Agree with you. You know one of the major reasons I voted for Trump was something Carl Icahn said. He said that if you want to vote for real change, then don't vote for Hillary, because she represents the status quo and will continue to use the same worn out pathways and tools as the establishment always has. Whereas, Trump was going to shake things up and be disruptive. So a vote for Trump was a vote for real change. That's why I voted for him, because I knew he'd be a wrecking ball. He defeated two dynasties: the Bushes and the Clintons. He's ripping holes in the establishment of both parties and the deep state, including the FBI and CIA. By the time Trump is done, the establishment will be in tatters and the country will be ready for something new, maybe even a third party to bring some kind of sanity back to this country. Maybe we'll even get someone who is moral and values based.
This is about as soft a revolution as we can hope for. Trump is that revolution, whether you like him or not, and that's far better than a hard revolution, which none of us wants. At least, I don't, because I'm a peace loving, non-violent person.
The problem is that it's creating some serious externalities. Trump has unhinged those on the left. So much so, that the left has perverted the mainstream media, turning it into a non-stop, anti-Trump, propaganda machine. We need a unbiased, non-partisan, properly functioning mainstream media to safeguard our Democracy, but that no longer exists. So that is one casualty of Trump's impact on the leftwing. The other major problem that has been uncovered is that we also have a highly partisan FBI and CIA. They are supposed to be tools of the administration to achieve foreign and domestic security, not partisan tools to foment and execute coups against our own President. That's a serious problem. Right now, the left is cheering them on as they attempt to destroy Trump, but in the future when that same deep state apparatus is used against a Democrat President, they are going to realize the monster that was created. We already have the infrastructure of tyranny in place and we have elements of our government that is using it in a way only tyrants do. That is cancerous to our Democracy.
So the good news is that between Snowden and Trump, these huge problems have been exposed, but it will take some real fortitude and unity among Americans to fix those problems. Frankly, I don't think this country can muster either. So those things make me the most worried for our future. Trump will only be here for a brief moment in time, but a broken, propagandized, mainstream media, a partisan supra-constitutional FBI and CIA, and a fractured American people will be with us for a very long time and it may ultimately mean the end of our Democracy in the US as we know it. |
