04-05-2020, 04:44 PM
(04-05-2020, 01:14 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-05-2020, 06:36 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: ...as for people like Classic X'er -- I frankly hope that they stay busy with well-paid work and come to the realization that Donald Trump was an unmitigated disaster as a political leader.
The so so businesses, at least they created jobs. In a world more and more automated, more people are excluded from the current method of dispersion of wealth. I would avoid Big Boy too, but they were a cog in the culture. Keeping it so each person gives or get so many hours of labor over their working life times, and by that I am looking at the New Deal’s traditional 40 hour work week and retirement at age of 65, will have to be looked at again.
Were a cog, as were the superfluous, overbuilt railroads. Near where I live many rail lines have been literally dismantled. If something has no economic viability it will die. That you would have avoided Big Boy indicates your choice to eat something else somewhere else. If one speaks of a restaurant chain, then the rationale for it is that it does what one cannot do efficiently or adequately.
The short-order cook will need to become more skilled just to hold a job. Such is a price of progress.
Quote:One part of it is that the virus has given lots of time to think on Trump’s quality, or lack thereof. Too many people are apt to die and the economy still be locked up as a result of his delayed action. I know that the timing was not quite right, but the Republican senators should have convicted him while they had the chance.
All but one current Republican Senator has the rap of enabling the criminal malfeasance of this President. What they let him get away with they cannot stop when it gets worse. We have six months left before the election, plenty of time for grossly-criminal malfeasance. Know well that mere incompetence, laziness, or offense are not grounds for impeachment. Impeachment is not the equivalent of a parliamentary vote of no confidence.
The timing was poor, but the Democrats had to impeach the President promptly for trying to intimidate the President of Ukraine.
Quote:Are thousands of murders an impeachable offense? I suppose without snap elections impeachment has to be a bigger step than the parliamentary system’s vote of no confidence, but still…
War crimes and criminal violations of human rights would both be impeachable. Such qualify as "high crimes". Of course the sort of regime that does such is usually exempt from legal judgment until overthrown in a coup, utter defeat, or a successful revolution. We are not there in either sense.
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.