I’m Better Off, but Not the Country

Rodin
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This is the tale of two questions:

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Is this a contradictory outcome? No, it is not. It seems to me that the answer is evident: President Trump was elected and has done pretty much what he promised to do and generated the results that have benefitted so many people. But important segments of the country have persistently opposed the President through fair means and foul. They have stirred up antagonisms that few countries can survive. It is an open question whether our country can survive it. The President’s opponents have told America that there is no peace so long as President Trump remains in power. The opposition to Clinton/Obama was never this shrill or threatening.

The average American knows that policies pursued by President Trump have been good for them personally. The threats of the opposition portend things that are not good for the country. The people have what may seem a hard choice to make: reestablishment of prosperity or peace. I hope they choose prosperity.

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There are 41 comments

  1. GrannyDude
    GrannyDude
    @GrannyDude

    They won’t get peace anyway. Half the country will be angry (the Trump half), and more so than usual because of the treatment meted out to their candidate over four years…and that’s before you factor in any actual or perceived vote tampering. 

    And, as I repeatedly remind anyone who’ll stand still long enough, the #BLM/Antifa nonsense did not begin with Trump, and it will not end just because 10% Joe has taken up residence in the basement of the White House.  And Kamala and Joe have see-sawed between “violence? what violence?” and (in so many words) ” once they have justice, we’ll all have peace.”  Appeasement has already been demonstrated, in the present context, not to work. 

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  2. kedavis
    kedavis
    @kedavis

    GrannyDude (View Comment):

    They won’t get peace anyway. Half the country will be angry (the Trump half), and more so than usual because of the treatment meted out to their candidate over four years…and that’s before you factor in any actual or perceived vote tampering.

    And, as I repeatedly remind anyone who’ll stand still long enough, the #BLM/Antifa nonsense did not begin with Trump, and it will not end just because 10% Joe has taken up residence in the basement of the White House. And Kamala and Joe have see-sawed between “violence? what violence?” and (in so many words) ” once they have justice, we’ll all have peace.” Appeasement has already been demonstrated, in the present context, not to work.

    That, and what they view as “justice” is not attainable.

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  3. Stina
    Stina
    @CM

    GrannyDude (View Comment):
    and it will not end just because 10% Joe has taken up residence in the basement of the White House

    I absolutely love that you just called him that!

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  4. DonG (skeptic)
    DonG (skeptic)
    @DonG

    I think the country is much better off.  The Swamp is partly drained and fully exposed.  The Media has been exposed.  Education Inc. has been exposed. …    It is like saying you are healthy after a hidden disease has been diagnosed and treatment has begun than you were before the diagnosis.  It a battle of good v. evil it is important to know who stands where.

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  5. kedavis
    kedavis
    @kedavis

    It’s also a case where people know that their own lives are better, but they believe what the media is telling them about everyone else’s lives.

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