Re: Can Trump Really Win the Presidency?
While I agree the state of the union is pretty good right now (and seems to be getting better), I hesitate parading numbers like unemployment when they're obviously not representative of the real rate. I'm happy that many of my neighbors that struggled finding jobs a few years ago are working again - it's obviously improved - but we can't forget that there are millions and millions of unemployed who are no longer factored into the UE rate.
If by state of the Union you mean economically, some numbers are misleading. The labor participation rate is the lowest since the 70s. But the overriding factor is that what prosperity we do have is dependent on debt. Sure, someone who owes $5 mil, with little means and no will to repay, can continue the appearance of prosperity as long as they can find someone to loan them the money to support it. That's all we're doing. It's the fault of many admins not just this one, though this one has tripled down on the borrowing. The borrowing continues unabated but it cannot be sustained. We are the greatest debtor nation in the history of the world. We don't even have much infrastructure or military or anything tangible to show for the borrowing. Appearances are deceiving.
The U.S. will not be able to enjoy 2 or 3 generations of socialism like Europe. We don't have someone else to undertake almost all of our military expense and uplift our economy by the prosperity of
their free enterprise system.
More troubling is the lawless attitude and sense of hopelessness engendered by the blatant disregard for the law by this admin. Others have been guilty too, e.g., Bush, but not this brazen.
Even worse is the ever increasing deep divide between various groups, mostly along racial lines. Also, between blacks and the police. Whether for political gain or a misguided desire for revenge or something else, it is harmful and dangerous.
The national media's lack of integrity and even-handedness makes addressing these problems in an honest way impossible.
But the ultimate problem has little to do with this admin or even the media - it is spiritual and thus results in further moral decline. Continuing departure from the true God inevitably results in the increase of cowardice, greed, deceit, malice, lust and perversion, selfishness, violence, cruelty, etc. I.e., immoral behavior. All these are symptoms we see. Thus we have the candidates we do - a reflection of the society they represent.
But the most important truth remains, individual salvation is still offered to all by God through Jesus Christ, His Son.
