A Serious Discussion on Compromise

The final debate of 2015 recognized Trump is playing the game of the baser elements and winning, and threw and curveball. CNN along with the Republican Party decided to bring Trump closer to their internal fire, to first throw out some positivity, but second to skirt the issues.  

Trump probably does not believe half the things he says, nor will he act on them. If he wins the nomination he will work on building trust. The fact is that Politicians are no longer just professional liars, kindly stated they cater to lying as a way of living, surviving and thriving. Trump, is not that way, at least so far as most people can see, but he is being included in the mix so the issues can be drowned.  The question at hand is how policies can work in favor of keeping issues at the forefront. Second is how can the outright  scared-stiffness of our society be beaten back in our national agenda, and society at large. The debate tried to ignore some issues and skirt others. This was their curve ball.             

Trump may be a trend or he may be an old relic of what the presidency was meant to be. A successful business man in his elder years wanting to give back to the country that has been so kind to him.  The trend however, is that of showman, an unsilenced ego, a builder and owner, and a celebrity. Time would cater, that is if things were good, for no one to be interested in this election, so why not pretend that everything is ok.    

Trump is a walking compromise, easily gobbling up the votes of people who have a record of voting against their best interest. He is not dependent on special interests. He is however, a person who has been corrupted by money power and wants more. The other politicians are clawing back to the podium pretending to make themselves appear credible and vote worthy, but then again there is the issue of time to deal with and they never planned for Trump to be at such good footing as the primary starter gun fires.  The fact is that Trump is not an intellectual politician or an operating governor.  Bush on other hand comes from a family of multiple governmental positions. Trump sits on an empire. The Government is not an Empire, but it makes empires through its own demise and Trump is asserting that he will try to undo what has been done. The experience of wheeling and dealing inside the cogs of government, escaped him. The old days of government provided means for business leaders to organize the townships, voice their opinions at town hall meetings and represent the state and the nations, this was addressed in the debate. Bigness, corruption, deception, have all contributed to this changing. At the same time prosperity, standard of living, general acceptance of freedoms and liberty as a non-negotiable trend have also blossomed, until recently that is. 

 Trump lost his fortune, then, with a few million dollars took to playing the rich man’s game, the new one. This game of curiosity, about the system. This game of background checks, purchasing, depending on government bailouts, and deals with china.Whatever it takes to claw yourself up to the top of this now global rich power base, if you have the stomache for it. The stomache to go against the tide of "not being corrupt". It is owner matter of fact now, a business interest. Those that study poitics. or read the papers shy away from this, all it needs is an iota of critica thought.. Trump was rich, but power was only a small delight,  want or perhaps needs, the golden goose.He is promising to curb the evils through which he made his comback. He could have lived the rest of his life in “relative” luxury, but he chose to claw his way back up and into the spotlight. This makes for a dangerous persona, similar to a crooked U.S. president of recent past.

The real questions are not about Trump and his beliefs, they are of his appetites.  That is a question of economics, or is it? The show of politics has excluded younger generations on purpose politics  was brushed to the side as boring, dull, not worthy of young people’s attention. Economics on one side and religion on the other was what was being spewed out, and not very well. This is where Trump made his comeback, in a reality show and hospitality for the new wealthy, a large portion of whom are strictly conservative. The policy made sure that new generation would not have a clue, nor any interest in politics. The policy solidified through cheap and tawdriness. Reality shows are a means for cheap entertainment, and they are suffocating entertainment, yet the alternative is boring talk or worse yet hateful boring talk stemming from the far right.

The country needs to face the fact, that we were once infidels to the Muslims, and the cards have been stacked for us to change. This is because, there is no going back, back there to poverty, and somebody wealthier beyond the boundaries of imagination. Remember the war in Iraq? The movies, the media, the whoring Politicians altogether engaging to pinnacle of a cause which was meant only to sidetrack the real issue. The issue that was at stake at the time, was is Radical Islam. The fear of Radicalism coupled with the immense wealth coming from Oil was able to steer the country off focus.

Radicalization is a concept that sprouted half a century ago when the nation’s borders in the Middle East were drawn by what might as well have been a comic strip animator.  Suddenly in a place where no one thought of value, oil was discovered. They then turned themselves on protecting themselves partially through accelerating their religion.  I hesitate to speak negatively of the religious in this country. Religion has always been a source, in the United States, especially the Southeastern states, and they are all in some way better for it.  The truth is however they assumed the role of driving the Republican Party and took on an approach of unification or death.  Guess where the money and the power came from, faith possibly, but considering the sad state of affairs, faith has not served them so well. Oil that is where the debate stops. It stops because the right will not be questioned on event the thought of their foundations in religion, while the left sweeps Political Correctness and has mounds under a rug.    

 This brings us back to the question of economics.  Remember the economic war with China? Trump is betting a significant part of his foreign policy agenda on this one issue. The trains cannot move fast enough out of the Pacific Hub to take all the products that we allowed to slip away from us.

Global warming was not mentioned. The hot dog eating singular economic focus is to make sure that our tanks do not smell like French Fries, as they roll through the Middle East. Remember those conversations? No one speaks that way anymore. Why? That would jog up too many memories and lead to infidel thinking.

Energy is a central concern for future generations comfort and survival, just like good insulation. Regulating the heat is just as important as keeping the Vacuum of Space out. Will China build us a giant air conditioner? The important issues need to be addressed in a manner that is not skirting. The Media cannot dance around important issues, like Veterans, Crime, Police Shootings, Global Warming, and China, so as to not upset whatever they think the fidelity might be. New policies should re-emerge in which we do not negotiate with terrorists, and moreover we do not succumb the fear of radicals. Global warming should also be reintroduced in the national discussion as a gently reality, and never to isolate people for not believing and/or not understanding. The ship was sailing towards smarts, now it is sailing towards danger. Smarts isolated not just the ignorant, the unsuspecting, the earnest, but also itself. Our society might have to accept that being smart means solving issue the hard way. Educating adults, who are not happy about the fact the stacks are against them for their education. Finally politics should be introduced as a policy of a mainstream, as something to latch on to, as something that entertains, but not cheaply.

Positivity came out of the debates Tuesday, but then again the race is heating up and there is a shortage of people who will be playing the role of well, the fool.  One thing that is for certain, is that playing to the hand of the enemy is what is drawing this war out. Chris Christie hinted at Word War III upon morning on CBS. What such strategy is for is   be anyone’s guess. Then again, Trump’s been winning on playing the enemies game as well, and he is not under the yoke of sponsorship.  Rand Paul could be a good choice, yet most money bets him the loser and he is getting punched up quite badly. The fact stands, however, that in the end, as always, it will be what the citizens of this country want. The power rises with them and it falls with them. Entrusting them with power is just another way of saying that freedom is being respected.