Magnus Maximus
The Fly
- Joined
- Dec 31, 2016
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Look I am not a trump fan- at all - which pisses off some of my Republican friends; I supported Kasich in 2016 - I would have loved to see a Kasich- Rubio Ticket.
Trump is getting good poll numbers over has handling of the crisis so far- ABC poll says 55% of the country says he is doing a good job in handling the crisis another one I saw says 53%.
That being said we will see how it goes if this continues for months and not weeks. I don't know if it will spark right wing nationalism, but I think it will spark both left and right wing agreement we cannot continue to out source our critical national industries and supply chains out side North America.
We need to treat anti virals, antibiotics, medical supplies as national security issues, we need to pump money into and support companies to manufacturing them in the US.
We need to be fully energy independent,.
We need to make all components vital to national defense in the US. Sometimes we need to ignore the fact that it's cheaper to buy outside the US. We need to take a hard look at pandemic and bio warfare preparedness. BIO warfare is not just about another country it is also about nature, viruses and bacteria that produce naturally.
We need to start world war V against Viruses-- HIV should be cured by now, rabies still kills 50,000 people a year world wide--why-- we don't give a fuck because it effects mostly the third world.
We need to like at regulating the Airlines again as apart of a true organized national transportation plan.
We need to have a real transportation infrastructure that includes high speed rail.
We need our companies to move back to a centralized supply chain, actually stock warehouses and drop that heresy of JIT supply. It works when everything is roses. But hell even I can sail on a calm ocean and I am from the Midwest.
To do those things we have to rebuild our industrial base- and do it cleanly-
We need more Nuke power as well, as wind and solar. But until then we need to use american oil as we transition to a new energy base--it's national security!!!
I think we do need a "Nationalism" but not from the point that America is better than everybody else, but to make America better (no not MAGA), take care of our people, and make us resilient enough to weather global disasters. Because this isn't the last time this is happening and the chaos it through us in was completely unacceptable;e and avoidable.
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