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Years ago some political philosopher stated that, “People deserve the government they voted for.”  He did not mean that in a nice way, many hated oppressive regimes were initially voted into office.  What can America look forward too?  Ukraine is toast with Eastern Europe not far behind.  Surviving Palestinians will be forced to wander hopelessly in the desert as towering hotels rise from the ashes of their beachfront homes.  Taiwan without promised support disappears into Greater China.  The Pacific increasingly becomes a Chinese lake as other island nations join South Korea’s struggle to maintain their independence.  China is already moving into Africa and South America as the United States turns inward.

The United States has lost all claims to a moral high ground, which was the basic of its “soft power” to influence world events.  Foreign nations look on gleefully as the nation enters into the melt down phase to third world status.  While Americans ignored Trump’s first term record of international blunders, the global community seeks ways to work around America during his second term and the country may never regain world respect. The world has studied and assessed Trump’s leadership abilities and find he is not to be trusted, is easily manipulated or outright bought.  Trump and by extenuation America is responsible for instability in the world order.  Under Trump’s inability to understand realities made America complicit in Putin’s colonial land grab as well as Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing and massacre of thousands.  Trump is also responsible for the fall of Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban leaving his blunders for Biden to save as much as possible.   His rejection of the standing agreement with Iran pushed that nation clearly into Russia’s orbit and freed up its resources to oppose the United States.  Trump empowered China and North Korea’s global ambitions.  He attempted to withdraw Treaty alliances (ratified treaties are equal to U.S. Constitutional law) meeting with legal restrictions but he is now sworn to ignore the Constitution.  Internationally America can now be considered an outlaw nation.  While MAGA seeks isolationism reminiscent of the 1920s, we should remember how that turned out, and it is a much smaller and interdependent world today.  There is a military maxim, “Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way,” Trump can’t lead, won’t follow or get out of the way so the country will be bulldozed out of the way as the world moves past.

Domestically, Trump was able to run a campaign of deception and cover up.  Voters were entertained by his outrageous claims, the more absurd the more exciting for the mobs’ entertainment.  Straight out of Cult 101, an excited mob is beyond reason and unable to think for themselves.  Trump was able to paint his first term as a political “Garden of Eden” while the reality was closer to the last bite of apple.  Presidential scholars have concluded that his administration was and abject failure with Trump rated as the worst president in history.  Independent researchers have uncovered over 4000 cases of open corruption with Trump as the “King of Kickbacks.”  A totally unqualified contractor won the infamous border wall with a significant campaign contribution (the wall was never built).  Trump’s son-in-law advisor charged with resolving Middle Eastern tensions walked away with several Billion dollars of Saudi money while region erupted into genocidal warfare.  Trump himself demanded what amounted to open bribes from foreign governments as the price of doing business in America.  He established a number of campaign Public Action Committees (PAC) soliciting nickels and dime contributions from lower class ‘rabble’ and billions from the rich, diverting much of the funds to pay his personal expenses.  Accountants may still be trying to unravel Trump’s financial “Gordian knot” in the 22nd century.

The election is over and blinded by smoke the people have voted and now have to live with their choice.  The smoke refuses to clear, in fact is becoming denser as MAGA goes into the cover up mode.  MAGA calls for election fraud investigations are now silenced to hide its fraudulent operations.  The MAGA leader, an admitted sexual predator has endorsed other sexual predators for cabinet positions to distract, cover up and bury crimes that may embarrass or lead to new charges.  Is there a rule of don’t change behavior, change the Law?  It would seem so as Congressional MAGA stalwarts attempt to bury their own investigations.

Trump spreads chaos under the old adage that in chaos there is profit and he is never one to pass up a profit.  His promised “Golden Age” is more gold for himself, extracted from his faithful.  There will be no trickle down from this administration.

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As a very young man I often sat in 50s Oxford (England) coffee shops listening to elite students attempting to come to terms with Britain’s collapse as world leader.  I didn’t understand much of the discussions at the time.  Over the years with much analysis that experience continues to haunt.  In short the students were caught up in cultural debates.  They were the products of generations that ruled over a quarter of the world.  Upon graduations their expectations had been to spend a few years running the colonies, make their pile before coming home as lords of manors.  The reality was: the country was bankrupt, colonies were declaring independence, and worst of all returning soldiers were demanding the pie, not just a piece.  Taxes were destroying estates and grand manors falling into disrepair to be snapped up by foreign money.  The debates centered on how do we stop the rot, how are we to survive, we might have to get jobs, and plaintive pleas of what kind of job are we qualified.  America propped up Britain for years but75 years on Britain still hasn’t adjusted to its diminished status.  Rejecting the European Union it faces a final breakup of Great Britain, with stiff upper lip England may have to go it alone. Faced with similar dynamics disunited states may be back to the original thirteen.

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The thing about being on the outside looking in, with no hope of influencing affairs, is that one has the freedom objectively question events.

One event worth noting is MAGA’s recent attempt to whitewash Trump’s Russian patron as a misunderstood mister nice guy.  Make no mistake Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is an international criminal of the highest order.  His invasion of the Ukraine was a pure and simple attempt at an 18th/19th century colonial empire.  In the process he has committed multiple crimes against humanity, condoned rape, torture and mass murder.  He is following the Great powers’ grab of colonial empires that employed similar tactics.  Colonial empires came crashing down in the 20th century with post World War Two nationalist movements.  The United Nations even recognized the legitimacy of independence movements.  Putin has no legitimate claim to the Ukraine, which has historically resisted Russian domination.  Possibly on a secret sell out promise Putin invaded Ukraine expecting a quick annexation of the independent country, after all Russia is 28 times the size of the Ukraine.  Here is an overlooked twist to his illegal war, despite it size Russia with a reported over whelming military power the land grab is in a prolonged near stalemate.  Russia is forced to buy foreign weapons and hire foreign mercenary armies to continue the battle.  This has not deterred Putin’s plans, he continues to push Russian “settlers” into surrounding countries as a future “fifth column” for invasion.  He is also militarily buzzing around the former Russian territory of Alaska.  This may be a distraction or part of a plan to annex the state, he would probably demand reperations for all the gold and oil America has extracted form the state.  Depending who becomes the U.S. president, he might get it.  There could be a large domestic contract for flags with 49 stars.

America might keep its flag or maybe become a continuing Trump flag monopoly as several MAGA states flirt with succession.   Of more immediate concern is growing war in the Middle East, which includes a land grab with ethnic cleansing.  Understand first that this is not a religious war between Judaism and Islam.  It is purely a political war fought in a 21st century propaganda arena, and Israel  is winning by playing its historical “victim” card.  Trump as president empowered fellow criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to oppress Israel’s Palestinian minority as way to remain in power avoiding his corruption trial.  Netanyahu attempted to follow Trump’s lead in packing his courts with partisan ideologues but the Israeli people counter marched in mass.  Netanyahu was still oppressing Palestinian when elements of Hamas staged a supposed “surprise” raid into Israeli territory and seize hostages.  This allowed Netanyahu to claim self-defense when he launched surgical strikes with a meat ax into Gaza.  So far Israeli strikes have killed over 40 thousand men, women with over 14 thousand preteen children. Israel has extended it strikes into Lebanon, Iran and Syria with possible clandestine operations elsewhere.  Private citizen Trump has been in illegal negotiations with both Putin and Netanyahu with the message of, “do what you have to do,” implying that for their support he will support them when reelected.

Israel has played it anti-Semitic card repeatedly in America’s national election pinning the Biden administration to supporting Israel’s continued war crimes.  It is probable that Netanyahu does not want to recover any remaining hostages in order to prolong his political survival.  MAGA quickly rallied to the Israeli calls to punish anti-Semitism in “liberal” institutions.  The reality is that Palestinian Arabs have as many, if not more, Semitic roots than Israelis.  Both Judaism and Arabs venerate Abraham as the beginning of their lineage but not ever Jew can be considered Semitic.  (NOTE: While Turkey took its name from the people, Palestinians took their name from an ancient land (Greek for land of the Phoenicians).)  What Netanyahu’s war is doing is guaranteeing that the Mid-east conflict will go on for generations.  It is probable that every Palestinian has lost someone to Israeli strikes and surviving children will flock to militant recruitment in the future.

America faces the prospect of government by Trump for Trump, and despite MAGA’s expectations there will be no trickle down unless there are massive kickbacks to the TRUMP.  Trump inadvertently told one truth, election 24 will be the most corrupt national election, ever.  What he is not saying is most of the fraud is being perpetrated by MAGA loyalist.  In his last year in office Trump imbedded loyalist in key government position and corrupted the judiciary with judges appointed for political loyalty rather than constitutional jurisprudence skills.  It is interesting that Trump has spent the last four years building a MAGA private army of Trump Storm Troopers (TST) now unleaseshed on the election.  Across the country TST are burning ballots, seized control of polling places, threaten bodily harm to poll workers and voters.  In numerous instances local MAGA officials have released the names potential opposition voters and purged others after the polls have opened.  Win or lose expect TST to run amok for the shear joy of violent freedom. Is that a constitutional right?  Maybe, Trump has promised to do away with the American constitution and advocates violence against all opposition.  Another interesting point is that Trump has spent 12 years campaigning while Harris has only been running for three months and is now neck and neck with the Trump machine.

As the 20th centuries last standing great power America led the world down the dark path of mass marketing.  There is little difference from selling soap to selling politicians.  If a product doesn’t sell, change the message.  It is cheaper to change the package than improve the product.  Anything can be sold if presented long enough and loud enough even the most odious of products.  Conditioned by years of entertaining but misleading advertising 21st century Americans’ fell easy prey to long and loud entertaining political disinformation, read that as out and out lies.  The surge in so called social media provides screaming voices to every propaganda agenda obliterating thought and truths.  Dr. Joseph Goebbels would have loved the new tools for mislead and conditioning a populace.

Trump has validated one American myth; anyone can become U.S. president, even a maniacal, criminal slipping into senility. A keystone to democracy, everyone deserves representation.