The stupidity of projection

The letters to the editor section of my local newspaper were full of hopeful projections from local readers the last few days.  I wish I could be more respectful of these purblind idiots, but it's an impossible task.   To think that a willful, emotionally stunted NY billionaire would have the least concern for middle class citizen struggling against a system rigged in his favor is beyond belief.  The staggering corruption and incompetence on display by the nascent administration has put the lie to any hope of an America progressing for at least the next 4 years. The really scary scenario has us falling into an armed conflict with China over trade or that nation's pursuit of the "one China policy" which has been acknowledged by American diplomacy since Nixon's presidency.  Probably the least of our worries will be a trade war with the Chinese.  That will only destabilize the economy which so many Trump supporters have denigrated for not supplying jobs which pay well with no particular skills or education necessary.  Those jobs have forever been relocated to countries where people are willing to work for a fraction of what reader's of the Press Republican consider a livable wage.  The really disheartening takeaway is these people will continue to project their own hopes and fears on the billionaire "populist" who a credulous minority of eligible voters have installed in the oval office until at least 2020.  I wish I could believe a higher power could save us from the imminent disaster, but last month's elections have pretty well proven if there is a god, she has a warped sense of humor.