As the escalating situation with the Corona Virus, and Australian Fire Tragedy, indicates only too well, sometime, in the next four years, it is highly likely, that either a world weather event, or a world political event, or a world economic event, or world biological event (etc), will trigger so many subsequent, and nearly catastrophic, collateral effects, to things that affect the other three areas just mentioned, that the cascading waves of total, net disruption, will bring the world's economy to its knees. And whether that event starts here, or not (as you are already beginning to see), it will be just as devastating to our economy, and related institutions, and critical services systems, as it will be for everybody else; and perhaps even more so.

As such, and precisely because of the severity of the total, cascading effect, the national mobilization, that I have been suggesting we think about doing, before the crisis hits, will be forced upon us. And in that will be the virtually inescapable need for government to take over management of the economy, and insuring the re-establishment of some kind of social order.

Now ask yourself. Do you want a clearly disturbed individual, who throws tantrums, that a three year old would admire, every time he is told that power is supposed to have limits?

One who unabashedly covets, and admires, every brutal thug, and murderous dictator out there, and who no doubt wishes he could be our "Dear Leader." Just like Kim Jong-un?

Do you want that person to be in rightful possession (because this will be a very real emergency) of what will be an effective dictator, for as long as the dictator says it needs to continue?

Are you really, seriously, comfortable with that? Because if you are then I don't see how this country does anything but end up having itself torn apart, and the rest of the world, apart with it, and precisely because we're making enemies both of ourselves, as well as with seeming to provide so much of the rest of the world with cause to do the same to us; making us all the more vulnerable.

Just remember that this is the guy that has pressed the high jacking of construction funds that would have rebuilt the flooding devastation at Camp Lejeune (where working and living conditions were seriously compromised). Construction funds that might also be used to start addressing how our Navy is going to be able to service any of it's ships, much less build new ones, if most dry dock facilities are under rising sea levels. Doing all of this, naturally, because it's something that would make him look good, delivering on a really stupid campaign promise; because building walls does nothing to solve a very complex refugee problem.

Just remember that this is the guy who put on a child's triad because his Generals weren't ready enough go kill more people for oil. Which, of course, only people with gobs of money want to continue pursuing, at all costs; but in this case, to working people, almost exclusively.

Just remember that this is the guy gutting every protection, and investigative agency the government has. The very people who were supposed to protect us from bad things being put into the environment, and us. Who were supposed to let us know that bad actors, either in the economy, or government, at various levels, were ignoring reasonable intents to save lives, and resources, at the behest of the very rich entities they are supposed to be watching over. Watch over things so that they don't blow up on us regularly, or start major fire storms, or put more nasty chemicals in our drinking water, etc.

This is the guy you are going to trust if you let this happen. This is the guy you think will resist the time honored dictum of: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

If that's where a majority of you decide to put your trust then all I can say is that I am glad I am old, and not likely to be around a whole lot longer.

Images of the coronavirus threat

Images of the Australian fires

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