[TheRealThing]

If anybody is willing, check out an article from today on theatlantic.com by David Frum entitled ‘This is Trump’s Fault.’ Pretty much completely summarizes my feelings and beliefs on him. I know that puts me in a large minority in this part of the US, but it’s how I feel, I don’t apologize for it. I consider it ‘True Facts’, not ‘Fake News’. But I also will readily admit that I am so sickened by what politics is these days from all sides, and that I know the Obama Administration had tons of questionable things going on also. And in the 2016 election, while I didn’t want Trump, I didn’t want Hilary either, I’m afraid her administration would have been a different kind of fiasco. I have long held the theory that politicians, the men and women of both parties, may actually start out with true intentions, but become more and more corrupt the farther they climb up the ladder, with their only, ONLY, real agenda being staying in office, and keeping their side of the aisle in power. Finding someone who is ‘For the People’ seems almost impossible anymore on either side of a ticket. Your best bet at finding someone who might actually be trying to make a real difference in people’s lives is at the local levels, before they climb too far.

We must all choose what we believe to be the truth. The Atlantic very often puts opinion out there as if it were news. They have a left leaning rating. That would be left as in 'political' left. Hence the criticism fake news. I watched the media lapse into leftist news coverage over the course of my lifetime. I know they lie to propagate their political agendist opinions. Again, you must make your own determinations. I can tell you this- despite what Frum says, FOX is biased but less biased by far than the Atlantic.

That said I read your article and it was Frum's opinion. Ventilators for example. The federal government according to Frum, had a ventilator maintenance contract with some entity until sometime in 2018 which TRUMP let lapse. Who was it again that the Constitution says controls this nation's purse strings? But in his mind, all those new ventilators stored in government warehouses, in containers, and in addition individually wrapped or boxed on top of that just sat there and broke themselves? Common Van. Now, just speaking for myself here, but I sincerely doubt the likelihood of that.

Nonetheless I went through most of the article and I can tell you it's an unfounded liberal rant with only one intent. It definitely lived up to the title; "This is Trump's Fault." I mean, do you really think a Democrat or a Dem supporter is in your wildest imagination, going to accept the blame for a thing? But I have a long held theory too. The American voter can be manipulated. We routinely elect unqualified candidates to high office based solely on their party affiliation. That means that power hungry egomaniacs of the sort you mentioned, whose only intent is to stay in office, know they will be elected if they run say, in a 'blue state.' That in and of itself is a form of bias. You don't think everybody knew Hillary's Senate seat was a done deal in New York? She's from Illinois but Dems own New York. Voters don't want to spend the time to vet candidates so they waltzed in there, that is unless they were part of the Democrat 'dead vote' and pulled the handle. If I were going to pick out a new vehicle I would delve just a bit farther into the proposition that picking a red one or a blue one.

Past that, any government of and for the people cannot choose who to tax and who to bribe with those taxes. That my fried is the real problem, think about it. One cannot possibly hope to buy off everybody.