“I am Yahweh. I do not change. I am why Jacob’s descendants are not destroyed.” (Malachi 3: 6)
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People Criticizing President Trump’s North Korea Moves Can’t see the Forest for the Trees
Legislators jokingly say, “The public doesn’t want to watch laws being made.” They liken lawmaking to making sausage. If people who eat sausage saw it being made, they probably wouldn’t eat sausage anymore.
Lawmaking is an art form. Lawmakers who are good at it can get things for their constituents that cause less gifted lawmakers to marvel. If you have ever seen the roads in Georgia and compared them with the roads in New York or Massachusetts, for example, you can understand what they are talking about.
New York and Massachusetts are rich northeastern states, but by-and-large, their roads are terrible. They are really bad when compared with roads in Georgia, a poorer southern state. Why?
It’s because southern lawmakers understand the art of deal-making. Northeastern legislators want things for their constituents that southern legislators don’t even like: things like a counterproductive welfare system.
Northeastern legislators group together with kindred spirits from California and Illinois and other “liberal progressive” areas, but they still don’t have enough votes to pass their counterproductive legislation. For their idiotic ideas to become law, they need support from legislators in states like Georgia. That support comes with a price.
So, citizens in northeastern states ride around on narrow, pothole-laden roads while citizens in less wealthy states like Georgia ride around on great roads.
That’s deal-making. It isn’t pretty, but that’s how the system works. It also contributes mightily to deficits and debt, but that’s another story.
“Liberal progressives”, Trump haters, and other people who have no experience making big deals can’t comprehend what President Trump is doing. They think that his approach is chaotic and unprincipled, but it’s not.
The president has an end goal in mind. Achieving it is like making laws. The process of achieving it is disjointed and it’s not pretty, but it works. That’s why President Trump has accomplished so many impossible things in a few months and Barack Obama accomplished practically nothing in 8 years.
Every move that President Trump makes is designed to achieve his goal. People who don’t understand deal-making get lost because they can’t comprehend how move A leads to move B which leads to move C. They can’t see the forest for the trees.
Pushing Obamacare through was the first thing that President Obama did after he was inaugurated. It was never popular.
When the cost of Obamacare became evident, it was hated by the electorate. The only reason that Obama was able to pass that legislation was because Democrats had control of the House and Senate, and he was president. At the beginning of the Obama administration, popular support for his “crowning achievement” didn’t matter to him. That was a colossal strategic blunder. It was totally inept. From a political perspective, it was amateurish.
Fast forward 8 years. Republicans control the House and Senate, and Donald Trump is president. Obamacare is seen for what it is, and there is very little support for it among voters. Obamacare is history. Even if Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress and the White House, they would have a hard time pushing through that kind of legislation again anytime soon.
To pass something like Obamacare again, a new generation of voters, people who don’t remember the catastrophe that Obamacare was, will need to be the majority. That may take 30 years.
For all his talk about greatness, Obama lacked the ability to see down the road. He didn’t understand that absent popular support, no law can last. He didn’t worry about building popular support, either. He just rammed Obamacare through Congress and signed it into law. As far as he was concerned, that was enough.
So much for community organizing. It helped Obama get elected, but it didn’t solve his political incompetence problem.
Governing by executive order was just as stupid. In a few months, President Trump has undone most of the things that Obama “accomplished”. A large number of those controversial executive orders that were never popular are history. The ones that are still in effect will be eliminated by 2024 when President Trump’s two terms are over.
President Obama’s foresight was practically zero. President Trump has exceptional foresight. President Obama saw fleeting short-term gains as long-term success. He doesn’t understand politics, and he certainly doesn’t understand strategy.
President Trump sees short-term losses as the price you pay for permanent long-term gains. North Korea is a great case in point.
The president knows that he must deal with North Korea. He has no choice. The security of our nation and the world depend on it. A lunatic dictator with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles is a threat to everyone on the planet.
To win long-term global support for the deal with North Korea that will eventually take shape, President Trump must be seen as a person who was willing to go the extra mile. He accomplished that objective when he agreed to meet with Kim Jong-un.
North Korea is a very poor Third-World county and an authoritarian state. Kim Jong-un can’t even feed his people. His only claim to fame is nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
Rather than grow North Korea’s economy so that he can feed his people, Kim is following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He is using nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to extort payments from countries like the U.S. in hopes of feeding his people and maintaining his hold on power.
That strategy worked as long as North Korea’s missiles with nuclear payloads couldn’t reach the U.S., but that day is rapidly coming to an end. We can’t play games with North Korea any longer. Game-playing is what U.S. presidents before President Trump were doing.
President Trump isn’t playing games. He is solving a problem. If the day comes when he has to give Kim Jong-un an attitude adjustment, world leaders will support him because he went the extra mile to avoid a conflict.
Despite all of his bluster, Kim Jong-un is no match for Donald Trump, and North Korea’s military might is no match for U.S. military might. The day that President Trump decides to drop the hammer on Kim Jong-un, Kim is finished.
We are witnessing movement toward one of two outcomes: either Kim will make a deal that includes abandoning his nuclear ambitions or he will be eliminated.
I think we are going to see a miraculous turn of events in North Korea before President Trump is forced to drop the hammer on Kim. The people of North Korea aren’t stupid. They know what life is like in South Korea. They know that they live under a brutal dictatorship. They know that President Trump is trying to improve their lives. They know that Kim Jong-un stands in the way of their prosperity. And they know that they won’t be free until they demand freedom.
I believe that before President Trump is forced to drop the hammer on Kim, the North Korean people will take matters into their own hands. I think they will overthrow Kim’s dictatorial regime and feed him to the pigs. Literally, I believe they are going to turn Kim into a pile of pig shit.
If that happens, Iranian and Palestinian leaders will take notice. They run the same risk as Kim Jong-un. They may be turned into pig shit, too. The Iranian and Palestinian people have had just about enough of their brutal, idiotic leaders.
Again, President Trump knows what he’s doing. His critics don’t.
The president’s critics aren’t smart enough to understand what he is doing, so they carp. Talk is cheap. That’s all the president’s critics know how to do.
We live in a free country. Freedom of speech is protected by our constitution. Let the president’s critics complain. It keeps them occupied while he does the heavy lifting.
Switching Gears Slightly
See “Summit talk turns warmer; Trump says ‘talking to them now’”.
This is what happens when a president refuses to take a bunch of crap from a tin-horn, Third-Word despot.
If Kim Jong-un was in doubt about whether President Trump means business, that doubt should have been removed.
If the doubt wasn’t removed and Kim pulls another stupid stunt, President Trump will send him a much clearer message—the kind of message that Kim can’t forget.
Kim is a monster. I think He will repeat his mistake, and his own people will feed him to the pigs. All that will be left of Kim Jong-un will be a pile of pig shit.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
