“Oh
they Say
Time
loves a hero
But
only Time will tell
If
he’s real
He's a legend from Heaven
If
he ain’t
He
was sent here from Hell”
-Little
Feat
Donald J. Trump has been elected the 45th
president of the United States of America and it will be time that decides
whether he is going to turn the U.S. around making us stronger militarily,
internally safer, and an economically prosperous nation, or whether America has
reached a point where it is impossible to turn our downward trend around and we
become equally miserable with a low quality of life if Mr. Trump fails to
govern in the manner he proposes.
It is laughable that the liberals, progressives and
socialists are calling Mr. Trump a fascist when they were the ones who
firebombed and vandalized Republican political offices in a number of states
and they were the ones who were rioting and destroying property in places like
Portland, or disrupting the ability of citizens to travel freely by disrupting
traffic on interstates, highways and other streets. More often than not, those
who engaged in these activities either were not registered to vote or failed to
exercise their Constitutional right to do so. REALLY?! Isn't that activity the very nature of fascism?
Then we come to the issue of the Electoral College. How
the liberals, democrats, progressives and socialists howled when Mr. Trump said
he would wait to see the outcome of the election and how the outcome was
determined before he would accept the results. How unprecedented such a notion
was, they cried! Yet now they are the very ones trying to corrupt that process of our Constitution.
My, my my! How short the institutional memory of the
left is! Was it not Al Gore who demanded that ever pregnant, dimpled and hanging
chad be counted and that through divination the intent of invalidated cast
ballots should be counted? Even then it was not enough. He took the election
to the United States Supreme Court who turned him down flatly. That election
went to the Electoral College. “Selected, not Elected…”, they brayed of the
Election of G.W. Bush. We also have the example of acceptance of election results as offered by
John Kerry. “The election was stolen in Ohio…”, he droned on and on. Neither of them accepted the outcome of the election along with a peaceful transition of power in a democratically elected outcome.
Now in the 2016 election, we see the democrat
liberals, progressives and socialists trying to corrupt the Electoral College.
I think they are, the whole lot of them, hypocrites. Let’s not forget the
futile recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania either. Spare no expense to delegitimize an election. That's ok, as long as Mr. Trump doesn't do it.
Mr. Trump was not my first choice for the
presidential office. Originally, I supported Ted Cruz. In December of 2015 I
wrote in an earlier blog article here-
“So why am I not a supporter of Donald Trump, you
may ask? I am not a supporter of him for several reasons. While I agree with
most of the things he says and what he says appears to resonate well with
conservative people, the way he presents his views are unacceptable as he
antagonizes people and does not try to persuade people who disagree with him.
He does not present himself or his views in a presidential manner.
I also question whether he is a Trojan Horse, really
a liberal democrat who is out to destroy any chance of electing an alternative
to Hillary Clinton who will continue the policies of destroying our country
that Barak Obama began. Apparently, he is a good friend of Ms. Clinton's too. I
simply do not trust him to govern in a manner that is consistent with his
stated political opinions. I do believe that he is an extremely divisive figure
and not a uniting force in America”
I’ve come to change my views in some ways. I still
have my reservations, but given the alternative, I believe that he was clearly
the best person available to vote for.
Mr. Trump has seemed to moderate his tone and has
been trying to bring the country together. He has, for the most part, been more
presidential in his public speech, but I wish he would not use social media to
make petty comments about trivial matters, such as how Saturday Night Live
portrays him. I find that show to be irrelevant anyway. It hasn’t been very
good since the early 1990’s.
I was obviously wrong about his being a Trojan Horse
for the Democrat party. Originally, I thought he was very divisive, but I think he is much less divisive than a figure like Hillary Clinton
and, unlike her, seems to want to be a uniting leader of the American people.
If that were not true, he never would have won Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
It was revealed in Mrs.
Clinton’s emails how she essentially holds most of America in contempt. It was
obvious in how she got it wrong in her campaign slogan “I’m With Her”. Perhaps
she should have put a little more thought into how that sounded and come up
with “She’s With Us”. Her narcissism simply would never have allowed her to
have that clarity of vision, ever.
I’ve also seen that he clearly is not a globalist
and is invested in protecting American jobs and American workers. I
highly approve of his picks for his cabinet. He is surrounding himself with
people who know how to make business work for America and American workers. He’s
also picking people who know how to run the military and understand what the
purpose of the military is for, to be unencumbered by political correctness and
to prosecute military action against our enemies without rules of engagement
that prevent us from being successful in a defined military mission in which we
can define the enemy and define success of the mission, instead of mucking
about with murky goals and vague definitions of success. the majority of his selections for his cabinet and advisors are not professional politicians.
As is often the case, our politicians, as well as
our citizens, embrace an ideal without understanding what the potential outcome may be of embracing that ideal. So it is with Globalism. I was asked not too long ago;
when I thought that America began to go off the right track. I believe that it was
with the election of George H.W. Bush who became president after Ronald Reagan.
He was our first globalist president and every president elected has been a
globalist whether Republican or Democrat. Globalism is going to lead to a
totalitarian one world government run by the United Nations and until recent
developments in the world, this appeared to be inevitable.
With the exit of Britain from the European Union and
the possibility of other member nations exiting, such as Italy, in view of the disastrous
results of events in Belgium, France and Germany as a result of their favoring
Muslims terrorizing their citizens, the future of the E.U. is very much in
question. I believe that nations serve the interests of their citizens best as
individual nation states, not as collectivist experiments. It was this sentiment
that helped elect Donald Trump and is a rejection of globalist’s agendas of
free movement between countries.
As with any political ideology or movement,
Globalism isn’t totally evil, nor are sovereign nation-states with their own
ideologies and agendas who exist independently from each other pursuing their
own agendas and destinies. Humans tend to be all or none in their thinking. They
have difficulty discerning what is worth keeping and what is worth rejecting
and have difficulty thinking critically and dispassionately. Mr. Trump seems to
want to strike a balance between these dynamics.
What was the alternative? My opinion is that the
alternative, to elect Mrs. Clinton, was to elect someone who is either so
incompetent that she doesn’t understand the importance of keeping government
classified information safe or she is so arrogant she believed that the rules
of information protection didn’t apply to her. I think the latter is probably more true.
As Secretary of State, her tenure was a colossal
failure. Her policies led to massive takeovers by Islamic radicals and Islamic
terrorists of a number of Middle Eastern countries, and turned a blind eye and
deaf ear to our Ambassador and embassy staff in Benghazi which led to their
deaths. Then she lied to the American people about what happened.
She pushed for the admittance of undocumented Middle
Eastern refugees, along with came a lot of Isis terrorists. When terrorist acts
were committed by Muslims, she couldn’t even bear to say the words “Islamic
terrorism”. Failure to diagnose is the surest way to lose our country.
She continued to advocate allowing illegal aliens
from other countries to enter our country. Even if they committed heinous
crimes such as child sexual assault, rape or murder, she defended their
presence and was against deportation. Perhaps this is one of the most serious
of her failings as someone to be entrusted with power in our government.
Consider the reality of illegal aliens in America. They live in a state of
poverty that our own people do not even know. They are exploited by the very
people who advocate their illegal entry to our country by being employed in menial
service jobs and paid far below what they would be paid for the same kind of
work if they were U.S. citizens. They have no education, no skills and nothing
to contribute to our country except to be exploited for their unskilled
physical labor. Yet at the same time we are told that we should provide them
welfare benefits and access to our system when we have other people who are
applying for legal immigration to our country who have education and skills and
who want to assimilate here into our culture, but they have to wait in long
lines to come here legally. Where is the morality in that? It does serve the
purpose of the globalists who want to cede our sovereignty to a one world
government. At what expense? To reduce the entire country to a unified
miserable standard of living much like what the people of the Soviet Union
experienced? Is that the price of Globalism?
All the while, Hillary Clinton and her supporters
accuse everyone who did not support her philosophy, world view and politics as
intolerant and “haters” But it seems to me they are the most intolerant of all
and most hateful of all. Personally, I can accept that people don’t agree with
my opinions and world view, but rather than to label them as a “basketful of
deplorables” as Mrs. Clinton herself did of those who supported Mr. Trump, I
simply don’t agree with them. I can respect their views, but that is not true
of how they feel about people who are like minded with my opinions.
The Democrat party’s biggest failure of all is to be
able to look at why they lost the presidential election. Yes, we did learn the
truth behind their lies when all of the emails of Mrs. Clinton’s server were
revealed along with the Democratic National Committee and various party leaders
in the government and in the party organization’s emails. It was not a very
pretty picture on how they conducted their campaigns. If anyone stole an
election, it was Mrs. Clinton and the DNC stealing the election in the primaries
from Bernie Sanders.
They cannot seem to reflect upon themselves and why over the last 8 years, they have lost the House of Representatives, the Senate, and two thirds of the states’ governorship and legislatures. Instead they want to blame it all on Mr. Trump, and the Russians who they believe exposed their corruption. Perhaps the Russians did expose their emails, but beyond that, they take no interest in understanding and learning why their ideologies are failing with the American people in larger numbers as time goes by. Mrs. Clinton, Democrats, aside from the northeast and the west coast, we are just not that into you. Rather than demonizing us, reflect upon your selves.
They cannot seem to reflect upon themselves and why over the last 8 years, they have lost the House of Representatives, the Senate, and two thirds of the states’ governorship and legislatures. Instead they want to blame it all on Mr. Trump, and the Russians who they believe exposed their corruption. Perhaps the Russians did expose their emails, but beyond that, they take no interest in understanding and learning why their ideologies are failing with the American people in larger numbers as time goes by. Mrs. Clinton, Democrats, aside from the northeast and the west coast, we are just not that into you. Rather than demonizing us, reflect upon your selves.
The people elected Mr. Trump because they are tired
of professional politicians and tired of business as usual in Washington. Our government was meant to be run by citizens who serve and then go back to private life, not professional politicians. We
are tired of voting for people who say they will do one thing and then do the
opposite of what they were elected to accomplish. We are tired of Democrats and
we are tired of Republicans who act like Democrats when it comes time to
execute their duties as elected officials. That is why Donald Trump was
elected. I hope he accomplishes what he sets out to do. Whether he can or will do what he says he
wants to accomplish, Time will tell.
