"Americans love Donald Trump because he is what is known in the US as a populist candidate. He is an outsider who does what Americans do-he speaks his mind whether he knows what he's talking about or not."
Peace everyone.
The election of 2016 is unique in the fact that for the first time, neither the candidates, the media nor the American public really have any idea what the other is talking about. As a public service, I have taken time out from the writing of my first exciting, funny, action packed work of fiction to clear up a few things about the ideas tossed around like hand grenades to get the ignorant and uneducated riled up and angry during this election season.
The election of 2016 is unique in the fact that for the first time, neither the candidates, the media nor the American public really have any idea what the other is talking about. As a public service, I have taken time out from the writing of my first exciting, funny, action packed work of fiction to clear up a few things about the ideas tossed around like hand grenades to get the ignorant and uneducated riled up and angry during this election season.
The real
problem with the issues of immigration, racism, the economy, the War on Terror
and just about anything else that is tossed out of the cesspool we call the corporation
government (mainstream) media is that they never ask the right questions, so
that the issues are never discussed in an intelligent, reasonable manner. Rather, these things are being shoved down the throat of the American worker-taxpayer by the rich who correctly assume that the American public (soccer moms and Joe six-packs) are too stupid to even notice and too worried about kittens on YouTube to care.
It seems that some Americans, however, like the frog in the pot of water, have decided to start hopping about saying,
"This isn't right. We're all going to croak."
Some Americans are afraid the deficit is going to ruin their savings, their jobs will be replaced by cheaper, or more educated labor and the rich would have them and their children live out their lives in perpetual debt (see peonage). These people are getting worried what will happen when the owners of the Federal Reserve don't get back the money they are owed on the deficit.They are worried our politicians are trying to ruin America's democracy at the behest of the corporations that sponsor them. (Deceptions of the Ages, 2010). They are worried at how the Democrats, like the Republicans of old are throwing the ridicule of public opinion on anyone who rejects the policies of the Clintons. People are worried as they see this being done through the manipulation of poorly educated American half-wits that will parrot anything they hear from the media.
Americans who love Donald Trump don't love him because he is a genius. Americans love Donald Trump because he is what is known in the US as a populist. He is an outsider who does what Americans do-he speaks his mind whether he knows what he's talking about or not. Americans love Donald Trump because he asks questions that no one wants to ask because nobody has an answer that doesn't involve making a painful, unpopular decision (The truth hurts syndrome). Most Americans won't remember a another populist politician from Louisiana named Huey Long. Governor Long served during the Depression. He was famously quoted saying:
That said, here are some questions that no politician in the US is ever going to ask for fear of losing their job.
“What will the quality of life be when there are a billion people in the US in twenty years? Two billion in seventy five?”
A quick trip to Delhi, Cairo, Mexico or Rio will answer that question.Who will pay to build the infrastructure and where will the food come from? Soylent Green?
"Are we going to have a balkanized country with different languages and customs?"
"Will we have ethnic cleansing like in Bosnia?"
We have already heard African American leaders like Ray Nagin, former Mayor of New Orleans describe his dream of New Orleans as a "chocolate city," which really sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing. Ray Nagin is now enjoying a chocolate city more to his liking in a federal penitentiary but we can see in the news every day that there is more and more racial strife as the media capitalizes and profits from the violence and hatred they are stirring up.
I guess gone are the days of Neapolitan harmony.
"What about the Muslims who have no other goal in mind than the subjugation of all the world to Islam no matter how much violence is necessary?"
I spent thirteen years living in the Middle East during the earliest years of the War on Terror. I wrote three books so that people would know how kind, generous and respectful Arabs and Muslims were, according to my own experiences. I consider Arabia my second home. I have a great understanding and appreciation of Islam, having seen it in its purest forms. But I am also objective. I do not agree with the subjugation of women and I never will. I'm not really comfortable at all with that kind of ideology, or any kind of ideology that says someone has to sit in a house for their entire life until they are forced into a marriage just because they lost the genetic lottery.
I spent five years living in Saudi Arabia working on military contracts where Western women were beaten for not covering their hair in public (Killing Time In Saudi Arabia, 2013). I know how happy people were (especially Saudis) to be leaving there, yet the people in our government are going to bring it here. Don't we have the right to choose whether we want that future for our posterity?
If someone wants to kill me for something I say, or destroy my rights or my family because of my religion, or beat my mother, wife or daughter because their hair isn't covered, I'm sorry but that sends up something of a red flag. How can these women politicians claim to be supporters of a religion that would not even allow them leave their own houses without a male? The blatant hypocrisy is only slightly less amusing than the public's ability to tolerate it because they don't understand it.
In other words, how can someone who claims to be a champion of women's rights, champion the cause of the same people to live here who would deny women all their rights? Yet women are so apathetic and uninformed they will fall over backwards to support any candidate who is for the introduction into our culture any culture who feels women should be subjugated and subservient! And then they claim they don't get respect.
I devoted an entire book about the effects of the Iraq War on and sad state of Muslim women and their roles in Arab society (Another Year in Oman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place, 2007).
I lived with it for many years and saw many good women wasted because of their sex. That is not the world I want for half of humanity. But, should I try to save people who don't have enough sense to stick up for themselves?
Some more questions we should be allowed to ask:
Is our democracy going to end up as a South American dictatorship where beasts and thugs use violence and terror against political opponents at the behest of corporations, drug lords and the CIA?
We have already seen violence inflicted upon attendees of Trump rallies. Whether a person cares for Mr. Trump or not, the day we begin to exercise violence to inhibit the right of people to exercise democracy, whether they are black supremacists, Nazis, or Girl Scouts is the day we no longer deserve a democracy.
In our next blog, we will discuss the fundamental root of America's problems.
It seems that some Americans, however, like the frog in the pot of water, have decided to start hopping about saying,
"This isn't right. We're all going to croak."
Some Americans are afraid the deficit is going to ruin their savings, their jobs will be replaced by cheaper, or more educated labor and the rich would have them and their children live out their lives in perpetual debt (see peonage). These people are getting worried what will happen when the owners of the Federal Reserve don't get back the money they are owed on the deficit.They are worried our politicians are trying to ruin America's democracy at the behest of the corporations that sponsor them. (Deceptions of the Ages, 2010). They are worried at how the Democrats, like the Republicans of old are throwing the ridicule of public opinion on anyone who rejects the policies of the Clintons. People are worried as they see this being done through the manipulation of poorly educated American half-wits that will parrot anything they hear from the media.
Enter Donald Trump.
Americans who love Donald Trump don't love him because he is a genius. Americans love Donald Trump because he is what is known in the US as a populist. He is an outsider who does what Americans do-he speaks his mind whether he knows what he's talking about or not. Americans love Donald Trump because he asks questions that no one wants to ask because nobody has an answer that doesn't involve making a painful, unpopular decision (The truth hurts syndrome). Most Americans won't remember a another populist politician from Louisiana named Huey Long. Governor Long served during the Depression. He was famously quoted saying:
'Democrats will skin you slow,
Republicans will kill you quick.'''
That said, here are some questions that no politician in the US is ever going to ask for fear of losing their job.
“What will the quality of life be when there are a billion people in the US in twenty years? Two billion in seventy five?”
A quick trip to Delhi, Cairo, Mexico or Rio will answer that question.Who will pay to build the infrastructure and where will the food come from? Soylent Green?
"Are we going to have a balkanized country with different languages and customs?"
"Will we have ethnic cleansing like in Bosnia?"
We have already heard African American leaders like Ray Nagin, former Mayor of New Orleans describe his dream of New Orleans as a "chocolate city," which really sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing. Ray Nagin is now enjoying a chocolate city more to his liking in a federal penitentiary but we can see in the news every day that there is more and more racial strife as the media capitalizes and profits from the violence and hatred they are stirring up.
I guess gone are the days of Neapolitan harmony.
"What about the Muslims who have no other goal in mind than the subjugation of all the world to Islam no matter how much violence is necessary?"
I spent thirteen years living in the Middle East during the earliest years of the War on Terror. I wrote three books so that people would know how kind, generous and respectful Arabs and Muslims were, according to my own experiences. I consider Arabia my second home. I have a great understanding and appreciation of Islam, having seen it in its purest forms. But I am also objective. I do not agree with the subjugation of women and I never will. I'm not really comfortable at all with that kind of ideology, or any kind of ideology that says someone has to sit in a house for their entire life until they are forced into a marriage just because they lost the genetic lottery.
I spent five years living in Saudi Arabia working on military contracts where Western women were beaten for not covering their hair in public (Killing Time In Saudi Arabia, 2013). I know how happy people were (especially Saudis) to be leaving there, yet the people in our government are going to bring it here. Don't we have the right to choose whether we want that future for our posterity?
If someone wants to kill me for something I say, or destroy my rights or my family because of my religion, or beat my mother, wife or daughter because their hair isn't covered, I'm sorry but that sends up something of a red flag. How can these women politicians claim to be supporters of a religion that would not even allow them leave their own houses without a male? The blatant hypocrisy is only slightly less amusing than the public's ability to tolerate it because they don't understand it.
In other words, how can someone who claims to be a champion of women's rights, champion the cause of the same people to live here who would deny women all their rights? Yet women are so apathetic and uninformed they will fall over backwards to support any candidate who is for the introduction into our culture any culture who feels women should be subjugated and subservient! And then they claim they don't get respect.
I devoted an entire book about the effects of the Iraq War on and sad state of Muslim women and their roles in Arab society (Another Year in Oman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place, 2007).
I lived with it for many years and saw many good women wasted because of their sex. That is not the world I want for half of humanity. But, should I try to save people who don't have enough sense to stick up for themselves?
Some more questions we should be allowed to ask:
Is our democracy going to end up as a South American dictatorship where beasts and thugs use violence and terror against political opponents at the behest of corporations, drug lords and the CIA?
We have already seen violence inflicted upon attendees of Trump rallies. Whether a person cares for Mr. Trump or not, the day we begin to exercise violence to inhibit the right of people to exercise democracy, whether they are black supremacists, Nazis, or Girl Scouts is the day we no longer deserve a democracy.
In our next blog, we will discuss the fundamental root of America's problems.
