GrumpyCatFace wrote:C-Mag wrote:I enjoyed Trumps speech. I'm starting to break it down. I found this portion to be insightful.
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world — but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
To me, This signals an end to a century of Progressive Nation Building. And that would be awesome.
That was my favorite part of the whole thing as well. We can hope.
And this is one of the reasons I unloaded on Dan so hard in his post election show on Trump. It was a fantastic show, a pretty objective look at the man. But these budding seeds of positive change that Trump threw out over the course of the election should be watered and supported. The best points of Trump were overlooked during the campaign.................. but back to speech.
For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; we’ve defended other nation’s borders while refusing to defend our own; and spent trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.
One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind.
The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world.
This part of the speech has drawn a ton of criticism. But it's a pretty accurate rundown of what has happened from the viewpoint of the average American citizen. I don't have a problem with the blunt truth.
I'm all for putting the globe on notice that we are no longer subsidizing client states with tax payer dollars to get UN votes in return. Because that is exactly what is happening. We give 2nd and 3rd world leaders 'Aid' and in return we get support in the International community to do what our establishment wants. This is how our Hedgemony works. Don't play ball, you'll end up like Qaddafi.
This crap stifles individual countries and cultures developing independently.