Posted on 06/13/2022 3:43:10 AM PDT by FarCenter
While working Americans suffer the worst decline in real income since waning months of the Carter Administration, America’s political parties are in disarray with internal divisions almost as intense as the issues that have polarized “red state” and “blue state” America.
Neither party has a proposal – credible or otherwise – on the political agenda to alleviate the inflation that is crushing family income. And neither has the prospect of gaining a governing mandate, as opposed to a temporary majority.
It’s a national train wreck, and no one has a plan to stop it.
Unless his legal problems interfere, Donald Trump almost certainly will run for president again in 2024 and will be his party’s nominee. The Congressional commission investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot may have gathered enough information to motivate federal charges against the former president, but that remains unclear.
Trump’s obsessive belief that the Democrats stole the 2020 election damages him. More ominous is that his economic policies contributed to the present disaster, and Trump has no thoughts on the subject apart from assigning the whole of the blame to Biden.
Polling shows that 83% of Americans think the economy is in bad shape. Compounding the Biden Administration’s economic misery are two foreign policy disasters, in Afghanistan last year and presently in Ukraine.
In a matter of a month, Washington has pivoted from intoxicated triumphalism to reassigning blame for almost-certain collapse of Ukraine’s armed forces in the face of Russia’s massive superiority in firepower.
Biden tweeted March 26 that “the ruble was almost immediately reduced to rubble” and that “the Russian economy is on track to be cut in half.” Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund projects a modest 8.5% decline in Russia’s GDP this year and the ruble is 20% higher than before the Ukraine invasion.
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I disagree on several fronts.
Firstly, the majority of the American people think the 2020 election was not on the up and up. Trump pointing that out does not hurt him. Sure, the corporate media disagrees but they are just the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party and were going to disagree with him no matter what he did. Did peddling the Russia Collusion Hoax for 3 years hurt the Democrats?
You could fairly blame Trump for going along with Fauci and allowing states to impose lockdowns but even then, its a little rich to blame Trump for the decisions of various governors. The first stimulus was indeed Trump’s policy but the reckless massively bloated Build Back Broke spending bill passed in year 1 of the Biden administration combined with imposing costly regulations and crippling the fossil fuel industry, imposing sanctions on the #1 commodity supplier in the world, Russia all contributed a lot to the current economic problems. The public rightly sees Biden as being responsible for that.
The border, crime, foreign policy disasters, the economy, this is all on Biden/the Democrats and the public sees it that way.
He ignores what Trump can do to restore the US economy: 1) approve the Keystone Pipeline and open leases for drilling on federal land; 2) cut regulations that are strangling small business; 3) finish building the Border Wall and enforce immigration laws; 4) breakup radical leftist groups; 5) divide the FBI into sectors, distribute them around the US and fire half their employees; 6) dismantle needless federal agencies like Education, NPR, PBS and a slew of others.
I don't think it can be stopped.
Demographics, unheard of levels of mental illness, trillions in debt, corrupt Deep State. There are a lot of reasons why this isn't is going to be fixed. Certainly we cannot vote our way out of this mess.
The decline could be managed, but we'd have to break the union of 50 states apart and try to work on one or more smaller pieces.
It’s Chinese propaganda, only slightly more obvious than what comes out of Ukraine, these days. These are the a-holes who made COVID, with Fauci and the Democrats, and released it on the world. They have one mission, right now, and that’s to stop Trump.
Our government has been weaponized against us.
Dream on.
A proper plan is exceedingly simple. promote America First in all agreements and plans. Everything that betters the country in a real, provable, sense.
This would result in:
- less offshoring of manufacturing
- less foreign lending
- fewer / no foreign wars
- minimize imports while maximizing exports
- get rid of illegals, finish the wall, build a northern one, and enforce immigration
- actually reduce drug usage / manufacturing / distribution / sale
- force schools to focus on education, not social engineering
- promote investment in the home via tax write offs
- crack down on all forms of spying and anyone aiding foreign espionage
- reduce federal spending below income until the debt is paid off
- fix the voting system to be pamper-proof
- persecute sedition by the media
and put back the historic names of things the commie left has been changing
this would be a good start
To establish this new “Make America Great Again, Again”, shall require several things, first being that the coming Red tsunami continues into 2024 and beyond, and secondly, that the Republicans, once regaining the majority in both House of Congress, does not revert to the “gentlemanly” habits of the past, deferring to the Democrat Socialists on any victory.
The Democrat Socialists have gone a couple of bridges too far, and as is their strategy, successfully burned or blown them up after they crossed.
Thirdly, the assault must not be only on the political aspect, but on the whole cultural scene. Rebuilding the educational and corporate structures may be in part done by adopting policies and goals (deregulation and lowering taxes), but the real scutt work has to be done in the trenches, with citizen action and demands for accountability from all the consumers of these services. It is difficult to maintain this direct fury for very long with much if not most of the citizens directly affected.
And it is this very apathy of the citizenry that will lead to a comeback for the Democrat Socialists. They are counting on it.
My preferred scapegoat is Congress. Congress issued the money. Congress seems okay with the border, and seems determined to issue an amnesty, not a peep about the taxpayer-funded dispersion of the invaders.
Congress could disband the failed institutions, but it won’t. Congress fully supported the lockdowns.
Congress wrecked the country, and the current members are determined to get theirs while the US is merged into some globalist utopia.
Yes, it has. It is an adversary of the people.
Trump is a natural leader of the America First movement but he was forever surprised at just how infiltrated our country has become with those who count themselves among our enemies. This would be the case for any outsider who got an honest look at the inside of our government.
The progressives are so obsessed with their social agenda, prominently including transgender rights, that they make common cause with the neo-conservatives against civilizational opponents like Russia and China, which belong to an older world with another set of values.
Truth
The only thing that is going to save these United States is to radically reduce the size of the feral gubmint and stop baseline budgeting. A return to the constitutional government the founders gave us. All else fails, in time.
Why post this steaming pile of sh!t?
What does hurt him, I believe, is his inability to let it go and start focusing on the future. At some point soon I hope he "pivots" to talking about what his next term would look like. Nothing can be done about 2020 although if he does win the presidency again, he can champion real, substantive election reform.
America has a serious problem with open borders and “undocumented” illegal alien border crossers running wild everywhere doing their best to turn America into just another third world crap hole.
The Republican party has a serious problem with “undocumented democrats” like Liz Cheney in their ranks pretending to be republicans while doing their best to turn the Republican Party into just another tool of the democrat party.
Universal suffrage inevitably leads to societal collapse.
This is historically obvious, generally couched as the reason democracies fail.
Because starting next year we need strong Republican leadership in the House and Senate that will focus on solving America’s problems.
Waiting for 2024 will be too late.
IF its that alone, OK. If he brings the crooked 2020 election up in the context of pushing for more election integrity laws, that resonates with a lot of people. Voter ID and several other election integrity measures enjoy broad popular support - even among Blacks.
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