The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! Part 20: More Good Economic News, Cracking Down on Human Trafficking, and More

Before we start today’s discussion, let’s review my voting history: 

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life. 
• Thus, I did not vote for Trump. 
• I have rarely voted for a Republican for national office in my life. 

About 2 years ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millennials were besides themselves with grief and fear because their pre-ordained queen, Hillary Clinton, was not elected President. Instead, Donald Trump was elected, an individual that these same people despised, hated, and feared, an individual they felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and our democracy. For the past year and a half they fretted, worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for almost two years, I thought, that as someone who did not vote for him, it would be a good idea to review the horror, trauma, and terrible things that Trump has subjected the country to in just 24 month’s time. This is obviously a very sarcastic comment when you take an unbiased look at what has happened during the Trump Presidency. 

The many previous posts we did on this topic identified over 200 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above.

It has been over a month since we updated this series so let’s catch up with the latest Trump administration accomplishments:

1- In a recent Gallup, 58% of those polled thought that the U.S. is rated “very” or “somewhat favorably” by the rest of the world, a 3% increase from last year and is now at the highest level since 2003.

2-The Trump administration is launching a global effort to end the criminalization of homosexuality, a dire situation that still exists in dozens of countries around the world, concentrated mostly in the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean, with U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the highest-profile openly gay person in the Trump administration, leading the effort.

3- In another recent Gallup poll, Trump’s approval rating in that poll has risen to 44%, the third highest level for his administration.

4- In a recent Rasmussen poll among likely voters, Trump’s approval rating has risen to 50%, higher than Obama’s approval rating at the same time in his Presidency.

5- According to a CBSNews poll, 76% of those Americans who watched Trump’s state of the union speech approved of his performance while only 24% disapproved of it, a three to one margin of difference.

6- The stock market, as measured by the Dow, is up a whopping 32% or so since Trump came into office.

7- The employment situation continues to improve month over month as almost 300,000 (296,000) new jobs were created in the month of January, 2019.

8-  Foxcomm, one of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world, agreed to proceed with it's plans to build a manufacturing and research facility in Wisconsin that will make liquid crystal display screens that can be used in small electronic products.

9- Trump recently signed four pieces of legislation that will actively attack the huge problem of human trafficking including the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, the Abolish Human Trafficking Act, the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump given the over 200 accomplishments we have previously listed and the newest nine accomplishments listed above, let me ask that you to do us all a favor by implementing the following changes in your behavior and attitude:

• Chill out, tamp down your TDS affliction. No matter how much you hate Trump on a sexist, personal basis, get over it. He is the legally and duly elected President, he will be around for a while so refocus your hatred on more constructive issues and matters. You will live a lot longer if you take your hatred out of your heart and soul and devote it to something positive.
• I would really appreciate it if some of you would apologize to the Trump voters you have disrespected in some of the grossest terms possible over the past year. You have called millions of voters racists, ignorant, stupid, Nazis, KKK members, and other horrible names simply because you disagreed with their voting choice. No American should be called such disgusting names simply because they exercised their Constitutional rights to the best of their abilities. Plus, slandering over 60 million Americans is no way to unite the country and get it focused on the real issues facing us all.
• More personally, I would like, no I am demanding, an apology from some of you for your slanderous and disgusting name calling because in doing so, you insulted and disrespected my sister, my family members, my friends, and my co-workers who simply voted their conscience. I will defend their right to vote anyway they wanted and will no put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life.
• And finally, I challenge you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like some of you and your silence during the Obama years that actually caused Trump to be elected. Thus, the people you hate for voting for Trump are actually looking back at you in the mirror:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

If you were silent in the dozens of instances listed in this post then you were responsible for the very thing you hate: a Trump Presidency. Or put another way, a so far successful and productive Trump Presidency. Over 200 accomplishments in about two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
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http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

Good News, Bad News (For Freedom)

Even when the political class gets something right they still manage to get it wrong. According to an October 6, 2009 AP online article written by Jessica Gresko and available online on Earthlink, the District Of Columbia city council is about to make same sex marriage legal in the District. The council apparently has enough votes to pass the legislation and it is likely that Congress will approve the idea. Congress gets to review all DC legislation and even the Congressional Republicans quoted in the article, who are opposed to same sex marriage, felt that it would not be stopped by Congress.

This is good news for freedom in this country. We are all Americans and should be treated as such regardless of our sexual orientation. Denying marriage rights to a subsection of the population is discrimination no matter how you cut it and no matter what your position is on the gay life style. Everyone should have the exact same rights regardless of religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, heritage, height, weight, eye color, etc. Just because you do not want to participate in a life choice should give no one the right to deny that choice to others (see the "George Orwell 's 1984" section on page xxiv in "Love My Country, Loathe My Government" for a discussion on how the political class turns groups of Americans into competing "tribes" in order to deny freedom to Americans).

You would think that this is a victory for freedom and the political class finally got one right...until you read what one of the provisions is in the bill: according to the article the legislation "specifically says that religious leaders and institutions are not required to perform the marriages or rent their space for same sex ceremonies unless they let the public use or rent the space." As I read this, if a church whose religious tenets include being against homosexuality and they rent out their space to Boy Scouts or Girls Scouts organizations, rent out their space to gain some incremental revenue for their church, loan out their space to local charities or service organizations, etc., they would have to allow gay marriage ceremonies in their facilities. Thus, granting freedom to marry to one group of citizens would also restrict/impinge on the freedom of religion rights of other citizens. The only choice of these churches would be to cut off revenue streams and restrict the use of their facilities to worthy community groups or be forced to do something their religion prohibits.

Freedom gained, freedom lost in the same stroke. This is a very dangerous path to go down, starting the tear down of the separation of church and state with the state starting to dictate religious policy. Very, very dangerous. Thus, even when the political class does something good, they also foul it up in the same breath by doing something stupid, dangerous and downright repugnant from a freedom of religion perspective.