Reality 2024+…

Here is something to think about, I hear many conservatives say, since the election, that Trump may not be the Ideologue that the liberals feel he is. What he has is a sense of the direction that the people of this country are headed, and he says things that tap into that direction. People generally believe that authoritarianism gets things done, they believe that inequality has existed forever and is not going to go away, they are tired of woke, they are tired of elitists who have studied at Ivy league colleges. And more.

So here is the real reality…

The Dali Lama did not write the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution. We are a country that talks about religion and morals a lot more than practicing them.

In one instance go back and look at a piece of our history, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which authorized the U.S. President to move Native Americans to west of the Mississippi River, which resulted in the Trail of Tears and thousands of deaths. The result was the land grab of the Homestead Act of 1862 which enticed more adventuresome farmers to go west and acquire larger acreages. That opened up the Midwest to the huge immigration surge in the last half of the 1800’s. How moral was that?

Stepping forward to today…

This last election was not about Trump in reality, it was about the people of this country, Trump was just the empty vessel that collected the direction.

The irony of it all is that he has to put together people and approach that looks a lot like what he has sold.  The actual implementation risks will hurt the whole nation. Plus, many of the people putting it all together have Ivy League educations.

So why did the Democrats lose?  They missed or ignored the fact that the electorate did not care about morals or rule of law. While those issues are important to a nation in the long run, right now they should have let those issues alone and instead stressed how they could make a better economy for the bottom 70 %. The Democrats should have gotten 90 % of the minority / working class block to vote for them. They did not educate the voters on what Reagan’s Trickle/Down Supply Side agenda had done over the past 40 years.  And they put too much energy in trying to confront Fake FOX News, when they should have just kept repeating all the positive economic News.

The Republican planners know what Reagan’s agenda did, and while not apologizing for it as it was their original plan, they are bringing it back under a new name, “Draining the Swamp”. It has the same goal, moving money to the top, and making sure that the Republicans are in charge by 2042 when Whites will be in the minority in the US. This is about Race and Wealth on a Macro scale.

So what could go wrong?

!. The thing that Republicans say does not exist, Climate Change, is the Achilles heel of the whole agenda. By being ignored and deciding to drill baby drill, it will bring down the economy and create the need for a Republican Party not headed by a Trumper.  This will be due to a host of natural disasters that will keep the country in a constant state of fixing things and having to move more and more resources away from economic growth. Those Natural Disasters, Wind including tornadoes and Hurricanes, Rain/Downpours, Floods, Drought and Fires. It is ironic that Al Gore provided the platform to deal with all this a long time ago, but Florida’s hanging chads set in place the pattern of destruction that has evolved. More than likely, it will take a lot of destruction and deaths, probably in the millions of people, to open the eyes of the electorate.  In the meantime, the Democrats will need to focus on educating the public so that when the destruction happens, they have a plan to set thing right.

2. A second factor that will bring down the Republicans is an economic collapse. We live in a finely tuned economic environment; globalization is collapsing as Christian Nationalism and Tariffs takes hold. A smooth-running government with strong regulations is the backdrop to our economy, no doubt some regulations need to be shut down, but that takes a Congress that can agree on bipartisan measures that work for all. No doubt a depression will ensue and, in a sense, bring about the equality that the Democrats have talked about accomplishing during these past 40 years. While it will be tough on the bottom 70 %, the fact remains, the top 30 % have more to lose.