By Paul Bremmer
Dr. Ben Carson’s rise to the top level of the 2016 Republican presidential field has flummoxed many observers, but author and journalist David Kupelian says he understands the retired neurosurgeon’s appeal: Americans want a good person as president.
“People are hungry to have somebody as a president who is basically a thoroughly decent, moral human being,” Kupelian told hosts Cliff Kincaid and Jerry Kenney in a recent appearance on the Roku television show, “America’s Survival TV.”
“I think people know he doesn’t know everything. He’s not a politician. He doesn’t understand everything about government and debts and deficits and all that, the intricacies of government. He is a smart guy; he is a brain surgeon! So they know he can learn that stuff.”
Kupelian, author of the popular new book, “The Snapping of the American Mind,” pointed out that World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower had never held elected office before he moved into the Oval Office.
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Kupelian says Americans would trust Carson to assemble “a very good and smart team” around him to help with policy matters if he is elected. But they really want, especially after a disastrously unqualified president like Barack Obama, for the next man in charge to be a decent, smart person who embodies traditional American values.
“They want somebody who has the American, Judeo-Christian sensibilities that Eisenhower and pretty much all the other presidents going back to George Washington had,” Kupelian said.
Yes, specific policies are important, Kupelian acknowledged, but capable advisers can fill in the details. He thinks Americans yearn for more than just a policy wonk.
“They want the one thing you cannot create – you can get the policy later, [but] you cannot create the good person,” Kupelian said. “If he’s not a good person today, he’s not going to be a good person in November 2016. That’s what they’re looking for, a truly decent, moral, honest, respectable person up there.”
The interview:
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The author said it’s important for the president to have strong, solid, wholesome values because the president is somewhat like “the father of the county”; he has a “radiant effect” on people like a father does on his family, observes Kupelian, who recalls Ronald Reagan’s effect on him.
“I was kind of depressed before Reagan was in office,” he recalled, looking back on the Carter era. “I was ready to drop out. When Reagan said, ‘It’s morning in America,’ it had an effect beyond just his policies. … There is something there that is spiritual and hard to put your finger on that has an effect on the country.”
Likewise, Kupelian believes Barack Obama has had a “spiritual” effect on America, but it’s one far different than Reagan’s.
Kupelian particularly sees this effect taking hold of young people, who are the most impressionable and vulnerable members of the population.
“He is driving madness into people and sense out of people,” the author said.
The fact that so many college students love socialist Bernie Sanders is evidence, said Kupelian, of a broken, traumatized generation. But he made clear he is not the only one who views the young generation as broken. Psychologists have reported a “mental health crisis” among today’s college students, with skyrocketing rates of anxiety and depression.
Kupelian has his own ideas about where all this anxiety and depression is coming from.
“It’s coming from an insane culture that denies the existence of God, denies the existence of right and wrong, and puts forth a crazy ideology which doesn’t add up and violates the laws of economics and God and common sense – and then we have a president who lies constantly, is dishonest … and that takes its toll. It takes its toll, especially on young people.”
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