With candor I was shocked by Donald Trump's overall poor performance in the debates. Again and again I told myself that the debates were where The Donald would make his case before the American people and finally disabuse us of the notion that Liberalism Works. And what we got was..... rambling on the Syrian cease-fire and several repetitions of the phrase "big league."
Look, I am all in favor of the words "big league", in fact, Go Cubbies. However those words don't amount to a full policy statement. As far as I can tell, Donald has traded six to eight hours of debate prep for the Presidency. I hope angry tweets against those celebrities were worth it. This is ridiculous. How did he beat so many Republicans? Where the hell were Ben Carson and Rand Paul with serious policy alternatives? How do we stop open borders now?
An HRC presidency will see increased attempts to allocate tax dollars to favored corporate lap dogs, a continuing dereliction of our military power, and likely acquiescence to open borders and, in essence, the beginning of the end of the United States as a culturally and politically separate entity from Europe, Latin America, and East Asia - including mainland China. Rampant globalism is so.... boring. The end of American exceptionalism will mean the end of any hope of the space program and a teleological view of history, where mankind strives to be the greatest it can be. We will be on course for the Hunger Games, locked in a zero-sum scenario, divided amongst ourselves in a scrabbling conflict for resources the government chooses to dole out to us.
That's quite a big third paragraph! Whew! How do you know what a HRC presidency will be like? She isn't a president yet! Look at all the democrats that guessed what a second term 'W' presidency was, and we're still here a worldwide superpower!
ReplyDeleteVery true my friend. I often write this blog when I am cranky and distempered after having read something online. Both sides tend to exaggerate the negative impact the other will have. I want to believe there will still be a country here on 1/20/21 no matter what, but the open borders stuff is very unsettling.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard for me to be metacognitive about politics in moments like this, in part because I care so much.