We’re all feeling what happened in Charlottesville. I wrote about the rise of racism and many forms of discrimination a couple weeks ago so I won’t recap the horrors we’ve seen dozens of times since Saturday. You can probably guess how I feel about it. Trump’s response is yet another reason the international community is more and more reticent to align themselves to the United States. In the case of countries less committed to an alliance with the United States, there are both economic and security considerations that have discouraged them from working with us, but now they have a reason to feel emotionally hesitant regardless of any of the more tangible reasons to remain independent of any binding international agreements forged in America’s image.
Trump’s behavior, his tweets, his ignorance, and hatred for anyone but himself hasn’t yet shown itself to be intellectualized in that it all seems unclear. He doesn’t seem to philosophize about a world in which only white Christians have power. He seems more angry and unbalanced than someone who would present heinous arguments about genetics and superior races and religions that worship the devil. There may be hope that he just doesn’t know what he’s talking about and isn’t actually directing all white supremacists to commit acts of violence. His arguments don’t seem nuanced or lucid or organized, which is good. It’s much better than having an organized group that is harder to contain and disperse.
Regardless, Trump seems also unaware that, like it or not, his role is to speak! His role is to be clear in what he says, and if he’s not supporting nationalist tendencies and exclusionary policies, then I don’t think the international community has gotten the message. I don’t think anyone believes that. This is going to hurt Trump, but it’s going to hurt the United States much more if all of us can’t outdo his behavior by being ten times more mature. We need to show the international community that he’s not one of us, or we could lose them.
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The sad thing is Trump doesn’t seem to care about the rest of the world . Look at who’s on his terrorist watch list. Countries that don’t do business with his companies . How is Saudi Arabia less of a threat than some of those other countries. Also he was quick to denounce what happened in Barcelona but didn’t say ANYTHING about Charlottesville for THREE DAYS ! Keep on giving us posts like this so we understand just how this president is making the world and his own people dislike him more and more.
Thank you for your comment. When I think about what to write and how to write it, I must focus on the truth and then figure out the best way to communicate it so that everyone can understand.
That’s why it’s so hard for me say that Trump was hesitant to condemn one group and had no problem immediately condemning another based on their religion, the color of their skin, and their national identity.
Because that is the actual truth.
This is NOT what we’re about. But I will continue to speak out and inform and explain everything that’s going on so that NO ONE can say they didn’t know or they were confused or they didn’t think it was that bad.
An argument I always find myself involved with on the Net is this very topic.
Those isolationists supporting the ultra-nationalist agenda of Trump simply don’t realize that the world moved far beyond nationalism decades ago. Geopolitical boundaries are disappearing in many realms, but mostly in economics and isolating ourselves in this arena is purely suicidal.
We cannot support our own consumption habits, regardless of what Trump and his followers wish to believe. Trump’s own xenophobic tendencies towards Mexico alone has the potential of crashing the US economy.
We import more than $300 million from Mexico, a full third of our agricultural products among that number. With Canada being second only to California in food production for the US, you can easily see what a fool’s direction this takes us.
With Trump’s isolationist agenda, there’s simply no way for the U.S. to make up for the food imports from Mexico alone and if we allow him to attack Canada in the same manner, we will all find ourselves on starvation diets, like hot or not.
Trump is attempting the age-old “horse before the cart” trick in trying to disrupt our economic ties long before he’s even attempted to build the manufacturing and agriculture infrastructure to support such a move. And, I’m not certain it would be possible to do so at all.
Trump’s agenda is seriously short-sighted, both in terms of economics and in all the other realms you listed.
Capitalism’s next logical evolutionary step is global economics, a direction the world, including the U.S. long ago embarked upon and to abruptly end this direction is nothing short of stepping off a high-speed train, mid journey, foolishly expecting to survive. It’s the only direction left for the capitalist market and until that direction is exhausted, we need to either choose evolution or extinction. That’s not a socio-political decision, it’s simply a matter of stark reality.
You and most of the U.S. see the results of Trumps ignorance already taking place with nations beginning to shun the U.S., be it for economic security, or purely social perspectives.
Unless the rest of the nation is blind and deaf, the only reason those who stubbornly continue to support Trump is nothing less than the typical human trait in which once we make a decision, it’s very painful to our ego to revisit that decision and admit to ourselves that it was a very bad decision.
However; if we don’t admit the error of this past election and the fallaciousness of the direction in which Trump is trying to take us, the end results will be catastrophic for the United States, as the world leaves us behind. Then; we will, very quickly, learn exactly what it’s all about to be what so many Americans are fond of calling other less developed nations, “third world”.
Thank you for your comment. I think the most dangerous outcome of these fear-based protectionist policies is that some countries might feel the need to form deeper ties with each other, ties that may exclude us even if we eventually decide to come back.
The international community knows that most of the United States doesn’t stand behind our administration, but we need to constantly remind them that they haven’t been forgotten.
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Some terrific insights on the harm Trump does to America’s international standing.
Terrific insights.
Thank you. I appreciate that. Knowing how our actions affect the rest of the world is a crucial component of any policy, and I will continue studying this.
Fabulous insightful stuff
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Thanks. Just enjoying
Your perspective really
Thank you. I appreciate that. I will continue to inform and also untangle what’s going on here in D.C. so we can all understand.