by Clayton Tramel
A few days ago I saw an article floating around titled “Why you DON’T have to vote for Donald Trump.” What rubbish. I don’t know what kook wrote that but my Grandma Lena would say “their out to lunch.” If you want to explore such a wacky notion, you can read it here.
You do need to vote for Trump. For reasons short term and long. The micro and the macro. Let’s explore the reasons why. Heads up: I think the macro is far more important.
Micro first.
The Economy?
Trump said he thinks he can get energy prices cut in half within 12 months. As optimistic as that sounds, I think he can get close, if not right at that Target. When the price of fuel comes down, the price of goods comes down. That’s both the manufacturing and the shipping. And to think the outrageous prices we’re paying for everything all started with “climate change.” What’s the difference between inflation and climate change? We know for sure this inflation is man made. Thank Biden/Harris.
There is a direct correlation to the price of fuel rising and Joe Biden becoming President. On his seventh day in office, Biden signed a series of executive orders crippling American Energy producers, thus handicapping America’s leading industry and kissing the ring of the Green New Deal hippies who believe that fossil fuels are the leading cause of greenhouse emissions, followed by cow’s farting. I’m not describing a South Park episode folks; I’m describing the Democrats positions. Oh, and to save the planet they’re going to need you to start eating faux meat made from plants.
Cool?
Pass.
Above, a graph detailing the price of a gallon of unleaded gas during the last year of President Donald Trump, and the first year of President Joe Biden. The rise in cost a reflection of Biden’s Executive Orders against Domestic energy.
How about safety?
A mere hours after being sworn in, Biden signed multiple executive orders halting actions President Trump took in curbing migration at our southern border. This included construction of a border wall and pausing mass deportations of the undocumented. He said at the time “it was a stain on our National conscience.”
He then would turn to his Vice President and current Presidential candidate Kamala Harris to tackle the border head on. The result? In the first three years of their administration, the number of undocumented immigrants quadrupled. When asked this very week if she would have done anything different had she been the President, Kamala Harris responded, “nothing comes to mind. I was involved in all the big decisions.”
A good time to note, last week the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a report to congress, saying of the millions of illegal immigrants living “outside of U.S. detention,” meaning they are roaming free within the country, there are over 13,099 convicted murderers, 15,811 convicted of sexual assault, and a whopping 425,431 who have been convicted of a crime. But Kamala cant think of anything she would do differently. The victims of these statistics may not matter to you and your family directly, until they do.
Look, I know there is nothing more important for Democrats than finding a reason to call Republicans racist and to add as many potential voters as they can, good of the Country be damned. We do need immigrants. And Republicans know this, and welcome this. They just want to allow the best the world has to offer in and keep out the worst.
I liken it to babysitting. And no, not because most of congress act like children. Let’s say you and your spouse…wait a minute, the Democrats are in office and I want to be inclusive. Let’s say you and your two-spirit life partner have a non-binary child and you need a baby sitter. Would you allow, for example, a Hispanic person to baby-sit them? Let’s hope so. The vast majority of Hispanic people are amazing. But does being diverse alone make them fully qualified to be in your home with your child, or do you want to vet them first with an interview and maybe some references? Point is made. It’s called common sense.
There is a reason Trump has taken to calling his ticket the “common sense” ticket. Friends, I think he’s sharp with a great business acumen, but The Donald is not a genius. It’s just that policy wise he’s not certifiably insane like the modern day Democrats. Energy independence? Lower gas prices? Lower cost of living? Safety for Americans? He’s on the common sense side of all of those policies, and that happens to be the Republican side. What happened to the Democrats?
President Trump encourages a crowd to keep fighting after surviving an assassination attempt on July 13th, 2024 in Butler, PA
Which brings us to the macro implications of this election.
You need to vote for Trump even if you’re in the reddest of red states like I am in Oklahoma, because Trump doesn’t just need to win the Electoral vote, he needs to win the Popular vote. He needs to win big. It would be the greatest referendum and protest of the last 4 years, and the constant left veer the Democrats have made will be adjusted. They are so hungry for power I firmly believe they will rethink their positions (which have no conviction) and start heading back to the center where they once were.
First term Barack Obama would not be embraced by this Democratic Party. Well, initially he would, only for his skin color. First term Obama believed we were a nation of laws, and that undocumented immigrants broke those laws. He allowed American Energy to prosper. Heck, in his election year he said he “believed marriage was between a man and a woman. Democrats have exiled people for less in today’s world.
I’m 40 years old. I voted, but never seriously followed politics before 2015 when I heard the guy from the Apprentice was making a run for President. All I knew about Trump before then was he was rich, and he crashed the United States Football League in the 1980s. I started tuning in, and I was amazed. Not at what Trump was saying: what the opposition was saying.
Over the next few years until now, I continuously ask myself “is this really what Democrats believe?” Are they legally required to take the opposite side of everything Trump says? Saying “all lives matter” was considered racist. Gender became a fluid concept that can change at any time. Our Police need to be defunded. Socialism was given a makeover under the guise of climate change and a concept called diversity, equity, and inclusion. Kamala Harris is their one shot to reshape this Country embracing all of these ideals.
I was told that Democrats and Republicans never used to be that far apart, and that you didn’t have to worry so much about who was steering the ship because aside from a few stops, we were all headed to the same place. A resounding Trump win would force the left back towards the center. How nice would it be to not have to worry or care about politics as much as we have over the last three election cycles?
Some say that chaos started because of Trump? I say a win for Trump will end it. Vote accordingly.