Discord in the Trump camp as he tries to pick advisors and cabinet posts, lots of infighting there and some with the Republican Party. What did you expect, balloons and confetti? He's been a troublemaker from the very start of the campaign. He's been a troublemaker all his life - a crook in business will be a crook in politics. But you voted for him, you dimwit Americans, so he's all yours. And you voted for a pussy-grabbing, deadbeat bill payer, non tax paying liar. You did that because you wanted change, and you'll get it . . . and you might get it for a long time, and in ways you're not going to live much.
Conservatives are good at being obstructionists, lousy at leadership, which is the reason damn few of them ever make good presidents. You can trace most of our modern problems back to Reagan, the guy who started the decline with worn out economic ideas. The last decent Republican president was George H.W. Bush. I understand why Clinton lost. Conservatives never accepted Obama, fought him every step of the way, and they weren't about to get caught with the double whammy of having a black president followed by a woman in that office. Conservatives are heart are sexists and racists. They're bigots and blowhards against anything progressive, and they've killed the middle class. As the intelligence pool has dried up, they get more votes. America's slide into low class social strata continues, they get more votes. This won't turn around in a few years; it's the new American political landscape.
I decided to be a political scientist back in college and ended up spending 35 years in college classrooms . . . wasting my time, and in some ways being beneficial to this deterioration of the society around us. During that time the kids coming to college were less prepared for college work, and that brought down the standards in higher education. It kept getting worse after I retired from that profession and became on observer. I started wanting to leave the U.S. twenty years ago, or even before that. Once upon a time I dreamed of living in New Zealand, and I've thought about France or Spain as places to live. At one time I thought perhaps Costa Rica would be good, or even Ecuador, but none of those places are practical moves. Mexico is a practical move, if I can pull it off, and I think I can do that.
My desire to leave here isn't fueled by a belief the system here will totally collapse. It will keep rolling along, but it will be a bad place for people like me to live. It already is a bad place, but it's likely to get worse for retired people on fixed incomes. Costs of living here are getting worse, and my income won't go up. Health care here is iffy at best, even with medicare and supplementary insurance. Dental care is not available to someone like me, not here, not unless I want to refinance my house to get it done. Tax is burdensome, and we live in a society that loves to fine it's citizenry. It's not just the federal government; it's the states and localities where much of the mischief takes place. We live in a land of grabbers, takers, and not enough givers. We all need to be free of that, but it won't happen.
But the worst of it all? Living in a country stupid enough to vote for Trump.
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