What Happens After The Trump Years?

I lost interest in politics a while back.

Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better. I think I touched bottom with news and politics a while back.

Both major parties have had a hand in:

20 years of big US Dept. of Homeland Security spending. Now, more cartel product in Hometown, USA than ever before?

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Both major parties have had a hand in:

Decades of undeclared/unwon DOD wars. The US Dept. of Defense was established after WWII, in the late 1940s.

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?

The US Dept. of Defense spent the last 30 years squandering prestige and credibility overseas and at home.

If DOD was an NFL team, sports talk radio would feature comments like:

The Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911. We haven’t won a war since.

Both major parties have had a hand in:

The big US Armed Forces recruiting crisis.

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Understandable why young people & their parents & grandparents would take a dim view on all this.

The DOD brand has been wrecked.

Any college or pro football coach would have been fired a dozen times over for what DOD has done with the US Armed Forces during the fake GWOT era.

Will America support another draft?

Last time there was a draft, children were raised by the WWII generation, in families where Mom and Dad were married to each other.

Both major US political parties may be forced to downsize their ambitions for various overseas military operations. Things are slow over at the recruiting office.

Some may say it is time to bring back a draft.

They tried that during the Vietnam War. They found out they had to stop.

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Prediction:

The breaking point will come at the US Armed Forces recruiting office.

There is no WWII generation to encourage new enlistments like there was back in the Cold War era of the 1980s.

Decades of undeclared/unwon DOD wars is now the norm. Look and see if the new military aid package creates any wave of enthusiasm to sign up.

Freedom?

Both major parties have had a hand in:

Telling us that sending US troops to distant lands is for the purpose of defending American rights and freedoms.

The All Volunteer Force era has been a time to tell the American people that US troops are sent to distant lands to defend American freedoms. This urban legend has run its course. People have seen enough now to know this is no more than a marketing strategy. Uniparty newspeople play along by not asking questions:

The US should maintain strong and ready military forces.

In some cases, the US Armed Forces provide for our security. That’s as good as it gets.

In terms of American rights and freedoms- The Dept. of Defense has no more say than the Dept. of Agriculture.

Honest and meaningful ideas stand up to questioning and discussion. Has any newsperson ever challenged any elected official when they say US troops are sent to distant lands to defend American rights and freedoms?

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The country struggles with:

Cultural Honesty

CNN Nov 11, 2023

Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks

Sorry, no newspeople available to ask:

Mr President,

Going back to the 1990 Operation Desert Shield,

How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq?

Uncle Sam is having a hell of a time finding people to sign up for the US Armed Forces. Pretending that decades of undeclared/unwon wars are linked in any way with American freedoms is the kind of dishonesty that will snuff out the energy American families once had for encouraging young people to enlist.

Good luck with your US Armed Forces recruiting crisis.

Trump Years

Trump came on the scene because people grew tired of standard politicians and giant political parties. People also grew tired of the staged/scripted/made for TV debates crafted and agreed upon by the uniparty. People grew tired of being told that undeclared/unwon wars are for your freedoms.

Big Debate

I had also lost interest in these predictable, staged/scripted/made for TV debates crafted and agreed upon by the uniparty.

That was before Trump came on the scene.

Trump makes for good TV when almost anything can happen.

MSNBC

“President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will officially face off in their first debate of 2024 on June 27 following their public discourse Wednesday morning, leading to both candidates agreeing to a CNN invitation.”

MSNBC,

Between now and the first debate, please update us on decades of undeclared/unwon DOD wars and the position both major parties take on this.

Where will things go in the future, after the Trump years?

Both major parties will favor standard/more of the same politicians. People who show up to rock the boat (Ron Paul, Donald Trump, RFK Jr.) will be rejected by TV newspeople and the big political parties. Standard politicians will continue to provide messaging for Memorial Day.

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Voting is highly emphasized in American culture. Newspeople asking questions related to public policy takes a lower priority. The uniparty is good with this.

JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society: