Trump v Harris ‘Reality’ v ‘Promises’

Why has Donald Trump's campaign (and thus popularity) begun to burgeon since the infamous debate?

Could it be that the American people saw Donald Trump, not as a fast-talking politician, with an insane, “word salad” explanation for everything? Could it be that they just saw an American (without the disingenuous polish and veneer) who is just interested in America and Americans—like them?

In watching the debate, what came to mind was a movie from 1986. I admit, it is one of my favorite films, but not for the reasons one might assume. True, the establishment elitists of the modern liberal left will mock the idea, but such is often the reaction from those ensconced in their own insecurities.

The movie of which I speak is Back to School, with Rodney Dangerfield as the comedic protagonist.

Here is the reason I seized upon this movie to speak about the 45th President of the United States. The cinema describes a somewhat crude, definitely not polished, New York businessman (played by Dangerfield) who enrols in an elite New England college. And this just happens to be the same school attended by his son. One scene shows Dangerfield’s character trying to “contribute ” to the lecture of a liberal, ivory tower-based elitist economics professor.

The topic is about how to actually start a “real life” as opposed to a book-based “hypothetical” business, and when Dangerfield's character begins to speak, the entire class turns towards him and begin to listen and take notes. Their interest was in real world experience-based success as opposed to the hypothetical musings of someone who has no experience in the real world and certainly no success

In my estimation, and I suspect in the minds of many Americans, Trump is Dangerfield's character in real time for us today. Demonstrated success in the difficult, competitive world of corporate enterprise means something to Americans, because out there in the “real world” there is no safety net (i.e. taxpayers money). There are no guarantees after you invest your own money in an enterprise and then do your best to make it work. Success or failure hangs in the balance based on the decisions you make.

The American people have, for the last four years, witnessed and lived the results of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' idea of governing. Moreover, Americans today are weighing the differences between Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and this in spite of the biased reporting of the leftist-oriented mainstream media.

Donald J. Trump spent his entire life in the real world of business— working and succeeding in the private sector.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never left the safety net of government employment. Their entire lives were spent living off of the American taxpayers' dollar generated through the sweat of the brow and the stress of no guarantees.

Donald J. Trump, irrespective of how one feels about him personally, created a business empire known worldwide. His businesses (and there are more than just a few) have and continue to employ a multitude of Americans over the years, and these in turn support hundreds of small businesses which are the heart of American employment.

Joe Biden became a career politician. He was first elected in 1972 at the age of 29, and has continued in government employ up to the present. I will do the math for you —that is 52 years without any experience in the real world of the private sector. In other words Joe Biden has been receiving a check from the federal government (taxpayers dollars) for over a half century.

Americans are a tolerant people, but they are also a perceptive people. The polls today are trending towards Trump because they realize the importance of actual business experience. They take stock of their own lives today, and realize they have not prospered with someone in the White House whose paycheck has come from you and I – the tax-payer—for 52 years. They see that Joe Biden never assumed personal responsibility for succeeding in a business enterprise and thus being responsible for providing a paycheck for an employee and his or her family. Yet, Joe Biden still wants Americans to believe in the tomorrow he keeps promising— that never comes.

This writer would spend time extolling the vast accomplishments of Kamala Harris in government but that would mean telling you about her government service in California in general and San Francisco in particular. Just read the headlines about the homelessness disaster and businesses (X, Chevron, Space X, Neutrogena, Tesla, Hewlett Packard—I am running out of space) fleeing in droves and you will know about her “contribution” there.

The vice president has virtually no professional business experience, and since 1990 (34 years) has lived off the taxpayers one way or another. But she and Joe Biden are alike in one way—she also has built no business and therefore been responsible for no American family's financial well-being.

Businesses (especially small businesses) and their creation are responsible for 80% of this nation’s jobs. They are not a function of some elitists' rhetoric or academic hypothetical business model. Businesses are hard to create, as are the paychecks produced from them, and the financial well-being of America (and most Americans) depends upon those willing to risk their own money (rather than the taxpayers) to try and succeed with no guarantees.

Donald J. Trump knows this, because he has always worked in the real world of no guarantees. Biden and Harris have yet to experience what most Americans live with everyday—no guarantees—just hard work.

The answer to our original question of why the polls are trending towards Trump is clear.

The American people are choosing Donald J. Trump’s reality – as opposed to Biden-Harris’s promises. The former has actually produced something—the latter, well, we are still waiting.