“The President said it . . . why can’t they
”www.washingtonpost.com/… Is worth the read.
I think there’s more to it. That all Americans can agree on. He’s not someone you want near your child. Maybe you think his presidency helps your child but do you want your family to act like him (think or rather not think like him) not empathize. Whatever you may say to show support you DO NOT want a child or even a relative who operates how he does.
This is something I have thought would irritate via a conscious all trump supporters. The unrelenting truth you would not want your child acting like Trump. A president. Who isn’t a role model.
I know there are those infrequent stories that disgust. But this story compiles multiple examples that the kids are getting the message. If trump does why Can’t I.
I recognize the unlikelihood to evoke a humane or human reaction from his supporters. They may not mind bullying. It can’t be true of all of them. We know that many say “they don’t care for” his rhetoric, well anything about how he presents himself.
As a parent I’ve thought about this for a very long time. Feeling lucky my son is too young to grow up with a President who in no way is a Role model. I think this is a drip-drip water torture. To see your child watch hate and know somewhere you do not want them to act like it. I think it’s bigger because even the most deplorable want their kids to act in a polite way becoming a person. Even if it’s buried deep.
Trump is not a role model. He just isn’t. I hope more and more studies show what he is. The guy you use as an example of how not to act.
From the WAPO:
However, a 2016 online survey of over 10,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade educators by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that more than 2,500 “described specific incidents of bigotry and harassment that can be directly traced to election rhetoric,” although the overwhelming majority never made the news. In 476 cases, offenders used the phrase “build the wall.” In 672, they mentioned deportation.
I think this misses something. Ask nationalist (not conservative) parents “do you want your child to act like Trump”. Do you believe the president should be a role model. what president epitomizes a role model (and instead of leaping at the question to support trump see by non-selection he isn’t).
More disgust:
“When the president goes on TV and is saying things like Mexicans are rapists, Mexicans are criminals — these children don’t have the cognitive ability to say, ‘He’s just playing the role of a politician,’ ” Santiago argued. “The language that he’s using matters.”
Supporters can distance themselves from this. Though the sewed it. Maybe secretly enjoy it. I’d like to see emphasis on what they can’t distance themselves from. Trump is not just not a role model, not just damaging to the psyche of children imitating he’s not a role model. He’s not even a guy you “want a beer with”. He’s the guy they want out there far away saying what they don’t wan to say out loud.
But inside, where something of a conscious emerges they may drip drop off like the pitter patter of thoughts that you don’t want your children to be around or imitate not just his rhetoric his anger, his lack of critical thought.
Even evangelicals.
Trump followed Arthur Brooks at the National Prayer Breakfast. Brooks dicussed love thy enemy.
Trump began by saying “Brooks won’t like what I say”. Brooks was merely stating Jesus position. Trump just didn’t realize it. (This actually made me wonder what boycotting Churches with Jesus’ words would end up looking like).
I applaud the WAPO for tracking reported (and obviously this is not even the tip of the tip of what happens).
But a larger discussion no mental gymnastic can avoid is “If the President is not a role model what is he”. If I can’t trust my child in front of the TV because everything about him (maybe I like his obnoxiousness) is something I don’t want in my real intimate life. Maybe that peals off some people.
I don’t know #presidentsshouldberolemodels #trumpisnotarolemodel
Millenial here that hates twitter. Hashtag thought. Then let him explain why he is.
Presidents should be role models. Right? Even Nixon had the honor to resign.
His affect on the psyche is something the staunchest Nationalists (trump’s own phrasing over conservative) cannot deny.
There is an undeniable truth beyond and more personal than (he’s nothing like jesus, I promise no one wants a gullible angry, fool, etc as a child)