I don’t favor Trump. Why? There is no discussion, no reason, no analysis, no logic and no common sense to the man.

Trump shows up, talks and Americans get cliches, homilies and folksy reminders. Trump believes Americans don’t have to think. He believes he knows which cliches will motivate them to vote his way.

The Left, too, whoever they may be, has its cliches, shorthand utterances that fail to explain and never offer solutions beyond conclusions about issues facing Americans. Obama was filled with them. Did the ACA (Obamacare) solve healthcare for all Americans? Who on the Left says anything other than grunt a phrase that will be inserted into a headline? 

Of the two Trump is the better entertainer. He remembers many cliches, not perfectly to his disadvantage. The Left less so. Most of these words are stated in speech, with obvious flaws in presentation:

The speaker may be forgiven because he becomes entangled 

in a hopeless sentence structure, but not so the writer…The 

speaker can use intonation, facial expression and gesture to 

help where his language is lame, but written words lie quietly on

the page. – Theodore Bernstein

Alarmingly, written words in America are falling to the same weaknesses as the spoken. It is the bane of politicians, journalists and commentators. Watch them all on TV. Yet I have great faith in the American people, to consider, to ponder and to judge, and come to their own decisions. The problem in both speech and writing is the gross overuse of cliches – neglecting facts, evidence and relying on a modicum of research or nothing but feelings and outrage. Indeed, Americans can do better and should always keep George Orwell in mind when listening or reading:

Ready-made phrases are the prefabrication strips of…

words that come crowding in when you do not want 

to take the trouble to think through what you are saying.