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| Pandemic Opportunities Arise for Trump but Will He Take Them? |
| 2020-04-27 |
| [Strategic-Culture] The Coronavirus Pandemic much like any crisis, in a political sense, opens the doors for new opportunities. It seems as though governments cannot make major changes without a strong boot in the rear from some set of rough circumstances. Like it or not, political action requires a catalyst. Trump, the man who dreamt of Making America Great Again now has the big overarching excuse he needs to push his agenda onto the nation, but the question is just how can the President of the United States use this pandemic to his advantage? Firstly, it is important to note that there is nothing inherently morally evil in exploiting a crisis for political gains, unless you were the one who created the crisis in the first place. Again it cannot be understated, crisis is the catalyst for sweeping political action, and we shouldn’t blame anyone for striking while the iron is hot. Most people who do all the loud virtue signaling about tragedies being exploited by politicians seem to always go silent when the exploitation serves their interest. Let’s all put on our big boy pants and accept that politicians, can, will and probably should use opportunities from dark days so long as they were not the ones who darkened them in the first place. The same people who yesterday argued for an open world with no borders are the same ones who will beg for totalitarian levels of protection to "save" their lives from even the most minor of threats. This is probably why the heavy restrictions on international travel that are being put into place have so far met little to no resistance. 2020 feels like a trip back in time to a far less globalized and more local world that seems to have arisen at least semi-willingly. In this context, now is the perfect time for Trump to attack illegal immigration and migrant workers. Migrant labor is often very damaging to the host country, and is more often than not, also bad for the migrants themselves. It undercuts the cost of labor making locals lose their jobs only to have them given to an exploitable/expendable group of people to do them like slaves. This also allows the governments of the nations they came from to continue their sloth and ineptitude as their young/active populace has a means of finding work elsewhere and not fighting for change at home. This a lose/lose situation and Trump knows it.... |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #7 He should get together with other western democracies and create a replacement for the WHO. Consider other tasks currently done by the UN and look into creating replacements so that we can starve the UN of funds without missing a beat on anything truly useful they *might* actually do. With all of that he should find any holdovers from the last administration and purge them. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2020-04-27 21:57 |
| #6 So to the point of the article, Trump does have some opportunities to exercise when he isn't battling reporters aimlessly. Like reorganizing charters of the cabinet. Health and Human Services has a lot of overlap with Housing and Urban Development. I would propose Housing and Human Services, then all things medical under The Department of Health to include anti-health issues like bad/poor food, smoking, diet management, air pollution, etc. The EPA should spread across Dept of Energy and Dept of Transportation. Scream if you like but one of the problems is caused by the mixed messaging. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-27 12:54 |
| #5 Was it "evil" for someone to give Stalin rat poison? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-27 11:48 |
| #4 Was it "evil" to shoot down Yamamoto's plane? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-27 11:47 |
| #3 Sorry but that statement is correct. The key is "inherently". All depends on the change made. Is it a change that is good for most everybody? Then why is it "evil"? As with most everything, the devil's in the details. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-04-27 08:16 |
| #2 I did the same "huh?" as well, Lex, to that statement. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-27 06:42 |
| #1 Firstly, it is important to note that there is nothing inherently morally evil in exploiting a crisis for political gains Huh? Ok, admitted that "evil" is a strong word. How about "slimy," "stupid," counter-productive"? Or, "Chinese"? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-27 00:47 |