Its patently apparent that Trump, his advisors, legislative enablers, and out of touch constituents have no idea nor desire to defend and protect this country. If you didnt know better you would think Trump and his supporters want to roll society back to the 1850s where people spend their day chopping wood, fighting off attacks from other tribes, digging graves for loved ones who died of typhoid fever, the calvary requisitioning their horses and livestock, and checking the time waiting for the train to come through.
Besides a strong military, which I question we have now given the experiences talent being run out of the military, it takes a valuable currency, education of it's people, a domestic and stable food supply, and responsive healthcare system to defend and protect the country. Show me a country that is underperforming in any one of these areas and you have a country with significant economic problems.
It's great that we have gotten on this thread to fume, debate, analyze, support and criticize the response, or lack thereof, to this virus. But it doesn't mean a damn thing if you dont re-engage in your civic duty to be sensible in who you vote for, hold the current leaders accountable, and above all vote and vote often.
And here is a message of warning for those on here who support Trump to any degree. It's a right we have to get in here and debate this in the form of free speech. But if we continue on the path we are on there will be a day where we wont be debating for or against this response. You see, with autocrats like Trump, everything is a sliding scale for them. He will or someone of his ilk following will turn on his supporters to further consolidate his own power. Dictatorships are not taken by coup anymore. They use a constituency to get into power then turn on them. And it's already happening. Eventually he will start coming for your guns and your religion too because he will perceive both as a remaining threat to his absolute power.
About 15-20 years ago, I read all the Left Behind series which was an attempt give a modern interpretation of what the Tribulation would be like and I cant get it out of my head of what I read then as to how it parallels to what we are seeing now in how Trump communicates and moves the lines of power with no one willing to stand against him. As Christians its appropriate to have a level of distrust in government but that distrust should be applied equally to either party in power. At the end of the day it will always be true that absolute power absolutely corrupts.
