It's not the vulgarity

Regarding a certain candidate currently running for public office, I’ve been quite bothered by the vulgarity and bigotry he’s been espousing. I remain bothered by this.

But there’s an aspect of this person’s bilious bloviating that bothers me even more than the hateful content. Here’s the thing:

Whether he’s making fun of persons living with disabilities, or bragging about his (undemonstrated) prowess in various areas, or simply lying, what he’s not doing is speaking to the actual, you know, issues.

He’ll make the country great again but can’t say how. He’ll make a neighboring country pay for a new Great Wall (another example of his hateful spew) but doesn’t say how. He’s going to fix health care but doesn’t say how. And of course he’s going to ‘fix’ the military. Again, no plan.

He decries H1B but of course, his own companies bring in workers using that rule. And then he has the gall to stand up on national television and say, “we shouldn’t have these loopholes but hey, it’s there and I’m a businessman so I use it,” as though that’s a legitimate defense.

He wants to bar refugees and other immigrants. Oh, wait, except for the young, statuesque ones he marries.

Asked to define his specific objection to Common Core, his answer was, “it’s education from Washington, D.C.” He clearly doesn’t know what Common Core is, since it’s actually driven on a state by state basis. And of course the press lets him get away with it.

He claims to be a great businessman but he’s a leader in business failures. It’s more accurate to say he’s good at starting and not so good at operating businesses. Shouldn’t that make us nervous about this guy as a potential chief executive?

And yet, he leads in the polls.

I don’t care so much about the vulgarity. I do care that we seem to have so many folks planning to vote to make it the lingua franca of the White House.

Amazing. And frightening.