06-01-2020, 01:34 AM
(05-31-2020, 02:43 PM)Isoko Wrote: Honestly, you cannot blame Trump for all these problems.
1) Pandemic wasn't his fault. Other Western governments were making the same mistakes. Look at Italy or even the UK. And Sweden? Just wow.
President Trump acted as if he could debunk the disease with the mental equivalent of placebos. That obviously failed. He offered his substitute for solid medicine and medical research. He could have pushed masks.
Quote:2) Riots happened under Obama as well and even Bill Clinton. That is the nature of the U.S.
Those were localized. This time the riots are all over the country.
Quote:3) Mass unemployment - that existed under Bush and even Obama. The latest unemployment is down to the quarantine and that is something that is going to hit the West hard. Nothing to do with Trump.
The sooner that Americans see themselves safe from COVID-19, the sooner the overall economy will start to recover.
Quote:4) Recession is nature to the American and overall global economic system. Unless the system radically changes, nothing you can ultimately do about it.
But full-blown depression isn't. The first year and a half of the economic meltdown had about the same effects on securities prices and unemployment as did the 2007-2009 meltdown.
Quote:Honestly I don't get the Trump bashing. He hasn't actually really done anything his predecessors didn't do. Aside from try to take a more hands on approach with North Korea. And he hasn't been as gung ho like Hilary would have been. We'd have had world war 3 if Hilary had been in charge....
He got away with lots of squirrely stuff because his political and journalistic flunkies could dismiss everything. Now they can't. We have pervasive failure in much because the President
(1) can't relate to people on the other side
(2) is fundamentally dishonest
(3) is cruel, corrupt, and stubborn
(4) ridicules expertise, protocol, and precedent
For a business analogy, lots of people thought that Enron was doing fine until it started to fail. Then the crazy stuff was proved to be fraud. Then I started catching the Freudian slip "Enrob" for Enron.
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.