I watched Trump's Gettysburgh Address today and thought it to be an excellent, uncompromised articulation of the policy prescriptions that have actuated his candidacy from its beginning.
It provides, imho, a positive and constructive path for America to rebuild its industry, secure its borders, combat political corruption (in government and commerce), reestablish a moral foundation to its society and to bring back equitably shared American prosperity.
Trump is above all a pragmatist, not an ideologue. He lacks a philosophical supernatural structure to his arguments.. but he knows right from wrong, con jobs from reality. His opponent is almost a pure ideologue, dependent on New Age principles that have discarded all sense of moral absolutes or any sense of hope. She simply concedes to the current economic and social malaise as the inevitable entropy of economic and cultural darwinism. And to a prospect of unending imperial 'small wars' and investment of American blood in futile foreign adventures. She's simply given up.
I am cautiously optimistic that Trump will win. His outspent campaign has billboards throughout America.. in Rusted out Steel Smelters, Boarded up Mines, Derelict Textile Mills, rotting, depopulated inner cities, and workforce where 25% of adults have no employment and all but a few of the rest are struggling in insecure, benefit deficient, pensionless retail jobs.
Trump's vision is that of an outsider. It is nationalistic in terms of trade, dirigiste in terms of providing an equitable playing field to all, progessive in terms of taxation. It's not perfect, but its better than the empty promises Clinton has delivered, much like the Presidents of the last 40 years, who have never been able to deliver on any of them.
It provides, imho, a positive and constructive path for America to rebuild its industry, secure its borders, combat political corruption (in government and commerce), reestablish a moral foundation to its society and to bring back equitably shared American prosperity.
Trump is above all a pragmatist, not an ideologue. He lacks a philosophical supernatural structure to his arguments.. but he knows right from wrong, con jobs from reality. His opponent is almost a pure ideologue, dependent on New Age principles that have discarded all sense of moral absolutes or any sense of hope. She simply concedes to the current economic and social malaise as the inevitable entropy of economic and cultural darwinism. And to a prospect of unending imperial 'small wars' and investment of American blood in futile foreign adventures. She's simply given up.
I am cautiously optimistic that Trump will win. His outspent campaign has billboards throughout America.. in Rusted out Steel Smelters, Boarded up Mines, Derelict Textile Mills, rotting, depopulated inner cities, and workforce where 25% of adults have no employment and all but a few of the rest are struggling in insecure, benefit deficient, pensionless retail jobs.
Trump's vision is that of an outsider. It is nationalistic in terms of trade, dirigiste in terms of providing an equitable playing field to all, progessive in terms of taxation. It's not perfect, but its better than the empty promises Clinton has delivered, much like the Presidents of the last 40 years, who have never been able to deliver on any of them.
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