Our friend and economic commentator Franklin Sanders, who was interviewed for the Beyond Off Grid documentary and has been an instructor at both our online and live hands-on training events, made some astute (and humorous, as always) observations to his email subscribers in the past couple of weeks about Donald Trump.
His insights help inform us that the rise of Trump is a symptom of the disease we have in America, not the solution…
Franklin observes:
Time to rub some fur backwards and rile some folks! I wonder why so many people with otherwise sound judgment have been hypnotized by Donald Trump. Oh, I don’t mean for the reasons the media is presently bemoaning — calling him a Nazi. Maybe they’re attacking Trump for another reason: they want his supporters to BELIEVE they oppose him, to make him more believable.
What optimism makes folks think that once in power Donald Trump would make good on his present promises? Things, by the way, he hasn’t been vocally wild about in the past. If he’s such an outsider, how did he make billions of dollars in real estate in New York, of all places? Not by refusing to play ball with Big Money, y’all can be sure.
And since Mr. Trump has specialized in big bankruptcies, what makes y’all think he will keep his word once in Washington? Why, the Potomac might be renamed the “Politician’s Lethe” because once they drink those waters, they forget all their promises. Besides, how would Trump dislodge into motion the entrenched federal bureaucracy, not to mention a congress that oozes corruption like salamanders ooze slime?
Does it occur to anyone that Trump may be another False Flag, another Teddy Roosevelt/Bull Moose Party sent to split the vote and get somebody else elected?
Now don’t ya’ll get mad at me. I’ve got nobody in the USA to vote for, because I am not a communist.
As Patrick Buchanan observes, the Insiders are foaming at the mouth because Trump has dared to name the garbage can stinking in the middle of the room, namely, all their policies that have been destroying the US since WWII ended. Immigration is denaturing and displacing the American population & culture, crony capitalism has shipped the US economy overseas through all those wonderful trade pacts, and young US lives have been squandered all over the world in pointless wars like Iraq & Afghanistan.
Not a single politician will meaningfully deal with these hot potatoes, because they all belong to the Insiders & want to hold on to their jobs. Along comes Trump and voices what every middle class American knows, the country is falling apart at seams and beams. The smell of death hangs over us all.
I wish Mr. Trump well, but if y’all think electing one fellow with an excruciatingly bad haircut is going to change anything, you’re in for a nasty surprise. Regeneration don’t work that way. EVERYbody has to work on it.
Reformation is desperately needed in America.
But looking to political saviors as a remedy is a symptom of the problem of statist idolatry in the hearts of the America people, not the solution. And certainly not in the person of a man of such poor character and ever-changing convictions as Donald Trump.
Reform needs to start inside – in each one of us.
History has proven that God works through minorities, working from the bottom up to accomplish His purposes, not through the masses driven by fear and greed.
Fathers and mothers repenting of sins, reforming our households first. Then our churches and communities. Then our counties and states. And only after a bottom-up reformation will the Federal government be reformed.
If it will last that long.
We need to focus ourselves on this bottom-up reformation of our families, economy, and culture.
We need to, as Franklin has told us before, “build the new economy now”, not wait until the current unsustainable system collapses on itself to react.
The hour is late.
What are you and your family doing to reform your household, your local economy, your community?
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Until there is a box on the ballot that reads ‘none of the above’ AND that person then ruled ineligible to run the corrupt two party system funded by people like Soros will continue to rule.
If Trump doesn’t win this country is toast
What makes you say that? As if we’re not already? How would Trump save us? Please be specific, and don’t just say something about “winning”.
Great commentary by Franklin and Jason.
Amen to that…
Fathers need to rise up lead their families and their family economy in the way of Gods truth found in His word…Strong Christian families produce strong churches….strong churches produce strong communities and strong communities produce strong nations. It all starts with fathers leading
You’re exactly right, Brent. It starts with leadership at the lowest level – of ourselves and our families.
I pray that Trump will not win. He is Worthless morally and has nothing in common with the”little”people. He’s a billionaire and has never had to wonder about his next meal or where he could live or buying car.Nothing that most of the people in our country have TO PUT UP WITH EVERYDAY.
You are right about Trump…. he doesn’t have a string of murders like Hillary but he really will not help anything We have to wake up our neighbors turn off the TVs and get serious about how we live and what we support I still don’t have any idea what do do in November though.
How do we “build the new economy” now?
Nancy, we build the new economy by making intentional decisions to not feed and support the existing centralized corporatist system. This starts first with relocalizing your food supply, and working to support local small business, and small business in general, not just seeking out the lowest price at Walmart. Making a decision to be a producer and not just a consumer is another big part of reforming our households to build a new economy. Grow a garden, start a home-based business, live a home-centered life. Focusing at the local level is where you will make the biggest difference.
Jason,Your active movement is strong and a lot of people are getting the message.You know you have caught the attention of the ones who would want to put the movement to an end. We all see why they want to control the seed availability. The more rights we loose, the more they will want. May God bless you and Nathan Crane and others I have been following.
Thankyou.
Hello, thank you for your post. My husband and I would love to get off the grid, but we first need to know where to find land where the weather is not harsh. I thought Oregon but some say it rains every day.
I thought California but some say California is doomed. We are in Vegas and so tired of this city. We too are Christians and I think we have to pray to be guided in whom to vote because we do have some lunatics running. Can anyone help how we can pick a land and where to go?
In the meantime, we are starting a container garden with vegetables. The locally grown vegetables we found in Farmer’s market here are so discolored that I’m concerned that the soil had not been properly prepared and one will get no nutrition out of those foods, not to mention that they don’t taste anything similar to organically grown food. We appreciate any suggestions including web places, magazines etc.
That is a very good, but hard question to answer. I would recommend getting out of Las Vegas as soon as possible, and heading north to Idaho or Montana if you want to stay out west. If you want to go east, look at southern Missouri, OK, and TX, or Appalachia: Eastern KY & TN and western VA, NC, and SC.
Perfect place is Blairsville, GA. Faith-filled area and farming at its best. Any questions email me through my site.
Keep preaching that brother. This is what I keep telling the Christians on the alternate right. If they would spend half the time doing the things you are saying here, as they spend on tweeting and writing about, and promoting Donald Trump, then we would start to see some real change happening in our local communities.
Thank you for posting this article on your site. This is what people need to hear. And spot-on, people otherwise with sound judgment.. it is amazing to see how duped people are by this stuff. If you could take their self from 4 years ago into the present day, they would laugh themselves to scorn and probably knock himself one in the head.
Thanks, Matt. We appreciate your support!
It is said by many that Trump is a bad risk, but look at what we have to pick from. I felt the best was Rand Paul, but he failed to get enough supporters and the media dropped him because he was to much od a Constitutional Senator. I agree that we have to root out those corrupting out government and move forward and not be taken in by those who have a failed past record. Whose very nature is to Lie and deceive those that have entrusted them to do what is honorable and with integrity, of which none have those qualities.
But we must chose from what is offered, for as long as we have the Collage Electoral votes that are who really elects the next President. Not the people’s vote. The Electoral Collage must first be removed and the American People saying who is or isn’t going to be the next, President of the United States of America.
I too used to believe that the Electoral College needed to be abolished, but then I reasoned that our founding fathers were pretty smart individuals and maybe they had a good reason for creating the system. So, I did some research.
– Two Major reasons for the Electoral College. 1. They believed that “reasoned” individuals should be responsible for electing the person to fill such a powerful office, instead of relying on the faceless masses who might vote for someone based on how they looked, or what they promised. (Obviously, in this day and age a very UN-PC concept). 2. The Second, and more relevant, purpose was to put large states and small states on relatively equal footing. So California with 55 Electoral votes and 39,000,000 people gets 1 Electoral vote per 709,000 people, whereas Wyoming with 3 Electoral votes and 586,000 people gets 1 Electoral vote per 195,000 people. So on a per capita basis, small states have more power.
– If we get rid of it, then the popular vote would determine the President. (Sounds reasonable, right?). Here are the problems:
1. The population of New York City (8,491,000) which is solidly Democratic, is greater than the entire combined populations of the states of Kansas (2,911,000), Idaho (1,654,000), Montana (1,033,000), South Dakota (858,000), North Dakota (756,000), Alaska (738,000) and Wyoming (536,000) Which normally lean toward the Republican ticket. So if you can carry the densely populated cities, you wouldn’t even have to care about the lesser populated and more rural states at all. So, those voters are essentially disenfranchised.
2. The Dems do NOT want voter rolls to be purged and they don’t want picture identification to be required to vote. These two together means, as one lady put it, her deceased father still votes every 4 years. This allows people who don’t care about whether something is lawful, to vote in two separate districts, or even two states.
3. The Dems have been pushing to allow illegal aliens to vote.
4. Illegal aliens primarily identify with the Democrat party who will buy their vote with more and more entitlement programs.
– In summary, were the Electoral College to be abolished, which I promise you the Democrats would LOVE, the Office of the President will become an essentially Democratic position for the remainder of time.
The Electoral College isn’t a perfect system but it’s the best system our founding fathers were able to create and we shouldn’t just discard it and cripple our political system beyond repair.
Agreed! Trump is not the answer to the woes of the American citizens. I find it amazing that anyone would consider him for the position of President of the U.S. It’s an embarrassment. Bankruptcies, little knowledge on foreign affairs, donations to many, big government politicians and more. He is not going capable of running our country if he had to depend on the working class to bail him out of his failed business ventures. This article is spot-on.
Why does everyone keep calling Sanders a Communist. He’s a Democratic Socialist. Google it. There is a Huge difference.
No one called Bernie Sanders a Communist. He was never mentioned in this post. But saying there’s a huge difference is like saying there’s a big difference between a thief and a murderer. BOTH are bad.
I agree Liz. There is a huge difference between democratic socialist and communism. We already have socialism in the United States (at least 75). Public libraries, public schools, national parks, police and fire departments, highways, and the postal service just to name a few. Democratic socialism is basically taking the taxes we are paying and applying them to social programs instead of bailing out corporations and banks. For a more detailed list of our programs check out… http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/3/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America But I also agree that change has to start within our families. Change the way we consume things, start a garden, have a home based business, buy from your neighbors. I think this was a good article. I was a little hesitant of reading it because I thought it would be pro-Trump. Thanks for the article.
We also will be voting for the nominator of probably two and maybe three Supreme Court Justices. That can impact our Constitutional Amendment rights attacks for another generation! So, who can we rely on to most likely do the right thing? Can we trust the evolving, revolving Trump? We know what to expect from the Demos.
Clearly no one has read the book the Art of The Deal, or been involved in a business where you have a loan – a loan the bank has a right to call at any time for any reason. A call loan as they are often referred to, sometimes called a blanket loan or blanket mortgage. Predatory lending practices are what got us in this mess. Only someone who knows the true face of these types of lenders and who stays true to his promise will be able to stop the pillaging of America by these corrupt people who feed on the blood, sweat and tears of people like you and me. I used to think differently of Trump, but he is the only one who is self-funded and who has the balls to do it.
I see no financial benefit for Trump to do this other than being fed up with the way our country is going. It takes a a bottom-up and a top-down house-cleaning.
I rather have a brusk but straight forward approach than a lying facade of smoke and mirrors and outright lying and thievery that has been going on.
Too big to fail … So steal from the pockets of the public… What hog wash.
What are the last three letters of the word Democrat? Kinda says it all all by itself.
And let’s break down Republican, just so I don’t leave anyone out.
Last four letters are I CAN, or if you want to expand it a bit … publican – in other words … The public can.
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
― George Washington
I’d like to add to thoughts on building a new economy. We need to train our children in fundamentally sound economics. How many of you had a thorough economics course in your education? How many of your parents taught you about our economic system? Most people I know didn’t receive much in their upbringing, including me. I learned through real world success and failure in the couple of businesses I’ve started and ran. The current education system teaches people to fit into the box and be sheep, it teaches them how to be spenders and consumers, not people that produce more than they consume and then reinvest the profits. Actively train your children about these principles so that besides being productive on their own land and supporting local businesses, they will bring sound economic policy to the community.