October 30, 2019 "Information
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Moodys Analytics
correctly predicted every Presidential winner since
1980, and two days ago, smack in the middle of the
latest impeachment kerfuffle, they predicted Trump
would win in 2020 by an electoral landslide.[1]
As a supporter of climate activism, having a climate
change denier occupy the presidency another four
years is absolutely bone-chilling. But the way the
Democratic Party machine is acting, tethered to the
corporate media as it is, chances are looking dimmer
every day.
Here are four intrusive smelling salts intended to
rouse Democrats from their sleep, because if they
don´t wake up, Donald Trump is going to get
re-elected.
Reason 1: Illegal immigration
One million people were stopped trying to cross into
the United States last year. Yes, one million
people! [2] One can only guess how many snuck into
the country that were not stopped.
This actually bothers many Americans.
The liberal media interminably carps that detainees
are treated poorly, that a child died in detention,
that a pregnant mother was not given care, that a
baby is crying for his parents, and that a racist,
corrupt, uncaring, narcissistic President is
responsible for it all.
It then tosses in a dollop of pedagogy to school
Americans that the term “illegal alien” is racist,
demeaning, and absolutely needs to be excised from
the lexicon. All migrants, legal and otherwise,
should be called “immigrants.” Most media outlets
conform. New York City fines a violator $250,000 for
using the term “illegal alien.” [3] Universities
take it one step further and now fail students who
use the term “illegal immigrant” on term papers.[4]
But despite this fusillade of sympathy for
immigrants, that is, illegal immigrants, there is a
large segment of American society that isn´t playing
along.
Whatever this demographic is named —some call them
“deplorables”—these Americans actually object to a
million people entering the country without visas.
They really do.
Here´s a voice large segments of the media and
Democrats in particular, have not heard, are not
listening to, but most importantly, will not listen
to:
“Just because I don´t like these folks coming into
our country, I don´t like being called a racist. I
don´t like being told I am intolerant or that I´m a
hate criminal. I just don´t like a hundred and fifty
thousand foreigners slipping into our country every
month, enrolling in our schools, using fake social
security numbers, taking jobs, having babies who are
given citizenship on the spot, being granted
driver´s licenses, even medical insurance, and
getting away with it all. The media and the
Democratic Party seem to support every bit of it.
And if you are opposed like I am, they call you a
bigot. The only person I see who represents my
feelings at all is Donald Trump!”
Most Democrats think something in those words is
deeply offensive, or racist, or politically
incorrect, or at the very least inappropriate, but
unfortunately they represent feelings of real
people. . . lots and lots of real people.[5]
Eighty percent of Americans think illegal
immigration is a serious problem, [6] and
if Democrats and the liberal media do not wake up,
Trump is going to exploit this sentiment and take
illegal immigration fears, worries, and anger right
to the bank.
He did it before, and he´ll do it again.
Reason 2: Impeachment backlash
Americans are weary of the impeachment circus
parading on their nightly news. Impeachment talk
began as soon as Trump took office and continued
throughout his entire Presidency. If there was
insufficient Mueller proof that the President
colluded, that morphed into obstruction. And when
obstruction withered, the Ukrainegate flag was
raised for more saluting.
But a large share of the American body politic is
beleaguered beyond belief by the obsessive
CNN-MSNBC-New York Times fixations on this subject.
Some of the population just doesn´t buy in. They are
tired. They believe most of it is based on
falsehood, rumor, inaccuracy, and wholesale hatred
of the President of the United States.
We don´t know exactly how big that demographic is,
but wherever this sliver of the population looks,
and every late-night comedian they encounter, it
seems just another anti-Trump propaganda foil is
walking on stage. Whether Stephen Colbert, Trevor
Noah, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Kathy Griffin, Bill
Maher or the entire cast of Saturday Night Live,
Trump hatred syndrome seems ubiquitous.
Despite these media festivities, an important
backlash is incubating to which Democrats seem
oblivious. They don´t realize that the sanctimonious
moral purity trip has gone on far too long, in too
great an excess, and inside the inflating bubble of
Trumpian animus, scads of on-the-fence-independent
voters are fed up with the piety, condescension,
character assassination, and saying to themselves,
“enough is enough!”
Trump is going to accuse the media, Rachel Maddow,
Major Garret, Jake Tapper, CNN, the Washington Post
and SNL of promoting a witch hunt made up of
falsehood, rumor, innuendo, defamation, endless
conspiracies, constant attacks on his Presidency,
character, and family, and he will remind his
twitter followers that none of this turned out to be
true. He will wear the “No collusion, No
obstruction, Fake News” trope blazoned across his
chest right across the finish line into 2020.
And it isn´t going to help the sanctimony of the
Democratic Party one bit when Joe Biden keeps
insisting that his son never came to him and said
“Hey, dad I just got a job in the Ukraine that pays
$50,000 a month! No experience necessary.” Democrat
elites magically convinced themselves that Americans
will believe Hunter Biden never got around to
mentioning any of that to his dad. But they may be
underestimating the intelligence of the electorate.
Vote for Joe? Seriously?
Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
Democrats used to be a party of freedom,
peace, and love. They were opposed to
war, especially the Vietnam War. Most
liked Fidel too.
But today Elizabeth Warren and Nancy
Pelosi applaud when jingoist John Bolton
wants to overthrow the government of
Venezuela. Hugo Chavez built 3 million
homes for poor Venezuelans, cut poverty
48 percent in less than a decade,
doubled literacy levels, and was
brother-in-arms with Fidel, but
Democrats today seem just as blood
thirsty to overthrow Maduro and
Venezuela as the Neo-Cons are.
When a peace initiative goes out to
North Korea and a face-to-face
negotiation happens—something Obama
promised but never pulled off—Democrats
object saying Trump is giving away too
much or that he is grandstanding.
When Trump wants to withdraw troops from
Syria—where the U.S. never had any legal
right to be in the first place—they call
it “betrayal.”
They yoked themselves so thoroughly with
the military-industrial complex and
Lindsey Graham they insist on remaining
in Syria as much as he does. They want
to press ever closer to Russia´s borders
in the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Estonia, and The Black Sea, and
of course, their pom poms wave wildly as
they cheerlead even more anti-Russian
hysteria.
What Democrats miss is that a majority
of Americans have consistently wanted us
to leave Iraq (58 %), [7] to stay out of
Syria (53 %), [8] to leave Afghanistan
(61%), [9] and not to get embroiled in
any war with Iran (57%). [10]
Seventy percent of Americans are opposed
to these endless military adventures.
[11] All of those majorities have been
ignored by corporate Democrats when
those polls were taken, and they still
are ignored today.
Only Tulsi Gabbard meekly tries to
remind the Democratic Party of its
nonviolent roots as she is gingerly
escorted out of the room by party
insiders.
But Trump will stand up and say he did
not enter any new wars as he promised,
that he removed troops from Syria as
promised, that he is negotiating a pull
out from the 18-year disaster of
Afghanistan as promised, that he sought
peace in North Korea as promised, and
that if re-elected he will continue to
remove the U.S. from its idiotic wars.
And that salesmanship will rack up even
more points that he can take to the
bank, because his words fully resonate
with how the majority of Americans
actually feel.
Reason 4: Pocketbooks
Finally, and despite panglossian
globalist rhetoric that permeates the
media, Americans are not stupid. They
can look around the Midwest and see
decaying inner cities and eviscerated
factories emptied of manufacturing jobs
that went abroad in search of 50
cent-an-hour labor.
They never liked it in the first place,
and when Trump offered to “make America
great again” the slogan more than made
the grade in Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Ohio. They remembered their cities were
once thriving manufacturing engines that
made steel, aluminum, cars, televisions,
and refrigerators.
But Democrats and the corporate media
raged on for years against it. It is
“tribalism,” they say, “nativism,”
“populism” “protectionism” and, of
course, all of these attacks are
reflexively counterpointed with
assignations that Trump is a criminal, a
racist, a whoremonger, and a white
supremacist to boot.
Underneath the media hyperbole, though,
is an embarrassing reality that is hard
to shake. Middle-class incomes are $6000
higher than they were when Trump took
office. [12] 401K retirement plans went
up 33 percent,[13] and many of these
folks think Trump´s ballsy talk about
tariffs and deals with Mexico, China,
Canada, and Japan helped make all that
possible.
A large swath of Americans were opposed
to corporations outsourcing their jobs
abroad. Bernie Sanders captured those
feelings perfectly, but when Hillary
railroaded him out of the nomination,
Trump surreptitiously filled Bernie´s
vacuum with the same message they wanted
to hear and still want to hear.
He did it once and he’ll do it again:
“Your incomes are better, your
good-paying jobs are returning. Your
retirement portfolios have grown. Your
factories are coming home. I´ve stopped
lots of countries from ripping us off,
and I´ll stop them even more if
reelected!”
Trump is expert in catalyzing anger and
resentment, and he is all ready to bang
out another home run and sashay around
the bases with his signature
haughtiness.
The former Democratic majority leader
Harry Reid, and a Trump antagonist, last
week warned that “Trump is a very, very
smart man who won´t be easily beaten in
2020!”[14] Trump is far more cunning and
intelligent than Alec Baldwin on
Saturday Night Live makes him out to be.
We have to prevent another four years of
Donald Trump. It is time Democrats
became partners again with American
workers, not elitists who think of the
rank and file as deplorable.
It is time Democrats said we need our
factories back.
It is time Democrats called illegal
immigrants illegal immigrants.
It is time Democrats represented the gay
community less and dispossessed factory
workers from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and
Appalachia more.
It is time Democrats promised to end
hegemonic wars the military-industrial
complex is forever selling, and slash
the defense budget so student loan debt
can be paid off and college graduates
working at Starbucks and living in their
parent´s basement can have future to
look forward to.
And it is time they announced clearly,
forcefully, and unambiguously that the
most important priority which
overshadows everything else is climate
change. We are in the midst of the sixth
extinction, and that includes the human
race. We cannot endure a President who
does nothing to stop the climate
Armageddon we are facing.
The only hope, yes, the only hope, is
that the Democratic Party will awaken
from its delusory fugue state in time.
If it refuses to take off its halo and
step down from the pulpit, obdurately
insisting that the fundamental issues of
our time are racism, sexism, transgender
rights, and the Me Too Movement, Trump
will walk away with the election hands
down, further reduce restrictions on
coal, and proceed to set the planet on
fire.
Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. is Associate
Professor Emeritus in Counseling
Psychology from Santa Clara University
and author of his forthcoming text on
climate change, Ecocide. He may be
reached at
www.collectivepsych.com
Moody's forecast: Trump will win 2020 election in
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