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Originally Posted by Illuminaughty
"People are concerned with Trump, rightly imo, in that he is causing substantial damage to the institutions that form the bedrock of american democracy..."
Well isn't that the point. He is divisive amongst his own party who can't stand him, he's almost like a double agent. The Trump phenomenon is actually pretty simple. Lot's of people were fed up with the system and thought politics was rigged and it didn't matter.... Que Trump, he shows that an outsider can win the nomination and in turn win the presidency...... A crude reality TV star ffs. That must mean the system works if it couldn't filter out that guy, and thus people started participating and fueling this great divide that we are experiencing in the politics right now. I've never seen people so divided even in this country over who the POTUS is.
Bottom line is both parties are corrupt and beholden to their donors (big buiss). It's all theatre to make you feel like you have a choice and participate. Pepsi or coke. You might like the red can more but at the end of the day your still drinking crappy sugary water.
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the fact that he did win,
should have demonstrated that the American election system
wasn't rigged and that was simply a line by Trump to feed those that feel disenfranchised to vote for him... it was a ploy, gamesmanship to appeal to populist voters.
Is there special interests in governments? absolutely there is... while i see Obamacare, for all its faults, as Obama's greatest victory, I see his failure to pursue campaign finance reform as his greatest failure.
you don't fix the system by blowing it up... There's a reason that Freedom of the Press was the first amendment: it was meant to hold government, and its presidents, to account.... Trump doesn't like the press because it challenges him and his dictatorial tendencies.
the Drain the Swamp slogan was populist drivel... just look at his appointments and who is running the administration...how many Goldman Sachs executives work for Trump? Ironic, considering the drum beat during the campaign was how Hillary was too cozy with Wall Street...
Its stupefying that a portion of his base is so dogmatic, or flat out dumb, to buy into that when he runs the least transparent administration in the last century....I'll bet that history will judge it as the biggest kleptocracy in the history of modern western democracies.
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