Philosophical Power
Trump on Ideas
Another family argument ensues, and I am stuck shaking my head. People, fed fear by all sorts of media, are selling stock and losing millions. Protests emerge with all sorts of vitriol, profanity, and hyperbolic language. Yet other investors are quietly buying stocks by the millions and will be rewarded in a few short months as the stock market recovers from panic selling. Macroeconomics is not a concept for most to understand, but I have, as I have read many ideas.
I have a degree in philosophy, and this was by accident. I like psychology, sociology, macroeconomics and law, but my ambition simply was not there. Eventually, I had enough credits in philosophy and was basically forced to graduate. But virtually all sources of media have no one who understands ideas. If I mention Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Sowell, John Calhoun, Machiavelli, or others, they will torch these thinkers without comprehension of what they have thrown away.
Nathan Bedford Forrest is so easy for scholars to trash, but his military prowess is top of the line military genius and still taught to this day. He did not create the Ku Klux Klan and was not a racist, but a severe pragmatist and supported Black civil rights. The KKK of the Reconstruction era was about addressing political rights, but it should be condemned for its violence and should be left to the 19th century. The reincarnations of the KKK are horrible and deserve full condemnation. I outline this to show Americans have the ability to separate ideas and morals accordingly and yet deliver results and solutions to problems.
Trump is a pragmatist and favors the best of American ideals, but to obtain results, he has to slam idealists and their contradictory ideals. Many think Trump is behaving as a dictator, but the US Constitution has a division of power as Montesquieu advocated and a Bill of Rights which define America as a place of ideas and peaceful assembly. The fear-mongering over Trump goes way too far. Also, can we please cancel the F-bombing? Trump is a century man of pragmatism. Not since Napoleon, William of Orange, or Oliver Cromwell has the world seen someone boldly push for reform.
I listened to Scott Voorhees on KFAB/iHeartmedia this morning as he reviewed what anti-Trump protestors had been saying. The protests took place in the Dundee/Fairacres area. I know this place well. They are very wealthy and progressively idiotic in thought but have no clue as to what is going on. I dismiss the protest as easily as a tissue full of snot. They bring nothing to the table for discussion.
President Reagan forced an end to the Soviet Union. Trump is forcing an end to Communist China. Why do I feel so alone in understanding this? Apparently, I am on the inside, looking out, but I really do not like what I see. Many seem to be suffering psychosis as to what is happening in the real world. Why, in the information age, are we not experiencing an elightenment era?
Just to say I agree with you on what Trump is doing. I don’t think the protesters maybe even know the good the tariffs can do but they just want to have something to vent their anger and hatred.
Well said. Americans have short memories, and society as a whole can only focus long enough to read headline. Because "thats all the news fit to print"