Re: Trump didn't shoot himself in the foot.

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Exactly. Our problem is our Congress. It is broken, and that's bad and

Apr 15, 2025, 6:32 PM

ultimately dangerous for our republic. We don't have a party problem, an ideological problem, a dem or pub problem, we have a very fundamental, really a simple, HUMAN NATURE problem.

One of the very fundamental things they teach, and students study right off the bat in Political science isn't liberalism or conservatism, nope. It isn't party structures, our balance of powers, or anything else. FIRST LESSON, DAY ONE STUFF......HUMAN NATURE. Is it inherently good, or inherently evil? Why? Our Constitution, and the Enlightenment, assumes it is inherently evil, and I tend to agree. HOWEVER, people who are the examples of the good in human nature, have the unique capacity to rectify, nullify, and mitigate that which is bad, when prudence supersedes vice.

Most people today, with a "modern" education, don't understand this. They have been taught that the idea, the principle of democracy is in itself an example of all that is good in human nature, and nothing more is needed. Democracy is just, honorable, unflawed, strong, and fixes itself. Nothing is further from the truth, if you take some history courses you'd know that.

Our Congress has no checks, beyond the veto pen of a President, that's IT. They have tenure, they have seniority, a structured system in play to reward those who reward the most. They are not arrested, investigated, and are essentially free from discipline, except among themselves. They are a closed unit in our governemnt, and the one with the LEAST checks, and balances.

Our founders were wise, wise well beyond even their years and experience. An amazing collection of people, intellects, attitudes, and character. They knew the problems, and tried every which way to address them. The ONE place they came up short, CONGRESS. Unless Congress regulates itself, there is but ONE other option in our Constitution. It is Article V. And it was intended SOLELY for the use of the states, SHOULD an inherent, structural or procedural weakness evolve in Congress. Any human nature issue, the states can assert themselves to fix the institution. NOT direct policy, not direct votes, but to keep the MACHINE of governemnt as created by our Constitution, to keep it running as efficiently and as "good" as possible for the service of The People.

Like I've said, Article V is the ONLY recourse we have to use, within the confines of our Constitution, to fix what is truly wrong. Without that, the future is entirely predictable.

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When do you think these new trade deals will start rolling in?

Re: When do you think these new trade deals will start rolling in?

Re: When do you think these new trade deals will start rolling in?

No one in their right mind makes deals with people who do not honor their

which game theory works when one party has no credibility

and it's not like all that wasn't known with him before the election...

Re: and it's not like all that wasn't known with him before the election...

It should, because he's not a solution to the enduring problems that led to him.

Re: It should, because he's not a solution to the enduring problems that led to him.

Exactly. Our problem is our Congress. It is broken, and that's bad and

Haha what a clown show.

Re: Haha what a clown show.

Trump didn't shoot himself in the foot.