Such a back and forth policy direction slows down a country's forward movement, which comes to a stop each time a new president comes into power. A new president who frequently reverses course with his predecessor's directional flow to then begin implementing his own policy initiative anew. With it, the country's forward movement in a certain direction is halted, only to then begin again in an entirely new opposite direction and with it, a huge loss in momentum between the switch which negatively impacts everything.
Meanwhile America's biggest competitor, China, is laser-focused with its forward only direction and in a tunnel vision manner, with each subsequent policy succeeding the one preceding it, unlike the American's discarding model. This has resulted in the fast bridging of gap between America and China, both militarily and economically, as China continues to close the gap each time America reverses course and begins to travel in the opposite direction. With this, it is easy to understand why China will likely very soon meet and surpass America as the only economic and military power to reckon with in the world.
It is a function of time and depends absolutely on how any country applies its time just like human beings. If you are driving a vehicle and ahead of the next driver by 100 miles and suddenly reverses direction on the opposite side, don't forget that the driver you had passed is still continuing on the same direction and your action will help him close the gap and pass you before you turn back your car.
Joe Biden's first month in office has seen many developmental initiatives for America started under President Donald John Trump being canceled by executive orders. Everything and anything with President Trump's name or signature to it were being reversed and canceled, regardless of their imperativeness to America's overall wellbeing, both in security and economic interest. It appears that Joe Biden's primary motivation is to completely wipe clean off the slate the presidency of President Trump by thrashing and destroying his accomplishments while in office.
For example, Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline project and with it swept eleven thousand jobs down the drain. Joe Biden canceled the Southern border wall construction and with it, wiped out another seven thousand jobs. What is the wisdom behind killing existing jobs and nullifying both projects which are of economic and security interest for America one would ask. Just petty partisanship which failed to take into account that other countries are building pipelines and securing their country respectively.
Joe Biden has rejoined the Paris climate accord and has opened the southern borders for illegal immigrants to flood America. He has also indicated interest in rejoining the Iran nuclear deal and you wonder what exactly is the benefit of this Iranian rapprochement now as to make it such a priority when Iran still remains a continuing existential threat to Israeli and they have not renounced their hatred for America.
But his objective is not necessarily the furtherance of America's best interest, but to cancel everything which has President Trump's name on it and it has been a deluge of cancelations, one after another; and you ask yourself when will Joe Biden refocus his energy on creating jobs for Americans and solving America's other burgeoning problems instead of just concentrating his being on how to rubbish President Trump and wipe out whatever is left of his legacy. The unfortunate thing about all these is their temporality as they will all swing back in four years when the next president takes over, if a republican.
ICHEOKU says this ever shifting policy directions is simply unsustainable in the long term especially for a country which prides itself as the place to be and which occupies such a preeminent position in the world. It will frustrate into certain unintended consequences including forcing businesses and corporations to relocate and move away, tired of policies which changes every four years. What would all the investors who sunk in money into the Keystone XL pipeline project be thinking now with their investment up in smoke? What will the investors who put money into machinery and equipment in the southern border wall be thinking today about future investments in America?
How confident will new investors be to make substantial investments in whatever projects and programs which Joe Biden might chose to pursue. Meanwhile, China is not canceling or beginning a different project or changing direction of its focus, and you wonder how they will be stopped from catching and surpassing America within the next few years if they have not already.
ICHEOKU say the executive orders tinged directional flow interference must stop and it can only stop if Congress started doing its job of legislating. Congress must rise up to its primary responsibility and start making extensive laws for the country to prevent and preempt the need for presidents to use their executive powers to issue executive orders which frequently sways America's policy direction back and forth. Issues affecting America as a country must not be based on the feelings of a the person in occupation of the White House.
It should not necessarily matter whether it is a democrat or a republican that is in the White House, the stability of American and how to keep America continuously moving forward should be the only consideration guiding certain actions, formulated laws and policy direction. That way, America will not remain in a treadmill of all motion and no movement and at most a back and forth themed ideologically policy revolving turntable.
How would any foreign country take America seriously enough to enter into enduring treaty or substantial contract when such is subject to a four year reversal depending on the feeling or objective of the person in the White House. Imagine all the efforts made by President Trump to checkmate China, build the wall, reposition NATO and generally improve America's overall rating in the world which have been flushed down the drain by Joe Biden. Imagine all the effort which President Trump made to check illegal immigration into the country especially from the southern border which Joe Biden has now erased. Imagine the fear of God which President Trump put into Iran and other enemies of America including North Korea which have now been supplanted by scorn due to Joe Biden.
Imagine the stability in law enforcement especially the deportation of MS13 gang members put in place by President Trump which are now headed in the wrong direction because of relaxed immigration policy of Joe Biden. Imagine the respect or fear of American adversaries under President Trump which checkmated their excesses and curbed global terrorism which is now on a shaky ground because of Joe Biden.
The military was repositioned after decades of unending and unwindable wars depleted their weaponry. Imagine the joy of military families which previously risked losing their loved ones but not any more under President Trump but whose anxiety have now increased since Joe Biden came into office, aware that it will be a resumption of wars as usual. All these accomplishments and many more are now under jeopardy just because Joe Biden wants to extract a pound of flesh from President Trump as a payback for what Trump did to his former boss President Barack Obama's own legacy. His supporters demanded it and Joe Biden apparently has no choice but to continue feeding their beastly appetite.
If there was a way to safely divide America along this two philosophical and ideological lines and create two separately countries, one for conservatives and the other for liberal, that could have been the ultimate best solution. But unfortunately, there is not and Congress must now rise up and bring Americans back together as one and help stop the polarization bleeding which is going to cost America big time in the near future. Americans used to be a united country where everybody saw each other as fellow Americans and where common sense brought compromises, but it does not look like that any more.
Now people are suspicious of each other and people can no longer freely express themselves or even speak their minds without being harangued, threatened and even canceled out of existence; their jobs taken, ostracized by their family and friends and you wonder what other place this trajectory could eventually lead America into than a catastrophic end.
Hopefully this dilution of unity in America has not effected the cohesiveness of the military or widely spread within the military, as the military is still one of the only place left in America where Americans stand together and fight as an army of one. The rest of Americans now hardly see eye to eye on issues and it affects everything including marriages, family ties, friendship and work colleagues. A case where everyone has an opinion and feels that their opinion is superior and must be abided to and you wonder how the country can continuously move forward under such uncompromising stand of its citizens.
ICHEOKU is steadily afraid that like with every empire of the past that these are telltale signs of America's eventual end if the ship is not timely righted. How can any society advocate for the abolition of gender and still argue that women are not being treated unfairly or that women should be believed but did not believe Tara Reade, Joe Biden's #MeToo accuser. Such irreconcilable opposites are at the root center of the division in America as mostly confused people want to impose their confusion on the rest of the society. As President Abraham Lincoln rightly surmised, a house divided cannot stand; so it about time America started putting more glue to its unity or be damned by what lays ahead.
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