TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It’s no secret: Trump is not the sharpest tool in the shed. His economic policies have proven disastrous. On his report card, Foreign Relations receives an F-. Trump is not a leader, as we learned during Covid-19. More than one million American lives were lost, while he told us, “it will just go away.” What is most obvious, but goes unreported by the mainstream media, is that Trump is a dictator. However, the New York Times recently talked to younger voters who voted for Trump in 2024. Asked to describe Trump’s actions over the last eight months, they called him “aggressive,” “overpowering,” and “reckless.” Mustafa, a 28-year-old Republican from Georgia, didn’t hold back. “The way that he’s been handling things recently, dictatorship,” he said. There is little remaining in the base for right-wing politicians. The group Trump and I belong to, septuagenarians, is dying off. Educated Americans reject Trump and his party. Trump is losing the support of rural voters....

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart [All governments are bad, some are just worse than others.] This was a line I heard about seventy years ago, and remains accurate to this day. I was born in the United States, and therefore I can only attest to my own country and how it treats or mistreats its people. However, people around the world are virtually the same and want the same things for themselves and their loved ones. I can tell you one thing without reservation: the quality and competence of America’s government has declined throughout my lifetime. Professional politicians have become focused on greed for great power and great wealth, and less interested in serving the people of our nation. Over the last nine years, the quality of those leading our nation has diminished to a level impossible to describe. A major cause for our government’s demise is clearly on the shoulders of the electorate. Voting for a party, and rejecting the most qualified candidates has given us men and women who are not on...