Three
Reasons to Consider All the Options
Reason
1: I do not believe that a higher level of incompetence in government can be
achieved than that which we experienced under President Joe Biden. He himself was asleep at the wheel. His Administration was thoroughly saturated
with simplistic ideologues that had either little or no experience in their
assigned fields, a very tenuous grasp on common sense and reality, or perhaps
both. Without a doubt, the Biden
Administration’s performance confirmed the occasional correctness of the old Henry
David Thoreau-attributed theorem “that
government is best that governs least”.
Donald Trump’s current Administration has the good fortune of entering
into office with perhaps the lowest Executive Branch bar of performance ever
established.
Reason
2: Ever since Obama first assumed the presidency on January 20 of 2009, our
government has been wandering in the wilderness. It has relied upon notions, whimsy,
foundationless principles, and shallow elected officials sans core values. Upon that fateful day in January, 2009, our
nation began a slow, painful, and shameful descent into dysfunction. The descent culminated in what was,
hopefully, the low point of the Biden presidency. Be he wrong or be he right, Donald Trump in
his second White House occupancy appears determined to take an approach to
government that is distinctly different from what we have experienced over the
last 16 years. What we were doing was not working.
It is time for a change.
Reason
3: Through its relatively-short life in this world, America has relied upon the
bedrock principles contained in its Constitution to survive trying and
tumultuous times. Beginning with the miraculous and successful fight for its initial
freedom from its mother country; to the anguished cleaving of itself into two
distinct parts during the Civil War; through feast, famine, epidemics, and global
conflicts that exacted heavy personal wages; and taking us up to the poisonous
political polarization that we find ourselves immersed in today…the United
States of America has endured. But
let us be real…the chicken little dramatists that populate our government, our
culture, and our society with their doomsday predictions of worst case
scenarios every time Donald Trump offers a position or policy are little more
than the clouds that have rolled across the skies of our nation since July 4,
1776. They have always been with us and
they always will be with us.
And
even though Trump oftentimes leads with his chin whilst doing battle with these
critics, the folly of making long-term predictions on short-term policies
should be ingrained upon our citizenry by this point in time. Every four years, we will elect a President. Every two years, we will elect approximately
one-third of the Senate. Every two
years, we will turn the House of Representative over completely. The one
thing that is undeniably true about our nation’s government is that it will be
transitory in nature. Our democracy
works in what is at times a painfully slow pace; but it nonetheless works. Joe Biden was a terrible choice for president
and we were saddled with that poor choice for four long years. But the magnitude of that error led to the
second election of Donald Trump…and a Republican Congress to support him. As never before in my lifetime, the true test
of this President and his Administration will not be the chaos displayed in the
means, but rather the real-life consequences arrived at in the end.
In
the links below, there are some excellent pieces that take informed,
deliberate, and thoughtful approaches to some of the major issues of our
times. In the context of the three
aforementioned reasons, it is revealing to consider how these areas of our
lives will play out over the next four years.
“THIS”
is the Trump approach to governing…
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/06/actions-v-words/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/a-roadmap-to-independence/\
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-border-crisis-is-over/
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/10/ten-tariff-questions-never-asked/
https://reason.com/2025/04/07/the-trump-administration-should-focus-on-deregulation-not-tariffs/
https://reason.com/2025/04/07/trump-columbia-free-speech-obama-biden-title-ix/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/taking-on-iran/
And
“THIS” is what Trump’s critics propose instead…
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/07/the-poverty-of-the-criticism-of-trumps-agenda/
The
ongoing battle to reestablish the Proper Balance between Our Three Branches of
government continues…
https://justthenews.com/videos/sen-chuck-grassley-shares-his-plan-reigning-activist-federal-judges
The
process of refocusing our National Education System on its primary and critical
functions continues…
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/09/why-schools-should-educate-for-citizenship/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/time-to-stop-university-mission-creep/
As
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” winds its way through Congress, the implications
of its Tax Reform features will greatly influence the future economic…and
general health of our nation. Federal
taxation is complex in its entirety, but rather simple in its individual parts. I believe the secret to arriving at a good
recipe is selecting the proper amounts of the essential elements. If there is too much of this…too little of that…put
this in…leave that out…then it just don’t work! It is almost as much art as it is science. Every single piece has a targeted impact to varying
degrees, but the combination of the pieces changes the entire dynamic. Here is an illuminating perspective on the
subject…
https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/introduction-principled-approach-tax-expenditures
For
all Americans, investing for the future is both a challenge and a
necessity. Here is a great article that
briefly and succinctly examines the Wisdom of Gold as such an investment
choice…
https://www.thefp.com/p/should-you-buy-gold
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