BloggeRhythms

Trump continues to rapidly build his cabinet and government, interviewing potential picks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

At the same time, influential foreigner leaders illustrate how quickly things move on as their comments reflect the here and now. 

According to ca.news.yahoo.com, Reuters reported: “The man opinion pollsters tip to become France's next president said on Friday it would be an error to compare him to Hillary Clinton, who was widely expected to become U.S. president but lost to Donald Trump.

"I am not Hillary Clinton," poll frontrunner Alain Juppe said. "And France is not America."

“The 71-year-old former prime minister was speaking on public radio ahead of a primary election ballot his conservative Les Republicains party and its allies hold on Sunday. That contest, involving a second, run-off vote on Nov. 27, will pick a candidate for the presidential race.” 

Reader Dave, summed the situation up handily, writing: “Hillary is now the poster girl for failure. Mission Accomplished.” 

And then, FoxNews.com repots that: “Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi believes "without a doubt" that Trump would make a strong leader. 

Whereas the rest of today’s news provides little else of major importance, some time was taken for periodic review of past postings, revealing one from 7/6/2010.
 
At that time, more than six years ago, I wrote: “Like all writers, I guess, I go back and re-read my entries. To see if I’m getting repetitious or tending toward boring. Doing that this morning, I told myself “look at what your own stuff is illustrating clearly.”

“To begin with, we all read, see or hear the same news in a general sense, regardless of the source or slant, and, sooner or later discover the truths. But, at the same time, we do it in increments, a day or so at a time. And, perhaps, the information accumulates in our heads -or maybe not- depending on our level of interest. Then most of us move on to something else. That’s why even my own notations hit me with a jolt now and then…because I wonder why so much of what disturbs us in the world, we actually caused ourselves.

“This came quite clear to me in the last few days, thinking and writing about July 4th. And how a band of disgruntled folks went out and began building the greatest nation on the planet. While they accomplished much more than I think even they truly expected, their primary goals were independence and freedom. Especially in regard to benefiting directly from the fruits of their labors and avoidance of paying taxes without representation to those who did absolutely nothing to earn them except, by birth, theft or extortion functioned as the ruling class.

“Now its two hundred thirty-four years later, and most hard-working, successful Americans are in almost precisely the same boat as our founding fathers…except, there’s a major difference in how we got on board this time. 

“Because, its always been clear that there are those who rise to the top of every endeavor, be it business, social, intellectual, athletic, or otherwise -simply because they possess natural ability and talent, enhanced by the will to succeed. And, as a rule, the remainder are either middling or fall to the bottom, due to ineptitude, laziness or disinterest, it really doesn’t matter which. And, that’s not a supposition or biased opinion; it’s simply how it works.

“So, what that result illustrates is that in most walks of life the fewest are those who are the best. Thus, those whom have the most to give are the least in number and most often wind up carrying the rest on their backs. And, when times are good, those hauling all that weight simply grin and bear it, because with so much gained from their efforts, why worry about the scraps?

“Yet, sooner or later there must come a time when that bubble has to burst, because the tonnage piles up to where even the best of the best can’t carry that much. And, in a political structure, that leads to revolt. 

“What form the next uprising will take is yet to be seen, but I believe there’s little doubt its inevitability exists, and that the clock is ticking. 

"Except this time around, I don’t think the cream of the crop will relocate somewhere else to start over. They’ve work too hard to attain whatever they’ve still got left. So, regardless of how huge the number of takers and thieves has grown to, it looks like they’re the ones that will have to start packing up pretty soon. And, worse than that, if they want to survive, they may eventually even have to -pardon the expression- do some work.” 

At that time, a reader responded: “LOL! You're hysterical, Mike! So it's the rich and powerful who are sorely abused, and they must rise up against the unwashed masses. Thanks for the good laugh!

I replied: “Sorry Lanny I didn't see this until today. But, either I'm not a very good writer or I didn't come close to making my point. 

"I don't think there's going to be an uprising against the masses at all. 

“However, the successful here keep getting financially drained by government and have less and less to show for their efforts. So, sooner or later they'll have to find ways to keep more of their earnings, or they'll be broke too. 

“Therefore, I simply think they'll try to find ways to protect whatever assets they have left. And, when that happens, whoever's draining the system now, will have to do it somewhere else because this cash spigot's going to be empty. 

“So, when that happens, how will the hangers on survive? I think they'll have to search out other financial targets than here, because they'll have exhausted this one. Thus, they'll either have to leave here or go out and do some work. And, by the way, a huge segment of the top non-contributing types and takers happen to be politicians of both major political parties.”

And now, today, we see the results almost exactly as predicted. Not because I’m particularly gifted as a “seer,” but because I do pay strict attention to what goes on around me.

Thus, the voter revolt against encroaching socialism by those carrying the economic responsibility was a quite simple, logical expectation. Particularly because, aside from all else, those producing the wherewithal also tend to be the most intellectually adept as well.

Now, naturally, there was no way back then to predict that Trump would come along to offer his alternative to the declining national picture, but it was quite a certainty that someone like him would. Because the nation wasn’t formed or built to reward, support or consistently recognize failures as leaders or role models. And that was certainly proven and underlined at the polls two weeks ago.

And, by the way, back then I envisioned "draining the system" as one of a revolutionary leaders objectives, and now, today, Trump refers to his desire to "drain the swamp." Another bit of evidence to confirm the validity of observational, basic, logic.   

That’s it for today folks.

Adios