While President Trump basks in the praises he is receiving worldwide
for brokering a cease fire in the Israeli /Hamas war occurring in Palestine, with
the possibility of a lasting peace, one has to wonder why he doesn’t care about
brokering such peace in his own country. We may not have bombs killing people and destroying
our homes and infrastructure, but we do have the destruction of peoples’ livelihoods
and the disruption of crucial services impacting all with the prolonged
shutdown of the Federal government. But Trump
doesn’t seem interested or care about using any of his purported negotiation
skills in solving this present political war in his quest to Make America Great
Again.
In fact, he has given his full support to Speaker of the House,
Johnson’s refusal to call the House of Representatives
back into session. Consequentially, your
representatives remain home collecting their pay while almost all Federal
workers receive none. If they don’t even
show up, how can any negotiations occur?
And President Trump seems perfectly satisfied with Speaker Johnson’
response that, “there is nothing to negotiate,” when questioned about why the
House is not in session.
So, my question is this, why so little concern about negotiating
a peaceful solution in your own country as opposed to a foreign conflict? Is it all about the glamour and fame of the
whole world stage?
Why allow the present philosophy of ‘its’s my way or the
highway’ to be the rallying call of both political parties? President Trump needs to show that he really
cares about the unity of our country, for he has the power to do so by bringing
both political sides together and negotiating a peace deal. But instead, he has refused to initiate such a
meeting and continues to add gasoline to the fire by announcing permanent layoffs
in Federal agencies that, to use his own words, “are favored by the Democrats.”
These acts of retribution are further proof that forming a
peace agreement in the United States is simply not on President Trump’s radar. So again, I ask, why, for he only has to negotiate with two opposing entities as opposed
to three in the Israeli /Hamas war. So, it should be a lot easier.
But then again, our political peace negotiation comes with
no worldwide accolades, or fame and it wouldn’t help towards getting the Nobel
Peace Prize, one of his highest priorities.
