I VOTE YES ON CALEXIT!

[Eric the Green]

(03-23-2017, 06:08 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-23-2017, 10:31 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(03-23-2017, 09:47 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-23-2017, 06:45 AM)Odin Wrote: Technically, I think for something to be consider a con the person doing it has to not believe in the snake oil they are selling, Eric genuinely believes his woo to be true.

And the three card monte dealer believes his game to be fair even if slips the winning card up his sleeve. 

That Eric believes in his particular brand of woo does not make it non-woo.  In fact the best con artists are the ones that actually believe in their own products.  Their con job is actually easier because they've duped themselves first.  It gives them a slight advantage over those who actually know that what they're selling is garbage.

For better or for worse, I often wonder if Trump with introduce his own brand of isolationism, feeling that we could be better off economically if we just could compete within our own borders. After all, globalization is one of the big factor in the loss of American jobs over the past few decades. With all the controversies now brewing, it's important to remember that we do not have all the answers. It's equally important to realize that we will never truly understand unless we try. We now seem to have a fetish in trying to analyze what Trump stands for and pick it apart. That is what nearly all the articles on the Alternet site, which I visit frequently, seem to be pertaining to. To those of us who are trying to craft a better world, I would say give it a try, and continue to try until we succeed. That's why we had this movement for Bernie Sanders. But I doubt that he too would have been able to escape having to kiss the butt of Congress to get anything done, just as with Obama.

Isolationism in the sense that we abandon the Imperial Project would be a good thing.  Isolationism in the sense that we attempt to become a complete artarky would be destined to fail. 

As for Congress I fully believe that Trump is setting up Paul Ryan's down fall.  Has not the last two years proved to you yet that Trump is at least three or four steps ahead of everyone else?

He should rather be considered several millennia behind. A denizen of the Mars era, probably.