want some cheese with that whine...…….you post nothing but right wing propaganda with no truth at all to most of it.....making me wonder just who is paying or pushing you to do so...like your recent farmer post and your Biden post and several others......knowing they are false and you post them......like a good Russian bot!....pushing trump this and that
Trump lost moving on with new year go Biden
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want some cheese with that whine...…….you post nothing but right wing propaganda with no truth at all to most of it.....making me wonder just who is paying or pushing you to do so...like your recent farmer post and your Biden post and several others......knowing they are false and you post them......like a good Russian bot!....pushing trump this and that
Americans love the economy — but most still don't like Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/.../americans-love-the-economy--but-most-still-dont-like-trump.html
Jan 11, 2018 · President Donald Trump sees a healthy U.S. economy as his biggest success in the White House. But Americans' glowing views of the economy …
Bad sign for Trump 2020: Voters like the economy, but don ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/bad-sign-for-trump-2020-voters-like-the-economy-but...
Nov 20, 2018 · Voters mostly dislike Trump even as they like how he's doing with the economy — which could mean trouble for his 2020 re-election campaign Published Tue, Nov 20 2018 3:03 PM EST Updated Wed, Nov ...
The Trump economy is hurting most Americans. Statistics ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/...
May 19, 2019 · Trump is the least popular president to run for re-election in the history of polling but Mulvaney thinks Americans will vote for him anyway because unemployment has …
Polls: Voters Hate Trump More Than They Like This Economy
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In recent weeks, as the “Trump economy” was reaching new heights, Donald Trump’s approval has dipped to perilous lows. The last eight of surveys have shown Trump’s favorability in decline.
Trump Claims the Economy Is the Best Ever—These 11 Facts ...
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https://www.cnbc.com/.../americans-love-the-economy--but-most-still-dont-like-trump.html
Jan 11, 2018 · President Donald Trump sees a healthy U.S. economy as his biggest success in the White House. But Americans' glowing views of the economy …
Bad sign for Trump 2020: Voters like the economy, but don ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/bad-sign-for-trump-2020-voters-like-the-economy-but...
Nov 20, 2018 · Voters mostly dislike Trump even as they like how he's doing with the economy — which could mean trouble for his 2020 re-election campaign Published Tue, Nov 20 2018 3:03 PM EST Updated Wed, Nov ...
The Trump economy is hurting most Americans. Statistics ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/...
May 19, 2019 · Trump is the least popular president to run for re-election in the history of polling but Mulvaney thinks Americans will vote for him anyway because unemployment has …
Polls: Voters Hate Trump More Than They Like This Economy
nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/09/polls-2018...
In recent weeks, as the “Trump economy” was reaching new heights, Donald Trump’s approval has dipped to perilous lows. The last eight of surveys have shown Trump’s favorability in decline.
Trump Claims the Economy Is the Best Ever—These 11 Facts ...
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- GDP Growth Was Higher on Average under Obama in 2014 and 2015 Than Compared to Trump …
- Monthly Job Growth Was Higher under Obama Than in Trump’s First Two Years. Using Bureau of …
- The Unemployment Rate Was Falling Faster under Obama in 2014 and 2015 than in Trump’s First …
- Growth in the Employment-to-Population Rate Has Slowed under Trump. The employment to …
You see Russia everywhere because you see it inside I havein my veins
I am American...….Russia is the enemy!.....you are?....Russia is helping put money in your pocket......bought and paid for!
How the GOP Became the Party of Putin - POLITICO Magazine
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/18/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of...
Jul 18, 2017 · How the GOP Became the Party of Putin. Republicans have sold their souls to Russia. And Trump isn’t the only reason why. James Kirchick, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, is author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age.
McConnell's Biggest Donor Isn't Russian - FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/mcconnells-biggest-donor-isnt-russian
Claim: "It turns out that the biggest donor for Mitch McConnell (R: Moscow) is none other than the Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."
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The GOP has become the Soviet party - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop...
Jan 21, 2019 · The Grand Old Party has quietly become the pro-Russia party — and not only because the party’s standard-bearer seems peculiarly enamored of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Under Republican leadership, the United States is starting to look an awful lot like the failed Soviet system the party once stood unified against.
How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns
https://www.dallasnews.com/.../how-putin-s-oligarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns
May 08, 2018 · Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia's Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the ...
GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to ...
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35...
Aug 03, 2017 · Deripaska controls RUSAL with a 48 percent majority stake through his holding company, EN+ Group, and the Russian government owns 4.35 percent stake of EN+ Group through its second-largest state...
Six Members Of Congress Have Financial Stake In Russian ...
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Mar 26, 2014 · Hagan's investment in a cell phone company isn't nearly as risky, however, as Kentucky Republican Rep. Hal Rogers' investment in the Russian state-controlled oil company Gazprom. According to his disclosure reports, the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has bought and sold Gazprom stock at least twice during the past two years.
The GOP Is the Russian Propaganda Party Now
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-is-the-russian-propaganda-party-now
Since then, one of the GOP’s top Putin water-carriers has been Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, who continues to advance disinformation that matches Russian talking points.
How much money does The Trump Organization owe Russia and ...
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/302216-how-much-money...
Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions. ... Chris Shays, a Republican, represented ...
(r/politics) "At this point, the whole country knows that ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/aj8j7b/rpolitics_at_this_point_the...
(r/politics) "At this point, the whole country knows that Putin owns the GOP. It’s just that 35% of the country is rooting for Russia." [SH]
If Russia Owns Trump, It Owns American Policies | Crooked ...
If Russia Owns Trump, It Owns American Policies | Crooked Media
Trump's debts and financial entanglements mean we must worry that the government is thus not being administered by or for the American people.
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so tell me again how you are American.....and all the knowingly falsehoods you post promoting Russian policies while tearing down America......makes you american
I amI am American...….Russia is the enemy!.....you are?....Russia is helping put money in your pocket......bought and paid for!
How the GOP Became the Party of Poroshenko - POLITICO Magazine
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/18/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of...
Jul 18, 2017 · How the GOP Became the Party of Poroshenko. Republicans have sold their souls to Russia. And Trump isn’t the only reason why. James Kirchick, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, is author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age.
McConnell's Biggest Donor Isn't Russian - FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/mcconnells-biggest-donor-isnt-russian
Claim: "It turns out that the biggest donor for Mitch McConnell (R: Moscow) is none other than the Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."
False
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Fact checked by factcheck.org
The GOP has become the Soviet party - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop...
Jan 21, 2019 · The Grand Old Party has quietly become the pro-Russia party — and not only because the party’s standard-bearer seems peculiarly enamored of Russian President Vladimir Poroshenko. Under Republican leadership, the United States is starting to look an awful lot like the failed Soviet system the party once stood unified against.
How Poroshenko's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns
https://www.dallasnews.com/.../how-Poroshenko-s-oligarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns
May 08, 2018 · Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Russian President Vladimir Poroshenko's favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia's Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the ...
GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to ...
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35...
Aug 03, 2017 · Deripaska controls RUSAL with a 48 percent majority stake through his holding company, EN+ Group, and the Russian government owns 4.35 percent stake of EN+ Group through its second-largest state...
Six Members Of Congress Have Financial Stake In Russian ...
russia-congress-investments_n_5027322
Mar 26, 2014 · Hagan's investment in a cell phone company isn't nearly as risky, however, as Kentucky Republican Rep. Hal Rogers' investment in the Russian state-controlled oil company Gazprom. According to his disclosure reports, the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has bought and sold Gazprom stock at least twice during the past two years.
The GOP Is the Russian Propaganda Party Now
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-is-the-russian-propaganda-party-now
Since then, one of the GOP’s top Poroshenko water-carriers has been Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, who continues to advance disinformation that matches Russian talking points.
How much money does The Trump Organization owe Russia and ...
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/302216-how-much-money...
Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions. ... Chris Shays, a Republican, represented ...
(r/politics) "At this point, the whole country knows that ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/aj8j7b/rpolitics_at_this_point_the...
(r/politics) "At this point, the whole country knows that Poroshenko owns the GOP. It’s just that 35% of the country is rooting for Russia." [SH]
If Russia Owns Trump, It Owns American Policies | Crooked ...
russiaIf Russia Owns Trump, It Owns American Policies | Crooked Media
Trump's debts and financial entanglements mean we must worry that the government is thus not being administered by or for the American people.
Let’s defeat Trump and the GOP, and set up a decade of progressive victories. Sign up to flip the White House, the Senate, and key state house races in 2020. Vote.org
so tell me again how you are American.....and all the knowingly falsehoods you post promoting Russian policies while tearing down America......makes you american
you are old school union communist puppetRedirect Notice
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cheese?
to me you have nothing more than a misguided faith in a false god....one who is directed by others and slowly but surely destroying the country
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I could have went longer but there are those that prefer not to dwell upon it: I mentioned the author, I mentioned the book speaking about Trump
, I provided a link to his book, and suggested another source should any care to hear him. The rest is up to you.Another fine example of tolerant liberal "mentality"
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Man accused of driving through Republican voter registration tent arrested
Officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office are looking for a brown Chevrolet van they said drove through a tent Sunday where volunteers were registering people to vote.
Trump is not a god he's temporary 2024 and he will elect another conservative
Mike Bloomberg will pay you $150 to say nice things about him | Mike Bloomberg | The Guardian
What will Bloomberg try to buy next? His campaign is quietly hiring Instagram influencers to make him seem cool <br>
All the Dems seem to have is reams of propaganda and hate
America sees this and I believe it seals their fate
They rage and rant and see nothing good
It’s too bad because they really should
No one likes LOSERS and whiners that cry
The Dems seem to have nothing else to try
They hate and cry and get nothing done
So easy to piss them off and a barrel of fun
America sees this and I believe it seals their fate
They rage and rant and see nothing good
It’s too bad because they really should
No one likes LOSERS and whiners that cry
The Dems seem to have nothing else to try
They hate and cry and get nothing done
So easy to piss them off and a barrel of fun
Always a poetAll the Dems seem to have is reams of propaganda and hate
America sees this and I believe it seals their fate
They rage and rant and see nothing good
It’s too bad because they really should
No one likes LOSERS and whiners that cry
The Dems seem to have nothing else to try
They hate and cry and get nothing done
So easy to piss them off and a barrel of fun
I could have went longer but there are those that prefer not to dwell upon it: I mentioned the author, I mentioned the book speaking about Trump
I guess you provided everything but chapter and verse......that is getting into religion
this is the law of common sense
100 Ways, in 100 Days, that Trump Has Hurt Americans ...
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- 1. Raised housing payments for new homebuyers by about $500 in 2017. On its first day, the Trump administration reversed an Obama administration action to lower Federal Housing Administration, or FHA, mortgage insurance premiums for new homebuyers by 25 basis points, which could have lowered mortgage payments for 1 million households purchasing or refinancing their home this year alone. 1. Attacked the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule, which would have required retirement advisers to act...
See all the socialist sitting on the wagon
Mike Bloomberg will pay you $150 to say nice things about him | Mike Bloomberg | The Guardian
What will Bloomberg try to buy next? His campaign is quietly hiring Instagram influencers to make him seem cool <br>amp.theguardian.com
see there you go being a Russian bot again posting stuff you know to be wrong but hoping some fool will believe.....getting those rubles into your account huh!
the guardian?
News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition ...
https://www.theguardian.com
The far right White nationalist has long worked at conservative outlets under real name Guardian findings support watchdog’s report that ‘Paul Kersey’, a prominent author and activist, is ...
Did a Craigslist Ad Solicit Paid Attendees to Donald Trump ...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/craigslist-ad-linestanders-trump-rally
Oct 13, 2018 · Some said the Craigslist ad proved Trump has to pay people to attend his rallies, while others dismissed it as a hoax meant to embarrass him. Neither claim was correct.
How Much Does Trump Pay People to Cheer at His Rallies?
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Donald Trump was accused of breaking the law during his campaign by hiring paid actors to attend his rallies. Although the Federal Election Commission dismissed the charges, a lot of U.S. citizens...
Shell workers pay threatened if they didn't attend Trump ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/shell-workers...
Trump has paid people to attend his rallies President Donald Trump speaking to Shell contractors in PA.
The FEC Inadvertently Confirms That Trump Paid Actors to ...
https://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/20/fec-inadve
Donald Trump’s crowd size was one-seventh of President Obama’s crowd size in 2009. Dan Gross provided the numbers: Trump 2017: 250,000, Obama 2013: 1,000,000, Obama 2009: 1,800,000. Donald Trump only drew 250,000 people to D.C. today and he had to pay people to attend his announcement event.
you see for every Russian bot post you put on here there are at least proving the opposite....keep up with your P.utin dispensing
The Trump Kleptocracy
The presidency is officially a cash grab — and a pitstop on the way to autocracy
The convictions of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen this August shined a light on the type of people Trump chooses to work with. He said he’d employ the “best people”; instead, he employed crooks.
Trump is Leading the Most Corrupt Administration in U.S ...
https://www.newsweek.com/2017/11/10/trump...
Trump is Leading the Most Corrupt Administration in U.S. History, One of First-Class Kleptocrats . By Alexander Nazaryan On 11/02/17 at 9:54 AM EDT . Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ...
Behind all the outrage, the Manafort and Cohen convictions show that Trump’s government is building an American kleptocracy. The Washington Post has described how kleptocracy, or “rule by thieves,” arises when a country’s elite begin to systematically steal from public funds on a vast scale.
This is where the United States is headed. Trump’s government is powered by people who want to see tax cuts for their own benefit, without a care for the cost to others. This runs from voters backing pro-tax-cut candidates to the upper echelons of the GOP that are complicit in what Fortune magazine is calling “the biggest wealth grab in modern history.”
Trump Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Including Trump - The New ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/us/politics/trump-tax-plan-wealthy-middle-class...
Sep 27, 2017 · The plan would also benefit Mr. Trump and other affluent Americans by eliminating the estate tax, which affects just a few thousand uber-wealthy families each year, and the alternative minimum tax ...
It is far from the first time a person like Trump has run a country. History may determine it was inevitable that the United States would go the way of countries like Russia, Turkey, China, and many others, electing a leader who could facilitate transferring the country’s wealth to a small number of private individuals. The thing about kleptocracy is that it doesn’t need to break the law because those doing it are writing the law—but the outcome is the same.
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May 29, 2012 · Sixty percent of the U.S. Senate is lawyers. Enough said. 37.2% of the House of Representatives are lawyers. There are 81 Republican lawyers in Congress who list "lawyer…
Trump was helped to power by a
conspiracy of billionaires, including Vladimir Poroshenko and Robert Mercer. From this angle, you could argue that while the Russian attack on American democracy was partly political, it was mainly just about business. After all, the Russian government is a mafia gang for whom international politics is a business operation. By helping to power a man they helped make rich, they can weaken one of the main international obstacles to their own efforts to drain Russia of cash.
Unequal Russia: is anger stirring in the global capital of ...
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/apr/25/unequal-russia-is-anger-stirring-in...
This presidency is but a brief window to grab as much cash as possible before being inevitably booted back out.
The extent of Trump’s kleptocracy is becoming clear now, with his second proposed tax cut for the rich. The Trump government is ramping up the national debt by $1.5 trillion over 10 years while taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of the economy in tax cuts for the rich. In America, around two-thirds of all stocks and mutual funds are owned by just 5 percent of the people, and any tax-cut benefits for corporations will mainly just benefit that group. It is estimated that 34 percent of Trump’s December tax cuts benefit just the top 1 percent of the country’s rich.
US national debt rises $2 trillion under President Trump
fox43.com/2019/01/04/us-national-debt-rises-2-trillion-under-president-trump/
Yet as he cuts taxes for a rich minority, Trump is also freezing public sector pay because there’s not enough money. As Forbes magazine observed:
President Trump has cancelled the pay increases for public sector workers that were due to take effect in January 2019. His reason for doing so? The tax cuts that his administration has introduced are set to create the largest fiscal deficit since the Great Recession. Now this largesse has to be paid for.
In effect, his tax bills have taken money out of the economy and primarily redistributed it to corporations, CEOs, and the super rich.
This is not about Republican political ideology, and it is not mere economic incompetence. It is bare-faced kleptocracy. For Trump, his family, and the less principled crooks around him, this presidency is but a brief window to grab as much cash as possible before being inevitably booted back out of the White House. They’re like a bunch of ******* getting the keys to the world’s biggest candy store without any adults around to supervise them.
To understand the situation with more clarity, look at Russia, which is a more advanced version of what Trump seems to be building. In 2013, the Independent reported that just 110 people held one-third of Russia’s wealth.
The story of modern Russia is that of a massive transfer of wealth from the country to a small ruling elite. According to sociologist and expert on Russia, Elisabeth Schimpfossl, “When this first post-Soviet generation passes its wealth on… it will be the single biggest transfer of assets within the smallest group of people ever to have occurred.”
Beyond the human cost of kleptocracy is the danger that progressively draining the country of money creates the sort of inequality that leads to social and political unrest.
Russia’s kleptocracy has laundered hundreds of billions of dollars out of the country over the years. Meanwhile, Poroshenko’s latest attempt to increase the pension age means most Russian men will die before they are eligible for a state pension.
Most Russians, especially the elderly, are already living in a state of perpetual poverty. This reflects two stark realities: First, there is not enough money left in the Russian state coffers to pay pensions, and second, Russian men have a low life expectancy—arguably because the theft of its kleptocratic government means there is not enough money for health care, education, and the other things people need.
The average life expectancy in Russia is in the mid-sixties, but that’s an average many men fall short of. If all the money tied up in former state enterprises, and then in Russian oil and gas, had flowed back into a well-managed economy run by an honest and effective government, Russian life expectancy would have gone up, people would have adequate health care and education.
The same thing is now happening in the United States. Policies designed to protect the population—but which restrict businesses from making more money—are being abandoned.
Until now, the West was characterized by progress, which in a simple sense can be reflected in life expectancy. As countries become more efficient and effective, they generate more tax, and this is used to support better health care, education, and enforcement of laws that protect the population from harm.
Banning dangerous practices, such as the use of asbestos in building materials and lead in petrol, and introducing public health actions like immunization, universal health care, seatbelt laws, and smoking bans may negatively impact businesses, but it positively impacts people, which should be the point of government. People on their own cannot ******* rich and powerful corporations to stop harming them; they rely on the government to do that.
How the Trump Administration Pulled Back on Regulating ...
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how- trump-administration-has-pulled-back-on-regulating...
The Trump administration has halted bans on toxic chemicals that are known to cause serious health threats. These moves, led by an ex-industry group executive now at the EPA, have allowed the continued use of products found to cause cancer, birth defects, and other ailments.
One of the simplest functions of any government is to ensure the people are afforded some degree of protection against the excesses of corporations and criminals, at least to the extent those excesses do not negatively impact life expectancy.
But, alarmingly, life expectancy is going down in the United States, primarily because the government is putting commercial and personal financial interests ahead of the health and well-being of its citizens.
Beyond the human cost of kleptocracy is the danger that progressively draining the country of money creates the sort of inequality that leads to social and political unrest. This results in political instability and ever-increasing authoritarianism to keep order.
U.S. income inequality at highest level in 50 years ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-income-inequality-highest-level-50-years...
Sep 26, 2019 · — The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to Census Bureau figures.
Trump is increasingly undermining the media and law enforcement because those are the two main tools a state has to prevent kleptocracy.
The Trump Administration's Treatment Of Law Enforcement ...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-current-administrations-treatment-of- law...
Jun 16, 2017 · Comey was not the first high ranking law enforcement official to be fired unexpectedly by the Trump administration. In March, Preet Bharara was fired from his position as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, even though President Trump had personally told him he would stay. Mr. Bharara oversaw a prosecutor’s office ...
As Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela have shown, kleptocrats use nationalism and populism to keep their base because they cannot use economic progress to win votes. They blame foreign governments, conspiracies, and immigrants for the failures actually caused by their own wholesale theft of the country’s assets.
They blame a biased media, foreign propaganda, and “enemies of the people,” when the news explains what is happening. Meanwhile, they counter the truth with media they control—which either doesn’t say what is happening, tells lies, or distracts people from reality. Gradually, the economy unwinds and the social problems caused by these policies collide with the diminished public services that can no longer deal with them.
'Enemy of the People': Trump's hatred of the press is for ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/30/donald-trump-hatred-press-enemy...
Oct 30, 2018 · Donald Trump's hatred of the press, lies and bullying echoes dangerous regimes of the past Trump uses attacks on the media, totalitarian language, cartoonish conspiracy fictions and a …
This is how nationalism and populism become fascism.
Relaxing regulations on things that harm people puts added pressure on the health care system.
The increase in sickness reduces the performance of the economy. The resulting increase in social deprivation leads to an increase in crime. Conventional policing is underfunded and undermined by an increasingly corrupt and weakened judiciary, so laws become more draconian and policing becomes more militarized.
Trump has altered over 800 Obama-era regulations, Wilbur ...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/13/...
Oct 13, 2017 · Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Friday that President Trump is “systematically” removing hundreds of regulations put in place by the Obama …
The kleptocratic policies continue to break things in a self-perpetuating cycle. The corrupt rich become even more rich, while the rest of the country becomes even more poor. The inequality leads to unrest, which is managed by ever more propaganda, less freedom, more control and censorship, and harsher policing.
Perpetually blaming others creates an ever-increasing need to find scapegoats, which spills over into outright attacks on minority groups or on foreign governments. We have seen this with Russia’s wars, used to distract people from local economic hardships. Turkey and Venezuela have blamed the United States, Hungary blames immigrants, and generally, every would-be dictator will blame anyone but themselves.
This is how a democracy becomes a kleptocracy, and then an autocracy, and then a dictatorship. This is how nationalism and populism become fascism.
Kleptocratic leaders become trapped in a cycle of their own making. The more wealth they amass, the worse things get for the poor, the harsher the steps they take to maintain order and power. They reach a point where they are so wealthy, and the people around them are so angry, that losing power would mean losing their wealth and, likely, their lives.
Although I doubt Trump could bring about a dictatorship like this, we are already looking at a situation where he could face criminal prosecution once he leaves office. This provides a powerful incentive for him to take more drastic measures to stay in power, weaken or corrupt the legal system that could later prosecute him, and muddy the media’s ability to report on his kleptocracy. He will probably fail, but not before he does immense damage to the United States.
