Is Donald Trump Going To Get Us Into War?

Is Donald Trump Going To Get Us Into War?

I recommend that you be aware of techniques used by dictators.

Techniques of Dictatorships

When a dictator’s political approval rating plummets, one technique to get the nation to follow him/her is to create, find or use a real enemy and go to war with.  Typically, the country will rally around their leader if they buy into seeing an external threat.  The approval rating of Donald Trump is at a historical low.  His recent military actions, which seem so far as being of value, might also suggest a motivation for increasing his low approval rating.  Some fear that the United States might go to war very soon for reasons you might examine such as diversion.

Another motivation for going to war is to divert a nation’s attention away from some embarrassment.  Past United States presidents have used this technique.

Diversionary Foreign Policy is a recognized technique.

Further reading:

Machiavellian view of why Rep. Devin Nunes may have aided President Trump.

Machiavellian view of why Rep. Devin Nunes may have aided President Trump.

I propose a Machiavellian explanation why the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), went to the White House without telling his committee colleagues he was to meet with a secret source.  Quite a few reporters, congress people, and citizens share the view that Nunes may be sabotaging his committee’s efforts.  Why?  One possible explanation is by rendering his committee invalid and thus furthering the possibility of a special prosecutor being appointed.  Here is the Machiavellian reason:  A special prosecutor should delay any investigation, maybe years.  President Trump may have a way better chance to stay president for a much longer time.  So far, his leadership is incredibly flawed in so many ways.  If the House of Representatives investigation is “sabotaged” this will work way better, for Trump.  If we then see the senate investigation also get derailed, get cynical.  If there is a derail effort by the administration to  kill the senate investigation, this should be taken as a despicable effort to keep an unqualified man in the oval office.

The Cuts In Education Spending.

The Cuts In Education Spending.

Some of the rust belt states, controlled by Republican governors, have cut the money spent on junior colleges and universities.   The last presidential election really drove home that the rust belt states are struggling.  A lot of people are out of work across the United States.  The prior job base occupations have disappeared for blue collar workers.  The new reality is people may need to be retrained.  The businesses that once populated the rust belt are gone.  More technical skilled workers are required as our economy moves away from a blue collar work force and toward technical skilled jobs.  Current workers in the rust belt may need to be retrained.  To place reeducation out of the economic reach of these workers is simply awful.

 

http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/years-of-cuts-threaten-to-put-college-out-of-reach-for-more-students

 

“President” Trump and Republicans Secretly Hurt The Working Class: Revamp Medicaid

“President” Trump and Republicans Secretly Hurt The Working Class: Revamp Medicaid

“President” Trump and the Republicans have found a way to cut funding for Medicaid.  The alleged scam is to create block grants, another word for capped spending.  Each state would get a FIXED amount of money for Medicaid.  The money runs out in your state and you do not get covered.  Pretty neat trick for screwing the working class.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-ramps-up-effort-to-transform-medicaid-into-block-grants-1486659826

“President” Trump and Republicans Secretly Hurt The Working Class: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

“President” Trump and Republicans Secretly Hurt The Working Class: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The CFPB implements and enforces federal consumer financial laws to ensure that all consumers have access to markets for consumer financial products and services that are fair, transparent, and competitive.
CFPB rule changes will hurt the working class by:

  • Forstall the CFPB plans to require prepaid-card companies to provide detailed fee disclosure.
  • Forstall the CFPB plans to require prepaid-card companies to place limits on consumer losses on lost or stolen cards.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/prepaid-card-companies-may-get-reprieve-on-cfpb-rule-1486465203

Wall Street Journal Wednesday, February 8, 2017 Page B7 “Congress Takes Up Card Rule by Anna Maria Andriotis.

 

Republican Banned Coretta Scott King Letter

Republican Banned Coretta Scott King Letter

The Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) muzzled Senator Elizabeth Warren (February 7, 2017) from reading the Coretta Scott King Letter (1989) that recommended Jeff Sessions not be confirmed as a federal judge.

  • The letter was written by a women.
  • Coretta Scott King was the wife of a civil rights champion.
  • Elizabeth Warren is a women.
  • This took place during Black History week.

Possible summary view of this act:  White supremacist, racist, misogynist, deny free speech, fascist act.

Because the oligarch boot licking Republicans do not want you to read this document, we provide it here:

The full letter can be viewed here:  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259988-Scott-King-1986-Letter-and-Testimony-Signed.html#document/p1