Divided We Fall

Had a conversation with a close relative this morning and she is blaming President Biden for the high gas prices in this country.  The way the prices work is that Opec sets those prices.  Not the president.  And we do produce our own oil and we are one of the top producers in the world, but a hellava lot of that oil is exported and we in turn import replacement oil.  So now she is saying, as are many, many others that the President needs to stop the export of our oil  If Biden issued an Executive order to stop all export of oil a few things would happen. 1). Oil companies would just stop production and cap the wells.  You can't force a company to produce goods. 2) As soon as the oil companies curtailed production, that half of the country would be bitchin because Biden let them stop production.  And that contingent is now pushing the agenda that none of this would have happened if Trump were president.  That Trump stopped imports.  That Trump was forcing companies to return jobs to the US.  All Trump did was levy tarraffs against some companies' products.  Oil was exempt under Trump.  And those products that he levied tarraffs against were not vital to the country. But the retaliation from the countries we levied tarraffs against did hurt the US greatly.  Government aid to farmers accounted for up to 1/3 of all farm income because the farmers could not sell their crops overseas because of the tarraffs levied against those crops in retaliation for what we did.  And he levied no tarraffs against Russia.  None.  So what I am seeing and hearing is that at least half of the citizens in this country never bother to do any research and just believe the lies told to them by politicians and far right new stations.  Trump did his level best to become Putin and they won't see this.  They refuse to see that if Trump had succeeded in overturning the election, we would now have a dictator and it would not hit home until their"fredoms" were visably taken away from them.  Our education system is a mess and failing horribly.  We are just one candidate away from becoming Russia.