That elected a 34 times convicted felon. I’m not sure why anyone is surprised anymore.

the trump voters largely do not want positive, they want big negatives for everyone else and are willing to accept negatives for themselves to get it

What makes you think that they do? I imagine the biggest beneficiaries of this whole thing is a somewhat longer runway until Russian and Chinese demographic collapse.

Because when the masses are robbed of a stable living and basic dignity, and when faith in institutions collapse in a society that puts everything on faith in institutions, coupled with an education system that isn’t built for intelligence and critical thinking but instead for indoctrination and farming obedient workers, people become desperate for “something else” or “anything else.” Because it’s inhuman and unnatural for homosapiens to live under those conditions, and it’s a desperate situation because these people are desperate, and the people at large have lost a sense of higher purpose (be it God or Country, I personally think we need to return our worship and devotion to Mother Nature.)

I too have challenged faith and reason given the current state of affairs, but I have faith in Mother Nature to return balance to the relations we’ve disturbed, and cut arrogant humans, who think they’re somehow above or seperate from nature, down to size. Like a deer or insect or algae that dominate a given area and upsets the balance, Mother Nature demands balance and harmony between relations and suffering is caused when those relations are disturbed. What gives me faith is the knowledge that all these politicians and their big fancy buildings could magically vanish today, and would go unnoticed as society keeps plodding along - as it’s us who grow and distribute the food, it’s us who drive the trucks and move the goods, it’s us who live on our land, it’s us who strive for and gift a sense of belonging to one another, it’s us who repairs things when they’re broken and it’s us who rebuild when things get destroyed. We are only intelligent or special creatures in that we exist to maintain Natures relations, and like every other creature we exist to survive. We don’t want to assume coersive power or overthrow our government, we want coersive power to be destroyed.

Money answers to neither faith nor reason and holds sway over the govt and it’s population.

I mean, I see it a positive that China is telling us to go fuck ourselves, which will greatly increase the economic hardship that the average white moderate faces, which might wake them up to the horrors that are happening around them. As for the trade war as a whole, idk I think the world will generally be better off cutting out America.

Domestic manufacturers will see a slight bump. Hopefully their raw materials aren’t so heavy affected though…

Because hurting the 1% is the only way this guy is going to be brought back to being an ineffective dictator. If the rich suffer, he will suffer.