Whether you love Donald Trump and think he's a political and business genius or would rather stick pencils in your ears, tip-first, whenever you hear him speak, know that one thing is for sure.
Donald Trump does not care what you think.
In fact, after listening to him for the past month, since he declared that he would seek the Republican nomination for the presidency of the United States in 2016, one might get the impression that he has no idea what he's talking about anyone is listening, so inflammatory have his comments been about immigration, U.S.-Mexico relations, general terribleness caused by the current administration and, most recently, the Vietnam-era heroism of Sen. John McCain.
Or lack thereof, according to Trump. Or not.
At first, it seemed as though he had to be saying such polarizing things on purpose (you know, for attention) because how could this person who otherwise functions successfully as a human being actually believe the vitriolic, me-against-the-world polemics spewing from his mouth?
Mind you, he's always been this way, the only opinion that matters being his own since there was such a thing as media.
But now we're starting to suspect that he believes his own rhetoric and, he (and an alarming number of polls) will be quick to remind us, plenty of people agree with him. So as we become increasingly more disturbed at how easy it is to steer people away from common sense and hope and toward pessimism and obstinacy,
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