Trump Pokes Iran

[Jon-Erich]

SpokenTruth said:

Jon-Erich said:

She called roughly half of the voting population deplorable. You know, the people she needed votes from.

She called Trump supporters deplorable.  You know, the people that were already going to vote for Trump.  Unless you truly believe that while those people heavily supported Trump were secretly going to vote Clinton but then changed their mind when she called them deplorable.

Actually, I do believe that. Do you have any idea who many of these voters were? A lot of them were blue collar pro-union democrats from the rustbelt who don't strictly vote democrat or republican. They might have voted for Reagan in the 80s but then voted for Bill Clinton in the 90s. They typically vote for whoever caters to them and throughout the election cycle, Trump focused a lot more of his time on these people while Hillary Clinton spent most of her time campaigning to elitist democrats. There is a reason why Donald Trump ended up winning a bunch of states that Obama had won in 2012. Hillary Clinton openly insulted these people which is one of the most idiotic things I've seen a major presidential candidate do in my lifetime. Not only is it a stupid idea to insult half of the voting population, but it also made her look bad in eyes of many independent voters who hand't decided who they wanted to vote for. I guess getting caught cheating also didn't win her a lot of support either.

HylianSwordsman said:

Jon-Erich said:

No, Trump is many things but he is no Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un does what he wants and has those assassinated who don't back him. Government bureaucracy isn't that big of an issue in North Korea since one guy is in charge and he appoints everybody else to all the high positions and the Workers' Party of Korea isn't going to dispute Kim because they know better. Donald Trump on the other hand has enough trouble getting legislation passed even though his own party controls both the house and senate. I think he still hasn't filled all the positions in his cabinet. A lot of people have quit or have been fired from the White House over the last 18 months. Donald Trump quickly learned that running a bureaucratic government is not the same as running a business. In that sense, what's going on with Trump isn't really all that different than other modern US Presidents. However, one big difference is there is a geopolitical shift going on in the world right now, though it would have happened wether Trump was President or not.

The geopolitical shift is underway, but by no means does it have to mean the decline of western civilization, the rise of dictatorial powers, or the kissing up of western countries to said dictatorial powers.

In this geopolitical shift, we're going to see the US starting to back away from Europe and the Middle East while developing closer relations East Asia and probably Central and South America. Also, one of two things are going to happen. Either the US will improve relations with Russia while relations with China get worse or they're going to improve relations with China while relations with Russia get worse. I have a feeling that Trump may be gambling on Russia, which makes sense. If you don't have a problem with Russia, there would be no need to spends billions of dollars building up a NATO military presence along Russian borders. That would allow the US to use more of their resources in East Asia to counter China. With everything that has been going on over the last few years with both Obama and Trump being critical of NATO and with the sudden shift in US-North Korean relations, I think we're in the beginning of the biggest geopolitical shift since the end of the Second World War.