Will Trump Drain the Swamp as Promised?
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
November 20, 2016
Promises are easy to make, fulfilling them another matter entirely. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Trump has lots of proving to do. I intend cutting him some slack, withholding criticism like media and many others until he starts governing – then holding his feet to the fire if he fails to deliver, commending him for what’s praiseworthy.
That’s what fair and unbiased journalism should be all about – available through alternative media sources only, mainstream ones entirely lacking credibility.
They denigrated Trump throughout his campaign (while one-sidedly exalting war goddess, racketeer Hillary), likely continuing to bash him in office no matter what he does or doesn’t do.
Given America’s sordid political history, I doubt I’ll look back on his years with admiration. Yearning for real change like millions of others, I hope he’ll prove critics wrong. If so, his tenure will be historic.
I remember Jack Kennedy fondly. In June 1956, as a junior Massachusetts senator, he concluded his commencement address to my class, saying “if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a better place in which to live…”
If they knew Shakespeare, Tennyson, Neruda, Yeats, Keats, Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Sandburg, Pushkin, others like them and internalized their thinking, perhaps we’d have a much better world.
Instead, we have to play the hand dealt us, striving hard for beneficial change, never losing hope, never yielding to Machiavellian evil.
Trump campaigned against deep-seated corruption, dishonesty, hypocrisy and “liars,” promising he’d do better.
Beginning January 20, it’s put up or shut up time. On the stump and via Twitter, he said he’ll make government honest again, close all loopholes and “drain the swamp.” Here are some promises:
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