Weekly Opinion Editorial
GOLDEN AGE!
by Steve Fair
On Tuesday
night, President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress. In the hour and 40-minute speech, the president
proclaimed, “America is back!” He
praised Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for the
cuts they have made in the government’s footprint. Trump detailed many of his actions since he
was sworn into office six weeks ago. Throughout
the speech, Trump was cheered by Republicans and jeered by the Democrats. Many political pundits- on both sides of the aisle-
called Trump’s speech, “brilliant, vivid, and a great hit speech.’” Trump was just Trump- loud, boisterous, and high
energy. Three observations:
First, Democrats
looked mad. From Rep. Al Green’s (D-TX) disrupting
of the speech and being removed from the chamber to members holding up signs
with political messages, the optics the Ds projected was anger. Anger and indignation should be reserved for
marches and protests, not a joint session of Congress presidential address. Democrats didn’t applaud the 13-year-old
cancer survivor Trump introduced during his speech. Many rank-and-file Democratic members privately
criticized their leadership for telling them to sit on their hands.
Sen. Elissa
Slotkin, (D-MI) delivered the Democratic response speech. Spending the majority of her brief 10-minute presentation
attacking Trump, Musk, and Republicans, Slotkin concluded by exhorting Democrats
to: (1) Don’t tune out, (2) Hold elected officials accountable, and (3)
Organize. Good advice for all Americans. The problem is elected Democrats are out of
touch with America. A CBS News poll (hardly
a conservative source) conducted after the speech found a majority of viewers
approved of Trump’s speech.
Americans
are heeding Albert Einstein’s advice who said, "Stay away from negative
people. They have a problem for every solution." Negative
people are only happy when they bring you down to their level.
Second, Trump
loves political theatre. It was the
longest speech by a president to Congress in 61 years. Waxing long and eloquent, Trump was informal
and humorous. The spectacle of the
Democrat’s annoyance and crossness made Trump look good. One of the president’s strengths is his
ability to not get rattled under pressure.
Trump pointed to the Ds and stated: “these guys wouldn’t give me
credit if I found a cure for a deadly disease.” That comment was met with stone-faced, expressionless
looks by the elist self-enthralled leftists.
Trump feeds off the reaction of his listening audience- positive or negative. His style is politically unconventional, but in
November Americans showed they are sick and tired of traditional politics.
Third, is
America entering a golden age? President
Trump claims it is. He ended his Tuesday
speech saying, “My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future
because the golden age of America has only just begun.” What exactly is a ‘golden age?” It is defined as a period of great happiness,
prosperity and achievement.
America has
many challenges. A recent Pew Research poll
found inflation the issue most Americans are most concerned about, followed closely
by the unwillingness of elected officials to deal with it. Americans are tired of empty promises. They want action. They want radical change. That is why Trump was swept into office.
Americans are tired of living in a Dark Age. They can use a little light. When America enters the golden age, Democrats will probably complain because everything will be too yellow.
Steve, Steve, Steve, I am disappointed in you, and my expectations were not exceptionally high to begin with. As you present yourself to be as familiar as I am with fifth-grade writing, I'll give my rebuttal in the form of an essay with a fixed structure. Three observations:
ReplyDeleteFirst, all 548 words of your post praise Donald Trump's second administration and the speech he recited before a joint session of Congress. There is no inkling of critique, no morsel of well-thought-out, high-value assessment regarding this administration's ideologies and policies and their consequences. Your post merely posits blind loyalty to the convicted felon who leads your established political party. In contrast, you do expressly critique the actions of the major opposing party quite fiercely. If there were anything remarkable in the wire news circuit that would disprove Trump's claims, it has been omitted from your piece. Fair it is not, but biased it is most certainly.
Second, I agree with your take that Trump loves political theatre. To stretch that point even further, I postulate that Trump welcomes any form of media coverage of himself, whether it is, as you put it, "positive or negative". It is clear that you recognize this much in Trump, but you do not seem to take issue with it. Conversely, I would take it that the man serving as Commander in Chief at this very moment is predisposed to garnering attention to himself and using the ethos, pathos, and logos components of appealing to people in spoken word to manipulate them into believing that he is the one and only authority to be trusted above all else. Whether the words he speaks are true or not is irrelevant to him. That assumption would of course conflict with the proven fact that the man is unquestionably not a narcissist.
Third, your views on prosperity and achievement are not aligned with reality, Steve. Wait, that isn't what your third point is about. It's about a 'golden age' that I'm sure will begin any minute now after the stock market picks back up. After all, that's the only metric that capitalist politicians seem to use when they want to determine how well the country is doing. Only the shareholders are important, and corporations only exist to turn a profit for their shareholders. Using that logic, those poor shareholders must be betting against Trump because shares across the market have taken a nosedive in recent weeks.
Americans are tired of living in a Dark Age. They want light, and when America gets light, they want Democrats to complain about it. They always oppose what the Republicans want. Opposition from the other major political party is what this nation is all about. Division, division, division. It's actually enshrined in the Constitution. Washington infamously regretted not founding a political party of his own, believing party politics to be a great unifying force in the country.
In conclusion, all Democrats are the same. All Republicans are the same. They are just two teams with different-colored ties struggling for power in the never-ending election cycle. There is no such thing as nuance or faction. Registering with a political party requires you to voluntarily implant a chip in your brain that creates paradoxical opinions averse to the ideology of "the other side".