The presidency that capitalism built
A lot of the decisions made by Trump during his presidency have left many baffled and confused as to why HE is baffled and confused at our reaction.
The famous comment on "Who knew being a president could be so hard." is something we laugh up but never have quite asked why he'd make such a comment, save to say he's senile or some other joke about his mentality. And yes, his mentality is in part to do with this, but not just from a senility that is imparing his judgment, brought on by poor eating habits and other neuroligcal disorders.
Trump has, until now, been a CEO, and owner of a business. The Presidency has, until now, been a position in a democratic state. These two things couldn't be farther apart.
in a capitalist system, as well as some other economic systems, is as to a king of a country. They own it, we say, and can make decisions that effect the lives of everyone on down from the top where he/she sits. These are the persons who own that 51% of shares in a company (or if the Waltons, own that percent or greater as family)
A CEO could be seen as a duke, viceroy, basically the second to the king. They are for a large part the face, voice and executor of the company. They conduct business according to their "vision" within the law (as they can twist it) in order to perform the request of the owner, which typically boils down to "Make more money." Below this are a collection of persons that make up the board of directors. All in all this group equates to an oligarchy.
And so we have Trump: Someone who's based his perception of responsability and governance entirely upon this system. He's the boss, what he says goes. Consequence is near nil. But now he comes unto our democracy, parading himself as outsider and we are, at most times, attempting to remain a democracy.
In our democracy we have servants, great and small. We have checks and balances and our system is slow and sluggish as a design feature, not a flaw. When a policy decision is made, it is first put before a comittee and discussed to death. Then it is sent to another office for review and finalizing. Then another comittee to review it's fiscal impact then it's put up for a vote, through two houses, past an executor then before a series of judges to determine wether it is in the end constitutional or not.
Now he doesn't know this system. He's profressed loudly and boldly he's no politician, an outsider. He's been used to a system of oligarchy, and friend to oligarchs. A system in which the worker has no voice nor meaningful vote (Money buys shares, shares buy votes. More money, more votes) And he's utterly BAFFLED by opposition, and comittee, and debate and soon, persecution.
Hopefully this will help some understand that beyond his mental troubles, Trump's confusion comes from a lack of understanding of a democratic process because we have allowed our businesses to not be such things.
