Democracy, Not Democracy

This little article of mine is aimed towards those hardcore, hardnosed, far-right Trump supporters who are perfectly fine accusing the Democrats of corruption while ignoring Trumps web of deceit.

I saw this tweet the other day and it made me grunt in annoyance:

" Our Fake Democracy " 😂 We are a Constitutional Republic pic.twitter.com/kJpFJqBo77

— Mr. Redcap 🇺🇸 (@Ghastly_Grinner) June 23, 2017

Let's clear some things up about why that caption is completely wrong (and ignorant).

Go to the Dinner!

Here is my take on the recent news that Trump has decided to skip the Correspondents' Dinner: change your course and go to it!

Education Watch

Last night the confirmation hearing for the Secretary of Education occurred. For those of you not keeping up with politics these days President-elect Trump has chosen a woman named Betsy DeVos as his pick for Secretary of Ed. More on her resume later but before I continue I suppose I should tell you who I am. I am NOT an expert on education, I don't even play one on TV (shout out to my dad who always makes those jokes :-))! I am a product of public education and a public university. I also spent 2 years as a teacher in the public schools of North Carolina. One of those years I spent teaching students with emotional and behavior disabilities in a separate setting with only 8 students. I currently  work in an Early Childhood Center, and early childhood education has become a major passion of mine.I have never taught in a private or charter school and don't have a lot of knowledge about them but I continue to learn from my teacher-friends around me. I know many people who have attended private schools both religious based and not, I also know many people who teach in them as well as teachers in charter schools. I also understand that while it may not have been my parents choice to send me to a private school there are many benefits to that environment (smaller class sizes and more individualized attention to name a few).

Quick Muse: Congressional Term Limits

The great part about having freedoms of speech and expression means that we all have the right to agree to disagree.  Every once in awhile though, we end up being able to agree with people that have completely different viewpoints than yourself.  Case in point: Ted Cruz.

Year in Review: 2016

I want to start things off by thanking every person that has come to the blog and read my articles!  Words cannot describe how thankful I am to each reader!  With that said, it is New Year's Eve and if you're like me, you just want this dumpster fire of a year to go away.  As worrisome of a feeling that 2017 will be, we do have to stay optimistic about the current climate.  We need to remember that the People of these United States have the final say in all decisions in this land and shall continue to let our voices be heard and considered!

This blog officially started this month and during that time there were 14 articles written for the site.  There will be many more for sure in the next year!  So let's do the Year in Review and highlight the Top 5 articles published in the year 2016!

Top Five Articles of 2016

1. Buddy System- How picking your really rich friends and campaign contributors is not "Draining the Swamp."
2. A Letter to Donald Trump and His Tweets- Donald Trump needs to be more diplomatic in his tweets.  What he posts matters more so now than it did when he was just a businessman.
3. Science: There's a Reason For It- Creationists and climate deniers need to understand that their views will lead to a lot of destruction in this world.
4. GOP Ambushes NC Politics aka Reichstag Fire Pt. 2- How a last-minute power grab by the North Carolina GOP showed the world that democracy does not matter when you lose.
5. Trump and Netanyahu: Partners in Crime- The worrisome tale of Israel and the rejection of the Two-State Solution.

Let's all have a great New Years and I look forward to writing more for Trump Monitor in 2017!  Thank you everyone!

Move Over Jackson, There is a New Kitchen Cabinet in DC

The whole platform of Donald Trump was his Reagan slogan of "Make America Great Again" and conservative voters bought it.  What they bought more was that he was a businessman, not a career politician therefore he was the outsider needed to clean up Washington; a modern day Mr. Smith Goes to Washington if you will.  The anti-establishment man is sheep in wolf's clothing, not the other way around.  His voters were hoping for "sensibility" and "forward-thinking" ways but have been stiffed so mightily, yet they do not even see that somehow.  If a Trump supporter gets upset by that then let's show them his picks for his cabinet and their most important asset to Trump: their wealth.

Buddy System

Do you remember when you were in your American history class and learned about cronyism?  In case you forgot here is the definition:

The practice of partiality in awarding jobs and other advantages to friends or trusted colleagues, especially in politics and between politicians and supportive organizations.  

Now that you are refreshed lets look at the current storyline of Trump's cabinet setup.  The Trump platform promised to "drain the swamp" aka take undue influence out of politics.  Anyone with clear foresight knows that a shrewd businessman and a clever politician are two sides of the same coin so it should not have been a surprise at the people he has been nominating for his cabinet.  Speaking of which, let's look at some of his picks so far: