Creating Carnage

THE WORD "CARNAGE" gained new notoriety, of sorts, early in the political career of D.J. Trump, when he described the economic circumstances of workers in America's former industrial heartland with that word. Over the past five decades, the "iron belt" of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and parts of other states has deteriorated and devolved into the "rust belt", abandoned factories creaking and rusting in the wind, overgrown with sagebrush ad weeds. Labor is cheaper overseas, and the billionaires know it, and exploit it, like everything else, including us. The jobs, the labor goes over there, the big money comes right back here, and into a few bloated, privileged bank accounts of the privileged class, our dear corporate masters. Workers continue their downwardly mobile descent into full time employed poverty, or go jobless, and their families, hungry. He (Trump) was, of course, quite correct in that deary assessment,if by sheer chance. Like one of my country friends said: "Sometimes, the old blind squirrel finds an acorn." Trump also correctly identified the real guilty party in the flight of America's industrial capacity and jobs overses to cheaper, more fertile markets; the corporations themselves, and people who own them, aka, billionaires. None of this nonsense about foreign countries, like the nefarious Chinese, "staling' American jobs" with H. Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound". Hell, every job which leaves America is lost diliberately, tossed aside by our corporate masters like cat litter to the garden. By telling the truth about this, Trump established himself as an enity capable at least in theory of speaking without prevaricating, but, alas, ultimately chose not to. He (Trump) then grandly promised, if elected president, to do something about the economic disaster, but, of course, never did, because really, no president can. Presidents can and do promise economic miracles, but canot and never deliver. Perhaps there will come a time when we the Amerian people dimly grasp if not comprehend this basic fact of life, economics, and politics, and will not help Trump get elected over Biden because inflation is above two percent. W'll just have to wait and see. And pray. Never underestimate the power of prayer. whether or not it has any. Our true governing masters, the corporate industrial financial complex, could help, but won't. The word "carnage" actually got Trump off to an auspicious start in his 2016 political career, and could have been parlayed into a positive, producitve career in political leadership, had Trump not gone astray, changed course, descended into acrimony, hatred, name calling, racism, and his now infamous crime spree, a crushing burden of indictments and pending trials. All that, at length, appealing as it seems to be for his MAGA base, will ultimtely, among the American people at large, prove a greater drag than buoy, and, it says here, bring about his election defeat 1i 2024, and ultimately, bring him down generally in life. Maybe send him to prison, or some extradiction free foreign country, like, say Guyana. IN the meantime, the carnage will continue, because that's what our corporate masters, and many of us will keep supporting a pathological liar and career criminal for president, because that, it seems, is what we want. Mr. Trump triumpantly returns as dictator, the MAGA mob screeches with adelpated adulation, the great carnival barker resumes has avalanche of lies and extreme far right fascism, just the way the mob wants it. Maybe its what we deserve.