Good for us, for having 2,500 rallies across the U.S. on a beautiful autumn afternoon to protest Trump’s nasty policies. Trump’s objectional polices deserve protest, but the protests are obvious — and miss the mark.
The majority of Americans do not care a ding-dong about ICE clearances, indicting Biden-era big-wigs, sending the federalized National Guard to cities that don’t need the military, putting reporters into a perpetual time-out, or vaporizing small boats with very expensive weapons somewhere in the wakeless Caribbean reaches.
The protests are self-righteous and for some reason, the Democrats ignore our biggest problem. And we Democrats don’t get it.
Democrats don’t speak about the economy, which is the detonator for election outcomes. The government is closed, but your taxes are the same. Democrats haven’t decided who or what will pay for our healthcare — industry or the government, or some combination? Groceries are now $50 a bag. Your retirement? If you don’t have $500,000 in an IRA-like account, forget about retiring well, because Social Security is boiling out. Our national debt? We owe more money than our people can produce in a year.
In truth, we owe the most since World War II — and we’re not at war with anybody. Trump notwithstanding, we have defeated no one. You must be over 100 years old to remember 1929, when the stock market hit record peaks and debt destroyed what Americans took to be the infinitely good future. Have Democrats forgotten that $1 trillion in debt is 1,000 billion?
Why are Democrats downplaying, pocket-book matters and concentrating on righteous ones? I’m open to suggestions.
Stephen Armstrong
Hadley