There are many that I encounter on line that are always saying that America is the greatest country….ever……and most of them are supporting Trump…..which is odd because his campaign slogan is saying something completely different.
Donald Trump is the first candidate to run on a platform openly stating that America is in decline.
“Low-energy Jeb.” “Little Marco.” “Lyin’ Ted.” “Crooked Hillary.” Give Donald Trump credit. He has a memorable way with insults. His have a way of etching themselves on the brain. And they’ve garnered media coverage, analysis, and commentary almost beyond imagining. Memorable as they might be, however, they won’t be what last of Trump’s 2016 election run. That’s surely reserved for a single slogan that will sum up his candidacy when it’s all over (no matter how it ends). He arrived with it on that Trump Tower escalator in the first moments of his campaign and it now headlines his website, where it’s also emblazoned on an array of products from hats to t-shirts.
Source: What Trump Really Means When He Says He’ll Make America Great Again | The Nation
Trump is great at insulting people but then most of his paranoid tools that support him like that….if you cannot refute what a person says then insult them with some sort of label that you find humorous….but I guess insults are easily understood by those mentally challenged.
So is America the greatest country ever or does it need to be brought back from the brink?
(Upcoming post on Trump’s latest foreign policy speech…..)
While John F. Kennedy did not come right out and say as much his whole campaign rhetoric was built around a theme that suggested America had never quite reached Her full potential and that the generation then extant had it within themselves to achieve greater heights on the world stage than had ever been achieved. But the unspoken suggestion was that America was not living up to Her potential and that the “New Generation” (My generation) had the opportunity and the duty to make Her hum again with all thrusters open full throttle. — The Bush campaign was built on “Take America Back” what the hell ever that meant. There has never been a president since the time of FDR (We have nothing ot fear but feawr itself) who didn’t run on the subliminality of some idea that America was not what America was meant to be. Donald is doing nothing new here.
You are right he is just saying what so many others have said with different words…..sorry to say that slogans do not impress me especially if I am voting….