"Trump will make a great President. He's a successful businessman."
I can't tell you how many times I heard that last year.
I can understand WHY people made this assertion. In a very superficial way, it can make sense.
But there is one glaring problem with the claim.
Trump is a businessman. Our country is not a business.
Our nation is made up of people, not employees. The most important thing? Values and freedoms... Not profits. Yes, we have a financial aspect, but that isn't all we are.
Yes, we do want to be economically secure. We want job growth, not a decline. We want a cash surplus. We want our ratio of exports and imports to favor the former.
But if you ran a country as a business? Sacrificed ideals and people in some warped sense of putting overhead costs and investors first?
How much would we lose? How much of our nation's greatness would be sacrificed?
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