Towards a more perfect union

 

July 14, 2023: Update to post of Jul 12, 2023

"Trumpism" in his own words

Comment:

So, what's so bad about that?

The attacks against Trump are made so as NOT to talk about these things. Instead, we are talking about the accusations, which have been FALSE. The accusations, therefore, are a distraction. Should be talking about issues. If it is about personalities, it is only because his opponents would like to make it about personalities.

Trump should be talking these issues all the time. Instead, we are all talking about what the opposition wants to talk about. Since the opposition is really talking about nothing, it is only because they don't want to talk about the issues.

the post of Jul 12, 2023 is below:

Nobody outside of the left wing has a program. If there is no program, there cannot be a vision behind it. Unless the vision is to have no program. If the vision is to have no program, that's a program. In any case, there has to be a reason BEYOND personalities for someone to get elected. Otherwise, what is the point?

If there isn't anything besides Trump to vote for Trump, then that's governing by personality. That's not a program. What's Trump about? To make America great again? That's a slogan, not a program. The question should be addressed. Why vote for Trump? How is that going to make America great again?

This isn't anti-MAGA here. There's something missing. The GOP is simply missing in action. The GOP is a cypher. They do NOTHING. The GOP claims to be about certain things, but does nothing about any of it. Maybe they'd like to cut taxes, but that's about it. Trump seems to be about himself. Sorry, but that may not have been the intention, but it what it is NOW.

As for potential programs, there does appear to be a concentration of power into too few hands. James Madison advocated a multitude of interests to guard against the excesses of faction. It's in the Federalist Papers, in case you missed it.

A program could be put into place to break up these concentrations of power, and place it into more hands. A specific example could be the media companies. Bongino has noted that there is a government-corporate symbiote that controls the media. The control of the media gives them the power to control what people see, hear, and think.

Teachers Unions control the Education establishment. Break that up with school choice. Don't just mouth the platitudes, GOP. Do something about it. Advocate for it, and run on it. If you win, you have a mandate to enact it into policy.

If the idea is to cut taxes, then repeal the amendment that provides for an income tax. All that seems to have done is to supercharge the leviathan state. Replace the income tax with a corporate tax, and an import tax. If that's not enough to fund the government, then cut back on the size of government until the budget is balanced. Indeed, pass a balanced budget amendment. There's too much power concentrated in Washington DC, as well as in the states.

Those elements could make a program to run on. Reagan ran on cutting taxes and increasing military spending. That was a program for that time. It seems that this government is out of control. The way to get back control from the leviathan state would be to enact policies that would diffuse the concentration of power. This could be a program that could make America more like it was intended to be.

It's clearly not that way now.