Presidents Often Get Blamed And Take Credit For Things They Don’t Deserve

Indeed, presidents often get blamed or praised for the delayed outcomes emanating from the deeds of previous presidents. This can perhaps be better explained by an example of what sometimes happens in industrial production.

Let’s say a plant manager is running a fairly smooth operation. His production rate is not through the roof, but he makes sure that downtime is routinely taken out of operations for plant maintenance. But then he either retires or is promoted to some other job.

A new hot shot replaces him and in a few months production rates seems to soar through the roof. But what his bosses up the line don’t realize is that he is cutting safety corners and ignoring plant maintenance — basically running the equipment and workers into the ground in order to look good with his superiors. But then luckily for him, before all hell breaks loose, his great production rate is noticed by another company, causing him to be offered and take a job with this other company for more money.

So now a new plant manager comes to his old facility and production figures plummet. The plant is a physical wreck and worker moral is horrendous. The new manager works feverishly to fix the mess that the previous manager left to him. Yet by the time things are running at a very descent rate, but still not up to the super rate of where his predecessor was turning out product, he is let go. The corporate heads were clueless to how events unfolded just as American voters are sometimes clueless as to how and why things are working in regard to their presidents.

This above example is sort of is an inside out reverse story of leadership change of American presidents from Bush to Obama to Trump. Bush, bamboozled by Dick Cheney, lead America into a costly war with Iraq on borrowed money, Cheney famously saying debt doesn’t matter. This along with dismembered financial regulations caused the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression of the1930s.

With no help from the Republicans a Black American, President Barack Obama, spent his first term digging the nation out of recession while trying to bring meaningful health insurance to an uncovered set of Americans. He then spent his second four years creating an enormous foundation and momentum for economic growth.

Before, however, Obama could politically capitalize on all his hard work on the economy in waltzed Donald “the liar” Trump and his Republican low life backers to claim credit for a roaring economy. I mean, what have they done? Hidden among Obama’s prosperous economy they have undercut value for average Americans, while handing over massive sums of value to their super wealthy donors in the form of a “tax cut.” Between TV time and golf, Trump has undercut our allies as he simultaneously hands Putin and the Russians everything they could ever have desired from an American president.

To further complicate and blur reality, politics like religion interacts with humanity’s survival impulses. Thus it is easy for a con man like Trump to conflate issues and muddy the waters in order to try and take credit for good things among the emotionally and intellectually wanting crowd. Indeed, it’s what gives demagogues like Trump their power to lead folks straight to hell. You can credit the Donald with that ability if nothing else.

According to how much Trump is able to lead America into some new morass, as his actions daily undercut the very economy he dares take credit for, once again some poor schmuck will hopefully dig us out, with, unfortunately little appreciation likely to be shown from the Republican peanut gallery.