Here’s what I am REALLY concerned about.
The stock market boom is wonderful for me too. Gosh knows, one has a hard time complaining about one’s increasing assets even as the world teeters toward various confrontations, possibly catastrophic.
And, it’s been deemed unpatriotic to point at the America First concept, with all of it’s appeal to nationalism, and say it’s a flawed concept. But indications point unwaveringly to the construct being flawed in actuality.
We’re in a worldwide withdrawal of participation in international trade alliances. We’re pulling up our shores and girding ourselves into separatism in many areas. We’re heading for inflation. Tariffs on one set of products invite retaliatory tariffs in a trade war that can become really punitive for our own citizens.
No question but that technology and robotics will permit home-spawned manufacturing in many sectors, thereby increasing output in the USA. But this technology won’t necessarily bring massive new employment. We’ve seen this in the auto industry’s recovery. Doing more with fewer humans on the factory floor is good for the bottom line, but it brings fewer job opportunities in the production lines.
So, while right now we are sitting high on the hog, we’re going to pay for Trumpism in ways we don’t fully understand – or want to understand, not as long as we’re making money, sitting on our duffs and watching the stock market rise (those of us who’re fortunate enough to have stock portfolios).
And, of course, the Mueller investigations are not based on fantasy, and the Right’s desire to discredit American hero FBI lifers is, well, unpatriotic to say the least, and treasonous to say the most.
When fantasy-slander is repeated throughout the Rightwing and Russian Bot media, and people hear it in spite of their desire to get on with their day to day lives, the droning slander becomes ingrained.
Many want to believe Trump is the Savior. Many want to believe he’s The Answer. But I don’t. I think Trump is the socio-political equivalent of a plague of locusts; eating everything in its way, devouring and stripping away all manner of life. After it passes, new life can grow in its wake. So, if this is a reasonable metaphor, Trumpism’s severe cutting of regulations, or departments, or trade and other alliances, will bring a rebirth of healthy new life after it passes. But for now? we (I) have a hard time in turning down the rising paycheck. In that, I am an enabler.
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