The “Secret” of Donald Trump

2016 seems to be a replay of 1992, the “Year of the Voter,” whose discourse was dominated by a reluctant billionaire to run for President and live in the “fish bowl” of the White House.

There the similarity ends.

H. Ross Perot was virtually drafted to run for President after numerous appearances on television critiquing the way the country was run, finding both Democrats and Republicans equally culpable. Perot was a self-made billionaire who made his initial fortune as a billionaire computerizing the social welfare system.

He was a high-principled entrepreneur who rescued his men when isolated under highly unlikely conditions. He actually bought an original copy of the British Magna Carta, the found foundation charter of representative government limiting the king’s powers.​

Donald Trump’s Arrogant Persona

Donald Trump, on the other hand, made his money the old fashioned way…he inherited it. While his fortune has had its ups and downs, Trump has built up an impressive real-estate empire and has gotten television publicity advising entrepreneurs on air.

Trump, like Perot, lacks any political credentials, and has something of Perot’s audacity. However, he shows little sign of being able to unite people, but rather divides them by baiting their self-interest at the price of others.

He has publicly made statements about heavy surveillance on domestic Muslims and building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico that few, if any, professional politicians would endorse.​

He has dominated the Republican Presidential debates with an arrogant persona that is hard to take. What makes it equally hard to ignore him is that some of his assertions seem correct. For all of our military intervention in the Middle East, it is worse off, and we are worse than off before, at the price of trillions of dollars in squandered tax money.​

Trump’s Agenda

It may be that Donald Trump is secretly attempting, as a successful New Yorker, to destroy the Republican Party.

Perhaps his selfish assertions are simply mirroring the me-first mentality of the “Tea Party.”

He makes Wall Street’s Gordon Gecko, who declares, “Greed is good!” seem like a Sunday school teacher. We may not know until it is too late if Trump’s posture is all just an act to get the world’s most powerful position and role. What better way to vindicate his past?

What few people consider is that Trump is making brilliant negative use of Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret, a runaway best selling DVD and book, where she documentary-style illustrates the Law of Attraction made famous by Napoleon Hill, author of America’s perennial best sell, “Think and Grow Rich.”

Hill talks about a great river flowing in two directions, one towards prosperity and peace, and the other toward poverty and ruin.

He reveals that the two currents are actually thought streams. His premise is that if you think rich, you will literally grow rich. Byrne takes it a step further by brilliantly illustrating the power of negative thought to ruin us, whether it is in dining out, fearing being robbed or even being hassled on account of being different.

It is obvious that Trump is using the negative energy to control his campaign and his followers. This negative frequency is used to gain power and control with no prosperity, and peace in mind. How sad.

All you have to do… is to watch his campaign ads…​

Presidential Race: Running on Fear or Desire

If you want to become President, you will need a lot of publicity. Hillary Clinton already has a lot of visibility due to her marriage to Bill Clinton, along with the credibility of being both a U.S. Senator from New York, as well as Secretary of State under President Obama.

To top it all off, Hillary has actually lived for eight years in the very same White House she hopes to repossess in January 2017. While Trump was widely known on account of Ivana Trump, as well as the Trump Tower, few people would take him seriously as a Presidential candidate.

Due to the negative application of the Law of Attraction, Donald Trump is moving toward comparable name recognition to Hillary Clinton, though being obnoxious about it as can be. He has evoked fear and loathing from both sides of the aisle, yet he has already won numerous states in the primaries. How can this be?

The master child psychologist, Piaget, discovered that at our earliest days, we have two primary motives: fear and desire.

Fear retracts us; love or desire makes us reach out. You can quickly grab people’s attention through fear. It is such a primal drive that it is difficult to move through it. Winning people’s hearts and minds through love requires a genius when taken to a massive scale, such as Jesus Christ or Mahatma Gandhi.

If the end justifies the means, then fear is a lot easier to get you political mileage than love.

If you fuel people’s images of death and destruction, prompted by intermittent acts of terrorism on a wide scale, while offering yourself as the solution, you get people obsessed with you as the solution.

Long have politicians won votes by besmirching their opponents. This year, the Republican candidates seem to have plunged to new depths. Gone is the dignity and optimism of President Ronald Reagan.

Trump has spread a meme or virus around the country where people both for and against him are talking mostly about him, ignoring the other more qualified candidates.​

Do we Need New Walls or Bridges?

What then is the solution? We could finally own up to the fact that we, the voters, actually have the power. We can turn off the boob tube, go to a different website or play a different tune. When we succumb to fear, we are giving away our power.

If we think back to 2008 when President Obama successfully ran for the White House, he envisioned a rainbow embracing both sides of the aisle, “Yes, we can!”

While Obama has made monumental mistakes in his two terms, he has made landmark moves towards peace and the environment. The economy revived, and he strengthened the American dollar. He captured the imagination of America with his vision. He made his being a person of color an asset, rather than a liability.

Why, then, can’t the current Democratic candidates do the same? Couldn’t Hillary become America’s “Iron Lady”? Couldn’t Bernie Sanders take his retro-socialism to a new level, by proposing the time has come for us to build a whole new economic system worldwide?

Both are possible, so long as either candidate captures the public with their dream. As Napoleon Hill put it, “Practical dreamers never quit.” One gets the impression that both candidates are in it for the long term. Hillary certainly demonstrates poise under pressure.

We need candidates who are keeping up with the current worldwide events… and not rehashing their out-of-date agendas. New world – new rules!

We don’t need more walls... we need new bridges!

So many people come to the U.S. from all over Latin America because they see no better way. It is time the U.S.A. sees all of the America’s as vital partners. The potential for sustainable development in the rest of the Americas could drive our growth well into the future.

Why not ally ourselves with Pope Francis I, who has successfully ignited a revolution within the world’s largest institution, and brought back to life one of the greatest saints who ever lived, the Patron Saint of San Francisco, Saint Francis of Assisi?

And above all, we need to ignore leaders who use negative energy to their advantage. Ignore them! Because the less attention we are all going to pay, the less inner power they are going to gain.​

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