A society works when the middle and lower middle class have rising incomes and feel aspirational about their lives. Right now they feel desperational and Trump has provided zero policy solutions. He's an avatar for their anger, but the answer they're reaching for is to wreck the entire system.... The system that produced the greatest economic miracle in the history of the world. And you know who else wants that? Vladimir Putin. Our adversaries have one goal, make the British and American people believe their elections don't matter, their institutions aren't legitimate, the system is rigged against them. Make them cynical. Make them feel left out. Make them burn it down. Trump feeds that narrative every single day. Because his entire political existence depends on people believing the system is broken beyond repair. And our adversaries are watching it work.show more

We, Americans are determined to remove Trump and his admins, prosecute them and take back our nation.

Re Canada AS - you’re right. I call Trump the modern day Grand Old Duke of York. He marches to the top of hill then tacos and marches swiftly back down again. He is the epitome of the bully - hit back hard and he swiftly retires.

Indeed Putin also loves Brexit. The friend of your enemy is your enemy. Ironically support for these crazies isn't nationalism it's treason.

It's easily arguable "the greatest economic miracle" in modern history has occurred recently in late 20th-early 21st century China because that rise has been MUCH more rapid for a MUCH larger population than the U.S. with almost no natural resource theft from other countries.

Americans think they're rich because they're all special geniuses. They're delusional and that's led to choosing to harm themselves because they haven't gotten the "rewards" they've been told they deserve for being such special geniuses.

We’ve all rallied around and bought into the system that made America cultural and economic number one. Where they reamain. It’s mental they’ve now decided the system that has put them there is wrong and we’re all fucking them over. A narcissist is fucking them and making loads

We should import millions of people with IQs under 70 from shithole countries. History shows that this will massively improve our economy.

In short Trump is good for our enemies.

The mistake is thinking institutional breakdown is the cause of public anger. It is the consequence of it. Adversaries like Putin don't need to manufacture cynicism; they just amplify the structural failure that is already there. When the middle class shifts from aspirational to desperate, the system has already broken its core economic promise. The hidden mechanism is that a population facing economic stagnation will always choose to wreck a system rather than continue to starve inside it. Expecting people to protect "the greatest economic miracle in history" when they can no longer afford to participate in it is a luxury of the insulated. Trump isn't the architect of this vulnerability; he is the lagging indicator. If the system cannot deliver rising incomes, the institutional noose will tighten from the inside, regardless of who is watching from the outside.

EXACTLY. TRUMP, WHETHER HE IS AWARE OF IT OR NOT, HE HAS ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE USED BY THOSE WHO SEEK TO DESTROY DEMOCRACIES TO A DOMINIENT WORLD ORDER. IT FEELS LIKE A SNAKE READY TO STRIKE.

it's not a "feeling" that the system is rigged against more than half the country, it's a FACT. Trump hasn't provided a solution because he's the actual cause along with vichy dems who are afraid to lose their campaign funds from apartheid states that keep them in power.

A society works when disparities in wealth are somewhat palatable, if not it can be a problem

Someday, we’ll find out why Vladimir Putin has Trump in his back pocket.

Currently, the US median household income is $83,730. The vast majority of Americans fall into middle class, lower middle class... In most States, you could not qualify to purchase a typical median priced American home. Many are struggling with high cost of rent, food, gas...

Agree. The biggest mistake the right makes in the US is keeping wages for working people low. If working people can have aspirations it helps boost the economy, makes society more cohesive and lowers the crime rate.

Spot on, Anthony! Thanks again for your calm rationality.

All cons are bad at this, but Trump took it to new levels of dystopian failed state chaos...

Trump and Roberts are breaking the system beyond repair.

yes. his attempt to bring the iranian people to rise up is a huge backfire. amateur hour on aderall and cocaine. oh, and bomb the drug boats.

The Democratic Party is not a rational alternative. They have welcomed the radical Marxists-Socialists-Communists into the party

Finally, someone who actually understands Capitalism. The whole point of Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations’ was that successful economies put wages in people’s pockets, not profits for corporations.

Would like to know what you think of this?

Guess who’s still DISGRUNTLED?

But wasn’t it the Dems who pushed a fake, Clinton purchased, discredited dossier that that Trump was a Russian asset? That alone called that election into question. And they’ve never really stopped.

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You’re a hypocritical fraud dude

Spot on. Cure?

That was a sudden, unnecessary jump from Trump and U.S. politics to “the British people”. Totally out of place.

Well said

The system IS partially broken. No nation can survive a debt-money monetary system. Eventually it must fail. To a large part we’ve been driven to our failure as a responsible citizenry. We face considerable opposition from a parasitic class who thrive off our labor. 1776.

Nobody believes a word you say!!!!!

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