Thursday, March 31, 2016

Hang in there for us Mr. Trump

The Republican Party is fractured because our American national identity in 2016 is fractured.  In American history only one other fracture can be compared to our present state and that was the civil war between the states of 1861.  That war was fought to prevent a complete fracturing of America into two governments and two armies separated by the economic issue of slavery.  The political leadership of the southern states demanded an economic model that required a large poor underclass to support the privilege of the relatively few wealthy.

Today America is also fracturing on the same fissure, there is again a war like atmosphere between those who have a stake in this economy and those who have none.  Slavery is gone but the economic bondage of the underclass has ballooned in the last twenty years.  Half of Americans are making less than thirty thousand dollars a year and they know they are politically powerless.  Good paying jobs for Americans and a future for our children is the only real issue that matters to the underclass.  Instead, our politicians trade away jobs and crush our children with trillions of dollars of national debt that will consume future federal revenue when interest rates rise.
   
These are war times, the political leadership of both parties, sometimes called the establishment, are solidly on the side of the few economically powerful.  The establishment politicians fund their careers by taking money from the Wall Street corporations, the too big to fail banks and the stock market sensitive folks.  These contributions obligate the politician to support the national policies that benefit the wealthy few.  The only critical issues of concern to the wealthy few are free trade and free immigration, both policies give the wealthy few cheap labor benefiting big business and thereby inflate the stock market.  All politicians are of the establishment and want only to manage the decline of America on behalf of the wealthy few, it is that simple.

2016 is different only because of the candidacy of Donald Trump, he is the Lone Ranger on a white horse riding into the fight against political and economic injustice perpetrated upon the American underclass.  Mr. Trump is the ultimate outsider, the nonpolitician who only promises to apply commonsense to every issue and vehemently defend the interests of the underclass. Mr. Trump gets it, he says what the underclass wants to hear and has the courage to stand up against all the political elites of both political parties.  The fact that he is not a polished politician able to spin all the accepted political lingo is his greatest strength, not a weakness as his opposition claims. 

When he began his campaign, Mr. Trump only wished to be treated fairly by the Republican establishment.  This was probably a naïve request but it was more or less adhered to by the overconfident establishment through December of 2015, expecting the Donald to fade away.  Instead, the Trump bandwagon took on a winning character and the stock market reacted with a dip of 2000 points in January 2016, the donor class woke up and demanded that the Republican party stop Donald Trump.
 
In the following two months few if any person running for the presidency in the history of America has been so viciously attacked by the other Republican candidates, the Democratic candidates, the left wing stooges, the pontiff, the former president of Mexico as well as the President of the United States.  And what is their grip?  Mr. Trump is not a polished issue wise politician who can be controlled by money.  Well, praises be!

G. Goslaw
Landers, CA