Think About It.......

All this trivial in-fighting over Trump. At most, six more years. Presidents are only figureheads. Sure, they do a little but others control the President, whoever it may be.

People have short memories. 45 years ago this month, Nixon resigned from office. It turns out that we are seeing much of the same. I want to say that it is political parties, political ideologies and career politicians of/in both parties that are to blame. We need more statesmen in politics. The contagions polluting US politics can be traced back to LBJ if not further. Watch Noam Chomsky on YouTube go down the list of presidents more than 50 years ago and listen to their own personal list (each one of them) of High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Sure, Trump has broken the mold on conduct in office. But it will be politics as usual in 2020. And, legislatively, we are going backwards -- immigration, abortion, health care -- rather than addressing new issues. Of course the Pentagon gets the increases in spending that it wants, and depletion allowances haven’t gotten reviewed. Can’t anybody see that Trump is not the problem even if he doesn’t attempt to stop something that has already been legislated?

No one single president is the problem. It is the domino effect in a long succession of presidents, their appointees, and the kids who are minding the cookie jar. How are well-known unscrupulous characters allowed to get jobs in the government? Everyone who worked for Nixon worked for Ford, then Reagan and the Bushs. Now Trump is drawing from a different, but not any less unscrupulous stockpile of criminals. Why is he allowed to hire his family and conduct his private business from the White House?

To sum it up: the average person could not do what the ruling class self-legislates itself to do, and politicians, although they work for taxpayers but seem to forget that, and don’t care anyway, are the elite, ruling class.