Liberals, and especially the liberal media, are doing their
best to convince us that the Trump administration is a disaster and that Trump
ought to be removed from the presidency. I would suggest that if they succeed
in destroying his presidency, that will bring on the real disaster. Certainly
Trump is unorthodox, and he wouldn’t be my choice for the job, but he was
elected because of the extreme reaction of a large portion of the voting public
against a system they see as favoring the elites and neglecting the working people
– as discussed in the book recommended in my previous post. If they succeed in
destroying the Trump administration, I think the political reaction will be
vicious, even more vicious than what is going on now, further poisoning the
already poisonous political atmosphere in Washington and I fear for the stability of our nation. Liberals
in the Democratic Party need to pay attention to why they are losing elections
and how they can recover their working class base, rather than just flailing
away mindlessly at the Trump administration.
In fact, from where I sit, the disgusting and unseemly food
fights in Congress and the media over things like whether the Russians tried to
affect the election (of course they did, just as we try to influence their
elections – get real!) or whether Comey ought to have been fired (yes, Obama should
have fired him a long time ago) are childish distractions from the nation’s
real problems – a massive and growing debt, crumbling infrastructure, growing income
inequality, etc, etc. This is a case of
the media fighting over the arrangement of the deck chairs while the Titanic
sinks.
If there is a disaster, it is that our political system is
so broken that politicians are acting like cage fighters, bent on destroying
each other at all costs, rather than acting like legislatures and running the
country wisely. And that the media is participating in, and even fueling, this
destructive behavior.
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