There are two things that people dislike: Complication, and Complexity.
Make it simple!
This is the plea of those of my students who don't like to think too hard! I understand; these are the kuds who think of Litersture as just stories! Of course they are. And a movie is just videoclip.
Complication: These are the things that students—and people, generally—believe that have been needlessly thrown in, just to make life difficult for them.
Like: divorce. OK, it's not working out; it's splitsville.
Does the couple share a bank account? <Ohh, why did you have to bring that up?>
Are there children? <So what; cut them in hslf!>
Does the woman have the ability to support herself? < Oh.> Is there a house? A car? How to divide those up?
Complexity. This is when all the processes that make something work are themselves complex. In the end, there really isn't a huge difference—from the point of view of a student who hates complication. From my pount of view, complexity is when there are wheels within wheels. A complication is just an extra wheel!
Simplifying Government
Maga—and the Tea Party—have historically (that is, for a long time) held the view that government is needlessly complicated. They have never liked all the complications of * Federal Income Tax returns; * Food and Drug regulations; * The Legal System; * Elections, including the much-hated Electoral College; * Higher Education; and so on. So the GOP has promised to simplify government.
Half of them don't care how it works. The other half doesn't know, and doesn't want to know. This means that, if they take a chainsaw to, say, Welfare, they don't know what is going to result.
The same with Tariffs. These are expensive customs rates tagged on to anything that's imported. Most of what we buy— at Walmart, or on Amazon—are imported. This is obviously going to make life more expensive for everybody who shops at those places. So why did Trump do it?
His theory was that once imported things got too expensive, people will buy US-made goods. Unfortunately, US-made goods are expensive. Our workers make $7.50 an hour, while Chinese and Indian workers make much less.
By now, most of my readers have probably gotten bored to tears! This boring subject describes songs of the most complex processes in trade and government: it's called Economics. I don't know much about it; but Trump has got someone to give him a summrary of what he needed to know.
But Trump is easily boted, so I bet it was a super, super, soooper simplifued course in Economics.
To cut a long story short, it didn't go as expected. The US made a lot of enemies; we wriggled out of a lot of obligations; and we've arranged (supposedly) to depend on Coal and Gasoline for our energy needs.
Trump is a Big Picture kind of guy. Other felliws must now step in, and make these dreams happen. (If trump decides to do it himself, it could be very messy.) But guys who know the finer points of energy production, etc, are unlikely to want to work for trump.
Kay
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