Politics in the United States of America 2016

Politics in the United States of America

After a while one gets sick, very sick of political campaigning. Unfortunately, there is no way around this seemingly endless phenomenon of political rancor – dirty tricks, calling opponents liars, bamboozling the electorate. I gotta tell ya, I’m sick of it.

Yet we, the electorate, must be vigilant about what is going on around us and to us. We have to endure this latest cycle of presidential electoral politics. For the past seven years we have seen, actually felt, what a negative presidency can do not only to the United States as a whole, but to persons, individuals who have either lost their jobs or have been reduced to seeking part-time employment.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for any one of us to know what a presidential candidate actually believes until he or she is elected. The current American president was a virtual unknown to the voting public in 2007, but because he promised much and spoke a traditional line, most Americans voted him into office. It did not take long after gaining office that we saw how destructive a sitting president can be to his own nation and to its citizens.

Electing a president is inherently risky. It matters whom we elect. Unfortunately, we must await the unfolding of his or her presidential policies – regardless of what was promised during the campaign season – before we really know. We then will be either pleasantly surprised or sorely disappointed. Eight, even four years, of negative policies can ruin peoples’ lives for years to come. Significant economic impacts on a person’s ability to earn an income over four to eight years make it even more difficult in future years to recover those losses assuming a new president promotes better economic policies.

What could be worse? What is worse is a certain kind of structural change and governmental change? The tendency of Progressive government is socialism. The natural “progression” of socialism is totalitarianism. When a candidate-become-president states that he will “fundamentally transform” America, he is stating his belief that something is/was wrong with America and it needs to be radically changed. That president has almost succeeded. The current “overt” socialist presidential candidate has garnered a huge following among the young. The risk here, if successfully played out, is even higher. What could possibly happen?

Political Failure in Europe

Over the years the nations collectively known as Europe have ceded their religious and cultural heritage to secularism. Secularism thrives in a socialistic, progressive environment. Living the good life means that the government pays for your necessities, and perhaps pays for your luxuries. Enjoying life in such a government-controlled environment also meant, historically, having fewer children. Having fewer children meant a future workforce smaller in numbers than their living seniors. With the willing jettisoning of its heritage and its willingness to produce fewer offspring, Europe has made itself open to “fundamental transformation” through immigration, not overt or combative revolution. 

Europe is now overrun and will never recover.Their historical contributions to the arts, sciences, and religion will be erased from history by the immigrated conquering religion-government, and will never be heard  of in another 25 to 50 years. European socialism has not succeeded and is in the process of being replaced by a totally different form of life, government, and religion (replacing secularism). The same could happen to the United States of America.

One should now see where I am going with this. Show me a nation where socialism has been successful. Such a nation does not exist. Eventually some kind of revolution, not necessarily a "gentle transformation," will occur. Socialism lulls. Europeans, by way of example, were not animated by its secularism, therefore, Europe is now being overrun from the outside.

Vigilance of the American Electorate

Pay attention to these current 2016 presidential candidates. Although the process is itself sickening, the history, speeches, and actions of the candidates need to be examined by each one of us. Do not take word-for-word account of what media outlets tell us. Of course, we have to read those media accounts, but we must use our own senses and logic to figure out as best we can who our next president should be. Reduce our national risk by understanding who these people are. And do not be lulled by grandiose promises.

A wrong presidential choice in November, 2016 can ruin our lives for the next four years making for 12 years of continuous employment, economic, and governmental degradation. Examine, think, act, vote.