Before getting in what might be third rail proposals, it is paramount to build mutual respect, trust, and honest willingness to succeed.
America is in crisis: extremes are acting like an old couple who is falling apart because each party accrued a tremendous amount of resentments over time.
In such case, most of the time, paced interventions succeed (it takes time for both parties to acknowledge their own misdeeds and put back in prospective how much good accrued over time in comparison with how little can ignite an assured mutual destruction.)
When it comes to politics, it is noteworthy to know that opportunistic politicians have a knack to identify people’s resentments and exploit them to propel their career.
To understand why Fascism in America found its catalyst with Donald J. Trump, it is important to listen to what Donald J Trump said when he was elected.
A good document that sums up what drove millions of Americans to vote for Donald J Trump is his inauguration speech named “American Carnage”. The inaugural address aims at those “forgotten men and women of our country”. In other words, it aims at Americans who have resentments against the Washington establishment, and foreign countries who took away American wealth.
- Where are the resentments sourced:
o Constituents feeling unheard and abandoned by their representatives,
o For an important part of the population (mostly the non-college educated white population that feels left behind because its identity is not recognized and promoted), economic prospects have at best been stagnant,
o Shrinking manufacturing due to a lack of investment and automation,
o Public education in disarray not generating enough highly qualified high tech graduates on one hand, and generating a great number of low qualified graduates with reduced prospects for their future,
o Increasing economic disparities
- How have these resentments exacerbated?
o Since 2010, the business of politic has boomed for media (e.g. one major news cable network model is based on opinion pieces rather than actual news), consultants, lobbyists and fund raisers. It is a multi -billion dollars industry that looks more for sensationalism than just news reporting.
o Congress seems to be deaf to constituents’ demands,
o Savvy politicians created perfect scapegoats: immigrants and foreign countries allegedly taking advantage of the United States with the logical consequences of exacerbated xenophobic and nationalist agendas,
o Partisanship is now tribalism,
o The political class has in many occasions put down that same constituency by using charged words like “deplorable”, and “racists”. This created an irrational desire to blow existing social and political structures (the establishment),
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