But non-action has an opposite flavor when applied to foreign wars. Most presidents have made completely unnecessary wars and jumped into every available foreign revolution, without any intention of protecting anyone. War for the sake of war. Mayhem for fun and profit.
Harding and FDR were non-interventionists abroad and interventionists internally. FDR finally had to fight when we were actually attacked, which is the ONLY time we should fight. Because he had been intervening domestically to serve the people, Americans loyally fought for the country.
Trump is unique, and his uniqueness brings out the constants and variables perfectly. Trump has done EXACTLY NOTHING in four years. Nothing domestically, nothing abroad. He makes a lot of noise on all sides of all issues, carefully calculated to give ammunition to the enemies of the people. But when it comes time to protect the people, he doesn't BLOCK or CONSTRAIN Bezos and Morgan. In the states where demon governors decided to kill everyone, Trump didn't stop them or even complain.
His total non-action is accidentally beneficial abroad. Previous presidents started one new war every year. Trump hasn't started any wars or even added more intervention. He played the sanctions game against Persia and Russia, but sanctions are a backfiring weapon, generally more harmful to the sanctioner than to the target.
Completing the truth table... Was there any president who intervened both ways? Not fully. LBJ got there halfway. He jumped into Vietnam and gave us Medicare, which protects oldsters from predatory hospitals and doctors. But his other internal actions on the "civil rights" front were serving Morgan. By removing blacks and poor Southerners from the workforce, he helped NYC to eliminate industry and abstractify the economy.
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** Blocking vs diverting is an important distinction. Reflection vs refraction. In the wind example, compare the reflective action of a fence with the refractive action of leaves. For hail, compare the reflective action of a roof with the refractive action of hail cannons. In the case of demons, compare the reflective action of an armed revolt with the refractive action of Sharia. Reflection usually ends up destroying the reflector. Refraction, done properly, simply confuses and discombulates the enemy's intended destruction.Labels: Constants and Variables, Jackboot NOT stomping forever, Natural law = Sharia law
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