Too Big to Care

I've been here a while, longer than the average life span, and never before seen major Presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. I've witnessed a paranoid President (Nixon was classic)  and a senile President--between them they proved that our system of balances and checks (mostly checks on what voters need)  can survive inadequate leadership: see Presidents Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Harding, Hoover, Bush. But Trump and Cruz have been obviously balmy from the first day of the campaign.

Cruz is meaner than a stepped-on gator while pretending to be a religious fanatic. He kept dragging his young children out into public where they pushed him away in front of the cameras and contradicted the nonsense he said about them.  Now that he's failed, the Canadians have sealed their border to keep him from returning to his birthplace. 

If Cruz is a sociopath, so is Trump, who says anything until he says the next thing. If the audience is racist, he's racist. In a room filled with Latinos, he'd tell them he loved sombreros. If they booed that, he'd backtrack and praise Cervantes. He is without care. He doesn't care. If the Cervantes move got booed, he'd tell the room to kiss off. He doesn't care. That's the quality that some voters respond to. He's too big to care.