Will the Election of Trump Change the Country


Elections come and go. What matters more is the cultural change that lies under the surface. This causes both political parties to drift toward accommodation. 

There are all kinds of headlines this week about Trump appointments and commentary that there will be dramatic changes in social standards and social policy. Of course, none of these changes have happened yet. An interesting one is abortion and medical services for women.

The Republican Party for decades had a plank in its Platform stating that a human life is present at conception and thus anti-abortion was central to Party's mission. That has been gone since Trump arrived. 

There was a peek at the Party's new focus when Republican Vance debated Democrat Walz. When to topic of government aid for children and parents Vance surprised Walz with a discourse on how important this mission is for government. "We need to spend more money here" Vance said. Taken by surprise, Walz said he and Vance were quite close on this issue.

From what I have read, the Republican Party's new focus will be to seldom mention abortion but talk up its focus on parenting, raising children and encouraging more children. This is the only logical direction. Being against abortion and the being against government support of parents does not compute. The new party propaganda is being test marketed.

As a Republican woman recently commented, however, a tax credit here and child care program there does not go very hard to off set the dramatic change a child brings into the life of a woman. It changes things for the father as well. Several countries who feel the need to reverse declining populations have tried to increase their birth rates. They have offered free health care, time off from work and child support subsidies. In no country so far has this reversed the downward trajectory of the birth rate.

Apparently, the new Republican schtick will spread alarm about the falling birth rate. As climate change plays out it will, I believe, become clearer we have too many people on the earth. Nothing makes voters aware of population size than hungry people streaming across their borders.

Many things, including some of the most important ones, will, I believed, continue in the same direction they were going under Biden.

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