The election was an upset for many. My feeds on Facebook are showing a lot of hate and I expected people to be sad and angry but what I'm reading is beyond that!
Here is my Facebook status as of a few moments ago:
I'm impressed that Clinton called Trump as soon as she did to concede. That's a class act. My feeds of my friends and family this morning aren't representing that class act unfortunately. Yes, you have a right to free speech but the nastiness is absolutely revolting. Please stop disrespecting your family and friends with your ugly words and name calling because it won't change the results of the election. Be a class act for America's sake. One country.
Personally I think it is a sad day for ASmerica and I believe we got exactly what we deserved and that it is all part of Gods plan to bring this nation down
Our nation hasn't collapsed yet because of the election of one man. I doubt it will happen now
Instead of focusing on what people don't like about Trump, they can try to look to all the positive changes he might be able to make in this country.
I truly want to believe that, I just seeto many things that are scary and dangerous about him as president. I will pray for him and hope for the best but I just dont see it. I also believe that we will go down as a nation and that those put in power will help bring that about, God is in control even to overseeing our downfall.
What I think is sad is that too many people give way too much credit to the so called "commander in chief" than he or she deserves - for good and for bad. The demise of America has been coming for a very long time, and it can not be blamed on one person - rather it is a product of design, a slow erosion through very carefully planned baby steps, year after year, decade after decade. When the proverbial stuff finally does hit the fan, it is going to be extremely bad, and again, the people will blame the leaders of that time, rather than look at the bigger picture of what has been happening over a very long time.
In my view - at the heart of that erosion are two main factors:
1) The monetary system, as it stands now. I was once told by a relative that the USA is the "richest country in the world". That's an interesting statement that begs the question "how does one define wealth"? On a personal basis, that can only be qualified by ownership of assets (assets being things that produce/provide and bring in trade in the form of money), and savings. The USA is the biggest debtor nation in the world - and most of the manufacturing is done in other countries. It may seem like the country is "rich" because of technological advancement, but this is an illusion. Having lots of debt does not make any individual rich - and it doesn't make a country rich - it makes it a slave to the debt holders, and poor. Thus far, the hyper inflation that started with Nixon's completely severing the dollar from gold has been held in check - but only because of certain trade agreements with oil producing nations. America's dollar is in reality only backed by one major thing - it's control of world oil supplies by having crude oil sold in that currency. This is the real reason for most of the wars in the middle east - domination of oil - because without it - the dollar is not backed by much at all - it is all a huge amount of paper or digital currency backed by extremely little in terms of real assets.
2) The Corporation - as the predominant business model. Corporations in the USA used to have very limited charters and were illegal otherwise. If a town wanted to build a bridge over a river, it could form a corporation to serve that very purpose - but once the purpose was served, the corporation's charter ended. Today's corporations are "legal persons" - huge monsters afforded human rights as if they were people. The overriding principle of the corporation, also legally binding, is to make the most money it can for it's stockholders. When money and profit is thus enshrined and idolized as the number one motivating factor - it should be easy to see how various corruptions and immoralities work their way in. Cost of labor too high? Move offshores and hire some slave labor for a better bottom line. Poisoning the water making people sick? No one is responsible, no one will go to jail, because we're incorporated, only the stockholders will be punished via a fall in share prices.
There are two people that were either president or presidential hopefuls that wanted to stop this, and one former president that warned about it. That president was Eisenhower. He could see what was coming and tried to warn the American people. One of the presidents that tried to stop it was JFK - and he was murdered. The other, in our time, was presidential hopeful Ron Paul - who spoke more truth to the people in one election cycle than most politicians do in a lifetime.
There is a reckoning coming, and it is the product of decades worth of loss of manufacturing coupled with massive amount of war debt - debt completely severed from any real asset save pricing in world oil, and debt that started increasing rapidly under Nixon and the Vietnam war and has not stopped since. Don't look to any political Messiah to stop it. They can't, no matter what they promise.
