Subjectivist wrote:I want my President to put USA first and the rest of the world later.
The thing is, the "USA" actually gets a LOT of benefit form the world. The US already has the highest GDP -- it can't get any higher than #1, so it's not like we aren't getting our fair share in the world.
The REAL problem is just that the "we" is too much the top 1%.. so that's why I'm a Democrat, and believe the 1% need taxed a bit more, and raise wages, and other ideas HRC has in her platform.
There's actually nothing wrong with the "system" that Trump is criticizing -- he's really just off message. Rather than retreat from the world and end the system, he ought to be for just spreading the benefits around, more equitably.
But, he's an isolationist protectionist Republican.. rather than a democratic capitalist Democrat.. so there's the difference. It's like Herbert Hoover, versus FDR.
Trump's ideas could result in a LOWER gdp, if he really is protectionist and wants to retreat from the world.
A lower GDP overall isn't something I'd be for -- I just say to TAX it a bit, spread it around a bit.
I have to wonder, WHY doesn't Trump come to that same conclusion?
He says "just throw the system out, you working class people aren't getting anything from it." But really, it doesn't have to be that way -- an FDR type could just pass some things to SPREAD that wealth better, rather than toss the rich totally off the boat and everybody be poor.
Essentially, I fear that Trump is actually ANTI RICH but it's in a way where he'd just cause wealth to be lost rather than be an FDR and simply tax the wealth but don't throw it away.
Look at what's going on with the stock market right now. IT'S REBOUNDING TODAY, because of Comey's letter and the polls look like a sure Clinton win. This stuff is no joke, if Trump won the market could CRASH.
Honestly, I wonder why in troubled times, conservatives go PROTECTIONIST on the economy rather than move left and just tax the rich. The protectionism, actually hurts the rich a lot more than the tax would! Therefore, the latter is the better course for everyone.