Friday, April 11, 2025

Understanding Trump's economic policy

At The American Prospect: "Donald Trump is on track to be the first president to deliberately engineer a severe depression." 

I see it that way. I expect depression. Depression opens a door to the future that Donald Trump wants.

Trump wants regime change. He doesn't want democracy. He doesn't want to be restrained by the US Constitution. He wants to be a dictator -- "for one day," he said. Dictator for a short time, and then Emperor: Emperor of the Western Hemisphere: For now, Emperor of the US, Canada, Greenland, and Panama. Before long, no doubt, also Mexico and most or all of Central and South America. Willing to trade Gaza.

Why create a Depression? A depression will make it easier to get rid of the US Constitution. A depression will be the last straw, convincing an overwhelming majority of Americans that the existing US government is the cause of our economic problems and must be eliminated. They will torch the US Constitution and line up behind their Emperor.

1 comment:

The Arthurian said...

PS: The existing US government is NOT the cause of our economic problems.
Their policy is the cause. Specifically, the policy of promoting excessive reliance on credit (EROC) in the private sector. Solving that problem does not require that we abandon our existing system of government. It only requires that economists and policymakers understand that the effects of credit use are nonlinear -- that the effects change as the size of accumulated private debt increases: The effects are beneficial when the accumulation is small, and harmful when the accumulation is large.

Economists are the trustees, not of civilization, but of the possibility of civilization." And the shit is hitting the fan, now.

These days we have a million economic problems. Almost all of them are consequences of one root cause. EROC is that root cause.