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As with nuclear energy, our political debate in America today is based on the principles of fission — where, by splitting an atom, we can release vast amounts of energy and set off a chain reaction to split more and more atoms until we have a bomb.
In politics, we have come to use division and splitting to generate energy and heat and to stimulate other divisions to create even more.
But, as any nuclear scientist will tell you, fusion generates more energy than fission.
And . . . it produces fewer dangerous by-products.
It’s time we replaced the politics of fission with those of fusion.
While our parties are bitterly divided over the usual list of issues: government spending, the debt limit, energy policy, criminal justice, abortion, and immigration, the left and the right see eye-to-eye on a host of other issues.
The deep state, the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, Big Tech, the globalist economic and banking system, and entrenched bureaucrats who dominate our government are their common opponents and enemies.
But both the left and the right disagree with the establishment center and they:
- Both worry about the overreach of the sprawling intelligence complex and its power to distract us from real issues and send our media on political witch-hunts for partisan purposes.
- Both want to curb pesticide use to protect (and now to restore) purity in our food.
- Both want to curb excessive use of antibiotics to stop resistant strains of bacteria from casting our medicine back into the 19th century.
- Both oppose internet censorship, search engines that dominate debate and cast into perdition those who challenge the conventional wisdom.
- Both want to curb mandatory vaccination, particularly of our children with insufficiently tested medications.
- Both worry about the domination of banking by TBTF (Too Big to Fail) institutions and the death of regional or community banking.
- Both want to stop mandatory unionization, protect right to work laws, and seek to preserve the right to be self-employed without being forced onto corporate payrolls and thence into unions.
- Both want to protect us against electronic spying, wiretapping, and surveillance by "smart" electric meters inside our homes.
- Both want to resist being told by an omniscient government where to invest our savings and retirement assets.
- Both are deeply suspicious of government issued digital currency and worry that a surveillance state could follow in its wake.
- Both are angry and frustrated that even as the west and Japan jump through hoops and retard their economic growth to lower carbon emissions, China remains free to spew pollutants into the atmosphere of our common planetary home.
- Both worry that the government doctors will misuse future pandemics to regulate and limit unnecessarily our commercial and personal lives and our children’s education.
But the various components of the establishment fight us both at every turn, deploying their tools of misinformation, biased internet information, and media ridicule to cow us into submission.
Robert F. Kennedy jr. has boldly and courageously articulated many of these issues, but his political reach is limited, and his political future clouded by self-admitted "skeletons" in his past.
Oddly, it's Donald Trump who is most willing and best equipped to lead the forces of fusion. Only he has the financial support from small donors to resist the dictates of big money. And only he makes no secret of how much he despises big government.
His negative experiences with the FDA have made him predisposed not to believe what Big Pharma says.
His terrible suffering at the hands of the intelligence community makes him highly conscious of the need to limit their power.
He has no love for labor unions or their ambitions to force us all to join them and accept their leadership.
A lifetime in New York commerce and business has made him justifiably cynical about big banks and intrusive economic regulation.
He has experienced firsthand how government doctor/bureaucrats seek to use pandemics to limit our freedom.
His anger at China for its conduct in helping to spread — if not to create — the COVID-19 pandemic makes him unsympathetic to Beijing’s insistence on abstaining from global carbon emissions limits.
To end a politics predicated on fission and to embrace one based on fusion requires not a warm and fuzzy leader to assuage ruffled feelings, but a determined, financially independent bulldog to confront the establishment and defeat it at every turn.
Donald Trump is the only leader who can do so.
By rising above Republican dogma and truly embracing the needs of Americans, Trump has overcome doctrinal demands for open borders and free trade.
Contrary to the perceived wisdom of Adam Smith, he insists on immigration control and tariffs against trading partners who abuse free access to our markets.
Now, he needs to lead his party to collaborate with the left in a policy of fusion to address the concerns both wings of the political system share.
He also needs to pioneer solutions both the left and the right can accept to end our issue divisions.
On abortion, we need to make common cause on behalf of the obvious solution: Incentivized, subsidized adoption procedures freed from the stranglehold of bureaucracy that keeps more than 30,000 would be parents from adopting live, healthy babies every year.
On racial equity, we need to continue the solution he pioneered during his presidency: A high tide that lifts all boats.
On crime, we have to change how we treat the habitual, repeat offenders who commit the bulk of the crimes and stop protecting them.
And we need to embrace the obvious truth that that the more we limit violent crime by imprisoning the criminals, the more people will be less eager to arm themselves to the teeth for self-protection.
We should replace racial preferences, and end discrimination, whether it is in brought on by a desire for "equity" or bigotry and prejudice, by adopting programs aimed at helping objectively poor families regardless of their race, gender, or neighborhood.
As with nuclear energy, fusion can provide us with the power to again use our political system to solve our problems rather than create them.
The American people are manifestly sick and weary of where fission has brought them and would welcome the policies of fusion.
Dick Morris is a former presidential adviser and political strategist. He is a regular contributor to Newsmax TV. Read Dick Morris' Reports — More Here.