Written by Frank Li
Covid-19 has been a total disaster in America. The challenge: public health & safety vs. the economy – How can we balance between the two? America values the former more, but President Trump values the latter far more, in order to get himself re-elected this November. When in conflict, the President will always put his personal interest above America’s. It’s called “America last”!
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1. Covid-19 in America
Covid-19 has been a total disaster, worldwide, especially in America, as shown by the image below.
2. President Trump: getting re-elected ad nauseam
The image below is worth more than 1,000 words.
Here is a key difference between President Trump and his predecessors: President-elect Trump was specifically warned about it (President Trump Must Be One-Term, Voluntarily!)!
Unfortunately for America, he did not listen.
Worse yet, he has been doing it (i.e. getting re-elected ad nauseam) boldly, without any pretense. Two informative readings:
- Donald Trump Filed for Re-election 5 Hours After He Was Sworn In to Office.
- President Trump: Getting Re-Elected in 2020, via Tweeting?
In other words, President Trump has never dedicated even one single day to governing, but has spent every day in the White House on campaigning for re-election!
What, then, is the key difference between governing and campaigning?
Read the image below!
Covid-19 has put him to a real test and he is failing badly!
3. Covid-19: why such a total disaster in America?
Three informative readings:
- Why the US has the world’s highest number of Covid-19 deaths.
- Covid-19: Politics and Reasoning.
- Covid-19: Blaming China?
Worst of all, everything President Trump does is tabled to his re-election calendar, while Covid-19 has no time table. As a result, many Americans have died and many more will die in the coming months, as he recklessly pushes to re-open the economy, according to his re-election calendar!
Specifically, for example, President Trump has turned his daily Covid-19 briefings into his campaign rallies, without realizing one key difference: the audience!
At his campaign rally, the President speaks to a cult, to whom he lies at will, all the time, without much trouble.
In contrast, at a Covid-19 briefing, the President is questioned!
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4. Discussion
Covid-19 has taught us three big lessons at least:
- In a globalized world like ours, a virus anywhere is a virus everywhere.
- It is the ability to deal with it that differentiates a great country from an average one.
- Our government has failed this time (Top economist: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country).
The image below highlights the debate “to open or not to open” the economy.
The image below highlights the fundamental problem with our political system: America last!
President Trump has simply amplified the problem to an extreme extent! Three informative readings:
- Trump to Order U.S. Meat Plants to Stay Open Amid Pandemic.
- American Presidency: Why is One-Term a Must (Version 4)?
- We Are Living in a Failed State!
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America, reform our failing political system, as I have suggested (American Democracy – Why is it failing & how to fix it?), or become a fiddle, second to China!
5. Closing
Good news for America: the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be coming under control.
Bad news for America: when in conflict, the President will always choose his re-election over everything else, including the Covid-19 pandemic!
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