Mr. Unity
The President, in his inauguration speech, promised that his Administration would focus on Unity in mending the hard feelings from the campaign and election. Many in the audience felt that this was one of the best inauguration speeches ever, as he recognized the deep divides, while also pointing out the enormous common ground that people shared. For about 4 hours, one could feel real cohesion happening.
In keeping with his Unity theme, the President proceeded to head to the Oval Office, and signed 17 Executive Orders that showed his willingness to try to unify the Hard Left, the Staunch Left, and the Pretty-Dern Left factions. But, unfortunately, things quickly started unraveling when he met with some of the various left-wing leaders.
His decision to stop the Mexican wall construction was objected to by the Hard Left, who wanted to blow up the 500 miles of recently-built wall. The order to unblock to Muslim travel ban restriction was generally seen as favorable by all the groups. However, some among the Staunch Left wanted to use the multitude of docked cruise ships to usher the Muslims into the country in a comfortable way, rather than having them rely on rafts or kayaks to travel here.
The President’s revoking of the Keystone Pipeline permit and putting moratoriums on oil/gas leases did not go nearly far enough for all the Left-wing groups, who wished to see a complete shutdown of all fossil fuel burners and an instant conversion to windmills. The President asked them to give him a little time, but the leaders showed impatience, got a little unruly, and eventually had to be restrained by members of the Secret Service.
The moratorium on home evictions/foreclosures on a temporary basis was supported by the Pretty-Dern Left. But the Hard Left and the Staunch Left wanted him to take one more step, and eliminate private property ownership altogether. This ended up in a big debate, with the President finally agreeing on a compromise to put price controls on all forms of housing, and zero-percent mortgages for first-time buyers.
There is still much work to be done to coalesce all the key factions, and achieve Unity. The President has recommitted to accomplishing this unity thing, as promised in his inaugural address, and believes it can all be done in the next 100 days.
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