"The most dangerous time for a rescue swimmer is the moment when he reaches the desperate and drowning man. The MOST IMPORTANT aspect for President Trump, and for the survival of the United States, is to make sure the U.S. is not pulled under when Mexico begins to drown."

Sundance writes at The Conservative Treehouse,

On NAFTA the bottom line is easily identified. There are no ongoing negotiations. The NAFTA fatal flaw, which allows Canada and Mexico to act as pass-throughs for foreign products, is an impossible impasse to overcome. Neither Mexico or Canada can negotiate away their economic process of importing foreign goods, assembling them, and then using NAFTA to trans-ship the finished product into the U.S market.

Yesterday Mexico elected a new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has the nickname AMLO. Sundance writes,

On the Agricultural side of NAFTA president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and U.S. President Donald Trump can actually work together. Neither AMLO, nor Trump, support the continuation of the corporately-controlled, Wall Street profit-driven, status quo. An interesting dynamic.

...Overall, Obrador represents an ideological outlook almost identical to former U.S. Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. [coincidentally the same as former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez]. Hollywood celebrities and avowed leftists will likely embrace Obrador in 2018/2019 as they did Chavez in 2009/2010. Watch, you’ll see.

AMLO has a governing philosophy almost identical to Bernie Sanders; the problem AMLO faces is his Mexican economic policy starts without any underlying Mexican wealth to spread around. [Again, the Venezuelan issue] Socialism only works when you have other people’s money, labor, and property to distribute. The majority of the value in Mexico is owned by outside multinational interests. Those multinationals will now have to figure out how to deal with a nationalist who despises their ownership and control.

[Again, see big picture Venezuela]

Eventually, in order to make good on his promises, AMLO is going to need to *take* value from private ownership and redistribute that wealth to his constituents. That process may take a few years, but it is inevitable. In the history of the world, a socialist economy has never survived itself (without absolute economic capitulation of the citizens).

When that process happens, those entities who have their wealth expropriated will exit the economic system. It has always been thus; there has never been a socialist economy where that did not happen.. and that process begins the Venezuelan spiral.

The most dangerous time for a rescue swimmer is the moment when he reaches the desperate and drowning man. The MOST IMPORTANT aspect for President Trump, and for the survival of the United States, is to make sure the U.S. is not pulled under when Mexico begins to drown.

That, my friends, is why we need the Southern Border Wall. [Regardless of cost.]