Who are the ‘clingers’ now?

It’s interesting to note that the majority of my friends find President-Elect Donald Trump offensive. Over the Christmas Season I was asked numerous times by friends and acquaintances what I thought about Donald Trump. I knew up front that these were set-up questions to force me to defend someone they thought morally, ethically and intellectually wanting. And I took a good run at them in efforts to explain the concept of ‘creative destruction,’ an idea initially conceived by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942, that postulates its necessity as an integral part of healthy capitalism.

Briefly, creative destruction is an innovative process that constantly deconstructs existing arrangements and replaces them with newer, more productive arrangements. While the term initially applied only to economics, it has since also been applied to social constructs, which is where our progressive friends are losing their bearing. Many of these friends didn’t want to hear about creative destruction, much less understand its meaning, as they felt Mr. Trump to be unfit to be president, no matter what the people say. Just look at this small hands, orange cast and weird hair. While the Presidential Campaign of 2016 was certainly the nastiest in my lifetime, it was imperative that the progressive stranglehold on America’s polity be broken. Evidence of this necessity is everywhere, as America’s social cultural and economic standards depreciated over the past 30 years, to bring us to the present level of dysfunction: stagnant wages, rampant unemployment, Third-World quality poverty and most importantly, millions of people having lost hope, as is evidenced by America’s rampant opioid addiction crisis and declining lifespans. Yet, the progressive mind is incapable of seeing this decline as they cling to their dystopian vision of a society, where speech, behaviour and every other aspect of life is regulated by an outsized, if incompetent, bureaucracy. The progressive dream is and has always been a nightmare, as any student of history can plainly grasp.

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It doesn’t seem to matter how spectacularly socialism fails, there are plenty of progressive minds that see it as a better idea because they cling to the conceit that human nature is manageable. Ergo the unexpected and very unwelcome victory of Donald Trump. Progressives fooled themselves that they couldn’t lose because of their moral superiority and nuanced understanding of economics and foreign affairs, when really most Americans just wanted a job and the opportunity to pursue happiness, as stated in the Declaration of Independence. Remarkably, progressives don’t seem to understand what has happened. During the Obama tenure Democrats lost a total of 1,042 federal and state seats. The fact that Republicans now hold majorities in both houses of Congress, are in the White House and hold the majority of America’s state and county governments seems to have escaped their notice, hence the attempt to derail the will of the people through ballot recounts and Herculean efforts to sway Republican electors to betray the voters’ trust. And yet it appears these failed efforts did not convince progressives that their ideas have been soundly rejected and more efforts to sabotage President Trump are currently under way. The Clinton, Bush and Obama years are thankfully behind us and America is awakening from what appears to have been a very disturbing dream. Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been since 2001 and tens of thousands of new jobs are set to start in 2017, as Donald Trump has promised to reverse the sententious policies of the Obama Administration. Yet for some inexplicable reason the progressives are turning into ‘bitter clingers.’ Looks good on them.