by Pops » Fri 27 Jul 2018, 13:51:51
KaiserJeep wrote:a sly grin to tell you he is lying.
Man it is beyond me how that is appealing except in a make libs cry, lol.
As for effective, the SCOTUS pick got
him elected, not vice versa. The tax bill is just the same R 1% policy as ever. Ditto repealing anything named Obama. Foreign policy effective? Anyway we have a different view.
On the false equivalency front, my view is there is an order of magnitude in the number and nature of trumps lies and past presidents and in fact the entire GOP seems off the rails. But it would not matter how many examples I trot out neither of us will change views there either, so I won't.
Back sorta on topic, the nature of a republic makes it susceptible to influence money, few politicians are totally immune. The FIRE economy on which the US is increasingly dependent is especially reliant on a favorable government because there really are no "rational" actors regardless of what the economists pontificate. There are people who buy influence and the laws that allow them to speculate and lay off risk and to take advantage of none-too-savy "customers." Of course there are people who believe themselves above risk or whose little cons are below suspicion.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
