[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Exactly. Huge part of the problem with Trump support. He simply promises people the world, grand statements about putting "American Steel into the spine of the US", "Making America Great Again" and people just lap it up.

They are words. Nothing more. He tells people what they want to hear and is like "Yeah we'll do this, and this, and yep we'll totally do that too!" with very little idea of how any of it is actually going to happen or be vaguely possible (because most of it isn't).

"Speech that would convince most people on here to support him"? Anyone who finds themselves swayed or convinced by any contrived slice of oratory, in any situation, is an idiot. The same people who are swayed into buying any product because the advertising was good. That's all it is. Advertising. And the product very rarely lives up to the hype.

...He's the "No Man's Sky" of candidates.

I actually agree with most of your post T.S.

But your points apply equally to ALL political aspirants to any 'High Office' in ANY Democratic country of the world, not just to Donald Trump and the USA Presidential race.

Further;

Although, as you rightly say, MOST pre-Election promises made by politicians seeking office are NOT kept, NO ONE can ever absolutely state with total certainty that such promises will definitely not be kept, because such prescience cannot be verified until after the election - indeed, after the term of office of the Elected politician who made the promises has actually ended.

Then, and ONLY then, can anyone say with absolute certainty that pre-Election promises were NOT kept.