10-26-2017, 01:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2017, 01:59 AM by APeacefulWarrior.)
(10-25-2017, 04:45 PM)xise Wrote: https://consumerist.com/2017/10/24/senat...companies/
If Trump is an enemy of elites, I shudder to think about what would happen if he decides those elites aren't half-bad after all.
So far, while Trump might have been better than Hillary in terms of elite-catering, it seems that Obama was better than Trump, with nationalized healthcare and all. Are people still somehow holding out hope that Trump can be a strong force for change instead of just consoling themselves that Trump is better than Hillary would have been? Was Trump really just a case of throwing s*** into the political system and seeing what happens? Because I'm not sure things are working as well as people would have hoped.
I feel like those who were told to believe Trump is an enemy of the elite, friend to LGBT, etc, should be taking a hard look at the sources they relied on. There are a huge number of people who voted for Trump believing him to be someone completely different than who he actually was - and I doubt they came into those beliefs without help. Particularly considering how self-evidently flaky Trump is, just from listening to him or reading his Tweets. Certain media outlets, websites, and soforth spent a lot of time spinning a vision of Trump and the Trump Presidency which was entirely false - but it seems that very few are actually looking back and wondering why that was, or why they should continue to trust those sources. If they do still trust them, that is.
I mean, at least those who voted for Trump because they wanted chaos (whether that's a good idea or not) got more or less what they voted for. But they're probably in the minority, compared to those who bought into deliberate fictions about Trump and his intentions.
Personally, I'm just glad that the Republican Party is so dysfunctional that they've been unable to effectively use the power they won in the election. They're so fractured internally, and so individually busy with their own political maneuvering and scheming, that they've been able to accomplish very little. Considering that their goals were things like taking away healthcare from people, and taxing the poor to give to the rich, this entropic self-stalemate is probably one of the better outcomes that could have occurred here. Not an optimal outcome, to be sure, but still far better than many alternatives.