Trump is the earthquake, shaking up the foundation of our country.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

And I'm going to give him some kudos for this because we needed to be shaken up and out of our complacency.

Even though the guy is making my hair turn gray quickly, and even though he turns my stomach and gives me headaches, he's shaking the foundations of our political atmosphere.

My hope is that something good will come from all this turmoil. If nothing else, Trump and his administration is/are going to make so many people so angry that there is going to be a revolt, the likes of which our country has never seen.

And we, the people, are going to demand responsibility for our public servants in Wash DC and also around the country.

Whatever the politicians in power try to do to make it easier for the 1% and harder for the rest of us average guys in our country, I hope the revolt is LOUD and clear. And it's brewing, make no mistake.

Clean up your mess of what you call politics or out you go! We aren't kidding this time.

(Rant over)

I agree that the (pre-Trum) long term trajectory of the US was not stable. But I disagree that anything good is going to come out of it, now or in the distant future. If we do end up in a better place as a nation or planet, it will be in spite of Trump, not because of him.

If America is a big, old house, with feuding inhabitants and a lot of bad structural problems that are catching up, then Trump is the drunk who is planning on burning the place down so he can collect the insurance money. (And did I mention that winter is coming and he's picked fights with all the neighbors?)

If what we hope for is responsible governance or a population invested in the political process, then despair, Trump represents the exact opposite.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

At the very least, I'm glad this administration has gotten people interested in politics again. Hopefully people will continue to realize that the Republicans are selling a bill of goods. They stand for two things: short term corporate profits and unsustainable growth. The Democrats have their own problems, but at least they don't see basic regulations as the devil.

I often find myself picturing the two parties using a kind of shorthand.

The Dems want to continue the (unequal, problematic, broken) American capitalist system. They're smart enough to realize that dead or revolting peasants ruins the whole thing, and they're content to give the public enough to keep it mostly healthy and happy while the 1% live their lives of parasitic luxury.

The GOP, on the other hand, have been reduced to cartoon villainy. They'll  will destroy everything as long as they walk away from the ruins  with a hoard of gold, and either doesn't care what problems they're creating, or figure that they can fix anything by throwing some money at it.

Both sides have different ideologies they support because they're useful,  but the above appears to be what their end goals are.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I'm sure you might like him if you met him.

After he grabs my pussy shakes my hand, we can share a cool, refreshing spiked drink and discuss what plans he has next for screwing over working class Americans.

Don't be ridiculous. Trump doesn't plan to screw over working class Americans - he just intends to benefit himself, people he knows, and people whose goodwill he values (i.e. billionaires). That the vast majority of Americans will end up suffering because of what he does is something he does not care about, not something he actively plans for.

Heck, given how incompetent he is, we should hope he plans to screw us over. We'd probably get a better outcome that way.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Good. We need it. I think he represents why I've been so out of touch and nostalgic since I was a young kid. I started watching news when? 1993? 1994? That's right around the time of the "globalization" everyone talks about.

I used to wonder "What changed?" and I hear from older people how there used to be more freedoms, less rules, less policies, less restrictions. It seems like the world, for a guy like me, used to be a much better place. If he's the guy to rip the new butthole to all these globalist elites, that is a very good thing.

Teens in High School used to drive during lunch to get McDonalds. Try doing that now and it's like a school-lockdown policy. People used to smoke in waiting rooms, even into the early 90s. Now I'm told I can't (literally) cross a line in the waiting room with a CUP OF COFFEE. A cup of coffee.

Who makes these rules? Who are these freaks? It's time to find them and put them in their place. Trump terrifies them because they've tried to create this world, and people hate it and are rebelling and he's the ultimate threat to it.

It's the angry good guy outrage from films like Falling Down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9IMyP85Ko

What an directionless amalgamation of words.

Speaking of Our Duly-Elected Fearful Leader, here's the AP's transcript of his interview in the Oval Office last Friday:
https://apnews.com/c810d7de280a47e88848b0ac74690c83