SirEdward
Well-Known Member
The effects of Trump's politics are well known: they are the same that have been happening in the entire Western World in the last two decades (sometimes even more) at the very least, and that have brought us where we are now.
They are the reasons why so many people are angry and looking for something different and they vote for the first one to tell them something that seems new.
That happened to the US too, and you elected a champion of the same group that brought you there. Only because he said things in a nice manner.
If you wanted to know what happens to a Western Country when you elect a multibillionnaire entrepreneur with shady ties, you could have looked at Italy and Berlusconi. He did exactly the same as Trump is doing: make the rich richer and the poor poorer while swearing otherwise and letting the fertile soil that is needed to generate wealth get arid and sterile.
I am not saying in any way that the alternatives would have been better; I am saying that this is what you chose to have, despite the fact that it was already possible to know the truth. The harsh truth: to have someone rich (=with power) share some of them with the poor... there needs to be a reason for that to happen; be it religion, necessity, force, folly, ideology. There must be a reason. With Trump, as with Berlusconi before him and all the "trickle down" nonsense, there was none, so it didn't happen. It hasn't been happening singe the 1980'ies, it has never happened with those ideas. Let's face reality.
The only moment the rich gave up part of their money is when they were forced, by some mean or other (coincidentally positive or brutally negative) to do so.
They are the reasons why so many people are angry and looking for something different and they vote for the first one to tell them something that seems new.
That happened to the US too, and you elected a champion of the same group that brought you there. Only because he said things in a nice manner.
If you wanted to know what happens to a Western Country when you elect a multibillionnaire entrepreneur with shady ties, you could have looked at Italy and Berlusconi. He did exactly the same as Trump is doing: make the rich richer and the poor poorer while swearing otherwise and letting the fertile soil that is needed to generate wealth get arid and sterile.
I am not saying in any way that the alternatives would have been better; I am saying that this is what you chose to have, despite the fact that it was already possible to know the truth. The harsh truth: to have someone rich (=with power) share some of them with the poor... there needs to be a reason for that to happen; be it religion, necessity, force, folly, ideology. There must be a reason. With Trump, as with Berlusconi before him and all the "trickle down" nonsense, there was none, so it didn't happen. It hasn't been happening singe the 1980'ies, it has never happened with those ideas. Let's face reality.
The only moment the rich gave up part of their money is when they were forced, by some mean or other (coincidentally positive or brutally negative) to do so.