The Toughest Man in America

[Stuckinthebush]

http://www.alreporter.com/the-toughest-man-in-america/

We like tough guys in Alabama.

Listen to the stories repeated around this state. Bear Bryant playing football on a broken leg. Or that time Bo Jackson ran over The Boz.

We love NASCAR fights, gritty basketball and light-em-up football hits. John Wayne movies would win Oscars this year if the votes came from this state, and Jack Bauer would be the Secretary of Defense.

We love tough.

We just have no idea what it is anymore.

That thought struck me the other day as I read through the comments on a Facebook post, in which a couple of “friends” were going on and on about the attributes of president-elect Donald Trump. Among the attributes was, of course, Trump’s toughness.

He’s going to put China in its place. He’s going to tell those radical Muslims to pound sand. He’ll turn the Middle East into a parking lot if they keep it up.

You could almost hear the “Freebird” guitar solo playing in the background and see the American flag waving in the too-hot-for-you breeze.

And there’s the problem: we in Alabama – in a number of conservative strongholds across America – have somehow started confusing bravado with actual strength.

More at link...

[raccoon]

1. More...

That’s how we ended up electing a schoolyard bully as our president.

And make no mistake, Trump is the classic American bully – a man who uses petty insults and false bravado to mask his incompetence and shortcomings. A man so thin-skinned that he sits up late at night tweeting insults at a sketch comedy show...

However, the most startling thing about all of this is that a large segment of the population lapped up that childish, immature behavior, considering it a good thing that a candidate wasn’t conforming, wasn’t too politically correct. Somehow, Trump’s willingness to voice the never-ending stream of insults, wild promises and insanely unconstitutional ideas made him seem tough. And there’s the problem: we in Alabama – in a number of conservative strongholds across America – have somehow started confusing bravado with actual strength.[/div class="excerpt"]

This election has finally made me realize, after all these decades, that many people don't think and just don't want to think.

I used to give people (in the aggregate) credit for having more sense than most of them do. I don't any more.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Palin made me realize the same thing, raccoon.

And the fact that people went wild for her after the election she lost, really told me something.

We do make a mistake in under-estimating the appeal of Palins and trumps and Kellyann Conways etc.
It is something that should not be dismissed but instead examined.

[Stuckinthebush]

4. I used to be convinced

...that I lived in the stupidest place in America. Alabama is a really dumb state. I've been here 50 years and can attest to the level of idiocy. However, I now realize that there are multiple Alabamas in this country. We are a rather stupid nation. Now I have to figure out what to do with that realization.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Here is an Ala. editorial which may cheer you up.

http://www.alreporter.com/the-toughest-man-in-america/

[pscot]

2. We had dinner yesterday with the toughest guy I know

He a 50 year old man with cerebral palsy and the courage it takes for him to get through each day is something a fool like Trump can't possibly imagine or understand.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. !

❤️

[Skittles]

6. Mr. Moon nails it

how pathetic is it that so many Americans believe in this orange buffoon?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. I tend to think of President Obama as the toughest man in America. n/t