The
Day After the Year Before
3 R's: You Do the Math
(And, not 'reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic)
I'll build the wall myself and do the work myself
Why is Donald J. Trump
taking away, tearing down, or in some cases, totally destroying anything and everything that is good about America, except of course what he holds as good in his narrow view
of things.
Seems he loves America, just not all Americans just the ones he
chooses to favor, just not the whole that he is sworn to serve.
Now by many
accounts, he has made a mess of not only the country in general terms, but also
insulted, bashed, and belittled our worldwide friends, allies, and partners.
So, what’s next? Well, two examples
follow that help answer that question.
They are: (1) The 2020 U.S. Census scam, and (2) the
real and apparent U.S. leadership and influence decline worldwide as seen in
these two fine articles, and the highlights I have chosen to emphasize follow:
1. The 2020 Census Scam from ProPublica.org:
THE CENSUS SCAM HEADLINE
“Trump Justice Department Pushes for
Citizenship Question on Census, Alarming Experts”
“This is a recipe for
sabotaging the census,” says one expert.
The administration’s stated reason for the controversial move: Protecting
civil rights.
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2. U.S. Leadership and Influence Decline
Worldwide from MSN.com:
THE LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE HEADLINE
“The American Empire is Crumbling”
Intro: America's
power and global influence have plummeted like a stone during the Trump
presidency. Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson recently claimed otherwise in a New York Times op-ed, but he is obviously wrong.
What
President Trump is destroying is a product of the post WWI and WWII war years. In
the years after the Second World War, America constructed what amounted to a
globe-spanning empire, with the active assistance of Western Europe.
The
immediate justification was to build a military coalition capable of countering
and containing the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc — and an important
secondary objective was setting up a solid economic system to ensure
prosperity, manage trade, and avoid depression.
I Note: We succeeded to a high level of
excellence, but the path and road we have traveled has was a rough one as explained
and outlined in this fine article’s historical review of that path. Food for
thought for sure.
My B/L even if that’s
possible: With this administration by most expert accounts and plain old
common sense has become the worse in American history across all social,
economic, political, security, and national defense line both here at home and
abroad.
The article summary puts it in stark terms and I agree:
“Now we have
Trump, our own addle-brained, would-be dictator, and Western powers are dealing
with the shocking possibility that America is best considered an enemy. In his
first foreign policy tour, while cozying up to the brutal Saudi monarchy, Trump
offended Western European leaders for no reason, especially Angela Merkel, who said afterwards that “the era in which we could rely
completely on others are gone, at least partially.”
“Trump also badly cracked
the U.K. alliance simply “by impulsively retweeting a British fascist,” stoking fury across that country.”
“Trump is also letting the State Department rot. Only 61 out of 154 positions needing Senate confirmation have
been filled, and many key positions don't even have a nominee — such as the
ambassador post to South Korea. The department has been hemorrhaging top-level career staff, and Trump doesn't care
— “I'm the only one that matters,” recall he said when asked
about it.”
“The American empire was built by people who
recognized that often the best way to exert power was through non-coercive
means. Trump represents a different tradition — a pinched, ignorant,
aggressive, insecure tradition, one that insists only military force and
chest-thumping belligerence matters.”
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The question as always is: “Why do we tolerate this man
in power and what lies ahead” (and by lies ahead I don’t necessarily mean Trump
and his long trail of well-documented lies and distortions and half-truths and
such.
He does so almost on a daily dozen routine as it were). He is by all
accounts, the biggest and most-blatant liar in American history. So, I guess a little
pun fits.
Hope you enjoy the two articles – they are keepers for sure.
Thanks
for stopping by.
HAVE A JOYOUS NEW YEAR, HOPE FOR A BRIGHTER 2018, BE SAFE, AND HEALTHY.
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