🌊 Inside Trash City

I have a philosophy that an action has an equal and opposite reaction applies to politics as well. Whenever “establishment” candidates win again the “establishment” is going to come back harder than ever as a reaction to trying to eliminate it and it will make itself even harder to uproot which would lead to another opposing reaction to attack it harder and so on. All this reminds me of my friend from Greece who wrote an oped in college that’s argument was when Greece started electing populist leaders it would swing back and forth each election from one extreme to the other and that is what caused the country to start failing. He saw the same thing starting to happen in the US and it’s hard to disagree.

I think President Trump is creating his own establishment in his eyes as quickly as he can. This new “establishment” may or may not be good for middle Americans since it seems at this point anyway, he is focusing on big business and all his close allies. The dismantling of certain federal agencies and programs without a good plan in place to go forward, could spell disaster for our country, but we will have to wait and see. There is definitely waste and corruption in our government but dismantling it without a proper way to address the real issues these agencies were meant to assist, could spell disaster.

I think a rational centrist thinker in the U.S. today would rightfully have a mixed view of Trumps executive orders since taking office.

They should support cutting wasteful spending, rolling back DEI, calling our the insanity of the middle eastern and eastern european conflicts and putting some muscle behind existing immigration laws.

They should also be disappointed by executive orders that “protect christianity in the government”, roll back anti-bribery laws and to openly despise renewable energy and electric cars. A rational thinker would have some level of environmental stewardship which would be embarrassed by the new administration.

All that being said, we have to weigh the good and the bad. It’s clear to this rational centrist thinker that the potential for good outcomes here outweigh the potential for long-term social or environmental damage.

Shut the borders, make government spending more transparent, expose some of the corruption that persists in government and people like me will continue to protect the environment and to reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

I think a little shake up of the government is too be expected every time a new administration comes around, especially when it is a new party. But Trump is definitely overkill. He seems to ignore the constitution entirely and he gets away with some of it because of his toadies in Congress. I'm also pretty sure we didn't elect the broligarchy at all. The balance of power seems to be a little off kilter with Trump pulling it too far to the executive branch. Even if he does things we might agree with, they still need to be approved by Congress. We have a constitution for a reason and it is solid unless we just decide not to pay attention to it... We got rid of a king nearly 250 years ago for a reason. I'm not sure why we tried to elect another one. In fact, I'm pretty sure we didn't. Time to pressure those Congressmen and Senators.

In my vote and my wife's vote for Trump, we were giving him our approval and Carte Blanche on everything he wants to do! admittedly, annexing, Canada or Panama and making a resort in Gaza are crazy. But if that's the worst thing he does or tries or says we're still way way better off than how things were with the swamp. And by the way, we absolutely should take back our control.....of the Panama canal, because I remember my mom talking about it in the 80s. We were giving it away to the Chinese back in the 80s. And this only continued, and it is not right