The Trump Effect
Unmasking the Dark-Side Left and their Liberal Media Parrots
L. Rowand Archer
ISBN 978-1-64299-745-3 (Paperback)
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Copyright 2018 by L. Rowand Archer
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Table of Contents
President Trump and a New Beginning
T he 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle has brought to the forefront the need to now take the time to talk to the youth of free market countries around the world to get their perspective on how they see their future and to examine how shortsighted government policies, over the last number of decades, have created a disconnect with these millennials and, quite frankly, many generations of young citizens and their life struggles. Before our very eyes, progressive generations of youth have been losing faith in their ability to achieve their lifes dream, adopting attitudes and behaviors that emphasize living for the day, not planning to take care of their own future. Do not misinterpret this obvious disconnect; it is not because they dont see clearly the problems ahead; rather, they are drawing their own conclusions.
Frank Ryan, in his article A Generation Losing Hope: The Shattering of the American Dream (Ryan 2012), makes this point by describing an incident he experienced in one of his classes of CPA students, where he outlines some of the current structural problems in the United States, which is causing concern in an attempt to restart the economy. Ryan further expressed his concern that todays employee may not be taking a long-term perspective toward his or her career and their community.
According to Ryan, a student then made this comment in response to his lecture, That her generation had lost hope. This comment took him by surprise. However, Ryan interpreted this comment, by his student, as not that her generation had lost hope in themselves, but that they had lost hope in the system.
This same student went on to state that the people of her generation have no hope of receiving Social Security, yet they are paying into it. Furthermore, the people of her generation understand that they will have to provide for their retirement, while attempting to pay off substantial student loans, thereby further cutting into their disposal income. The student expressed a further perspective that her generation was wary of investing in the stock market to realize a better future because it seemed speculative, at best.
This student then went on to advise Ryan that parents are living longer, and her generation expected to provide care for aging parents.
She was convinced that all that she was taught by her parentsto save, to work hard, to provide for another dayis pure fiction. Her parents American Dream is her generations nightmare.
And that She and her generation have seen bad behaviors continuously rewarded by governments. They have seen the victimization of society in the minds of elected leaders with no one held accountable for his or her actions. The current generation has seen an unparalleled growth of entitlement behavior in many of their peers.
The net result of all of this is that the productive element of her generation intends to live for the moment. She and her friends intend to achieve a worklife balance that properly reflects this new understanding of what life will be like for her generation. In their minds, why plan for retirement if retirement is never an option?
According to Ryan, this student received a rousing ovation. It turns out that his students, young and old alike, agreed with her completely.
This attitude does not apply to all in the millennial-age group, but it begs the question, how can a society and its political leaders reestablish its moral compass?
First, do not listen to the progressive left (socialists/the dark-side left) and its social and academic critics who mindlessly state that technology is eliminating the need for human capital and we need to redesign our institutions to accommodate more leisure and restrict free market thinking. This is nonsense, since one only needs to study a little history to understand the evolution of free markets and its citizens dependence on free market thinking to adapt to the needed changes to their economic environment. It is only the shallow brainpan of bureaucrats and progressive liberal thinkers and shirkers who propose one-dimensional solutions wherein the future is about less work and more leisure time, at someone elses expense, usually their parents or the government.
It is time for citizens to return to rewarding hard work, end the current notion of an entitled society, and make decisions based on long-term strategies and contrary to Frank Ryans student taking the position of living for the day. Free market countries need to retake control of their social and political institutions and restart their pursuit of a better world for their children, unencumbered by massive government debt incurred by trying to provide unsustainable entitlements for its ungrateful citizenry.
Over the last sixty years, free market nations have participated in unsuccessful attempts to cause social and political changes, like Germany and Japan during World War II and their desire to conquer neighboring countries and more recently by the United States in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan with the misguided intention of installing unwanted democratic governments for its people. Further, the citizens of each free market nation, through their politicians, have tried to create unrealistic political and social environments in an attempt to promote peace and tranquility within its social and political institutions. This has failed miserably because such behavioral changes totally ignore the reality of human behavior and its natural instinct for power and control. Contrary to the notion that the behavior of a bully on the schoolyard can be solved by spending millions of dollars on television advertising by government and advocacy groups, the common sense approach to getting the attention of the bully is with a swift kick in the ass, delivered by the target of the bully or someone directly in control.
For governments, the unintended effect of poorly thought-out legislation designed to right the wrongs caused by human behavior or legislation designed merely to garner votes for reelection is to wreak havoc on economic opportunity for the working class and potential small business owners. In the United States, these legislative practices have imposed regulatory burdens that restrict economic growth, such as the Dodd-Frank, the Affordable Care Act, No Child Left Behind, and the EPA, affecting costs and negatively impacting productivity and competitiveness in free markets, which then affects the price of items purchased by the consumer.
To further highlight why governments should be assuming as small a role in the economy as is reasonably possible, look at the tremendous economic growth and the corresponding tax revenue caused by the baby boomer generation during the last fifty years or so. Yet today, the Social Security underfunding in the United States and in many other free market countries has been known since the mid-1970s, while most governments have failed to enact any meaningful solution to this problem, kicking the can down the road so it does not affect their chance of reelection in the next election cycle.
