1. My point was that, until recently, the US$ was recognized universally as the currency in which oil was traded.
2. Through the fact that the US can print US$ pretty much for free without any measurable downside.
3. This should explain quite clearly one of the reasons why many informed non US citizens appear to care more about Trump than the millions of his supporters who appear to blindly believe whetever lie they are being fed with. Talk about the great freedom...
4. But I gave a list of 10+ more reasons a few pages ago that I could summarize in “I respect too much positions of high governance to accept them being owned by people without the historical understanding, culture and mental abilities”.
5. Finally, I have a young child and I am trying to teach her about right and wrong. I would also prefer the world she will be evolving in not to be infected more by the level of mediocrity Trump’s approach has started to spread everywhere. A mediocrity best summarized by “instead of working hard to change the world, I’ll just lie about the fact it’s already the way I want it to be”. No, that doesn’t work. And it’s not fair to the millions of people suffering in America and elsewhere. It has nothing to do with the American dream I love, it’s just the opposite.
6. So I still don’t understand why so many smart people here prefer to go against their own values to support Trump out of fear that a socialist may come in office if they don’t. This really is a severe misjudgment of the terrible impact Trump is having on this world.
1. That will be true no matter who is president, or if there's even one at all.
2. There is always a downside. The downsides are a weakening of the country and increase of percentage of annual budget paid for interest. Eventually the rates will go up and that will be trouble.
3. Very few "blindly believe." And the same could be said about Obama's constant BS of "Hope & Change." Nothing substantive changed at all.
4. If there is little understanding it's because the national media is basically run by partisan fanatics intent on MISinforming the population. They are dishonest to the core.
5. When it comes to right/wrong and morals, politicians can universally be used as bad examples. NONE of the top four people in the current U.S. presidential race are by any stretch moral and honest.
6. I can help you with this. I'm not a Trump supporter--I'm a "not Hillary" voter. Here's what your national press won't tell you. Hillary is corrupt and phony to the bone. She has never told the truth about anything and her whole life has been about collecting wealth for herself by hook or crook. She corrupted the Democratic Party AND the news media in charge of the national primary debates into giving her in advance the questions that would be asked, thus stabbing Bernie in the back. One of her campaign themes was Trump had a "war" against women, and yet later it came out that she kept a predatory campaign manager despite numerous complaints by women because "he was so good." Wikileaks founder Julian Assaunge recently went on record that the reason he leaked Hillary's emails was he believed she was a "sadistic, vindictive sociopath" and that the national media would never hold her to account. (He has been proven correct.) Finally, in a famous email by Colin Powell the media loved to quote the part where he was negative about Trump but only one provided the whole email. In that we read Powell wrote, "Hillary always manages to screw it up, usually a result of her own Hubris." The whole "Russia" investigation just concluded this year turns out to have been instigated by Hillary's campaign staff dirty tricks. Hillary et al. are the type that could easily turn our country into something equally corrupt as any banana republic. Most of the people I've talked weren't voting for Trump, they were voting for the "least bad." Somehow the Democratic Party managed against all odds to find someone worse than Trump. They seem to be doing the same now by promoting Elizabeth Warren, a person who stole a high paying job that was supposed to go to a minority person, lied about it for years, had the poor judgement to announce a DNA test that showed she was 1/1024 American Indian proved she had been telling the truth, and is now lying about being fired because she was pregnant. This is another dishonest person who has spent their entire life in protected academia and never had to deal with the real world, and like Bernie is telling us, "Vote for me and everything will be FREE!" No thanks. Our political parties have been hijacked by emotion driven partisan fanatics, not people with real governing skills. The other problem is a national media that is nothing more than the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party, and I would bet your's is exactly the same.
Kent in SD