Trump, Visiting China

TRUMP'S VISIT TO CHINA is, for my money, a very good thing, irrespective of my personal opinion of Trump. Any harm he does can be undone, any good he manages to do benefits us all. The older I get the more I come to believe that communication is always beneficial, much better than no communication. A married couple yelling at each other, or two powerful, aggressive nations trying to preserve peach and prevent war, communications yields information, and communication facilitates better decisions and action. We humans can and should celebrate the unique beauty of the individual personality, which freedom of speech enhances, but we must always remain aware of the reality that any individual human, however intelligent and creative, is ultimately no more able to function properly without societal support than your average individual red ant. For Americans, rooting for president Trum, or any president to fail at anything is a no win proposition.While we may hope and work for his legislative an dpoicy agenda to be voted down and replaced by better ones, or at least a halfway decent one, whatever dealings Trump has internationaly on behalf of the United States, whatever actions he takes on our behalf, we must hope for their success, for our own sake. If trickle down economics suddenly, magically begins working well for the working class, although it never has before, all the better, bring it on. Truly, that would be amazing and miraculous to behold.That is precisely the situation we are in, like it or not. It is one thing to hope or work for the cancallation of Trump's ball room,it is quite another to hope that his visit to China fails to achieve positive results, only because it is the despicable Trump who is doing the visiting. Like it or not, everybody's fate is greatly influenced, impacted by in Trump's position, and those os us who despice him personally can root up one side and down the other for Trump to fail, but as long as he is president, his failures for the most part are indeed our failures. Opposing Trump's policies is not the same thing as hoping and working for their failure, for his failure. We must therefore hope that actions we disagree with do less harm and more good than we anticipate. Again,this is precisely the situation we are in, like it or not. His failures, to one extent or another, are our failures as a nation. In this vain, I hope, fore example, that Trump's cutting funds for education and medical research of all kinds helps the country, somehow, hard as it is to see how it possibly can. We can always restore this vital funding later, after Trump is gone, and we are going about the business of cleaning up the messes he has made and undoing what damage we can. If nothing else, surely we can restore our support, as a nation, for the arts and sciences, and education. Federal support for these is crucial for our future as a nation, as a culture. Critics of Trump point out the damage he has done and continues to do to the country in alienating America's traditional allies and hollowing out American culture from within, and in suberting and harming democratic processes. But at least he is visiting China, on behalf of us all, like it or not, and that's not all bad. All of these criticisms are perfectly valid and true, and must receive continued and constant attention. But when you consider how resiliently the United States has recovered from past harm, self inflicted or otherwise, you can almost begin to see the damage to America being done by Trump and MAGA as opportunity, the opportunity to weather the storm, and then, one fine day, to build back better.