You may have missed it for all the mainstream media coverage.
But President-Elect Trump ran as a unity candidate.
I can’t blame the MSM, either. They stand to lose a lot of money from a Trump administration.
More on that later.
So what happens when we have a Unity party of RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Ron Paul, Nichole Shanahan, Vivek Ramaswamy, Del Bigtree, and others? I mean, this is a strong roster of former Democrats and non-interventionist Republicans.
But my feed isn’t filled with my progressive friends accepting a new Trump presidency.
So how do we get to unity?
And would we accept it?
The Last Unity Candidate
Think about how the MSM pushed “unity” on us the last few years. The tagline for CNN’s Apollo 11 movie was “Witness the last time we were one.” Right before they presented us with the common enemy of a virus.
I wanted to give Biden a chance in 2020. Friends of mine shared stories of what a personable guy he was.
And he did try to bring unity. It was just under the corporate agenda that propped him up.
Biden’s supporters kept a mantra of how he “supported our allies.” This morphed into extending wars to benefit our defense contractors. Meanwhile we cornered our allies into a market with an over 400% increase in the price of liquid natural gas. And only the US could supply it.
(source: Yahoo! Finance)
(source: The Guardian)
Citizens of NATO countries waited in miles-long lines for their coal ration to survive a harsh winter.
The “patience running thin” with the “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? It died suddenly when they realized the economy wouldn’t work without 30% of the population.
He built the Disinformation Governance Board to respond to concerned parents opposing explicit content provided to their school-age children. Because the parents needed to be labeled domestic terrorists instead of being listened to. It unraveled after 3 weeks.
FEMA “ran out of money” after 4 years of giving migrants plane tickets, lodging, and spending cards. Leaving them broke for when Hurricane Helene devastated Appalachia.
Numerous food processing facilities were destroyed in fires, explosions, and even planes crashing into them. The 60-count eggs at Costco that cost $8.69 in 2020 shot to $16.89 in the summer of 2022.
The response to reduce this inflation? Attack convenience fees. Because Taylor Swift concert tickets were breaking family budgets.
Now, the Inflation Reduction Act laid hastily constructed CO2 transport lines beneath large swaths of the Midwest, exposing these farmers to the risk of suffocation. And manufacturing buildings for electric cars went unfinished. Even a multi-billion dollar marketing campaign can’t overcome a battery bank needing replacement after 70,000 miles at the cost of a small sedan.
The worst part of this? There was no way I could hold anyone accountable. Requests to my senators took months to get a response if they weren’t completely ignored.
As much as I wanted to give Biden a chance, he was still fomenting international conflict while not listening to America’s citizens.
This was not the kind of world where I could turn on the television and point to evidence it valued my kids as humans.
Let alone unity around that concept.
Unity is Hard
Most people I know didn’t vote for Kamala Harris because they thought anything from the last section meshed with their values.
They voted that way because she wasn’t Trump.
But their frustration with the outcome runs deep. And their echo chambers are even more deafening than in 2016.
At the end of Trump’s last term, this was the crowd that vandalized Churches in California and tore down statues of St. Junipero Serra.
You know, that guy who brokered peace between indigenous tribes in the 1800’s.
Because Patriarchy.
What will happen this time? There’s a high chance this cabinet’s actions could meet goals they would have otherwise agreed with.
Is this merely a marketing problem? Getting messages across this algorithmic barrier is going to take a lot of love.
Even with that love, some things are going to be bad for economy in short run. And that will obstruct the messaging.
Tearing apart the lobby state will shake up big players in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, tech, and defense industries.
The MSM stands to lose this advertising revenue along with Mockingbird money from government agencies. They are going to hurt. No wonder they fought Trump so hard.
Those industries also make up a large chunk of most American’s retirement funds. That and tariffs will inject volatility into the stock market in the short term. And who’s listening when they’re losing money?
Hope for Unity
That brings us to the challenge: How do we move past the election result toward getting to work?
My biggest takeaway from the last 4 years is how participatory a sport representative government is. It’s more than showing up to the ballot box once every year (or four). The folks you don’t 100% agree with can still be persuaded with enough correspondence.
And that unity of holding government accountable gives me hope. Especially if you want it to do something other than just backtrack on infringements that went too far. You can have a voice in forming the cabinet:
From this conversation came one of Trump’s first picks for the USDA: Joel Salatin. This guy is hardcore into regenerative agriculture, a practice that doesn’t mesh well with business plans for industrial agriculture. But combined with Nichole Shanahan’s network, regenerative agriculture has an honest chance to catch on.
RFK Jr. may actually squeeze accountability out of the COVID narrative as the head of Health and Human Services. The highest death count in the world from the country with the highest healthcare spending may finally get the scrutiny it deserves.
The budding bromance between Elon Musk and Ron Paul tackling government efficiency? The promise of keeping busybodies off Main Street is better than grabbing ice cream together. Especially when less than 30% of every tax dollar makes it to the door of the person it’s intended to help.
I’m happier that enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act begins under this cabinet. With Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress, we might even see it repealed before it starts destroying small businesses.
So, take this opportunity to make your voice heard on cabinet picks. As much as we’ve had to deal with manufactured unity, we can find real unity when our interests align.
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