Letter to the Editor - Pointless

I find it pointless for letters to the editor to regale all the daily crimes of the Trump administration. The American people KNEW he was a multiple felon and a convicted sexual assaulter . Yet they still voted for him in sizeable numbers. He also stated how step by step he was going to be a dictator "on day one" So the only conclusion I can make is the American people have voted OUT democracy and the free market system.

But why?.. Why have they turned to a 78-year-old   insane , incompetent, criminal, pathological liar and huckster? 

1973 was the year the largest percentage of the American people were middle-class. (63 %) Ever since then.. The number has dropped. My father who was a high school graduate and a veteran. Had ONE job with benefits and a pension . He owned a modest home and had a stay-at-home wife ( my mom) with a boatload of kids. Every five or seven years he would buy a new car.

Now in 2025... Today's families have BOTH parents working TWO jobs each. Many with little or no benefits. They are in debt with massive student loans and can't find work in the professions they trained for. They can't afford a house... A car... Unless they put themselves in even more massive debt.

BOTH political parties have failed the American people. They crushed the unions and shipped the best union jobs overseas . They brought in so many immigrants that wages dropped to subsistence levels. 

The upper middle-class and wealthy have gained ALL the benefits from the last 50 years. The working class are tired of fighting and dying in wars for oil companies and keeping the world's sea lanes open. They are tired of bearing all the sacrifice and enjoying none of the benefits of the "free market".  They are not afraid of Trump destroying the economy and our democracy. Why? Because "MISERY LOVES COMPANY" and if the rest of the country joins them in economic depression and collapse ? Maybe this will get the nation's attention.... That they can't work any more hours.. Or take on any more debt.. Or cut back on any more spending.

Trump will not be the last agent of chaos to be elected President. As the multi-national oligarchs steal more and more of the national income. Radicals from BOTH the right and the left will rise to power until the working class gets a bigger piece of the pie.

I loathe Trump and his cabinet of idiots. But I understand WHY he was elected. If we don't redistribute the wealth of this country more fairly ? History will repeat itself over and over again. This term Donald Trump... Next term? …Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez.

Michael Albert Bowes 

Howes Cave