08-20-2018, 07:52 AM
(08-19-2018, 10:01 PM)Galen Wrote: Unless something drastic changes it looks like Trump will be fine. If anything the constant shrill bleating of the press is beginning to annoy normal people which give the R's the advantage. From a libertarian point of view Trump really isn't a fiscal conservative even though he is willing to scale back government regulation simply because he understands the costs from personal experience. It also appears that he is willing to let the Syrian war die down with out any more attempts to remove Assad which must piss off Bolton and the rest of the neocons to no end. The US is also negotiating with the Taliban which suggests that Trump understands the Afghanistan war is unwinnable and is trying to wind that war down which also must piss of the neocons. If he avoids war with Iran which given his actions, despite bellicose rhetoric, with respect to North Korea then I don't see too many problems for the R's and Trump in the near future.
I prefer Presidents who do not cozy up with dictatorial leaders and brutal causes. I also prefer those who do not demonize those who disagree with him, a hallmark of a dictator. With someone that cruel, incompetent, and despotic, things usually change for the worse.
Quote:I have my issues with Trump but so far I like him better than the shit show that would have been if the Hildabeast had won. I really didn't want to find out who Bill Clinton would have decided to use as his personal humidor for his second residency in the White House.
Trump causes me to regret being an American at times. If you have your issues... tax cuts for the Master Class followed by disruptive tariffs. People are going to get hurt, and tax cuts will be poor compensation to offset losses in income or far-greater costs of living.
Quote: I tend to avoid anyone displaying signs of Trump Derangement Syndrome simply because of the inherent bias of people who despise Trump simply because Hillary and they want to reverse the election of 2016. I regard Trump as far less than ideal from a libertarian perspective but it is hardly likely that I would have gotten a better situation if Clinton had prevailed.
Alienation is the word -- not derangement. People stupid or callow enough to vote for this man deserve the harsh lesson that people like me had some idea that they would get. We now have government by the moneyed elites, government for the moneyed elites, and of the moneyed elites at the expense of us all. I hate this horrible man, someone devoid of any virtue other than wealth... I see the potential Milosevic of America.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.