Treating voters with civility and respect

Tomorrow, I’ll try to summarize my response to the Democratic Convention that ended this past Thursday, but for the moment I still need to harp on Trump a bit more.

After criticizing his imperfect and misplaced hypocrisy, I would like to now focus on the man’s general lack of respect and civility. As you know, in life, we’re always trying to convince, please or have as many people as possible siding with us on all kinds of issues.

Call it salesmanship or craving for popularity, but in order to advance in society (if that goal is important to us) we need to rally as many folks as possible on our side. Likewise, political candidates win by garnering a majority of votes in their favor and are not exempt of pursuing the exact same approach, with only one exception, and it’s Trump.

Once more, he strongly feels he doesn’t have to abide by this timeless societal rule. This gives him the apparent license to insult his opponents or any individual or group that doesn’t espouse his views.

He’s so full of himself that he doesn’t care a damn, and yet he should, because he’s alienating more voters instead of rallying them to his cause (regardless of its merits). Just like I did yesterday, this makes me conclude that in behaving in such a counter-productive manner, his action is dumb, plain and simple.

He only deserves to lose big times in November and get the hell out of our lives.