10/28/20

The Greatest Scythe of Americans; Trump or Hitler?

 The Second World War with Adolph Hitler’s leadership scythed the lives of about a quarter of a million Americans over four years. That rate of death of U.S. soldiers at war was somewhat over 60-70 thousand per year. In just one year under President Trump’s leadership the Covid 19 death toll of Americans has nearly equaled that of the entirety of the Second World War.

 President Trump’s leadership during the Covid 19 era was lackadaisical; he seemed entirely incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time with a skill that could have reduced the infection rate and kept the economy open together. Therefore he may not be a mass murderer as great as Hitler, simply a Chamberlain sort of enabler of the encroachment of evil. Antifah as Covid era riot leaders helped the spread of Covid as did the Black Lives Matter movement. 

The President made much noise concerning the riots yet did not act decisively as would have Abraham Lincoln to close the riots down declaring martial laws and sending in the 101st Airborne. (as did L.B.J. and Ike use the 101st to quell scoflaws. When riots and looting occurred over night in Philadelphia and Wal-Mart was being sacked the looters were not maintaining safe social distancing requisite to control the spread. Presently about 80,000 Americans are infected each day and the death rate is somewhere around 1 or 2%.

 

Resident Trump’s desire to plunder the natural resources of the nation is greater than his will to stop the Covid 19 scythe- the former requires nothing intellectually challenging to accomplish and enriches select global financial interests. Christians might wish to consider too much support for the leader managing the virus that may take more than 300,000 American lives when a more intelligent policy might have held the total to 50,000 or fewer. The Italian Dictator Mussolini might have found a few thousand avoidable deaths nothing more than a bump in the road on his race to power and prosperity. In some respects President Trump has shown a similar callousness concerning Covid 19 deaths in his half-hearted leadership.

 The election next week is a Hobson’s choice between the Democrat’s leader with dubious financial conflicts of interest with Ukraine that stimulated the rise of renewed cold war with Russia, commercial advantage with China and lawlessness in Mexico, a Democrat Party with an agenda of immoral policies, and an arrogant billionaire with a belief he can make America great- perhaps by raising the greatest (Muhammad Ali) from the dead, cutting taxes on the rich, gutting the ecosystem for short-term proplits. The President’s draft and tax evasion, marginally legal, and problems with women equal to that of Bill Clinton if not greater, were somewhat eclipsed by the four years of false narrative by Democrats concerning his secret support from Russia that did not at any rate seem greater than the Clinton’s foundational relationships with Russian oligarchs.

 If Vice President Biden wins the election and serves four years before very likely retiring and not seeking re-election and Republicans keep control of the Senate that may be the best-case scenario for muddling through the next four years. The 2024 election would then be the main pivot to determine the nation’s future status concerning secure borders, international relations, health care for all Americans including those too poor to afford Medicare Part B in old age and conservation of the integrity of the government of the United States.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/523013-white-house-science-office-says-trump-ended-covid-pandemic-as-us-hits

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2020/10/28/trump-to-strip-logging-and-development-protections-from-southeast-alaskas-vast-tongass-national-forest/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html


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