The Candidate of Your Choice

by Fr Shay Cullen

What is it that drives voters, the common people, to cry out and vote 
for the false messiah to be their president and leader? Some voters are 
drawn away from more virtuous leadership and favor unrealistic fantastic 
promises of the bombastic candidate.

Even if such a candidate promotes hatred, racism and violence and 
approves and practices womanizing, insults religions and church leaders 
and supports vigilante killings of any suspect without trial, they can 
arouse a rabble of extremist followers. Can they be trusted to serve and 
lead a nation?

  In the United States and the Philippines, there are candidates that 
share such positions and attitudes. They are not the ideal leaders of a 
nation that aspires to be caring, compassionate and that respects the 
rights and dignity of all.

Good honest Republicans in the USA are outraged and disavow the extreme 
policies of Donald Trump, now the Republican Party presidential 
candidate. He will likely run against the democratic candidate Hilary 
Clinton.

He will ban Muslims from coming into the USA, and all illegal immigrants 
will be deported. Thousands of Filipinos could be in jeopardy.
Trump has insulted women, mocked a disabled person in public and vows to 
strike the enemies of America with overwhelming force if they don’t 
agree to his negotiating positions. If elected president, he will tear 
up every free trade treaty.

For Trump, it is America first and to hell with the rest of the world. 
For him, corporate America and big business should rule America and the 
world; not the regulatory agencies of government, not the UN. And yet he 
has reached a popularity that boggles the mind and troubles the heart.

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