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JimmyinTEXAS's avatar

I agree with you completely. "Do we have leaders who can stand up to domestic opposition to lead America into that new international posture?"

Absolutely not. As you said, if we chose to let that privilege go and planned the escape route then we would be better off. The privilege being ripped away because of incompetent leadership will lead to the pound of flesh being hard to bear.

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The Unhedged Capitalist's avatar

I love how you point out that the connection between the hollowing out of the middle class/loss of manufacturing jobs and the increasing popularity of rather polarizing political figures.

One of my great frustrations is that amongst many of the people I know and love, there is ZERO understanding of how someone like Trump has come to be. They think half the country just lost its mind and voted for the orange man, because...? Well they have no interest in finding out.

I think that's a shame because Trump and other leaders like him clearly recognized some of these issues, and instead of talking about them we've just decided to demonize people who vote "the wrong way."

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