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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (199205)	4/18/2021 3:04:54 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 363233

>>An administration needs profound knowledge of how things work to get what they want out of institutions.<< Which we would have had with Hillary, and now have with Biden.

To: Lane3 who wrote (199205)	4/18/2021 3:06:20 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 363233

It is very corrosive if your goal is to establish a fascist regime. There is no mechanism for total obeisance to the leader, for example. Much less worship and deification. No effective government can operate in such an atmosphere.

To: Lane3 who wrote (199205)	4/18/2021 3:30:37 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 363233

>> The federal bureaucracy is as close to objective and non-partisan as can be found these days. OMFG. DC voted for biden 93-6. 20 out of 20 FBI lawyers who went after Trump were Democrats -- and NEVER found any criminal act. And they did everything possible to dig something up on his. What a ridiculous claim. The federal bureaucracy is as close to 100% left wing nutjobs as you can get. And you know why. Washington DC union membership is 82% higher than the average nationwide. >> To the extent that there is bias, it is because the Democrats see government as part of the solution and Republicans see government as part of the problem. I don't doubt that. A lot of government workers I know definitely look at it that way. And that is just false. Bastiat knew it was false 170 years ago, and nothing has changed. DC could have been a contender without the 16th Amendment. But once you got your mitts on the people's pocketbooks, this path was determinate. But your vision of government is not a provable thing. When it is taking $135 BILLION dollars -- $409 for each of the 330 Million people in this country -- to build ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING STATIONS, that is not being a force for good. That is a force for stupid (we do not have the capacity to power these charging stations even if people used them). I'm all for electric cars, but one has to understand that power doesn't grow on trees. Meanwhile, this is another $2,000 dumped on my kids' families to pay. While your claim above may be true, it doesn't make it correct. It just tells us what government is comprised of, not how it abuses its constituency. >> Part of the problem with the Trump administration was that it did not attract the experienced let alone the best and the brightest. You believe that because you think bureaucrats are superior, when in fact they are not. I do believe Trump was not shy about cutting people loose who lacked vision. And some people couldn't work with him. If you want to discuss personnel issues, let's talk about accomplishment. Like Iran, which in three short months Biden has crashed and burned on. Now, they are claiming they'll enrich to 60%. That would never have happened under Trump. They know they can roll over Biden. One of Trump's key attributes was something you disdain: Trump was willing and able to make hard but competent decisions based on good sense, rather than local political pushback. It was apparent to him, you can't allow Iran to go nuclear. Biden has no idea what to do now. This is how weakness promotes war. Always has. Always will. If Biden reverses it all, so be it. Trump set the stage for more like him, people who understand that government is a force for evil and must be directed toward the good and avoid the natural tendency.