That the world's most powerful man tried and failed to disrupt the US system is a testament to its everlasting strength. Considering what the country has endured in 2020, it has been a stress test that has shown its strengths and weaknesses, and the process of improving the system will carry on unabated. Let there be no doubt that due process will always win in this country.
I agree and you know why already.
I have seen the great strengths of the system (esp apolitical) up close...politics is not everything.
That said, there need to be a reset by both sides to before 2012's decision by Obama to insert a litany of awful identity politics (that had never been done before) that accelerated lot of worst tendencies in an already aggrieved population.
Trump and Bernie are largely results of this phenomenon, people that would have been unthinkable in my earlier living memory (if you look at what the democrats thought of Bernie in the 90s, and what the republicans thought of Trump in the reform party after Perot's time).
This needs to happen, the establishment need to show they care about the people and not do the fake bridge-building....otherwise the volume and temperature does not dissipate well going forward....in fact it might only accumulate given what Biden and Harris represent to aggrieved folks (whatever their political "team" if they even have one).
But the huge problem is 3 fold:
A) the 4 trillion (and more) spent on a foreign warzone recklessly on some very dubious manufactured intel to say the least. The lives and psyche this has consumed cannot be underestimated.
B) this not being spent on US infrastructure and healthcare instead...especially given the shipping of jobs to China by PNTR and a big corporate promise for easy labour elasticity in the industrial belts that never panned out after looking good on paper.
C) This adding to the debt pile and kicking the can of all of this. The Clinton balanced budgets (inherited from Reagan era reforms) had just finally set in for a few years in the 90s...the debt/impact from Vietnam war finally looked to have a resolution....but 9/11 happened. As horrible as that tragedy was, the US should have focused on just one focused warzone with focused objectives.... but it let its ego run amok to one more and left all open ended.
This is what is polarizing people away from centrism along with the ridiculously biased cringey media in the US that seem to have gotten worse and "all-in" with some preservation of DC pedigrees and cannot just present things factually.
Trump is a warning sign of things to come (and largely a result of Obama's total dropping of the ball he promised to deliver) if the system doesn't get to work now in addressing the real problems involved here.
If I go any further, I'll enter tin foil hat theory with the Fed and IRS, so I will stop here.
