Trump...fixing conflict with conflict?

Fixing conflict by creating conflict: Donald Trump's solution to what ails America

Review his speech to the Republican convention:  read it carefully and understand that he says that only he can fix it...That his platform is promoting fear and disunity. He and the convention have placed themselves solidly against Black Lives Matter...that he and they fail to recognize they African-Americans have any basis for complaints. A police power of law and order is his solution, and basis his reasoning on cherry picked statistics that are contradicted by so many other facts when one takes in the trends in the country as a whole.   There is absolutely no balance between the cops and the blacks. There in lies the scary part.  If this country seeks to have more racial conflict, and even more income inequality, Trump is the Man.

What is startling is missing his platform how he would help those left behind in our economy, the ones he says with whom he has empathy:  Their problems are economic; their blame falls on others; it is solely an import  and immigrant problem. . Ignored are changes in the manufacturing sector and an underlying problem of the changing needs in the workforce. Many in the rust belt of manufacturing  do not   have the education and the skills to compete in our modern world. (The most unemployed are those with only a high school education at two to one ratio)

.Yet, not mentioned is his speech are his proposals to fix the economic ails other than to bargain harder in trade negotiations on behalf  those engaged in manufacturing, ignoring those eleven million who work in the new economy of technoology and whose services to the rest of the world create  a positive balance of payments.  Here is what he has proposed in the past:  no minimum wage (starting salary in manufacturing now is $12 per hour, below a living wage); a flatter tax that would decrease the taxes on the very rich and place a greater burden on the middle and lower income classes.  That is just for starters.

So far as his foreign policy goes: he cuddles up to Russia and even North Korea: It is no wonder he is admired by Russia since he wants to disband NATO unless the participants pay more into it. His proposals suit Russia's foreign plicy, not America's.  (Pay more is not a bad thing, but threatening to disband it because he calls in obsolete, as he has done,  is another) He ignores land grab of everything Russia can grab that does not belong to NATO: Georga, Ukraine/Crimea. One wonders whether ending a mutual defense  treaty, which is what NATO is, would open many doors for Russia to reassemble its old Soviet boundaries from those whose defense we no longer support.  That is just for starters. When some of his proposals run contrary to international law, especially reinstating torture, his first answer: change international law. When he opposes the domestic check on his plans to ignore anti discrimination laws or the first amendment, both having to do with freedom of religion,especially regarding the "Muslim ban",  his answer is to stack the Supreme Court.

He skipped over the "how's" of how he would fix the problems he identified, but instead peppered his oratory with simple:  ""we will"; "I will"..and not much more.
His basic solution to problems: trust me; I know how to do it because I have done it in business.  It is me who will save you.    In reality, his solution if more racial conflict and an economic policy that would make income disparity worse.



I have seen too much of the strong man approach in Europe.  The cult of personality plagued many during the Comminist era in Eastern Europe.  I have seen the same appeal used by a Serbian strong man to rise to power by reminding unemployed coal miners of their economic problems and appealing to a Greater Serbia as it cleansed minority e thnics.  So have




most Europeans who are in shock of a prospective Trump presidency. As one European observer told me: if Trump is elected, all Europe will boycott America and she followed up with the question: How could America ever support such person as Trump. My answer: the same currents that led to the Brexit vote: anti immigrants and a search for simple answers to economic woes: just leave the EU. Britain awoke after their vote  to a mammoth economic hangover .  Theirs was a vote of the "heart", but unlike them, we need to vote with our heads.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/21/full-text-donald-trumps-prepared-remarks-accepting-the-republican-nomination/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-fact-check.html?_r=0