Quote:
Originally Posted by steamraise
Trump has no idea how tariffs work or what function they perform and doesn’t understand how his
proposed policies would
if you read fire and fury and fear this is abundantly apparent that he's just thinking out loud stream of consciousness in policy making
but honestly i think our government is stagnated into the status quo, we do things out of irrational and unfounded fears that x,y,z may happen
we thought we need to placate Iran or wwiii will start - he showed that Iran will do the rational thing for self preservation and back down when push came to shove
we thought nuclear armageddon would start if you weren't deferential to north Korea - he showed that north Korea will do the rational thing for self perservation and back down when push came to shove
we thought engaging in tariffs towards a nation that has unilaterally been imposing their own tariffs on us without any retaliation from day 1 would destroy the economy and create another great depression - they were so effective that the succeeding administration decided to not only keep them but escalate as well
we thought building a wall was an idiotic and quixotic waste of money that wasn't practical but then the succeeding administration decided it was effective enough to not only continue building the wall but escalate the program as well
we thought that not subsidizing korea and other allies by billions of dollars each ear would create wwiii overnight - they ultimately talked him out of that one, perhaps the odds of wwiii increase from one in 100 million million to one in 90 million if we pull out, but that's why we do it because there are people who genuinely believe that we've been doing it for 7 decades straight for good reason, that reason couldn't possibly have changed over time and that if we change anything the world will collapse
we are stuck in a rut, just repeating the same mistakes, not recognizing that the innovative policies we brought forth in the post WWII environment perhaps require adjustments
he's an absolute idiot, a buffoon, a poltroon, but that's how exactly how incompetent our government is, that you take someone like that and let then influence national policy a little bit and we end up learning just how deeply wrong we were that we ended up continuing all of his most controversial policies - even despite the political cost it gives the biden administration to continue wall building and maintaining the trade war with china
we suck, we need to burn it all down, i'd prefer it not be through trump, but i don't see any other way