The Aberration At The Top

This is a rant. It’s not sugar-coated or politically correct. But the essence of it is simple…it’s me being pissed off and fed up with all the bullshit floating around out there and magnifying a tiny speck of it as I am wont to do every so often.

So if this is something that you think might upset your precious sensibilities or political leaning, well have a nice day, ‘cause this isn’t for you.

Every day, and in a weird way you have to admire the energy involved in doing this, but every day the current US President manages to come up with some weird shit that makes all the intelligent people in the US scratch their heads and makes the idiots cheer.

In just two short years, (although it seems an eternity), he has managed to almost completely turn the country into two distinct groups. Those who support him and couldn’t, if their lives depended on it, explain why. And those who see this for what it actually is which is a massive con game played on an international scale.

It’s impossible for his supporters to look at this presidency and see any real achievement either domestically or on the international level. But they don’t seem to care. In fact, the stupider Trumps actions are, the more galvanized they seem to become.

He boasts that the economy is doing great, but economists almost universally agree that this was the direction it was headed anyway as a result of the work of the Obama administration, that took over with the economy in recession and quite literally circling the drain.

He is lobbying hard for a wall between the US and Mexico, which is something that will take at least 10-15 years to build. In the meantime,he has created no plan whatsoever to deal with the influx of asylum seekers fleeing tyranny in their Central American home countries, some of which the US was responsible for creating in the first place.

He boasts about how the world now has a new respect for the US because of him. But the reality is that the world, almost to a nation, considers this presidency to be a complete aberration, one which has caused them to seriously lose faith and trust in the US.

He has hired and fired some of the better minds in the country and ended up surrounding himself with people who are pretty much as crazy, egotistical and unqualified as he is. All I need to say there is Ben Carson & Betsy DeVos.

He has blackmailed the Republican party, by convincing them that they will lose their support bases if they should take a position contrary to his on just about anything. And these pussies just fell in line, because fear is the mind killer.

In the meantime, the greedier Republicans like Mitch McConnell, are basically getting richer all the time off Russian money and the pork barrel that they control.

He has promised over and over again to improve the infrastructure of the country, which, from all reports, is crumbling, and dismantle the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something ’much better’. Neither of these things have happened, nor will they, I fear.

He has been bought off by the fossil fuel, coal and natural gas lobbies and undone many of the regulations that were keeping the country relatively safe. The effects of this are yet to be seen, but it’s inevitable that with poisoned water tables and air, cancers of all kinds are not far behind.

I could literally go on for miles, including how he has added to his personal wealth and that of his family members.

But the essence of all of this is that the has created an epic fail of this presidency. But he has done it in such a way that has allowed him to essentially build a base of mindless idiots who believe everything he says, and even if they don’t, see him as someone who expresses publicly the fears that they harbor internally…all the main phobias, Islamaphobia, homophobia, misogyny and racism.

It doesn’t seem to matter to these people that his policies, if you could call them that, have impacted severely on many of the industries they were supposed to protect and have only provided huge tax breaks for the people who need them the least.

His trade war with China has affected countless businesses with whom China will no longer do business. It has seriously impacted the manufacturing sector and the agricultural sector, and driven up prices accordingly.

Yet in the same breath, he brags about how unemployment is at record lows in the country. What he fails to mention is the on the other side of that argument, millions of families in America are not making enough money, from all this record employment, to make ends meet.

In short, he has made an incredible mess of the country, the US economy, the US' leadership position in the world, and the general perception of the US as a place where anything is possible.

Fortunately the US has a certain resilience, but even that is being strained to the limit.

What this president fails to realize, in all his arrogance and self-centeredness, is that the world is a much smaller place, and cooperation and trust between nations is an absolute necessity if some of the bigger problems we face are going be dealt with successfully.

At the moment, the US is about as far removed from being part of the world community and it has ever been. And if they are going to get back their prestige and respect, many things will have to change, starting with the aberration at the top.