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blackbootz  ·  2826 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Discussion Topic: Trump

I don't view the "creative destruction" that Trump is wreaking as being the bureaucracies he's eliminating or the regulations he's dismantling. I mean more that he's violating the faith we place in our institutions as they exist today to fairly produce goods for society. Also, creative destruction has positive connotations, and I'm not endorsing or liking what he's doing (or undoing I should probably say).

    I don't see our system as particularly ossified and unresponsive.

This falls along a spectrum, but the fact the primary races are tantamount to victories in a large number of districts due to gerrymandering, and this number just keeps growing, means the system isn't moving towards a coalition that can get anything done. It's a solidification of business interests first and foremost.

    I see our populous as particularly anxious and afraid.

Agreed. What hope does collective action have against highly energized and motivated special interest?





kleinbl00  ·  2826 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you unpack your complaints, it all comes down to gerrymandering and the noncompetitive nature of representation.

I suspect that will change. The whole argument for the electoral college was to prevent people like Trump from being elected. QED the electoral college is obsolete. Trump may be Republican but he sure ain't establishment; the Gray Men of Government are more likely to defend the parts of the system that work against the virus than they are to let populism destabilize their process.

But I haven't the foggiest how that's going to shake out.

mk  ·  2826 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Agreed. What hope does collective action have against highly energized and motivated special interest?

Collective action can easily win. It can crush special interests overnight. It's just important that we fight for proper representation and good governance, not for political ideologies. That has been the disaster unfolding these last twenty years. These people that anger us so much are public servants, but we have allowed them to become ideological leaders that have little responsibility beyond fighting the opposition.

Trump is little more than a hand grenade.

am_Unition  ·  2826 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm advertising tonight, it's been a rough week:

OftenBen  ·  2826 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Collective action can easily win.

Well, not at DAPL.