The land of opportunity had an excellent reputation for giving people a way to beat their odds. That is why they could afford to bet on Donald Trump, who sold them a bill of goods that had no substance and that incredibly keeps them two years after his presidency.
The United States made history by electing the first non-white president of the industrialized world in 2008. Barack Obama saved a declining economy brought about by 8 years of conservative leadership. .
Trump became president quite possibly with foreign assistance based on his previous shady dealings. His methods of operation are transparent to those who are not fooled by his antics, such as those who never enrolled in his notorious Trump University. Still, there are enough fools among Americans to hold the entire country captive to Trump’s colossal swindle.
In late August 2018, a Trump-initiated trade war dominated the news and the stock market plunged on the uncertain future of world trade. At a meeting of G7 world leaders, Trump announced that China had called and talks would resume. Clever! Shares rose and remained there even as China denied calls had been made. So far it is not known who was scamming whom, but Trump claimed that a lie on his part would have been a mere negotiating tactic.
The Trump base, along with the stock market and Trump’s Republican enablers, appear to buy a safe claim. If done right, bragging about a win is just as good as an actual win. The proof of that dubious premise remains to be seen, but for those who aren’t fooled, the evidence is already overwhelming.
Trump proclaims that a wall is being built between the United States and Mexico. Numerous on-site sources contradicting the claim. Trump issues an edict to build the wall as soon as possible, breaking the laws if necessary to build the wall before the next election. The timeline of those events seems logically clear. But a good part of Trump’s support network seems to think that Trump is admirable for his tenacity to do what he wants.
A society based on that mentality is an autocracy. Accept a tyrant as your leader. A democracy like the US that is temporarily headed by a tyrannical business swindler is a gullible society taken over by irrational hopes, fears, and faith.
Peter Popoff started out as a televangelist and has been dodging the law for 25 years. He now sells miraculous spring water in an elaborate scheme to hook believers. They get a free bottle of water and then dole out small amounts to accomplish their goal. Some even get cash back and make testimonials useful for ads all over the Water and bring in more cash etc.
Trump is said to be in a rage to get what he wants. To an objective observer, that complex hodgepodge of greedy targets boils down to one. Trump wants to mislead the US and the world beyond by misleading enough people to keep him in a position to satisfy the entities he owes more than he can pay.
Fortunately, America is bigger than Trump. Infrastructure is not just roads, bridges and railways. It is an aging system in the United States that Trump, the builder, promised to renew. But more than that, infrastructure is the skeletal framework of the US, the system of institutions, protocols, and rules that move the United States forward in an increasingly complex global world facing economic, climate, and immigration challenges. as a single human entity.
The task of uniting the world is daunting. The Amazon burns and emits carbon to affect the entire world. The sacrosanct right of sovereignty gives Brazil the right to handle the situation as it sees fit. If the world does not agree with Brazil’s handling of the crisis, the United Nations was the forum established by the United States to refer a solution.
It’s true that the global infrastructure is much younger and more dispersed even than the US’s. But you can’t make progress on either as long as the US has Miracle Spring Water in its eyes. The Founding Fathers can be thanked for a Constitution that points the way.
Clairvoyants in America stand firm. They are turning the current dumb country into the CHAMP position where it deserves to be.