01-28-2017, 04:33 PM
(01-28-2017, 04:00 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-28-2017, 02:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: All that's true, but now we have a president who seeks to deliberately stoke both the problems and opinions about them. This is an added factor that was not present in the 1850s or 1930s.
He made a bunch of promises that were very popular in the middle of the country. He seems to be trying to keep them, with the notable exception of draining the swamp. It seems like many of the promise keeping attempts are generating more outrage than kept promises.
I am not casually dismissing the possibility of a Buchanan / Hover class regeneracy producing catastrophe. This seems entirely possible. It doesn't seem inevitable yet, though. He'll need more than a week to surpass Buchanan and Hover.
Nor does he seem to me to be deliberately stoking problems. He is attempting to raise his ratings among his base by doing (mostly) what he said he'd do. That's supposedly democracy in action.
I'm still not ready to join the efforts to demonize the guy. No great loss, I suspect. There is no lack of other people willing to step up.
Hear, hear!
Although one of his voters, I'm really not that great a fan of the man, but the present moral panic is bloody ridiculous.