It is inconceivable to me that citizens like you are calling Ted Cruz every name in the book simply because he understood the existing ground rules going into this election cycle, set up an organization whose roots were in existence even before he announced his candidacy, and has run an absolutely brilliant campaign, within the prescribed rules, and by exhibiting an organizational ability that completely eclipses (actually, embarrasses) that shown by his 'brilliant businessman' opponent.
And you choose to crucify a candidate who decides to play by the rules and run an honest campaign, while you also choose to elevate a candidate who knew those rules full well from the word go and, rather than expend the time, energy and research needed to win under them, chose to do nothing more than benefit from them, when he could (and he did, quite often), and whine about them, when they did not work to his advantage.
Contrary to the popular opinion of many Americans, we do not live in a democracy. Our Founders believed that that form of government did not best represent the citizenry. We live in a representative republic, in which we elect people to represent us, by putting those in office (even delegates) who we believe best reflect our views, or whom we trust to make decisions that will best represent our, and America's, best interests.
Ted Cruz has known that since he memorized the Constitution at the age of thirteen. Donald Trump, at the age of sixty-nine, and nowhere near an equal as far an Constitutional scholarship, has yet to wrap his mind around the Founders' vision. And ... amazingly ... he is using his ignorance as a convenient political weapon, because it appeals to others to whom the sound-bite word 'Democracy!' is a rallying cry.
See: Why Our Founders Feared a Democracy
Excerpt: Our Founders very much feared creating a government that had too many aspects of a pure democracy. They feared the destructiveness that a majority might have in trying to make everyone equal, and in the process taking away property, rights of property, and with it our basic freedoms which they considered "God given Freedoms." They very much feared the development of the Robin Hood mentality we are seeing today – soak the rich and give to the poor. |
