Yeah, I am a far lefty who despises Trump, and I honestly agree wholeheartedly with most of that post except for the end when you get to the part where you seem to think Trump is not deeply entrenched in the same corrupt world as Clinton et al.
it's interesting to me that a lot of the political issues that have apparently lead people to support trump are the same things a lot of the radical left were campaigning about 15-20 years ago, except to my mind, the conclusions the trump support base has come to are wrong.
i'm talking about critiques of globalism/globalisation - and of false, manipulative media.
the problem with trump, as i see it, as that he gained support from people who are suffering from the growing wealth disparities in the Western world.
the people who have been left behind in an economy that has outsourced manufacturing and is rapidly automating a lot of the jobs are clearly feeling the pinch - but under trump, they will be
far worse off.
his most loyal supporters will be the ones hit hardest, because he's not working to correct the massive wealth inequality in the USA - he's making it worse.
people that won't be able to afford healthcare, that are having public services cancelled all around them, may not even notice this before it is too late, because everything is a big circus with him.
the lying, hyperbole and chaos that surrounds his administration is all about distraction.
if people are constantly talking about his shameless lies, they tend to overlook the funds he is ripping out of government institutions that don't fit in with his very parochial, anti-intellectual worldview.
his scapegoating of various groups of people (immigrants, muslims, transgender folk in the military etc etc etc) is designed to deflect criticism of the really important things he is destroying; things that deserve scrutiny - but that are avoiding it, because he's all about showmanship, and deliberately whipping up outrage.
the sad thing is that people were sold this idea that trump would come along and shake things up, but he's actually making some of those problems (like the widening gap between america's rich and poor) a lot worse.
trump supporters also seem to be under the impression that he will not be a warmonger like his predecessors.
this also is false. he has overseen bombings in Afghanistan and Syria that have killed hundreds of civilians - and his sabre-rattling against North Korea, Mexico and even more worrying -
China - has a lot of us on edge.
so, i'm not seeing evidence of trump fixing any of the problems that the people that voted for him were concerned about.
all he seems to have done is blamed a lot of other people for america's problems, which isn't doing much to help matters.
i understand the desire to smash the status quo, and i can totally relate to it.
but replacing the status quo with an even more polarising, myopic and dysfunctional regime is having the opposite effect of what was intended.
i think a lot of americans will be far worse off (financially and socially) by the end of trump's presidency - but not the mulit-millionaires or billionaires.
i think his administration is hell-bent on destroying a lot of US government programs which they don't seem to understand.
it's certainly unsettling to see the funding stripped out of scientific and diplomatic institutions. it does not bode well for the future of the United States as a "beacon of democracy".
the oligarchy is being reinforced, power is being consolidated by the corporate elite - and trump really just looks like a bumbling kleptocrat.
