Blustery Donald Trump vs. The Quiet Christian
One appeals to fear and hate; the other just goes about his business to try to help humanity. This is their intertwined story.
One appeals to fear and hate; the other just goes about his business to try to help humanity. This is their intertwined story.
I don't understand how longtime Republicans have let a super-conservative, ultra-religious, anti-science, anti-education, anti-government, anti-fact fringe element take control of their party without managing so much as a murmur of disagreement.
Over six years ago this website made a simple prediction: as a result of the Fed's disastrous policies designed to make the rich richer beyond their wildest dreams, the US middle class - the growth dynamo behind America's economic power for over a century - is on its way to extinction.
Ryan does not think that Trump is advocating for conservatism. And Ryan does not think that Trump represents what the Republican Party stands for. But Ryan would back Trump for president of the United States. That mixed message, criticism followed by a commitment to support a "not what this party stands for" nominee, aids and abets Trump.
To Keynes in the early 1930s it was obvious that our capitalist economic system was not working, AND that it would certainly not "self-correct" without an enormous amount of unnecessary destruction and pain. Many millions were unemployed and remained unemployed while huge portions of the country's productive apparatus were sitting idle, producing nothing, providing no jobs. Clearly federal intervention would be required.