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Walter Russell Mead on Trump
Jermanator
Posts: 16,244 Senior Member
The last couple of times I posted something from this guy, I got no responses. Mead takes the idea of what he calls, "the blue social model" (think back to lifetime employment with the same company, defined benefit pensions, strong middle class etc., from the 1950's through a good part of the 1980's) and warns that that social model is fading. Something is happening. Something new is coming, but we are having a hard time figuring out what it is and are clinging to the blue model in vain. The world is changing and we are trying to cling to the past when we really need to be looking toward the future and figuring out the best way to navigate it.
Anyway, he is one of the few people that I take seriously that writes political columns these days. When Dr. Mead puts something out, I read it. I give his writing quite a bit of merit. This is his take on Trump, and he does a good job of verbalizing they way I see things at the moment....
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/23/the-meaning-of-mr-trump/
Anyway, he is one of the few people that I take seriously that writes political columns these days. When Dr. Mead puts something out, I read it. I give his writing quite a bit of merit. This is his take on Trump, and he does a good job of verbalizing they way I see things at the moment....
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/23/the-meaning-of-mr-trump/
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
-Thomas Paine
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"Myself, I don’t think the system is quite as corrupt as some Trump supporters believe or, perhaps more accurately, I lack their confidence that burning down the old house is the best way to build something new."
1) I am totally convinced that the status quo is (for the most part) every bit as corrupt as anybody can imagine. In fact, I propose that it is much more so.
2) Electing Trump is HARDLY "burning down the old house", and even if it WERE, I suggest that NOW is the time to do it, rather than to just sit back and (as he says), let Clinton guide us towards the reef. More like "guide us over the cliffs in a racecar at top speed" IMHO.
We can ill afford the status quo for another 4-8 yrs, or I am convinced that we will likely see a depression that will make the 30's seem more like the 80's.
More to the point, whether we see another depression or another booming economic period, I personally want to face either prospect well armed, and capable of defending myself and my family. I do NOT foresee that happening if Clinton has her way with the Supreme Court nominations we are likely to see over these next few years.
Luis
This election year's 'un-popularity contest' is simply the end result of decades of an increasingly uninformed and uneducated electorate choosing the least-worst big government figurehead whose only goal is to pin the blame on everyone else for it's failure to deliver Utopia to its undeserving public.
Meanwhile, out here in the hinterlands, ordinary working folks are laboring away to earn enough to finance their family's prosperity, and subsistence for 2 or 3 worthless wards of the state, and pretending that everything is going to be all right for their children, as long as they work hard and pay their taxes.
It will soon be up to the states to save themselves. Maybe it always has been, except during the world wars when everyone could more or less agree on who the enemy was.
A. Electing Trump won't do a bit of good unless we change Congress and do some serious ravamping of our state, county, and city governments. The whole system is rotten, and just changing one person with limited power is really more symbolic than anything. I mean Congress is who doles out the money that facilitates a lot of the stuff we complain about. Plus they are responsible for bad laws either through passing it or allowing it to be done through regulations.
B. People need to get involved and hold their elected representatives to their jobs. They're representatives, not elected leaders.
C. This should be in the political forum.
A. A electing Trump will do good as he can veto any excessive spending bills and increasing Government that the voters do not support. I hope he makes an effort to cancel some of the Departments that we do not need and eliminate many of the Regulations that hamper both Small and Big Businesses.
B. The Voters need to get involved with their elected Representatives both Local, State and Federal and let them know how they feel and what action they should take. Typically less than 2%, I suspect ever contact their Representatives.
C. Many voters are oblivious as to what is going on in Government and some cannot even identify who the politicians are when interviewed.
It has often been said " You get the Politicians and results you deserve due to lack of interest and voting"