FEBRUARY 2017

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The stock market adjusts itself
after big waves of high and
low. Football coaches adjust
their play calling at halftime. Interest
rates adjust to economic indicators
and money supply. Standardized
tests are revised to manage competitive
levels amongst students. What
happens when you don’t make adjustments?
Either you remain mediocre,
or you start to get a bubble.
Mediocrity breeds contempt and
bubbles burst.
Beginning with the inaugural address
of President Donald Trump, we
are in an adjustment phase. Trump
has revised American lexicon and
the political paradigm.
But for too many of our citizens,
a different reality exists:
Mothers and children trapped
in poverty in our inner cities;
rusted-out factories scattered like
tombstones across the landscape
of our nation; an education system,
flush with cash, but which
leaves our young and beautiful
students deprived of knowledge;
and the crime and gangs and
drugs that have stolen too many
lives and robbed our country of
so much unrealized potential.
This American carnage stops
right here and stops right now.
– President Trump’s
Inaugural Address,
January 20, 2017
This description of America will
sound foreign to many. But Trump
was not talking to me or most of you
reading this article right now. As
Nolan Finley aptly pointed out in
his Detroit News column, “Trump
delivered an inauguration speech to
the bars, barns and bowling alleys of
America…” Nor was he talking to
political insiders, establishment bureaucrats,
liberal elites or traditional
conservatives. On the contrary,
those groups were his foils. His speech
was devoid of all the pleasantries,
courtesies and sweeping oratory that
these groups have come to expect.
He only briefly acknowledged the
four past presidents in his company.
He did not pay respect to the ailing
George H. W. Bush who was not
there. He did not seek a unity moment
by embracing Hillary Clinton,
or even shaking her hand. He did
not seize the historic opportunity to
gather the former presidents together
for tea or lunch at the White House.
That is not Donald Trump. He
doesn’t serve up pageantry. He
serves up red meat to red meat eaters.
Herein lies the adjustment, the shift.
The bubble has burst on Obamacare,
the Dodd/Frank legislation, illegal
immigration and free trade. Out are
the LBGT movement, Planned Parenthood
and Black Lives Matter. In
are the National Rifle Association,
the American worker and conservative
federal judges. Out are the
political and media elite. In are the
American people.
Trump did not use his inaugural
address to pivot to normalcy. He used
it to shake the establishment. In
that regard, the speech was as radical
as it was ungracious. In his farewell
speech to the nation, Dwight
D. Eisenhower warned of the Military
Industrial Complex. Trump’s
election was not a response to that.
This complex has been contained,
even if barely. Trump’s election was
a response to the political establishment/media-elite/Wall
Street axis
that has come to represent American
power and privilege. This is the
biggest bubble out there and Trump
seems determined to bust it.
And that is exactly what those in
the “bars, barns and bowling alleys of
American” are looking for.
40 CHALDEAN NEWS FEBRUARY 2017