Why The United States Has The President It Has

        Trump promised health insurance that was affordable, complete, and great.

        Trump promised to bring an avalanche of jobs back to the states. Not just any jobs, but jobs that actually pay salaries that people can live and raise families on.

        Trump made a lot of promises. 

        Now it turns out that Trump had no health insurance plan. It turns out there was no plan to create jobs and bring back well paying manufacturing jobs. Trump had no plans. He only had promises and boasts.

         His foreign policy and plans to stop Islamic fanaticism, North Korea nuclear weapons and missile programs, were nothing but empty boasts. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, one of the centers of the most bigoted, intolerant versions of Islam, has recently received an enormous arms deal. Was this in exchange for a commitment to spread tolerance and goodwill instead of narrow minded religious fanaticism? No, it was not.

          Did anyone seriously question Trump the candidate regarding his promises or his boasts?

          The failure has been here long before Trump. 

          There are no easy answers in life. Easy answers and groupthink are reasons people become hooked blindly on religions, on politicians, on movements, on hate groups, on gangs, on ineffective and harmful charities, on celebrities. 

           Trump told people what they want to hear. And for the side that opposed him, they were too focused on making fun of him to ever seriously examine and question his boasts and promises.

           We go to schools, practice religions, support charities that want our mindless conformity. We join movements that demand groupthink.  

            Trump will do the world a great service if he becomes the reason people start thinking for themselves.

                  

                  

             

              

           

Trump, Animal And Environmental Organizations

     Trump shares a lot with the people running many animal and environmental organizations. Except unlike these organizations that go on endlessly with fiction, b.s. and sometimes outright fraud, Trump is under a real magnifying glass. Not so for the organizations, where it is easy to provide promises, smoke and mirrors, worthless or ineffective programs, and never have to do anything of substance. Unlike Trump, who has a chance of being held accountable, these organizations never will be. The damage they cause is committed against voiceless populations. Serious problems that should be addressed never will be because of the false perceptions these organizations provide, and because of people's eagerness to mindlessly believe what they are told.

      

Global Warming And The Real Transfer Of Wealth

      A number of conservatives and others decry global warming because they see it as a manipulative way to extract or tax the wealth of the United States and transfer it to other nations. They also argue that climate change may not be man made, and therefore the initiatives to combat climate change are unnecessary and unduly expensive.

      Even when it is 100 percent certain that people cause direct harm to the planet, nothing is done. If everyone agrees climate change is manmade, nothing of significance will be done to stop it. For example, as the oceans daily become more and more plasticized and poisoned, destroying marine life, sea birds, and so much else, nothing of consequence is done to stop this completely human caused catastrophe.

      Regarding climate change and how many conservatives and others think it is nothing but a way to take wealth from the United States and transfer it; it is interesting to note that the greatest transfer of wealth recently occurred, and not only did most conservatives not resist it, but instead helped it along.

      Conservatives and republicans, assisted by liberals and democrats, assisted by ceos and others, made sure the manufacturing capacity of the United States was transferred to those nations that provide the cheapest labor, and that have the lowest environmental, workplace safety and labor standards. The United States gave away its manufacturing wealth. 

       It would have been better if manufacturing stayed in the United States, workers earned decent salaries, garbage, poisons and contaminants were better collected and disposed of, environmental, decent labor and workforce standards were maintained, and that ceos and others that form the non labor class earned less and learned to be less greedy.

      When conservatives or anyone complains that global warming is nothing but a scheme to transfer wealth, ask them what they did when the real massive wealth transfer occurred.

     

       

The Real Zombies; Mindless Religious Robots And People That Blindly Follow

     As the world becomes increasingly degraded, losing its biological richness and diversity, it becomes more shallow and less interesting. While we lose what is important, the same cannot be said for mindless conformity and materialism, which are only gaining.

Tribal People In Indonesia Lose Their Forests, Some Turn To Islam Out Of Desperation

     Recently there was a story regarding a tribe in Indonesia where the tribal people have lost their ancestral forests. The forests where they hunted and were sustained have been lost to palm plantations. Now the tribe people live in desperate poverty and hunger. There was a picture of some of the tribesmen hunting in a palm plantation area. For anyone that has been in a palm plantation, there is not much there in the way of wild animals except perhaps some rats.

     Millions of tribespeople in Indonesia have lost their forest homelands. This has not only been devastating for them, it is also devastating for the environment. The Indonesian government has failed to protect forests and native people. Mining, palm plantations, and logging are destroying the  natural wealth, health and biodiversity of Indonesia. Each forest destroyed means poverty for the forest people and is a blow to biodiversity and environmental health.

     Some of the tribespeople, in desperation to escape poverty and hunger now that their forests are lost, are turning to Islam. Others in the tribe are resisting this conversion, which would mean the complete loss of their culture and religion.

     Indonesia must protect the rights of its native people, their forests and biodiversity. So far it has failed to do so. It must reverse this shameful legacy.

     Conversion out of desperation to any religion in and of itself is disgraceful. Give the people a way towards a sustainable future. The world does not need more mindless religious robots. The world does need biological diversity, healthy rainforests, and diverse cultures and religions.

The Trump HealthCare Trainwreck. Pre Existing Conditions And Health Insurance

     The next time a politician attacks an existing program, pointing out all its flaws, and then promises to replace it with a far better program, maybe for once people will ask for the specifics regarding the new program offered.
      Trump never had anything better to offer as an alternative to Obamacare other than empty promises.
      Obamacare was flawed. Instead of discarding the whole thing, it should have been improved upon.
       It turns out that the republican alternative to Obamacare will leave millions uninsured. Even though it is said that the alternative program will decrease the national debt, such is not the case. The millions of people that will no longer be insured will end up relying on the government. The United States is not yet a third world country where hospitals will turn people away because they do not have insurance or money. The medical bills of the newly uninsured will be paid for by the government, which would have been paid for by the insurance companies if these people do not lose their health insurance.
       One of the best features of Obamacare is the guarantee that people with preexisting conditions will not be refused health insurance. Weakening or eliminating this one great benefit is a surefire way to ensure future bankruptcies, financial ruin, to say nothing about the loss of proper healthcare for millions.
        Stop the Trump trainwreck before it gets worse. Fix the existing Obamacare program, and stop pretending a better program exists if it is discarded.

Do Not Blindly Follow The Left, The Right, A Religion, An Ideology, A Charity, An Organization

     Think for yourself.