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12-15-2016 05:36 PM |
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Originally Posted by elphenor
(Post 1783259)
"I don't have any political morals so I'm cool with Trump"
no **** mate
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There's no point in bringing morals into politics, because expecting that kind of accountability from politicians when they have a million other priorities is just foolish idealism. Legislation =/= morality: if people are racist or they hate trans-people then they'll continue to act that way regardless of what gets passed: you can't control people. Politicians all end up compromising on the "greater good" somewhere, even the liberals. Hell, Obama abandoned any semblance of giving a **** years ago when he appointed guys like Eric Holder. His cabinet back in 2008 was taken almost verbatim based on emails his transition team got from Citigroup. No matter how eloquent he sounds in front of a teleprompter, he was bought and paid for from the very start. He's a good person who was probably a fraction as qualified as Trump in a managerial sense but who lacked the experience to implement his ideals and thus became yet another tool for Wall-Street. And I'm saying this as someone who voted for him TWICE.
So instead of being a jackass, try being realistic and look at EVERY side of an argument, not just your party's of choice. I'm apolitical and get my information from a variety of Liberal and Conservative sources (and I read a lot of Forbes). There's always another side to the story. Unless you are a politician yourself or someone operating on the financial level of someone like Rex Tillerson, you are operating on a relatively minimal amount of information anyway because you don't see the methodology, only an outcome that then gets filtered depending on the media source. Just be pragmatic and watchful and stop living your life based on doomsday assumptions. We've had multiple cabinets full of special interests, lobbyists and all kinds of incompetent, questionable people through the past dozen presidencies: has the world ended yet?
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