Trustworthiness

Great post. There is none with the names you have mentioned.....I guess since it was not far fetched for an actor to be President of the US...aka Raegan...it is not farfetched to think a rapper could be one some day, as well.

 

You can trust that they'll support and back bigots.

 

My one and only post in Politics in this forum...that is not what I am here for, at any rate I will say just this:
There is only one thing to "get" - and that is there is no convincing the committed. Whether that is a liberal in support of Democrats or conservatives in support of Republicans - there is no talking to either one of them. Their minds are completely closed, and will not accept reality either way.
We are no longer a Democratic Republic. We are a Plutocratic Corporatocracy. And that plutocracy is fully supported and protected by both parties. Including this President. He is an elitist corporatist to the core.
No matter what anyone tells you - THIS is the most important statistic you have hear for years or will hear for years more:
Since 2009, the top 7% wager earners in this country have celebrated an unprecedented 33% increase in their income. Meanwhile the remaining 93% of working Americans have suffered a 5% decrease in income.
That is all that matters. There has been no recovery for 93% of Americans. We are still doing worse than before 2009, however the top 7% are doing extraordinarily well.
It is good to be a rich American.

 

“Government in general’ Government is just what governs – absolute dictatorship and total democracy are both forms of government, it could be even argued that Anarchy or lack of a governing body is in itself a form of governance.

People usually don’t like their form of government because it is not doing the things they feel it should be doing.

The problem is that different people what ‘government’ to be doing different things for different reasons. They wish it to serve the interests of themselves, their group, religion or tribe.

In that context ‘good governance’ is about balancing the interests of differing groups and a unbalanced system is likely to result in ‘bad’ governance where the interests of one group becomes dominant.

In the US the original form of government was set up to serve the interests of the established propertied classes (or at least to protect them from what they thought of as ‘the mob’).

The system then unfortunately became dominated by two basically right wing political parties (one of the centre right and one further to the right), which have often colluded in trying to stop other parties or influences from emerging especially from the left.

Add to that wealth owned media with no obligation to be objective or unbiased and it’s not surprising that the US political system has become unbalanced and seemingly dysfunctional.

The question is can it be fixed?

 

Trustworthiness, in Politics




Oxymoron.