The Challenges Of Donald Trump

As many sat at home and watched yet another presidential debate, many of us are either disenfranchised or merely want something different. The debate is supposed to inform me on issues that I should be concerned about, but in our modern society I want to see who has the wittier remarks and who will ultimately make me laugh. We are so disconnected from our leaders that we get nothing from them and thus my attention during the entire debate has been on Donald Trump. How could a person who is narcissistic, lying, racist, and misogynistic ever become a presidential nominee? According to Plato this is because our current election process has failed and the uninformed are now the majority, because our chaotic democracy will ultimately lead to selecting …show more content…
‘For it is pretty fair that it is transformed out of democracy” (Plato Republic, 562a). At the last stages when democracy is at its most chaotic because the cities people have been given too much freedom, they will fall victim to a dictator. Plato blame democracy for this “Then, democracy, would have all this and other things akin to it and would be, as it seems, a sweet regime, without rulers and many-colored, dispensing a certain equality to equals and unequals alike” (Plato Book VIII, 558c). The United States with its vast economic inequality will see a rise of the poor over the rich. In this countries darkest hour where the middle and lower class do not know where to place their values when it comes to our countries government, Donald Trump will rise and be the canny tyrannical politician he so graciously perceives himself to be. “That when a tyrant grows naturally, he sprouts from a root of leadership and from nowhere else” (Plato Book VIII, 565d). He will tell the American people anything they want to hear in order to get their votes and if made president will then go after the rich, who are his strongest enemies by taxing them. Trump is the exact concept that Plato had of a …show more content…
“They don’t know that for the true pilot it is necessary to pay careful attention to the year, seasons, heavens, stars, winds, and everything that’s proper to the art” (Plato Book VI, 488d). What Plato means by this is that although many of the crew on the ship conspire to be captain, they do not have the qualifications to do so. This is the direct opposite in how America selects its political leaders. We allow just about anyone to throw their hat in the race and see how far they are willing to entertain us. We do nothing when the qualifications are not their or the intentions of a nominee are unmoral. Donald Trump neither encompasses any of the virtues that Plato envisioned a leader would have nor does he have the basic knowledge on how to lead, yet we follow like