No, I don’t like politics at all. As a
matter of fact I dislike politics as well as politicians as a whole. To me,
politicians are just a whole bunch of shortsighted hypocritical animals that
only care about their own interest, not those who have elected them. I saw a
quote which to me is a very vivid and accurate description about the two: Politics
is just shit, and most politicians are just flies that survive in the shit (政治是一坨屎，政客大多都是屎裡求生的蒼蠅). What a great wisdom! My son used to be very interested
in politics at his early years of teenage and was even thinking to study
political science as his future career. What would be a waste of his time if he
really did so! But as I explained before, we treat our son as a good friend all
along and we never want to just force our wish into him by using the parents’
power. So I started to talk more about economics and finance with him in the
hope to direct him towards that career direction. Thanks God it worked and he
became more interested in economics and ended up studying economics and
business at UC Berkley/Hass for his majors.
So
why I bring this up now? Well, by now, you likely know I support Trump and you
probably would guess I’m a Republican. No I’m not but I think it may be some
interest to at least some folks out there to understand why I’m supporting
Trump and why I think the coming mid-term election is important for the country. As
I said, I have never liked politics as well as politicians and therefore have
never got motivation to participate in any election before. In my opinion the
US has been in a wrong path for too long and there is no way back but just a
matter of time that it will eventually lose its superpower status to become the
next United Kingdom or even worse in the long run. It is not one person’s or one party’s fault, but an collective and accumulative effect from decades long of
mismanagement in economy, politics and finance by both parties. It is no secret that I especially dislike the
ideology of the Left for their aggressive promotion of the socialism policies
that will only destroy the US faster. So I’ve been quite pessimistic about the
US future for years and to me it is not if but just when the reckoning day and
final fallout will come! Then suddenly came Trump 3 years ago.
Trump
has never been someone I like for his personality, to be honest. He used to be
a laughing target in our family whenever we saw not so good news about him or
watched his TV show “Apprentice”. So we laughed to death when he announced he
wanted to run for presidency. “What a joke!” we thought and didn’t pay any
attention to him initially. I don’t know exactly when things started to change
but I guess as the election campaign went on with Trump gaining more and more
momentum, I couldn’t help but started to pay more attention to him. As I
listened to his speeches more and more, especially the interview with Oprah 30
years ago in 1988 (you can watch here: Donald J.
Trump: The Long Road to the White House (1980 - 2017), I began to understand him more deeply. I was shocked
to see how consistent Trump has been over this 30 years period in understanding
the fundamental problems for this country and his ideas in addressing such
problems! I just don’t see this kind of persistence and tenacity in pursuing
one’s goal from any professional politicians! Putting aside the aspects in
personality and personal life, I suddenly realized that this was the man I’d
like to be the President of the US! While I certainly don’t mean to agree with
Trump on everything he says and does, there are key things unique to him that I
like very much: he is not a politician and does not behavior like a politician. When
he speaks, he speaks his mind directly without much hypocrisy typical for all
the politicians. He dares to challenge the status quo and is determined to make
changes to the country no other politicians dare to even talk about. He has the
gut to throw away the “political correctness” that has destroyed many great
initiatives good for the countries. But fundamentally to me, I think this
country needs a totally new type of President, someone really knows how to run
business and is aiming to create a business-friendly regulatory environment to
boost a strong and sustainable growth of the economy! While Trump was by no
means the type I like in terms of personality, I had a very simple way of
reasoning 3 years ago: if DEM candidate HC won and became the president, I
would know exact where the US would be heading: worse and accelerating! If
Trump won, there would be no guarantee he could change the country as he
promised but at least there would a 50% chance he could make it. I liked the
odds between the two and it was a no-brainer for me to go for Trump! Thanks
GOD, he did win!!
Well,
it has been two and half a years since Trump won the presidency. Here is how Trump has been going through: Virtually
all the major media having done everything they can to try to destroy this
president with universally and totally negative coverage with a lot of fake
news and fabrication stories. Trump gets no credit for reducing unemployment, cutting taxes, boosting growth, achieving a breakthrough with North Korea, defeating ISIS and standing up to the dictators in Syria and Venezuela. The list can go on for much longer. And then he constantly faces a lot strong resistance (100% from the
Left and also significantly within GOP) for fundamental changes pushed by
Trump. Nevertheless he has still managed to materialize one by one what he has promised before.
Incredibly he is almost religiously following his campaign promises as much as
he can. Tell me, have you ever seen any other presidents or politicians for
this matter who are serious about their campaign promises? None for me.
Politicians by nature are hypocritical and their promises are just meant to fool
people to get their ballots. And then they forget everything. That’s why Trump
is so unique, so much so that even the most prominent anti-Trump paper, The
Washington Post, has acknowledged that Trump
could be the most honest president in modern history! But as I said, I’m more interested in what Trump may
achieve in the economy. Well, virtually every data point we've seen in recent
months has shown the American economy is growing at its strongest pace in
years. Per Wall Street
Journal,
American employers had more than seven million
unfilled jobs for the first time on record this summer, reflecting a
historically tight labor market that is causing some businesses to struggle to
find workers.
There were a seasonally adjusted 7.136 million job openings on the
last business day of August, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That extends
further into record-high territory for data dating back to 2000.
Available jobs in August outnumbered unemployed workers actively
looking for work by 902,000, the largest such gap on record. Prior to March,
job openings had never exceeded unemployed workers in more than 17 years of
monthly records.
This one from the prestigious
The Investor’s Business Daily summarizes well about what Trump has done to
stimulate the economy: Sorry
Obama, But It's Trump's Economic Boom, Not Yours.
Needless to say, I’m happy
to support Trump and will continue to do so in the coming mid-term election as
well as the 2020 presidential election. I’m not that stupid to expect anyone
who has already made up their mind to change their mind just because what I
said here. But for those who may not have decided yet, I hope my little blog can
provide some food for thought. If you are more interested in a socialist
government, then by all means go for DEM. Just be aware the long term
consequences. This experiment has miserably failed in so many countries that have
tried, like Soviet Union, China, North Korea or more nearby Cuba or the worst
Venezuela. But if a strong capitalism country is more appealing to you, I hope
you could be convinced to join supporting the business-friendly President,
Donald Trump! He has proved he can deliver!!✊👊✌
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