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issuevoter wrote on Nov 3 rd, 2016 at 9:25pm: TheFunPolice wrote on Nov 3 rd, 2016 at 6:28pm: issuevoter wrote on Nov 3 rd, 2016 at 6:06pm: From the beginning of the campaign, Trump has been adamant about building the wall, and getting Mexico to pay for it. Its the type of hyperbole that is his trade mark. He may not be the sharpest tack in the box, but I think he is smart enough to realise that such a project would be impractical and ineffective.
Should he be elected, and I have serious doubts about that, he would probably push for policies that place steep tariffs on imports from cheap labor countries, when they are in competition with US workers, especially Mexico. At the same time I would expect a huge ramping up of border surveillance, perhaps even militarisation. That combination, I think is Trump's "wall." His commnets on the motor industry seem to indicate this approach. One big stumbling block is that stock holders, in the corporations affected, are at present making out like bandits while their businesses use cheap foreign labor. They are not voting for Trump.
President's don't rule by decree, they have to get a lot of people to go along with them. He has alienated half the Republican Party big-wigs and is relying on a grassroots swing to overpower them. Trouble is, he has alienated half of the lower income people too. He could lose but the point is that nobody likes any of the status quo. This is clear and revolution is afoot because of Trump declaring such. Trump could win, in other words. First of all, there are many people who like the status quo. That is why it exists. But revolution in the USA? I know the Americans, I spent years with them in the 70s 80s and 90s up until 2008. The longest period was 11 years. The single most important ingredient required for revolution is "want." Allow me to digress. The American "Revolution" of 1776, was not a revolution. The only thing that changed was the name on the "deed to the ranch." Today, Americans are, by and large, too comfortable to get up off their asses and take on the establishment. There has never been a revolution anywhere, by comfortable people with suburban values. As for the areas of real "want;" they have neither the organisation or sense of direction required to seize power by force. It is possible that a state like Texas might bring legislation to dissolve the union with the Federal government again, but there is no guarantee it would pass. That's not revolution. Poignant comment,... in hindsight it's worth reading! 
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