Huzzah! The nation awaits its 45th President of The United States. Meanwhile, 44 is struggling like none of his predecessors to shape and mold his legacy into something it simply will never be. In his last 20 or so days in office, President Obama has tried mightily to sugar coat an anemic at best economy, an “Affordable” Care Act on the brink of total collapse, racial tension the likes of which we haven’t seen in over a generation, and a bloody foreign policy hobbled by indecision and just plain poor judgment. Thus I believe America has suffered under Barack Obama. We’ve lost sight of who we are and failed miserably at educating our posterity about the necessity of American exceptionalism in the world, at a time when it’s sorely needed. Instead, our institutions of “higher learning” have resurrected and now promote the failed ideology of divisive economic and social re-organization, taking an already wounded republic in 2008 to the great but purposely ambiguous precipice of, “Hope and Change”.
To be clear, Donald Trump’s election will not save us from our potential demise as a country. He is however, a necessary change in direction away from the aforementioned precipice, and a departure from the establishment power politics of the last century which brought us to these critical crossroads.
Ultimately, economies will recess and recover, but a Clinton/Obama continuation of “more of the same” was just not the answer Americans were seeking. Moreover, I believe a man of President-Elect Trump’s qualifications will jump-start our stagnant economy and help the country regain its footing at home and abroad. But the critical and necessary change the U.S. needs will fall to us. Yes my friends, “We the People” must pass to our children, either a republic of laws and values, founded on the tenets of hard work and the freedom to succeed if one so desires, or a nation condemned to the fate of elitist revisionism and complacent ignorance.
Be under no illusions in 2017 my fellow Americans, the change you seek was never about Clinton or Trump. It’s always been, and always will be, about you…
