Trump: Take it in

For years now, our country has been bitterly divided. A war has been waged against everything that anyone believes in. If you have a stance that doesn't fit the liberal agenda (i.e. you are a traditionalist) your view is considered bigoted. It's a sad world that we live in. But it's a reality that we must accept.

The United States has always been about the better life. Come here and your life will be better. That's always been the motto. Today that motto still lives on. We are not the land of the free though. If you are just an average, straight, white man you are being attacked. You cannot stand up for being a male. It's considered sexist. You cannot be proud of being white. If you stand up for being white, you are a racist.

Even economical opinions are attacked. If you believe that everyone should be taxed a fair share, and have a social security identification you will be attacked. Our country is no longer a collaboration of idea's. Our country is now about attacking those who were once just every day normal people.

How did this happen? Why did this happen?

To answer the how, let's roll back 8 years to when President Obama first took office. Our nation was (and still is) in the depth of two costly wars. The promise was to end these wars and bring money back to our country. Change and hope were the keywords that everyone lived by. It was a moment that every liberal looked at a conservative and said "this guy is going to fix everything Bush fucked up". He's got the it factor, and we should all be proud of him.

To be fair, Obama dealt with a lot while in office. Being the first ever minority is a huge thing. But he was the first. So he was bound to be stapled to the walls of history as not being a very good president. That's just the way it goes. Now the foundation has been laid. It will open the doors for future minorities to take office and represent our country.

Unfortunately though, Obama wasn't just a minority president. He represented the "other side" of what our country was used to. Scroll back to when Bill Clinton took office. Clinton was in line with every other president. Wealthy, a career in politics and a reputation to back it up. More or less Clinton didn't do much to stand out.

Go back to 2008, inauguration day. By virtue of being a minority, Obama was not going to be in line. He was going to be paid much more attention to than possibly any other president in history. Which means his greatest accomplishments and failures would be magnified.

I'm not an Obama fan. I've never been one. I will say that he was better than McCain, better than Romney. Obama's biggest fault is trying to cater the low income class. Those who couldn't afford insurance, those who couldn't afford a good life. Those who just wanted their dollar to go farther.

The key component that Obama never understood was the power of the wealthy. People are wealthy for a reason. They reason revolves around intelligence. Much higher than mine. Chances are if you are reading this, much higher than yours too. If a person makes $15+ million a year, donating $3-4 million won't really hurt. That amount of money will be enough to offset taxes. This is what Obama didn't understand.

So we have to think about the ACA. If the wealthy are avoiding taxes through deductions, who pays for the ACA? The answer is the middle class. These are the people who make $50-100k each year. It might seem quite a bit, but it's not. They can't afford a big enough deduction to offset their taxes. For this, they pay dearly. They are also exposed to the problem of the ACA in the first place: they make too much money to qualify for decent rates.

Next comes the income equality. This starts at a small business level. People keep citing McDonalds, and Wendy's and Chic-Filet as examples of why Americans need $15 an hour. These are big businesses, where the corporate heads can make decisions to keep their profit in line. This doesn't work for the small business owners who have to pay that. Say a rug shop decides they want to sell 45 different kinds of rugs. They only have 1 shop. They probably cannot afford to move to another location where sales come to them easily. That would cost too much money. What they have to do is either drive up the prices for rugs. In this case, competitors such as big box stores hold the keys. Or the business owners eat the cost.

Next is the biggest issue of them all which is race. Obama was majorly influenced by Al Sharpton. He invited the man to his white house. He took his advice. Unlike Clinton, Obama didn't allow events to unfold. He inserted himself into the events. He took on the black community and made them his own. By doing so he blind folded a part of America. This is the president who is supposed to represent all of America. But by inserting himself into area's which are race related he gave power to a movement. This movement now controls our media, our minds, and our decisions.

Our country didn't get any better. In fact it got worse. We are in hard times but do not realize it because the mask of the federal government is trying to shield us from reality.

I respect President Obama because he was our president. I do not respect his service, as I feel it was awful.

Good luck Mr. President. In the future you will be remembered as the brick layer for minorities. You may also be remembered as the worst president we've ever had.