to define Donald Trump. For me it came down to what it meant took be a decent human being. I mean would you have this person be counted as one of your friends?
The term "decency"seemed to cover all the bases.
Reminded me of the judge who confronted Joe McCarthy during a session of the House On Unamerican Activities... Something like:
"Have you no decency, at long last?"!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)I suspect his behavior comes from being raised as a person of privilege and virtually never leaving his ivory tower.
One litmus test for being a decent man or woman is to ask "how would this person be received out in the general public as an everyday worker or companion?".
In my world, he would be thrown out on his ear. The folks that raised me would take a hickory switch to him for bad behavior, or simply run him out of town.
In his world, his wealthy and power-hungry companions probably think he's perfectly OK.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)my husband and I used was to ask 'Would we go camping with this person?'
I saved a lot of time and energy.
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)...when Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) tells Mattie about his wife leaving him:
"...she said, 'Goodbye, Reuben, the love of decency does not abide in you.'" I'm sure that AnusMouth's previous wives (and maybe his current one, too!) would say the same thing about this pResiDunce. The love of decency does not abide in him.
njcpa1978
(114 posts)You must pretend to love him until death do you part, or until some other gold digger comes along who can pretend better than you can.
Amen.
pwb
(11,288 posts)Never smiling or happy. Like all republicans trying too look tough when they have probably never been in a fight or punched in the face. Wusses.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Those are among the core characteristics of this pResident.
DownriverDem
(6,231 posts)his supporters. I am disgusted every day with him in the WH.
yardwork
(61,706 posts)It's been obvious for several years - at the very least - that Trump is not a decent person. Everybody who voted for him, everybody who voted third party, everybody who stayed home or wrote in Mickey Mouse instead of voting for the Democrat knew or should have known that Trump isn't a decent person.
I have no patience for people who are just now figuring that out.
njcpa1978
(114 posts)You had to be saying to yourself, we could have had Hillary. She stepped through the major issues facing the country with insight, understanding the players on the world stage, explaining positions clearly and mindful of the consequences. What did we get a POS POTUS.