U.S. sees shrinking influence, increasing pain in pocketbook from misguided federal policies
Editor:
When farmers can not afford to buy fertilizer and their bankruptcies are at all times high, people in this rural community have to know the cows are out the gate and going down the road.
Despite very clear warnings we are now into an era in which a few hundred mega billionaires and election denying politicians would rather burn the country down if it means they get ahead. I have seen the propaganda build for decades as voodoo economics and divisive political pandering became accepted articles of faith.
The Secretary of Energy Chris Wright admitted in testimony that the President knew oil prices (and profits) would go up if he went into Iran. The new nominee for the FDA sells aphrodisiac tinctures on TV.
Theft of public money is going without investigate and criminal and (terrorist) court cases lost as experienced FBI investigators and senior DOJ are either driven out or leave with middle finger salutes.
The man who spat on Obama’s Iran deal (not the best but working) just made a first offer to Iran which is much worse.
Our friends who have financed our budget (tax) deficits, are being treated like dirt while our enemies sneeze and we jump. They are findings ways to cope by starting new trading blocks which collectively dwarf our economy. That is permanent lost business.
This plot to break up our country is like a toilet flushing and is going to accelerate. Government by tweet is not government. It’s like dealing with someone in the early stages of dementia.
To remain a strong country we need to preserve our economy, our science, our universities, our health, our election system in which all could be elected and we could go to the polls without fear, our homeland security spends its time and resources defending from terrorism.
We can build back better but everything was either known or foreseeable by any leader (politician) worth their salt. People got gaslit like a deaf, dumb and blind monkey. I have friends who were that naive. But it’s a form of suicide to reelect leaders who participated, and still participate, in this gaslighting and destruction.
Massive turn out can still beat a stacked deck no matter how fast or underhanded the shuffle.
The danger is in not loving either your country or your future enough to stand up and shout.
Conrad F. Cropsey
Barre
