According to economists, there is no reason for the diving Stock Market. The economy is doing just fine. But I do remember what FDR said when he was coaxing the country out of the Great Depression: “There is nothing to fear, but fear itself”.
There is Great Fear in America today. We have a deranged would-be dictator at the helm of the statecraft.
Trumputin is attempting to strangle free speech. He is attacking his own law enforcement agencies. He disregards warnings against American interests by our intelligence community. He disregards sanctions that had been imposed by the Obama administration on Russia, in spite of the fact that the sanctions had been sustained by an overwhelming vote in Congress.
And lately, he has released classified information – pertaining to the Mueller Investigation of himself – in the one-sided version of Republican Memo, while obstinately refusing to authorize the release of the contrary Democratic Memo.
Not to mention that this deranged would-be dictator wants a Military Parade in imitation of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and other notorious dictators of the past like Hitler.
Yes, there is Great Fear in America today.
Guy, get a grip. President Trump is an egocentric bs-er, continuing the showman’s style that got him elected. The problem is that the Press and the Democrats pretend to take his ridiculous off-the-cuff remarks and tweets seriously. Then they puff them up, exaggerate and trumpet them, pretending that they are defending the Republic, or DACA, or whatever, when they are actually just promoting their left-wing agenda.
For the majority of us, it isn’t good enough to have a clown for president, – we have too high regard for the office of the US presidency. We need someone who has the educational background and experience for the job, someone who fully understands what it means to be in charge of it all, someone who respects the government as a social factor, for all, – and not the least, someone who is capable of manning important cabinet and department positions with people who can do the job required, not someone eager to tear down what it has taken decades or more to build. The US president should be honest, not a habitual liar. He or she should be a role model, someone we can be proud of, and someone the world at large will respect, – not a bragging, self-absorbed laughingstock like Donald Trump, – who is so afraid that the truth about him will come out, that he can’t do his job, and instead is willing to destroy anyone and anything to protect himself.
If you prefer, – we need someone more like President Obama.
Jorg, Jorg, as I advised Guy, get a grip.
I agree with 90% of your thoughtful analysis regarding who we need as POTUS.
What you say is very nice, typical progressive wishful thinking of how things should be, not how things are.
However, I hesitate to tell you, but the fact is that Donald Trump, warts and all, is the current occupant of the White House.
Looking at the way things are going, it seems likely that Republicans will retain both the house and senate in 2018, and that Mr Trump may be in the White House for 8 years.
Those likelihoods are diminished by the irresponsible passage this past week of the spending bill…but we’ll see.
Borrowing against the future to pay for all the things wanted right now does not sit well with those of us who think fiscal prudence is a virtue. I applaud those Republicans who voted against the bill.
Many (remember the Tea Party?) don’t want our children and grandchildren paying for today’s profligacy.
It is disappointing, but not surprising to see Trump agreeing with the huge increase to the deficit,
Like so many, you seem to have fallen for the Republican propaganda that they are the budget hawks and the Democrats the big spenders, while the exact opposite is the true history of recent administrations. Here’s an article that might help setting the records straight:
https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/two-santa-clauses-or-how-gop-conned-america-nearly-40-years#.WoCnqGD1CDI.facebook
And, as far as your 8-year projction for Trumpsky, let’s see what happens when Mueller’s report is out, and let’s hope that this unprecidential misfit is booted out before he does even more damage to this country, – and the world at large.
Thanks for the informative link.
What ever gave you the idea that I have fallen for the Two-Santa gimmick that the two parties have been playing on for many decades?
Mortgaging the future to pay for tax cuts, or doing it to hand out social benefits.
Two sides of the same coin…it is the way our unscrupulous politicians dispense largess to garner votes that will be paid for by future generations. It horrifies me.
I have to paraphrase his thought, but I think it was an ancient Greek who wrote that democracy will fail when the gullible people figure out that government will give them goodies at no cost.
Mueller’s report will be interesting, one way or the other.
Unless Trump is impeached (for high crimes and misdemeanors, while in office) AND removed from office (place the odds on that!), he will integrate the report results into his campaign showmanship in order to boost his re-election chances.
Remember how Hillary’s obvious disregard of the law regarding security of and destruction of govt. documents did not diminish her voter support by a whit.
The voters don’t care if their chosen candidate is a criminal.
Remember Trump making some remark about how he could get away with shooting someone on 5th Ave.
How much did that reduce his elect-ability?
And the most amazing fact is that even the evangelicals don’t seem to care that they support a liar, a sexual assaulter, a cheater, a self-absorbed egomaniac and down-right despicable character! Or, on second thought, – perhaps not so surprising after all?