President Donald J Trump : What Are The Consequences.…

Election Watch

It’s quite easy to be dis­in­ter­est­ed in American Elections which are due in less than two months.
Understandably, some peo­ple (not Americans) may feel removed or even dis­in­ter­est­ed in the process.
Nevertheless, giv­en the ever increas­ing inter­con­nect­ed nature of the world in which we live we may be doing our­selves a dis­ser­vice by ignor­ing what is play­ing out in front of our eyes.

Regardless of our nation­al­i­ty or our sense of patri­o­tism to wher­ev­er, what hap­pens in America shapes what hap­pens wher­ev­er we come from across the globe.
It is easy to find this fact objec­tion­able but that inter-con­nect­ed­ness makes an American President almost a de-fac­to world pres­i­dent of sorts.

Certainly, an American pres­i­dent as com­man­der-in-chief has vast reach­es across the planet.
He/​She has under his/​her con­trol the most pow­er­ful mil­i­tary in the his­to­ry of mankind, and deliv­ery sys­tems which makes the amaz­ing weapon­ry of the American Armed Forces deliv­er­able with ter­ri­fy­ing accu­ra­cy and effectiveness.

TEMPERAMENT

That is why it is impor­tant than an American President has the right tem­pera­ment ‚not some­one whose wound­ed ego may trig­ger a nuclear apocalypse.
Lets set aside the silli­ness about busi­ness deals which went wrong or e‑mail servers which could have been hacked, reveal­ing low lev­els of clas­si­fied mate­ri­als (at best).
Lets set aside failed Universities which was nev­er even a third rate col­lege to begin with. We may even dis­re­gard all the talk about Foundations or pay for play.
Far more sub­stan­tive is the exis­ten­tial threat a Donald Trump Presidency would pose for the secu­ri­ty of our planet.

On the issue of war and peace. On Immigration. On trade. Religious lib­er­ty. On Global move­ment of peo­ple as a result of wars and nation­al dis­as­ters, Donald Trump has demon­strat­ed that he would re-write the world order and it would not be pretty.
Donald Trump’s cam­paign began years ago because of his mon­ey or the medi­a’s belief that he has lots of it. It may rea­son­ably be said he is a media cre­ation. As if that was not enough they gave him a real­i­ty show to build a media pro­file and name recog­ni­tion which formed the cat­a­lyst for his White House run.

DISRESPECT FOR OUR PRESIDENT

His ‘show me your papers’ assault against the nation’s first African-American pres­i­dent has re-ener­gized the smol­der­ing embers of racial ani­mus result­ing in expo­nen­tial increas­es in hate groups (accord­ing to the Southern Poverty Law Center and oth­er groups which track hate groups).

IMMIGRATION

Trumps wants to build a wall on America’s south­ern bor­der with Mexico, stat­ing he will make Mexico pay for it. Of course when face to face with the Mexican President he made no men­tion of it. He wants to deport over 11 mil­lion peo­ple liv­ing in the shad­ows and even revoke cit­i­zen­ship of chil­dren born to undoc­u­ment­ed residents.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

Donald Trump wants to ban all Muslims enter­ing the United States. He also wants to kill rel­a­tives of ter­ror suspects.
That means any­one who has an errant rel­a­tive is at risk of being killed by the United States Government under a President Trump. Imagine the impli­ca­tions of that.
 WARS

He declares that he would fire at Iranian war­ships if they came too close . General Barry McCafferya man who knows what he is talk­ing about-told NBC on Saturday that those deci­sions are brava­do . The General said those deci­sions would be arrived at by US Naval Officers; not by Donald Trump.
He promised to engage China aggres­sive­ly on trade a move which could poten­tial­ly see a trade war devel­op between the two coun­tries, dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for both coun­tries, and poten­tial­ly push both coun­tries clos­er to armed conflict.

RACE RELATIONS

On race rela­tions and the exist­ing dis­trust and ten­sion between com­mu­ni­ties of col­or and police, Donald Trump’s response is to empow­er and throw more sup­port behind police. He has not offered a solu­tion to the con­flict which means his actions as pres­i­dent would fur­ther stoke the fires of resent­ment, dis­trust, and ten­sion which could poten­tial­ly see America’s streets become war zones or on the oth­er hand an approx­i­mate­ly 35 – 40 mil­lion Black peo­ple returned to a state of sec­ond class-sta­tus on par with the Jim Crow era.

IGNORANCE

In all my years as a polit­i­cal observ­er I have nev­er seen anoth­er can­di­date for the Presidency of the United States which has and should evoke fear and trep­i­da­tion as does Donald Trump.
His absolute igno­rance of the most impor­tant issues are shock­ing. His lack of grasp of the most basic issue is stunning.

Yet despite this, the guy is less than two months away from the pres­i­den­cy, and the most potent nuclear arse­nal in the world.
The fright­en­ing real­i­ty is that despite his demon­stra­ble lack of under­stand­ing of the most crit­i­cal areas which a poten­tial pres­i­dent ought to have, his sup­port­ers clam­or for him with cult-like fervor.

HIS SUPPORT BASE

Hillary Clinton the Democratic nom­i­nee says half of Trump’s sup­port comes from a group she calls the “bas­ket of deplorables.” Racist, sex­ist, homo­pho­bic, xeno­pho­bic, Islamaphopic-you name it, accord­ing to her.
By Saturday September 10^th Clinton walked the “half“com­ment back, fear­ing she may have com­mit­ted her “47% moment” in elec­tion his­to­ry or maybe then Senator Barack Obama’s guns and reli­gion com­ment in his ini­tial bid for the presidency.
The dif­fer­ence between the com­ments of Clinton and that of Romney and Obama is that Clinton made her state­ment pub­licly theirs were made in pri­vate events.
Clinton of course is held to a dif­fer­ent stan­dard than Donald Trump . In fact many have labeled him Teflon.
He brags he could shoot some­one on Fifth avenue and he would not lose a sin­gle supporter.
 SO WHO ARE THEY ?

Well Hillary Clinton got it exact­ly right!
Clinton was absolute­ly not say­ing that half of all Republicans are deplorable, she cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly said half of Trump’s sup­port­ers are.
To begin with, he is a big admir­er of Vladimir Putin the Russian strong­man. He admires the late Iraqi strong­man Saddam Hussein. He tells the thugs at his ral­lies to hit peo­ple, take their coats and turn them loose in the cold.
He sur­round him­self with a bul­lies and wannabe strong­men like Rudolph Giuliani, and anoth­er wannabe tough guy New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

He hired Paul Manafort, a man with alleged ties to the Russians. After fir­ing Manafort, he went even deep­er into the bot­tom of the bar­rel dig­ging out Breitbart’s Stephen K Bannon from the extreme right fringe to run his campaign.
At Trump cam­paign they sell T‑shirts call­ing for the impris­on­ment of Hillary Clinton.
They demand that she be killed. They dis­play con­fed­er­ate flags. For all intents and pur­pos­es, Trumps ral­lies are glo­ri­fied Klan Rallies.

Yes-the media does a ter­rif­ic job of try­ing to san­i­tize Donald Trump. Why not? It was the media which made made him a celebrity
If he becomes pres­i­dent we have the media to thank for it.
It is said his sup­port comes from une­d­u­cat­ed white work­ing class peo­ple. They have no inter­est in facts. They care noth­ing about the fact that he is dan­ger­ous for and to the rest of of the world. He rep­re­sents their point of view and what they care about is all that mat­ters to them.
“I could stand in the mid­dle of Fifth Avenue and shoot some­body and I would­n’t lose any of my supporters” .
Yes he absolute­ly could; that does not speak to Trump it speaks to those who sup­port him.

A poten­tial pres­i­dent Donald J. Trump will be vast­ly con­se­quen­tial for America and it will be equal­ly as con­se­quen­tial for the rest of the world.