@sneakypete You wouldn't. You might not realize this yourself,but like many Americans,you are stuck on the "Lincoln grew up in a log cabin and became President" theme,and raised to mistrust/hate wealthy people from birth.
How the f*ck would you know how I was raised?? I was taught to
admire people who succeeded, I still believe that, and I frankly detest those who dislike people because of their wealth. So no, I don't "mistrust/hate" wealthy people at all. Hell, I voted for Bushes three times, and for Romney, and they weren't exactly raised in log cabins.
I actually think wealth is
completely irrelevant to whether someone would be a good or bad Presidential candidate. It's a non-issue, because the ability to make money does not mean you are a good person morally or have the right political values. And because for most national political figures, money isn't their prime motivator anyway.
NOT that mistrusting wealthy people is necessarily a bad thing. Most DO seem to fit the greedy and selfish reputations of the wealthy.
Damn -- so it looks like
you are actually what you accused
me of being. That's almost funny.
Trump even fits into that due to the fact he is pumping up his ego by running for President and trying to make a spot in the history books as "The President that saved America". The goal is noble,even if the motive is more than a little selfish.
Everyone is the hero of their own story.
Everyone thinks their own goals are noble. That something far too many people get wildly wrong. Your political enemies almost always are doing things that
they believe are good, not things that are wrong/evil.
They don't sit around twiddling their evil mustaches and congratulating themselves on their nefarious plot to destroy the world. Soros believes he's helping to save the world. So does AOC, Joe Biden, Barack Obama. Same with Mike Pence, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and yes, Donald Trump. They
all would want to go down as "The President (or person) who saved America (or the world)".
That isn't anything unique to Trump, and that's been my point all along.
The difference between all of them isn't the
desire to be a national or world hero, but exactly what their view is of the ideal world, what are their values, and exactly how they'd go about getting from here to there. Because incompetents will never get from here to their regardless of their intentions, and others will use methods that are themselves terrible in the effort to get from here to there.
