I know that you loathe Trump. I think the majority of Americans have great unease/distaste for his behavior. As a country we prefer our strongman to be more subtle and tasteful in their dealings. Maybe the same results but want a little more finesse and tact. He is a real estate baron in NYC and you don't get to be that way being nice or tactful. It's offensive to my midwestern way of conducting business.

However, put yourself in his shoes for a moment and think about the hand you have been dealt. Not sure where you even start but you sure don't have the luxury using finesse, tact and charm to protect your countries interests.

The borders wide open and has been for 3+ years. Many countries have dumped their most violent criminals as well as other "less desirable" citizens. They aren't sending the best and brightest. Horrible to say that brusquely but it's the reality. None have been vetted and you have no idea who's here and where they are at. It requires immediate action and you hope that by saying everyone that is illegal is being deported triggers them to some self deport. They are all criminals since they are in the country illegally. You focus on the criminals, terrorists and drug cartel/gang members that are in the country. The local law enforcement often know about these but can't deport them because the feds didn't alllow it. The open border has opened up the drug pipeline and the Chinese are shipping fentanyl into the country in massive quantities. Thousands of Americans are dying of overdoses or addicted. You also have thousands and thousands of people being brought in for the *** trade. Many are children and the abuse that is happening to them would get you jailed for life if you did it to a farm animal.

We are afloat in oil but the current administration won't allow it to be extracted, refined or moved by pipeline. We end up importing billions of dollars of oil from countries that use the money for terrorism. Even countries that get along with the US have enormous trade surpluses that weaken our currency and minimize our control of the oil supply. It's totally illogical.

You have rampant crime and violence in larger urban areas. You have demoralized and understaffed police forces in these cities. You also have judges and prosecutors that worry more about the criminal more than the victim. You have entire areas of big cities that are "no go zones" for anyone that isn't a criminal or protected by the local cartel. The cities are rotting from within and the crime is spreading out to the suburbs and rural areas.

Finally, and probably most importantly. You have public school systems that don't even teach basics like Reading, Arithmetic or how to effectively think or communicate. They are little more than propaganda factories. These are controlled by unions that care more about padding their wallets than actually teaching kids. In many areas you have no school choice and often the poorest city schools have the worst teachers. This is in spite of the fact that these schools get the highest allocation per pupil but their is so much corruption or incompetence that they end up giving the worst education. The US is one of the highest spenders on educational dollars but produces results not much different that third world countries. As a parent you have little or no choice as to where to send you child. You are stuck with whatever some bureacrat assigns your kid. it's all controlled out of DC and they are clueless on the differences between educating rural kids in farm country vs urban city kids. It's one size fits all and it shows. No reason that education should be run out of centralized location. Each state should run their education system.


These really should simple common sense issues that everyone should agree upon are unacceptable. However that is very far from the truth in the USA right now. It's going to take a strong willed person unafraid of what others think of him to solve these basic problems.