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A lot of his points sound like he's reaching for low-hanging fruit that every other major news network has juiced for a headline.
For example, his response about the David Duke endorsement. He claims Donald Trump is a racist for responding to a news anchor in the way he did. Anyone can endorse Trump for whatever reason they want. He doesn't control that, and quite frankly he doesn't have to make some statement claiming he doesn't want their vote. That's exactly the kind of politically correct garbage Trump (and his supporters) don't care about. Because he won't publically claim that he doesn't want the vote of someone who is a racist means he's racist? That's very stupid. News flash for Oliver, in America people are actually given the freedom to be racist! It may not be a pretty thing, but it doesn't mean that Trump has to panic and apologize because a racist endorsed him.
Then, his statement about Trump's multiple failed business. I'm not sure how often he interviews entrepreneurs like Trump. A business failing has nothing to do with a campaign. People take risks on businesses. This guy has been involved in such a wide range of businesses that I think it's pretty clear that, at one point, he was throwing ideas at a wall and seeing what stuck. The dude has gone from real estate to side businesses like steak and vodka... Does John Oliver not think Donald Trump knows the risks of starting a business? A "failed" business isn't entirely a failure when you understand and accept the risks you're getting into. Taking chances is how you become successful. Trump is loaded right now, so how much of a failure can his businesses really be? Is Oliver under the impression that the other candidates have never failed at anything?
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Thanks for your straightforward response. Honestly, I think you have great points. Americans
do have the right to be racist, and definitely many successful people have infinitely more failures under their belt. However, I question if we want a racist for President?
Because that can have some serious implications, such as loss of rights for the discriminized. Many countries have become "great" by oppression of a group of people. For example, America's early success was built off of its enormous resource of slaves. And even in the past 100 years, many of our most important industrial/blue collar jobs have been completed by
millions of low-paid Mexicans/Chicanos. At one point, we had an agreement with Mexico to bring even more Mexicans into America to give the manpower our nation needed. Not to mention we currently have millions of prisoners that are paid cents by the hour to do blue collar labor, which has made political figures question how different that is from slavery.
Maybe in some eyes, its best to sacrafice one group for the sake of many. It could be argued that even the forefathers thought that way. But that's not the way that I think, nor do I think further discrimination is fitting for the future of America.
Discrimination against Muslims won't stop ISIS. Their beliefs may be Islam-based, but their hatred is much more universal. If the American people focus on Muslims, ISIS will recruit people that aren't Muslim.
And they already are. If we only focus on Muslim people, how many more non-Muslim ISIS members will slip from our focus? If we focus on Muslims as the enemy, I'd argue that will only weaken our own people and country.
The concerns of Trump are
very real. But what angle should we solve them? Building a wall, or stopping immigrants isn't a good way to spend our resources. I'd like to believe that Trump's simple solutions would work. I am a supporter of the idea that a business-like mind can create a brilliant and functional country, and I am sick of the political bull**** that Trump often speaks of. However, I don't believe that Trump is seeing this in the right way. His solutions will only cause more social--and if he does build a wall, potentially economic--distress within our nation, which is ultimately only going to benefit ISIS.