The Only Reason To Be

Ronald Reagan Came To Office And Had Already Been An Experienced Politician As Governor Of California, Whose Ideology And Ideas, No Matter How Simplistic Or No Matter How Much You May Disagree With Them, Were Fairly Well-developed And Fairly Consistent. Donald Trump Is A Real-estate Branding Operator And A Reality-show Television Star Whose Entrance Into Big-time Politics, As A Victor, As Someone Who Will Now Wield Tremendous Power, Was As Shocking To Him As It Was To Everybody Else.

The Question For So Many Is The Quality Of Work, The Future Of Work Under Globalism And De-industrialization. A Typical Example Is A Person Who Had A Good Factory Job Making 80,000 Dollars, With Health Insurance, Who Was Able To Send His Kids Possibly To College And Then He Or She Suddenly Loses That Job Because The Factory Closed Down. And Now That Same Person Is Bagging Groceries At Walmart And Making $35,000.

I Am An Adult; Deliberately Naïve, Dewy-eyed Optimism Is Not The Proper Posture For A Responsible Adult, Is It?

The Notion That Somehow Through A Trade War Or Protectionism Or Magical Thinking That We're Going To Return To A Romanticized Economic Past Is, In The End, Going To Be An Illusion. And A Severe Disappointment To Millions Of Decent, Hard-working People.

Not All Political Prisoners Are Innocents.