I am pondering how the current president can believe he has more accomplishments than any other president during the first 17 months of his second term. This is a claim made by the president, and, as a well-known fabricator of facts, we need to understand that most of what he says is neither true nor accurate. The other possibility is that what he sees as positive accomplishments are not seen that way by most Americans.
Polling shows that very little that the current president has accomplished is seen in a positive light by most people. The overall approval rate of the current president hovers around 40%, with some polls showing mid-30s and others the low 40s. There is no polling topic where the current president has an approval rating over 50%. The highest rate is 45.3% on crime, and the lowest 33.5% on inflation. The polling numbers are just awful, and the president’s response is to lie about the people not understanding what he has done for them and how great he is.
It is important to understand that what the current president believes he has done for the country’s citizens may not align with what the people need and want. Affordability was the primary issue the current president focused on during his campaign, and it was what the American people wanted him to focus on. Many of the current president’s actions make affordability worse for most Americans. The ridiculous, random use of tariffs was paid for almost exclusively by American citizens. It basically represented a massive and regressive sales tax on items purchased daily by most citizens. The tariffs were not paid by the companies exporting products into the U.S. The most recent military misadventure in the Middle East has caused oil prices to soar, leading to much higher gasoline prices and reduced affordability.
The current deportation effort is not exactly what the voters who elected the current president expected. We were told that millions of illegal immigrants who committed crimes would be targeted. Very few people expected their law-abiding neighbors would be targeted, and major cities would experience marauding masked ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents descending in massive force on their cities to round up illegal immigrants. Often, their work violates the U.S. Constitution in several ways as they turn sections of the city into war zones. We have witnessed the construction of large deportation centers across the country to warehouse those arrested by ICE agents, often housed in unacceptable conditions in these facilities, or deported to third-world hell-hole prisons. This is unacceptable for a great, something we may no longer be, country to do with anyone. It is often scary to consider what an unconstrained, tyrannical, dictatorial regime will do with these huge facilities once most of the illegal immigrants have been rounded up and deported, because that is the goal. Most possibilities are not good, and some are downright horrible. What has taken place to date is not an accomplishment supported by most Americans, even though it may seem so to the current president.
The current president states his accomplishments that he views positively have made the country worse, particularly for future generations. He is considering leaving NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) largely because NATO countries won’t do what he wants them to do. He has turned back the clock on efforts to support the integration of alternative energy sources into how we produce energy in this country. He promotes greater use of coal, perhaps the most environmentally damaging energy source on the planet. He has taken actions to deregulate most industries to the point where environmental concerns once considered under control will now be negatively impacting our physical environment. He is contemplating reducing benefits for both Social Security and Medicare. He has provided massive tax cuts for the wealthiest in the country, when all polls indicate most people want the wealthy to pay more in taxes. There are very few actions taken by the current president that benefit most Americans, focusing instead on the wealthiest.
Somehow, we have entered an era where people believe the morbidly wealthy understand and care about the lives of most people, even when most wealthy people have never done so before. Most wealthy people only want what is best for themselves and believe the government should only serve their needs because they are the only individuals that matter. The current president epitomizes the morbidly wealthy, and his most recent actions do very little for most Americans. What is taking place works well with the base political philosophies of the two major political parties. The Republican Party believes there is very little the government should do to improve the lives of most Americans, that limited government hogwash they have been spouting to the public for decades. The Democratic Party believes the role of government is to help as many people as possible. Improve their economic well-being and deliver programs and services through government to provide for the general welfare of the people and to form a more perfect union. The current president has the Republican viewpoint as a member of the morbidly wealthy and disregards most of the U.S. Constitution and its citizens.
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