I don't buy the argument that Trump has been trying to take on the powers that be/establishment or fight the system and drain the swamp, as others, like Paul Craig Roberts claim. Trump has done nothing along those lines and, to the contrary, appointed two SCOTUS justices who will protect the PTB and establishment He has appointed many wealthy insiders who will protect the system and expose American assets to extraction

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I don't buy the argument that Trump has been trying to take on the powers that be/establishment or fight the system and drain the swamp, as others, like Paul Craig Roberts claim.

Trump has done nothing along those lines and, to the contrary, appointed two SCOTUS justices who will protect the PTB and establishment He has appointed many wealthy insiders who will protect the system and expose American assets to extraction and exploitation. He has pushed for eliminating regulations that protect consumers and the environment, further serving the corporate establishment.

People who claim Trump is fighting the system argue that he wants to make peace with Russia. If so, then why did he cancel the Nuclear arms treaty? If he has been trying to make peace with Russia, why has he kept his conversations secret. Today, he says he is the most transparent person in politics. What a lie.

I don't blame people, before Trump began his presidency, for having hope that Trump could fight the deep state and the powers-that-be system, that he would drain the swamp, as he'd promised. But Trump has not delivered. You might say he was stymied, but he had the Republicans in control of the House and Senate and still did nothing, outside of approving a tax break that went 85% to the wealthy. And he has added many more slimy miscreants who are part of the problem, part of the system, to the swamp, rather than draining it.

I would argue that it was either Trump's failure or, even more likely, he never intended to keep his promises. Trump is a grotesque, malignant narcissist psychopath and he makes his decisions based on how they serve him and him alone. Anyone who still believes that he "deserves a chance" is deluding his or herself.

I believe that the Democrats are doing the right thing, investigating Trump under the rubric of impeachment. I'm not sure that removing him is the best thing for two reasons. One, it will fuel those who claim that impeachment is coup. It is not. He has violated the constitution, breaking laws. But removing him will probably make it more likely that the Democrats will lose in 2020, since then, the GOP will field stronger candidates who do not evoke the disgust Trump does. And if there's any chance of doing something about the neoliberal, imperialist, corporatist rigged system that exists, it will be by electing Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard or Elizabeth Warren, in my order of preference. If the Democratic leadership goes against the tide that is already giving more support to progressive candidates

Bottom-line. Trump is either a failure or a liar and does not deserve a chance to continue. If you believe that he can or will do anything about the system or Russia, you are entertaining a fantasy unsupported by reality or past performance.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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