Part Three – Fear in America is Trump’s Final Campaign Message

Fear in America is about all he’s got to run on…Pathetically, Trump has resorted to primarily scare tactics as his closing message for the midterms.  Just for the record, no, those caravan migrants are not a bunch of terrorists or MS-13’s, & no, they’re not being financed by George Soros.  For perspective, these migrants are actually desperate families escaping horrible conditions in their Central American homelands, fearing for the lives from abject poverty & uncontrolled gang violence.  And for the record, immigrants who do come to the U.S. through asylum or are Dreamers here on the DACA program don’t commit crimes at any higher rates than the population at large (in fact, their crime rates are actually lower, probably from knowing they must stay clean to stay here).  It’s painfully obvious this entire anti-immigration charade by the prez is only being done to energize his base, bringing out that ugly nativism among his Trumpeters, plus change the subject away from all the other ridiculous things he’s done as president: why-trump-pushing-immigration-before-midterms.  So the fear in America he’s running on resonates with his base, but the rest of us should be able to see through it.

Playing into that fear is a video released by Trump that’s absolutely despicable, showing a horrible murderer in a courtroom gleefully gloating in his killings, plus a large group of migrants storming a fence to get in, inferring they are all bad hombres: trump-ad-undocumented-immigrants-midterms.  That ad in no way reflects those in the migrant caravan still way down in southern Mexico & may never make it to America, which such a video only appeals to the lowest common denominator & most gullible among Trump’s base full of racist/bigoted xenophobes!: that-anti-immigrant-ad-is-the-essence-of-the-donald-trump-presidency.  Plus the ad even lies when stating the Dems let this killer back in: luis-bracamontes-cop-killer-in-trumps-twitter-video-actually-came-back-to-us-under-bush.  Rubin’s take on that racist ad are seen inside trumps-racist-ad-shows-how-low-republicans-have-sunk.

Think of the irony of Trump using such fear-mongering to demonize these desperate immigrant families, when we’ve clearly seen as of late Trump’s own vitriolic rhetoric is inspiring the neo-Nazis/white supremacists already among us to engage in unspeakable acts of inhumane violence.  There is fear in America, but Trump is directing those fears in the wrong direction!  Let’s be honest about this.  In their hearts these scared/fleeing migrants are thousands of times less dangerous than the right-wing hate groups who are Americans & already living here next to us in communities all across our nation.  Make no mistake, they’re the ones we should really fear in America instead of poor migrant families!  It should also tell us as voters how off-the-rails Trump’s main message really is!  See pics of the real caravan, not the ones depicted by the ads & rhetoric designed to drum up fear in America: migrant-caravan-children-photos-mexico.  It takes 15,000 troops to intercept them?

Another interesting factor is America is actually going to need more immigrants to fill many of our low-wage jobs, since we are experience a dearth of babies being born, which is steadily equating into a shrinking labor pool when they come of age.  Our low birth rates mostly come down to young people when starting their careers don’t feel they have the financial wherewithal to support a family.  Between high student loan debt & low paying jobs, plus other important factors like sky-high housing & healthcare costs, it puts a huge strain on the family budgets.  The heart of the problem is at least 1/3 of the jobs out there don’t pay a livable wage: the-opportunity-index-ranking-opportunity-in-metropolitan-america.  I heard a story of a GOP candidate at a campaign stop brag that thanks to Trump’s economic policies, there are lots of jobs out there.  So a lady in the back spoke up, saying tell me about it, I’ve got 3 of them!  And amidst all this hype from the party of Trump blowing smoke over the economy & caravan, remember a key/real issue is health care, which the GOP has been lying to us: republicans-claim-of-health-care-protection-flies-in-the-face-of-reality.

These Trump Supporters were Snookered

While Trump & his party have been lying to his demographic base of white men without college degrees with a barrage of false promises, the Dems have been utterly impotent in speaking to their concerns or offering solutions that are seen as viable to this frustrated voting bloc, explained in this post from democrats-white-men-without-college-degrees-midterms:

Republicans are facing a serious loss of support from women voters in the midterm elections, but the Democrats’ biggest demographic challenge has been building for more than a decade: they’re rapidly losing support from white men without college degrees. White voters without college degrees are a shrinking demographic group, but they’re still big enough to have a lot of power, even as the overall voting population becomes more racially diverse. The women in this group aren’t turning away from the Democrats in big numbers, but the men are — and that could have consequences down the road, if not in November.

We’re All being Snookered on the Economy

The well-to-do love this economy, but typical families just aren’t feeling it: republicans-not-running-economy-because-they-cant.  The jobs report was wonderful & still families are under enormous financial duress, so there’s certainly a disconnect there.  When we read these excerpts below from millennials-families-american-dream-us-economy, does this look like the greatest economy ever as Trump claims it is?  Our problems are running so much deeper than the general consensus reported about the economy, but our simpleminded president doesn’t understand that, & anyway all he really cares about is getting positive press & good optics.  If there is one area that really is fake news as Trump keeps harping about, it’s in the way the media keeps telling us this is a robust economy.  Take a look at the real economy:

From adolescence to our mid-30s, my wife and I have followed every common precept of responsible young adulthood – what conservatives venerate as “the success sequence”. We finished high school (then college, then grad school). We charged into the labor market and have stayed there. We had kids in a stable marriage. Neither of us quit our jobs or took a year off to “find ourselves”. We cut coupons and buy food in bulk. We did this, in part, because we trusted what we believed was America’s basic bargain: work hard, play by the proverbial rules, and you’ll enjoy a healthy middle-class life. You’ll have a decent job, stable housing, affordable education and healthcare, and a clear route to retirement. But that old, potholed path doesn’t deliver like it used to, even for responsible rule-followers like us. Here in our mid-30s, my wife and I are still chasing homeownership, that final, elusive piece of middle-class life.

Today’s young families started to hit the labor market during the great recession. We’re buried in educational debt, and college costs for our kids are predicted to be even higher than ours. Housing near good-paying jobs is wildly expensive. Healthcare costs are uncertain. We’re less likely to have a guaranteed retirement pension through work, and current signals suggest that government-funded retirement supports will be significantly smaller, if they’re there at all. These are bread-and-butter issues. While national political leaders are gridlocked on how to address the crises of widening inequality and limited upward mobility, we’re struggling to simply provide our children with the same opportunities that came relatively easily to earlier generations. Most young families aren’t cynical because the rich have private helicopter fleets and offshore bank accounts, per se. We’re frustrated because the American bargain we believed in is broken.

Take jobs and housing. Access to economic opportunity is increasingly regionalized in the United States. This means that many young workers can’t find good-paying jobs unless they move to communities – mostly urban, often coastal – where the costs of living are off the charts. The median list price for three-bedroom houses in our Washington DC neighborhood – which averages one violent crime approximately every five days – is nearly $600,000. Sure, my family could move somewhere cheaper (and safer). But this wouldn’t just mean uprooting the kids; it would mean leaving the dynamic labor market where we’ve tripled our family’s income over the past decade. Even if my wife and I could both find jobs, median incomes in Kalamazoo, Michigan, my hometown, are about half of the DC metro area’s.

Perhaps we could have waited to have kids. But like most choices facing young families today, that involves a high-stakes catch-22: delaying having a family means taking on the additional health risks of “advanced parental age”. And then, don’t even think about taking time off to stay home and raise the kids full-time. Most families can’t afford to lose a parent’s income. Better to pay someone else (a lot) to parent your children all week. Or, maybe, we could have saved less for retirement. But that doesn’t solve the problem; it only shifts it around. Absent a crystal ball, being behind on retirement savings isn’t better than being unable to buy a house in a community with meaningful economic opportunities. In decades past, the “success sequence” path was much simpler, and yielded much more. A high school diploma offered a reasonable path to the middle class and a college degree cost one-third to one-half what it does today. Economic opportunity was more widely dispersed to small cities and rural communities, building broad-based prosperity and keeping housing costs down across the country.

Home Prices

On a similar topic, see this intro to home-prices-are-rising-faster-than-american-wages:

This is how housing markets turn. Slowly. Six years of home-price gains outpacing wage growth; bidding wars replaced by sales at the asking price; days or weeks on the market turning into months; rising mortgage rates. First-time shoppers start to get priced out, making it harder for move-up buyers to sell, and the slowdown ripples gradually up the real estate food chain. “Every single market in the country has an entry-level problem,” said Candace Adams, who oversees Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices’ operations and agents across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.

Presidential Con

Trump is running a con game, which he’s been doing his whole life.  By juicing the economy through tax cuts at the top, we’re seeing inflation, income inequality & deficits all rise.  It’s an economy running on drunk-sailor deficit spending as seen from trumps-debt-sales-top-crisis-era-levels-even-as-economy-revs-up & also debt-sales-treasury-great-recession.  A president’s performance on the economy is really better judged years down the road once the effects of their policies take hold.  Trump is now mortgaging our future through exploding deficits.  And there are good reasons why the Trump tax cuts have been such a dud, aside from running up those enormous deficits as far as the eye can see.  The GOP cannot use tax cuts for positive optics on the campaign trail, as the reasons are explained in these excerpts from gop-tax-law-will-bring-them-down-in-the-midterms:

As Election Day nears, Republicans are too busy scrambling with the midterms to focus on immigration and defend themselves on health care, which they thought would be their ace in the hole. There is also the $1.5 trillion tax bill, which turned out to be a losing hand. But a new report explains that public opinion has been shifting away from the Republican views of taxes for years, culminating in the continued unpopularity of the new tax law. As the new report from Navigator Research, which I co-authored, reveals public opinion has moved far from the days when Republicans could effectively campaign on cutting taxes and painting Democrats as tax and spenders. Now, when people think about the tax system, they are more likely to imagine fat-cats and CEOs. Looking at a wealth of public opinion research conducted over the last few years, it becomes clear that the public is much more concerned about the way our tax laws benefit the wealthy and large corporations over working and middle class families. For example, around 60 percent of the public believes that working families and the middle class pay more than their fair share of taxes, while only around 12 percent say the same for the wealthy and corporations, the main beneficiaries of the GOP tax bill. Before the law passed, huge majorities including majorities of Republicans, believed that there are too many loopholes for the wealthy and big corporations, and that the tax code favored the wealthy over average Americans. With The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Republicans planned to sell the 2017 law as cutting your taxes and boosting the economy. They argued that the law would raise wages and create jobs. But they had already lost the public, which no longer believed in their trickle-down argument. For example, fewer than three-in-ten Americans (28 percent) believed that “lowering taxes on the highest-earning Americans will help grow the economy.” By contrast, 88 percent believed that “making sure the wealthiest pay their fair share will grow the economy.”

 

So if Republicans had been paying attention to public opinion, including among their own voters, it would have come as no surprise that the tax law has been a political dud. Three-quarters (72 percent) of Americans believe (correctly) that the “vast majority of the law’s tax cuts will go to the wealthy and corporations,” and that includes half (50 percent) of Republicans and 74 percent of independents. The public also has major doubts about the GOP economic argument for the tax law. Even after the cascade of news early in 2018 about corporations handing out bonuses, 58 percent of the public thought that CEOs and wealthy shareholders were benefiting from the law more than the 42 percent who thought the law gave four million workers bonuses, wage hikes or other employee benefits. What do Americans think will boost the economy? The answer is taxing and spending. Americans strongly support raising taxes on the wealthy and big corporations. And spending the trillions that went to tax cuts instead on infrastructure, public education and holding down health care costs was the argument that most moved supporters of the law into opposition. The shift in public opinion on taxes is part of a larger shift in how Americans view government. As Topos Partnership found in a major study of American perceptions of government, “Not long ago, many Americans’ central concern was whether government had gotten ‘too big’. Now, that question seems less relevant as people focus more on the question of whom government serves. Most Americans believe government actions benefit politicians, the wealthy, large corporations, and to a lesser extent, special interest groups.”

Factoring in Inflation

Whether you believe this article where annual real wages grew by 0.4% q3-ends-with-workers-getting-anemic-0-4-raise or this one showing an increase of 0.6% us-workers-see-fastest-wage-increase-in-a-decade, when adjusted for inflation a wage increase of under 1% ain’t good!  As these excerpts from inside that last link show, higher wages don’t go very far when workers need to pay higher costs on things like gas & rent:

U.S. workers are seeing the largest nominal wage increase in a decade, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, as companies compete harder for employees than they did in recent years. Wages rose 2.9 percent from September 2017 to September 2018, according to the Labor Department’s Employment Cost Index for civilian workers, a widely watched measure of pay that does not take inflation into account. That is the biggest increase — not adjusted for inflation — since the year that ended in September 2008. Prices have risen significantly in the past year, especially for gas and rent. Adjusted for inflation, workers’ wages grew 0.6 percent over the year, making the increase the largest since 2016, according to the Labor Department.

 

Trump campaigned heavily on bringing back blue-collar jobs. While manufacturing and other blue-collar professions are seeing some of the fastest job growth since the mid-1980s, pay is not rising. Most of the wage growth in the Employment Cost Index is coming from service-sector jobs. Pay in the “goods-producing sector” has actually slowed in the past year, notes Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. For Azoria Morales, a single mother of two boys, ages 8 and 10, who works as a housekeeper in St. Louis earning $8.50 an hour, wage increases can’t come soon enough. She recently had to replace the alternator on her car, an unexpected expense that meant she had to tell her boys she wouldn’t be able to pay for them to play in the youth football league this season. “Putting food on the table is a constant struggle. I was going to school to be a dental assistant, but I was in a car crash, resulting in nerve damage to my hand,” said Morales, who is 28. “I do the best I can with what I have. Costs keep going up, but my wages haven’t kept pace.”

Actual wages have started to tick up, finally surpassing 3% in the latest jobs report.  It’s something that has baffled economists for years with unemployment rates steadily moving downward, but there must have been more slack in the labor market than thought.  On that same topic of tepid real wage growth when factoring in inflation, this article posted here comes from wage-growth-high-inflation-economy:

U.S. workers saw their largest year-on-year wage increase in a decade, but it was still too small — and inflation too high — to signal a clear break from the long period of income stagnation. What’s happening: For almost a decade, weak wage growth has defied the economic recovery and has bedeviled workers. But wages and salaries grew 3.1% year-over-year in the third quarter. That was larger than the 2.5% increase in inflation, but still not a lot, economists say. “Real wage growth is almost nil during the last year,” says Laurence Ales, an economics professor at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. “The Federal Reserve forecasts a stable outlook for inflation at about 2%. Hence, the real wage gain will remain subdued in the near future.” The bottom line: “A few good quarters doesn’t make up for years of stagnation,” Jared Bernstein, former chief economist to Joe Biden and now a fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, tells Axios. “What’s remarkable is how long it takes in contemporary economic expansions before people who depend on paychecks vs. portfolios catch a break.”

New Global Economy 

Our problems do run so much deeper than anything that might be revealed in a monthly jobs report.  3.7% unemployment rates or 3%+ wage growth are encouraging (coming as a debt-fueled economic uptick), but don’t even scratch the surface of the decay that lies underneath.  We face unique troubles in our modern times, such as the effects of globalization, technology, automation, robotics, domination by massive global conglomerates, capital having enormous leverage over labor, mass communications platforms, easy access to international transportation, & various other factors that have turned the economy on its head.  It’s not all bad, but the trends tend to diminish the individual, along with individual families & communities, caught up in global forces largely beyond our control.

And now Trump calls himself a nationalist, which there are aspects to nationalism I do agree with, as I’ve always felt individual countries have the right to protect domestic industries & jobs at least in a limited way.  Trump’s version of nationalism is also tied into the xenophobic white nationalist movement, so any principled form of nationalism would need to become color blind.  This general topic is presented in these excerpts from new-economy-forum:

This backlash against “globalization” reflects a failure of our social contract — the mechanisms through which we share risks and offset, to some extent, the impact of luck on life chances. This is embodied in our welfare states, which define the rights and obligations of citizenship; the payment of taxes in exchange for public goods; and the way in which we look after the young, the old, the infirm and those who have fallen on hard times. While globalization increased the total pie, our social contract has done a poor job of sharing the benefits. We need to rethink that contract if we are to provide people with a greater sense of security and better economic prospects. Central to this task are measures to ensure our economies are fairer. While globalization has meant the world has become more equal between nations — with many poor countries having seen huge progress in recent decades — it’s also exacerbated inequalities within advanced economies particularly. To combat this over the medium term, “pre-distribution” policies such as investments in education and infrastructure will be key. In the short run, however, redistribution also needs to play a part, especially as labor markets reward the highly skilled more and more. Tax reforms in advanced economies over the last 20 years have become less progressive; this needs to be reversed. Wealth inequality has grown even more than income inequality, so taxes on wealth such as land and real estate should be considered.

 

We also need to counter the large increase in the share of total income that’s gone to capital relative to labor. Capital is highly mobile and can evade taxation through the use of havens and various “tax-efficient” arrangements. International agreement on ways to close such loopholes and tax economic activity where it takes place would go a long way toward making the world economy fairer. That needs to be complemented by giving citizens more time to adjust to the competitive pressures and technological changes that globalization brings. Mechanisms are needed to give workers more bargaining power — including stronger trade unions, and the use of profit-sharing schemes or cooperatives. There also needs to be a floor on incomes to ensure everyone can enjoy a reasonable standard of living even if their wages are low. Rather than the much discussed universal basic income, better solutions could include wage subsidies, earned-income tax credits or higher minimum wages, combined with better access to services such as education, health and other public goods. We also need to reassure citizens about their economic futures even as the societies around them age and their workplaces are automated. Demographic changes mean that many of us who are fit enough will have to work longer. Linking retirement ages explicitly to life expectancy (as the Netherlands has done) would help tailor expectations to this new reality.

 

Re-skilling over one’s lifetime will also become ever more important, and governments will have to invest substantial resources in the task, as Denmark does, since employers will have weak incentives to do so when employee turnover is rising. In fact, workers should be given a financial entitlement to invest in their own skills so they can retool and be able to continue to support themselves throughout their lives. Automation will transform labor markets regardless. While eventually new jobs will emerge, workers need to be supported during this transition. We should use gains in productivity as an opportunity to eliminate aspects of jobs that are routine and repetitive and replace them with more meaningful work and leisure. As countries get richer, people work fewer hours. Giving part-time and temporary workers (who tend to be lower-skilled and lower-paid) more rights to pensions, paid leave and training has worked out well for countries such as Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. Some new social contract along these lines is essential to sustain political support for open economies and societies. These issues are deeply rooted in history and values, so every country will make different choices on the balance of responsibilities between the individual, the state and the market. But the conversation needs to be had — and soon — if we are to restore a sense of security and hope in our societies.

All Great Things Must End? 

Click on how-freedom-dies-in-america.  In this opening to this-is-how-republics-end, we see how great powers start to decline:

What does a republic in decline look like? It’s an increasingly pressing question for the United States, where rising economic inequality is creating stress, anxiety and resentment. Endemic racism and ethnic prejudice are leading to clashes over citizenship and voting rights. Rampant corruption and ruthless ambition among elites are triggering political clashes that may crack the once-indestructible foundations of the American Republic — an unthinkable idea even a few decades ago, in the triumphalist aftermath of the Cold War. Yet the seeds of American decline were sown not in the past 15 years of war and recession but in the 1970s, when economic inequality began to rise, a process that has only accelerated in recent years. As the decline of the Roman Republic shows, sharp inequality, left unaddressed, can be catastrophic, unleashing political and social consequences that can bring even a centuries-old republic to its end.

Back to the Gilded Age?

Some interesting insights are seen here from in-companies-bigness-as-a-curse:

Today, taking stock of the new political turbulence crossing the globe, numerous scholars have found disturbing similarities in the Gilded Age, the heyday of the trusts, just preceding World War I.

• This is because in pharma, telecoms, Big Tech and more, judges and politicians have again allowed private companies to run rampant, heedless of workers or society, writes Tim Wu in “The Curse of Bigness,” his forthcoming book.
• The anti-establishment wave, economic inequality, and xenophobia of our age? Wu’s thesis is that Bigness — what he calls the new trusts — are behind all of it. They are “the No. 1 problem” confronting the U.S., he tells Axios — “at the root of all the other challenges the country faces.”

The big picture: In an Oct.25 report, the McKinsey Global Institute said that outsized companies around the world, which it calls “superstars,” dominate total global business revenue, and that they are only growing more dominant.

• Researchers have linked such companies to decades of largely flat U.S. wages and inequality, especially in rural areas where people have little choice where they work.
• Since the 2016 election, Big Tech has been under a political microscope, threatened with regulation and greater taxation.
• Against the glare of opprobrium, the Big Tech companies, quite different from the imperious Gilded Age trusts, are attempting to at least appear responsive.

When Wu talks this way, it’s because of the parallels he sees in the Gilded Age and the 1930s, when profound inequality, populism and nationalism led to “extreme politics, and ultimately war and totalitarian government.” In the book, he writes:

Over the 20th century, nations that failed to control private power and attend to the economic needs of their citizens faced the rise of strongmen who promised their citizens a more immediate deliverance from economic woes. The rise of a paramount leader of government who partners with monopolized industry has an indelible association with fascism and authoritarianism.

Wu trots out statistics: In the late 1960s, the share of national income going to the top 1% of earners was 8%. As of last summer, it was 23.8%. “We are in grave danger of repeating the errors of the 20th century,” he told me.

Division Hurts America

It gets so frustrating watching Congress constantly fighting the other side with their prearranged talking points, but our senator from here in Ohio is at least making an attempt with some occasional victories, seen inside the-case-for-bipartisan-solutions.  In our polarized society, maybe president has become an impossible job: trump-wont-unify-america-could-anyone.  Finally a compliment for the prez?  Kudos that Trump finally supports an initiative that on the surface seems to make sense inside https://www.apnews.com/b91aaebb8c8c44589d95cf064e7b5a0d.  Most of what Trump blurts out doesn’t make much sense, as his main focus is to demean the political opposition so as to discredit them & fire up his base, seen in this conclusion totrumponomics-101-blame-the-evil-and-ruinous-democrats:

If the same academic rigor were applied to Trump, we could use superficial similarities to come up with other compelling theories: Because Trump shoved the prime minister of Montenegro, he is virtually indistinguishable from Attila the Hun, who terrorized and destroyed Eastern Europe. Because Trump describes peaceful protesters as a “mob” that has to be defeated, he’s the same as Pol Pot, who said “he who protests is an enemy” — and killed one-fifth of his population. Because Trump uses Joseph Stalin’s “enemy of the people” phrase, it’s logical to assume Trump, too, will kill 20 million people. Trump is undiplomatic — just like Genghis Khan. Trump can be erratic — just like Ivan the Terrible. Trump can be cruel (seeking to deny U.S.-born children citizenship!) — just like Vlad the Impaler. (And let’s not create a Führer by making Hitler comparisons.) When you start from a place of intellectual dishonesty, there is no telling where you’ll end up. That is the very foundation of Trumponomics.

Fear in America runs amok thanks to Trump

The president’s intense rally schedule is entirely focused on red & purple states where Senate seats are being contested.  They’ve likely given up on the House (which Pelosi has expressed supreme confidence the Dems will take the House).  Trump has been throwing all kinds of mud against the wall to see which campaign message might stick, but he’s mainly settled on the politics of fear in America, redirecting that fear against migrant caravaners who should really be the least of our fears in these times!  The Trumpian message of this dangerous caravan with bad people funded by George Soros was a conspiracy that the Pittsburgh shooter even admitted set him off, so incredibly after that terrible terrorist mass shooting Trump has ratcheted up the rhetoric on the caravan even more: president-trump-conspiracy-theories-pittsburgh-shooter.

What Americans should start realizing is Trump’s vitriolic bombasts inciting violence is far more dangerous to the safety of our population, than some migrant caravan that’s weeks away from getting here & may break apart before arriving.  And Trump is posturing he wants at least 5 soldiers for every migrant that might arrive at our borders in that caravan.  Maybe their assignment will be another government sanctioned separation of families by kidnapping children again.  But his fear-mongering is much worse than the thought of those immigrants arriving!  And with his birthright citizenship proposal, he magically thinks he can repeal a constitutional amendment through executive order.

The actual core of this problem are the terrible conditions in Central America & our politicians’ inability/unwillingness to strike a comprehensive deal on immigration reform.  We should have done that years ago.  Our current asylum system in actuality is working quite well until we agree on something better.  This caravan issue is getting way more attention than it deserves, but with the media sources & article titles in this listing below you could do your own search, if you’d like an actual depiction on this topic & how Trump has irresponsibly managed to politicize it:

Inspiration for Synagogue Terrorist Attack

Let me repeat this important point from the section just above.  You want to know what real fear in America looks like?  It’s when Trump blurts out his angry bluster that inspires the worst of us, such as the white supremacists/neo-Nazis who’ve been reenergized by this president!  Remember a big part of the reason the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter cited for why he went in to shoot up the place, he was infuriated by that caravan coming towards America & was (incorrectly) reportedly funded by Soros.  So he bought into the fear-mongering & conspiracies!  And Trump’s rhetoric keeps going down that same path!  Fox News is always there to channel him!  It’s absurd & dangerous!  Let’s get a proper perspective on what we really have to fear in America as seen in these articles:

https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-invasion-migrant-caravan-robert-bowers-4850831b6bd4/

https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-migrant-caravan-george-soros-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-robert-bowers-3933a86f8fed/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-george-soros-caravan

Two Voting Songs

I don’t like rap music & don’t post it in our part 3 sections, but this one has an important & timely message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNTEcB6Pd7o

And see Willie Nelson singing a couple songs on Kimmel’s show, with his election song halfway through the video.  Those in the party of Trump, VOTE THEM OUT!!!: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/10/willie-nelson-vote-em-out.html