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Slimebeast on 19 February 2017
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Scoobes said:
Slimebeast said:

1. Hopefully control on immigration in America, but more importantly he opens up for a new type of wide-scale attitude of scepticism all over the West towards immigration and multiculturalism.

2. His talk about fake news is brilliant. It doesn't matter if Trump doesn't always handle the truth in an optimal way as long as he is raising awareness among the masses that traditional media has a leftist agenda and always lie about facts and they smear their opponents.

3. He will change the international landscape, by questioning Nato and the EU. Hopefully it's a threat against the Soros-Hollande-Merkel hegemony, and against all the media who support that globalist ideology and system. Hopefully Trump will withdraw USA away from meaningless foreign conflicts, and that will change the leftist narrative that USA is causing all the conflicts in the third world, conflicts that are put on the shoulders of the Western man to solve, even on the shoulders of schoolchildren in my country Swedistan!

These are quite general rather than concrete policies but:

1. The US already has some of the strictest immigration controls in the Western world and there has been no evidence that further controls were neccessary. The wide-scale scepticism of immigration was already on the rise even in areas where it didn't warrant it (places with the lowest levels of immigration). 

2. His talk on fake news is hypocritical when he regularly cites fake news or makes up facts as long as it confirms his own biases. I also disagree that traditional media has a leftist agenda. All media has an agenda, but it's not neccessarily leftist. In the UK, the publications that have the widest circulation are pre-dominantly right-wing (ironically, one of them recently got banned from wikipedia for being inaccurate). Fox news has huge coverage in the US and is also pre-dominantly right-wing. I know in Sweden it's likely the opposite as it's generally a left-leaning country but by no means is traditional media pre-dominantly leftist. 

I would also argue that if he's that worried about media agenda that he should introduce education policies that would favour greater and analytical scrutiny of the media in schools, colleges and also training courses for adults. Instead he peddles his own lies instead of creating concrete policy proposals to change the situation. 

3. I don't see any evidence of Trump pulling away from conflicts and a lot of his rhetoric is helping fuel ISIS propaganda which will only extend the conflicts the US is already involved in. He's a businessman first and if there are resources that can be secured via conflict then I think he would jump straight in.  

His bullying tactics with Nato are also unlikely to work as many of the countries already had timetables to increase Nato spending. I also don't see him having much influence in the EU. Any further breakdown in the EU will only really happen because of the EU itself. 

1. This can't be serious. Why is the left outraged by the building of a wall then? The outrage all over the world about Trump's racist policies.

The truth is that Trump has brought up immigration on a completely new level in the public debate, all over the West. Without even actually changing any concrete policy yet.

2. Give me a break. Fox news alone against CNN, NBC, New York Times, Washington post, Hollywood.

And it would be hard to reform the school system like you propose. Schools and universities are infiltrated by leftist propaganda since the 1960's, not just in America but all over the West. The education system is the main outlet for socialist brainwash.

3. We will see what happenes, but I'm hoping for a more dynamic landscape in world politics thanks to Trump. I'd rather at least have the chance, than a guaranteed status quo.