The plan at the base of Trumerica is this. Blame all woes on the other and then feed the 1% and military industrial complex money to solve problems they have no business trying to solve.
Menon summarizes the current administration quite succinctly:
“Trump also seems determined to stay the course on America’s forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Neither he nor his generals show any sign of abandoning the Obama-era strategy of whack-a-mole drone strikes and raids by Special Operations forces against terrorist redoubts around the world (as witness a recent failed special ops raid in Yemen and 24 drone strikes — half of the maximum number that the United States launched against that country in any preceding year). Trump has already deployed 400 Marines as well as Army Rangers to fight ISIS in Raqqa, Syria, and another thousand troops may soon be heading that way. And General John Nicholson, commander of the US-led military coalition in Afghanistan, has called for “a few thousand” additional troops for that country.
So expect President Trump to dwell obsessively on threats that have a low probability of harming Americans, while offering no effective solutions for the quotidian hardships that actually do make so many citizens feel insecure. Expect, as well, that the more he proves unable to deliver on his economic promises to the working class, the more he’ll harp on the standard threats and engage in sabre rattling, hoping that a continual atmosphere of emergency and vulnerability will disarm critics and divert attention from his failures.
In the end, count on one thing: voters who were drawn to Trump because they believed he would rein in interventionism abroad and deal with festering problems at home are in for a disappointment.”
Looks like good times ahead, let us hope the American people can keep their eyes on what is actually important as opposed to the crazed side show this administration is putting on tap.
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April 29, 2017 at 2:12 pm
Miep
They’re still pushing this nonsense about lowering taxes for the rich being an economic stimulus. Sorry guys, money doesn’t work unless people actually have to use it.
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April 29, 2017 at 3:20 pm
The Arbourist
@ Miep
This all seems to stem from the counter-revolutionary backlash against the gains made in the 60’s by the moderately progressive forces.
Once Reagan and Thatcher got in, the notions of a society for all were promptly binned and the quest to what we have burgeoning today began.
The trickle down bollocks has been been repudiated about a zillion times and zillion different ways and yet it is still the background noise the public is immersed in.
It is frighteningly awesome the con-job that the media and elites have pulled off, enough so to make ordinary people vote for parties that are so completely against their own common interest.
No one looks to history any more to see the lessons that have been written and the wrecked civilizations that lie so casually in the mists of obscurity.
The very notion that a more egalitarian society is better for *all* classes rarely even enters the public sphere. :(
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