Significant inroads into Trump's base have been made by people who actually sit down and talk with them. You were told that in the discussion that you started, in which you claimed that it was a waste of time to try to reason with Trump supporters.
The disaster that it will be if the economy goes south is vapid-speak. It is a disaster for any president when the economy goes south. Ironically, the exact same people who refuse to organize and engage in consumer strikes to earn working class people a seat at the table for negotiating economic policy and to bring down abusive presidents like Trump, are also the people who keep hoping for an economic downturn that will make Trump look bad. They won't participate in an organized and controlled dampening of the economy for constructive purposes, but they will hope for a chaotic economic disaster that will make someone they don't like look bad.
The confrontation with China is not going well for China. The confrontation with China is the only issue that Trump has any bipartisan support on. If you think that the confrontation with China is going to end with a new president, you are probably going to be disappointed. It makes sense that we would be in a confrontation with China because of our enormous trade deficit with them, their currency manipulation, their disregard for intellectual property rights, illegal dumping, their human rights abuses such as using political prisoners as living organ banks and the use of slave labor, their environmental abuses, and they have been actively engaged in the largest military buildup since the eve of WWII. The biggest problem with Trump leading the confrontation with China is that we can't trust what his objective is, and he might end it too soon and claim it as 'so much winning'. We'll lose if he does that.
The disaster that it will be if the economy goes south is vapid-speak. It is a disaster for any president when the economy goes south. Ironically, the exact same people who refuse to organize and engage in consumer strikes to earn working class people a seat at the table for negotiating economic policy and to bring down abusive presidents like Trump, are also the people who keep hoping for an economic downturn that will make Trump look bad. They won't participate in an organized and controlled dampening of the economy for constructive purposes, but they will hope for a chaotic economic disaster that will make someone they don't like look bad.
The confrontation with China is not going well for China. The confrontation with China is the only issue that Trump has any bipartisan support on. If you think that the confrontation with China is going to end with a new president, you are probably going to be disappointed. It makes sense that we would be in a confrontation with China because of our enormous trade deficit with them, their currency manipulation, their disregard for intellectual property rights, illegal dumping, their human rights abuses such as using political prisoners as living organ banks and the use of slave labor, their environmental abuses, and they have been actively engaged in the largest military buildup since the eve of WWII. The biggest problem with Trump leading the confrontation with China is that we can't trust what his objective is, and he might end it too soon and claim it as 'so much winning'. We'll lose if he does that.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
