Political divisions, family and friends

 I don't believe I have ever given much background on myself on this blog. I have been fascinated by government since elementary school, got my Bachelors in Political Science, my Doctorate in Law and spent half my life in government. My political views are not defined by any party and I would describe myself in shorthand as a European style social democrat. I am also a strong believer in national sovereignty and despise monopolies while I appreciate managed capitalism. I stopped voting years ago; but, followed the last presidential election and hoped that either Trump or Sanders would win to shake up the establishment and get them to see how pissed people were after the financial crisis.

Since the 2016 election I have seen the establishment attempt to overturn democracy in the United States and have seen the media be complicit in this. I did not vote for Trump and don't plan on voting in this election either. The majority of my family and friends are conservative; but, they never attack me for my left leaning political views. At the same time, I cannot discuss my political views with my liberal family and friends because they have no tolerance for views that differ from the established Democrat talking points.

When people first began discussing Trump Derangement Syndrome, I thought it was a joke. I now know it is real. When people that think they are on the left start calling blacks for Trump white supremacist's or calling gays for Trump, homophobes. We have a problem.

I look around and read all news from all sides and am astounded. There are many who think that everything that is bad was caused by Trump. This is derangement and distracts from the real issues. I say, Trump, Muslims, Jews, gays, blacks, Mexicans, the homeless, junkies and the working class did not crash the economy, cause the housing crisis, create Covid 19, fix the financial markets or cause the market crash or get us into 7 wars.

In my posts I try to point to the real criminals are the international institutions and corporations that control the nations and their political leaders. Having said that, before we can begin addressing the real threats to this nation, we need to begin to have open dialogue and unfortunately I do not see that coming from the left. Below is an interesting video and kind of funny.