A Year Since Trump Was Elected President

Some people said Trump's win would be harmful to the environment and embolden the myriad haters and racists all across America. I said "An eye for an eye" would do the trick; "direct action" would get satisfaction. Unless the FBI/CIA wanted Trump to start a civil war, they would tell him to shut up; the people united could never be defeated. The fascists would lose that war, too. 

A year later, we see that every stupid uninformed thing Trump said was eaten up by the media as the inevitable looting of social program went unabated by the Senate and Congress. The people weren't united and were defeated. 

Some said there would be grave peril from climate change. Trump, like Obama and Clinton, didn't stop it.  Capitalism marched on, armed to the teeth, threatening  nations that didn't agree; imperialist incursion and genocide all over the world.

Sanders remained a Democrat and refused to go independent. He was a distraction, a politician. The Democratic Party needed to be bold and instead sabotaged Sanders, the only ray of hope for  people like you and me.

WW III was averted by  Clinton's losing. She was a clandestine  loose canon, more than bug-mouth Trump. The "not-working" class felt it in their empty gut and believed in Trump foolishly. But socialism is the answer, not anti-union and pro-Wall Street. Sanders was the coward. Ignore his Democratic Party rhetoric. Grass-root activism is the answer.

"If Trump is the price we have to pay to defeat Clintonian neo-liberalism – so be it." — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Trump is nothing new. R. Dunbar-Ortiz in her excellent book An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States wrote: "It's not that Andrew Jackson had a 'dark side,' as his apologists rationalize and which all human beings have,but rather that Jackson 'was' the Dark Knight in the formation of the United States as a colonialist, imperialist democracy, a dynamic formation that constitutes the core of U.S. patriotism. The most revered presidents -including Clinton and Obama [add Trump]- have each advanced populist imperialism while gradually increasing inclusion of other groups beyond the core of descendants of old settlers in the ruling mythology."  

The infrastructure in America has fallen apart; transportation is backward, full-time jobs with benefits is scarce, poverty level is 60%, 60,000 middle-aged, despondent Americans died from drug overdoses. Schools are underfunded and prisons are for profit.

The stock market had a great 2017. Sweatshop jobs from Amazon to Foxconn moved back in to make the unemployment rate seem low. Tax were cut where they shouldn't have been and the military in 175 countries got funded; the U.S. infrastructure got under-funded and sacred land can now be looted. U.S. workers have not benefited at all as Trump said they would. 

Join a grass root organization;  go with them on marches. Organize within your community and workplace. Nothing will help workers but organizing together.