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Oprah and courage

Trump has good instincts, usually, with regard to people.  And it seems to be his opinion that Oprah lacks the courage to run for President.  But add this qualification: if she did, the media would be falling all over itself to praise her, to build her up, to tell her and the world how wonderful she is, which is precisely what she has always craved and thrived on, and obviously withered and saddened her when it diminished.

Consider that if she knew she would have to endure round the clock insults, continuous harassment and threats, and a national campaign involving even American secret police and trained subversive agents working closely with most national media, THERE IS NO CHANCE SHE WOULD EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.  Oprah is not Trump.  Trump became who he is because he loves winning.  He loves entered tough playing fields, and outworking and outsmarting tough opponents.  He thrives on it.  Oprah became who she became because she needs to feel loved and adored.  I have never felt that she held any beliefs so strongly that she would not change them on a dime if she thought her audience was demanding it.

And I will remind you that, at least as I recollect the thing, her endorsement of Barack Obama was a very important early victory for him.  She lives in that world, and has for a long time.

Our political choices have become, on the one hand, continuing everything that has worked for America throughout its history, including promoting and supporting the best and brightest; or, on the other, abdicating all sense of responsibility to our children, and to those of anyone born here, and pursuing aggressively policies which breed, and have always bred, political tyranny, mass poverty, violence, the diminishment of the human spirit, gross injustices, and long term oligarchies.