The United States will never again allow foreign powers to rob our people."

That is the scariest of all Trump's statements. How do we define robbing the American people? Very very broadly. This government robs each and every taxpayer to fund their robbing countries all around the world. How many countries have we recently bombed, always with the statement that those rulers are bad guys, and ours are good guys? Let's see: Nigeria, Syria, and now Venezuela come quickly to mind. We're actively threatening Columbia and Mexico in the Americas, and Iran in the middle east. We are bombing several other countries in the middle east by proxy and taxpayer dollars via Israel.

I disagree with this statement however:

The turnaround in official U. S. values was rapid. It happened with the election of Donald Trump.

This turnaround has been churning for a hundred years or more. Obama is said to have started eight wars. Bush #2 brought down the twin towers to usher in privacy laws and regulations - is this not a war on the American people themselves? Reagan may have used pretty language to drum up the population's support, but he was every bit as greedy and false as any of the others. Over 100 years ago, Wilson was among the first presidents to use humanitarian intervention as justification for using military force in other countries. Not a thing has changed since then.

This is not Trump's doing, it is ours. We trust our government, even though there has been a great deal of evidence over the years that it is deeply corrupt. Trump is no worse that his predecessors, he is simply more in our faces about it. We blame only him at our peril! He's not even in charge, no more than that daft Biden was before him. I believe that Trump is a patsy and a puppet for forces much larger than he, the same forces that put Wilson in the White House, and Hitler on his little throne. Trump was installed because he is so easy to hate.

I heard an interesting talk of scripture a few days ago in which the use of the word "ruler" was explained as not to mean any human ruler who rules by force or by law, but rather as a rule we can measure ourselves by. Good rulers are those who set good examples as humans.