If you think the front runner for the Republican Party nomination for American President is a joke, you did not understand Toronto’s former Mayor Rob Ford either. And Stephen Harper has his own place in Hell next to both of them. All three show signs of being misanthropes—which means they really do not like people. These guys are not there for the people they say they care for. They are users, not caregivers.
These are people who care so little for others that it is only their ego that feeds them. Trump and Harper appear to share a hair fetish. Trump’s fluffed-up mane is a joke and those in the know would never dare laugh at Harper’s lacquered hairpiece. You wonder just how many hours a day it takes them to be coifed to their satisfaction. Harper’s staff hairdresser is no secret while Trump can afford as many as he wishes.
And all three are political prim donnas. They are not democratic. It is their way or the highway. And Trump and Ford are boors. They insult women as though they are from a different form of civilization. Harper is the better actor but he is even stiff around his wife. It is obvious that none of the three are really comfortable around forceful women. Not one of them has strong women on their teams.
For Ford, cancer was a minor bump on the road. It set him back but he kept the Ford name in the race for mayor at the time and another Ford in the running for his council seat. When he made it back in time to run for council, he bounced the substitute Ford to just a school trustee. Ford has to wait four years to flog his mayoralty hopes again.
Trump believes his own propaganda. He has the billions needed to fund his campaign for the White House and he will run as either a Republican or as an independent. If he does take the independent route, he is likely to be vilified by Republicans for taking votes from the Republican candidate to the advantage of the Democrats.
Harper probably believes he is better off than Ford or Trump. He is coming from a position of strength. He is an incumbent but there is baggage to that too. He is dragging the country into the second recession on his watch. Most “progressives” on his team have jumped ship. Their replacements are weak and uninspiring. He has been at loggerheads with the Supreme Court because of his disregard for Canadians’ rights and freedoms. He has trashed the Senate and scoffs at the Commons. He has annoyed our friends the Americans and made enemies for Canada in the United Nations.
And yet there are people who will vote for men like Donald Trump, Rob Ford and Stephen Harper. Be gentle with them for they are the angry, the disconsolate, the losers.
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Copyright 2015 © Peter Lowry
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