AMERICAN LIVES UNDER AN AUTOCRATIC PRESIDENT

…The way "The Donald " sees himself

Trump made his position clear at the G7, “We’ve [I’ve] got a world to run!”

This is my personal view of what is happening with our current president, and my understanding of this man goes back to the Donald J. Trump of the 1980’s.

Trump is today spouting the same comments that he has believed for decades about how our allies are screwing the US with trade agreements such as NAFTA, and all the other multilateral trade agreements.

This man, who does not read and never listens to anyone but his own gut, he refuses to take any time to study why we are where we are, and that it is impossible for him to do what he says he can do in hours and days, not the months and years it usually takes.

As an example, Trump once said during the cold war between the West and the East, that if he were put in a room with the US and the Soviet Union, he could have it all settled in hours and everyone could go home happy and content.

No, I’m not kidding.  This was stated not long after he and his associate writer had published his book, “The Art of the Deal”.  If you ever did read it, you would realize how dated it is and how much it is and was a serious pile of manure.  I still don’t understand why a man that has gone through 6 major corporate bankruptcy filings, is still considered such a great deal-maker….?

This man, that says we in America have been “screwed by all of our friends around the world”, even at the same time he is saying that this country today is doing better than it has ever done since the end of World War II.  This idiot thinks that it was his efforts over the last year that caused all of what is going so well today in unemployment, the economy and the stock market.

The US has been on a rising tide after the Greatest Recession since the Great Depression, and since Obama was elected.  Every year since Obama’s inauguration, this country has improved in all these key areas.  That was even after we had previously entered into very expensive wars in the middle east that are still in process. 

In fact, there is a good chance that because of some of Donald Trump’s latest efforts, we may still go into a major recession before the end of Trump’s first term.

Trump said recently that for the first time ever, there are more available jobs in America than there are available workers.  Trump doesn’t seem to realize that this is because there are too many workers that are not qualified to work in today’s jobs.  And that’s because they have not been trained for today jobs. 

 There are plenty of people that are available to work in the US, but NOT plenty of “qualified available workers”.   And the Trump administration’s efforts are doing nothing to prepare future Americans to be qualified for tomorrow’s jobs.  That’s one reason why we have so many homeless vets and people that used to have manual labor jobs that were taken away by automation, not by foreign immigrants.  Those Americans are today living on the streets and in their cars and old motor homes across the country.

The other era that our ignorant leader doesn’t recall, was that after WWII, the United States was one of the only nations that was not attacked, while all of our allies with the exception of Australia and New Zealand, they were bombed to smithereens, as was Japan, the Philippines’ and the South Pacific.

All of those trade agreements that were started back then were what allowed our allies to eventually re-build their countries and to come back to being useful and productive and very good allies and friends.

Yes, there could have been better trade deals made over the years, but compared to Europe, the US also did not have to deal with a neighbor next door as with the Soviet Block countries just over their borders.

No wonder the United State became the leader of the free world.  We had the natural resources, we had developed the first atomic bomb and atomic power system and the world strongest democratic nation and strongest free military.  We had even developed he concept of mass production.  The US was the only nation that was in a position to take on the communist nations and to call their bluff.

With Trump’s love of autocrats like Putin and all the other world’s dictators, I believe that it will take the United States decades to get over the damage that will come from the Trump Administration. It is ridiculous for the president of this nation, a nation that was the originator of the original G8 coalition, for him to even consider asking that Russia re-join the G7 group after they were thrown out.  This is ridiculous.  Russia was thrown out due to their invasion of 2  sovereign nations where they illegally annexed the Crimea.

In addition, Trump apparently does understand that a lot of our problems with our raising debt and trade issues are due to our own bad decisions.  But thinking he can fix them by himself is more than delusional.  Yes, it was the US that did not review its trade agreements over the years, and that includes both the nation's political parties when they were in power.  It was the US that decided to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has put us in serious debt.  And those efforts in the middle east continue under President Trump.  Trump took us out of the Iran agreement, but that agreement was not meant to deal with everything wrong in Iran.  It was a focused approach to deal with keeping Iran from getting to where North Korea is today with "the bomb".

And if Trump isn’t successful in North Korea in this coming summit, it will be because Kim Jong Un has been given the world stage by President Trump.  Trump will never live it down if Kim does to him what North Korea has done to every other president for decades.

So, we are now going to have a trade war with our friends; we have a president that is having a “Bromance” with one of our longest and most determined threatening enemies; and we have a president that has made a sadistic minor dictator, a world recognized leader, that has killed his own Generals and his relatives just to keep his position in his own country.

God Help Us All.

Copyright G.Ater  2018