As the economy tanks reality will set in. The signs are all beginning to point south, and the backers of MAGA, who all lack principles and spine will take moderate positions.

If the America of the 70's to 2000 could look in the mirror, it would never recognize itself. A squandered opportunity.

The stock market performance is a reflection of the Tech industry growth and value only. The real economy is in the doldrums, we all feel it and know. At some point reality will be reflected in the stock market.

We had a real opportunity for meaningful reset. Now the global community is moving on.

A President who's behavior, and utterances which has caused a tanking of the markets, a slowdown in the economy, reduced consumer confidence within (3) months of taking office is a bafoon. This is someone who constantly brags about his attendance of a prestigious business school. It doesn't show.

It will be necessary to forge strategic alliances. We must support Canada Mexico and the European Union as Democrats. Trump and the Republican party cannot last for long. When the regime implodes and disintegrates serious, responsible persons untarnished by corruption must offer an alternative.

We are at the point now where one has to be really slow not to determine who the joke is on. Who stands to win and who to lose. Over the next six months the world will face the chaos we're seeing here. Yes, we must resist. Luigi Mangione's approach may be wrong, but he determined who should win.

Through it all, embrace love and hope.

Please be reminded -
1. When you side with the 1% against yourself, we all suffer.
2. When you have no empathy humanity suffers.
3. When we choose to elevate isolationist ideas over inclusivity the country and economy suffer.
4. When ignorance is the basis of policy we all brutally suffer.

Right now Latinos are acknowledging the fact of self inflicting harm. The rest of America most acknowledge the plague unleashed by electing a felon, a rapist, an amoral creature, a corrupt criminal, a white supremacist to oversee the democratic experiment which is supposed to be an example to all.

It is very curious how the continent responsible for words like colonialism and imperialism, has now embraced words and titles like nativist and nationist.

I used to struggle to understand how intelligent people would just ignore the obvious ominous signs, globally as well as domestically everywhere. Its clear now that sobriety is not a widely accepted coping strategy. Choices range from soft and hard drugs, to religion, to outright ignoring problems.

It seem we are unable to deal with multiple urgent issues at once, or to prioritize them. There is no shortage of up to the minute news and data. The way news media and politicians react is, you can have an ongoing war, and genocide, yet they will be eclipsed by matters that pale in importance.

Global conflict and economic malaise are setting in. The West is in problems. Its not going to matter who is in the White House, but who is there will determine how it is handled. The root causes are multiple, but top of list are undemocratic practices, and income inequalities.

During the last Trump administration the strength of institutions, and guardrails, were severely tested. It bearly held up. We saw that for the line of defense to hold, it required 'good men'. People like Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman comes to mind. This time we have lackeys and scared placeholders.

Just wondering how the world, and nature in particular is mostly peaceful, but humanity seem to be mostly in conflict. Moreso, how the dumbest and vilest among us gets to set the stage for so much stress.

If you are among those triggered by misinformed notions of transgender , and 'woke' (which is simply a euphemism for enlightenment), and your response is to blow up the system, your mental health is waning. Civics is missing from school curriculum, but adult are more in need of it.

A visual image of being between a rock and a (the deep blue sea) hard place. Yet the human mine is such that we can see beauty. No wonder religion is attractive to so many.

Three of the most common emotional factors we face presently are anxiety, stress and fear. While hope and faith has served humanity as a coping tool, the ultimate fix is for a majority  of us to chart a new way forward, guided by true democracy.  One that is not diluted or rigged by billionaires.