I have to state for the record at the begging of this article that I have never been a never Trumper. Neither am I a Trump worshipper, although the Trump worshipers’ take on him is the more accurate of the two. I see him for who he really is, a deeply flawed individual who did an admiral job as president. That is until the Wuhan Flu pandemic began, and he botched things rather badly.
At the beginning of the 2016 primary season, I ranked Donald Trump near the bottom of the crowded Republican field. The instant he secured the Republican nomination I became a very outspoken Trump supporter because I knew he would do an infinitely better job than any of the Marxist Democrats.
I am a Libertarian and not all of Donald Trump’s policies are particularly Libertarian. During the 2016 primary season I ranked Rand Paul and Ben Carson well above Trump.
Donald Trump’s greatest flaw is an almost complete lack of self-control when speaking and using social media. Too often he comes across as a non-intellectual. He also has a very loud and abrasive personality. At times he strayed from conservative/libertarian principles. The media very unfairly tagged Trump as a racist and a bigot. During his four years in office, he did a poor job picking advisors and cabinet officials, especially when it came to Chief of Staff.
Last week I tried to imagine who the perfect running mate Donald Trump could possibly chose. I figured that that person would have to offset all of Trump’s negatives. He would have to be an exact opposite. The person who immediately jumped to mind was Dr. Ben Carson. Two days later I saw articles online written by authors who independently reached the same conclusions.
Here are some quotes I dug up that are proof that Dr. Ben Carson would make a fantastic president, unfortunately he lacks the charisma necessary for any individual to win elections in our media driven society.
This first quote is from Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’ – The Washington Post
You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.
This next quote is one of my favorites: http://www.cnsnews.com/video/newsbusters/dr-ben-carson-we-american-people-are-not-each-other-s-enemies
I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other’s enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group.
Ben Carson explains Holocaust comments | CNN Politics
“Basically, what I said is that when tyranny occurs traditionally around the world, they try and disarm the people first. And that is exactly what happened in Germany,” Carson said at the National Press Club. “You know, mid- to late 30s they started a program to disarm the people and by mid- to late 40’s, look what had happened.”
Carson was referencing remarks Thursday on CNN that the Holocaust would have been less deadly had more people in Europe been armed.
“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” he told Wolf Blitzer when asked if there were no gun-control laws in Germany would that have prevented the murder of 6 million Jews. “I’m telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.”
We’ve been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems.
Who said what and what it meant: The 4th GOP debate, annotated – The Washington Post
We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.
One Nation book Introduction.
The PC police are out in force at all times. … We’ve reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.
Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great
“Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.”
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future
“Many well-meaning Americans have bought into the PC speech code, thinking that by being extra careful not to offend anyone we will achieve unity. What they fail to realize is that this is a false unity that prevents us from talking about important issues and is a Far Left strategy to paralyze us while they change our nation. People have been led to become so sensitive that fault can be found in almost anything anyone says because somewhere, somehow, someone will be offended by it.”
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future
“I believe the only thing that will correct our downward trajectory is the rekindling of the enthusiasm for individual freedom and the reestablishment of the U.S. Constitution as the dominant document of governance. Unless the majority of Americans awaken from their complacency and recognize the threat to their fundamental individual liberties imposed by continued expansion of the federal government, nothing will save us from the fate of all pinnacle nations that have preceded us, those that tolerated political and moral corruption while ignoring fiscal irresponsibility.”
