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The embedded powers will be very happy if Trump succeeds. Fewer regulations will mean freer movement of capital, which has historically been a great boon for t
by lemmsjid 10y ago
The embedded powers will be very happy if Trump succeeds.
Fewer regulations will mean freer movement of capital, which has historically been a great boon for the wealthy and powerful.
If he manages to double down on coal production, the ensuing government subsidies will benefit those with the resources to capitalize on the undermining of the market (after all, any time you introduce predictability into the market, you are handing money to people who have the influence and resources to exploit it).
If he succeeds in building the wall, then he will have successfully shifted blame for existing economic woes onto Mexican migrants, without evidence, which will mean increased popular mandate for governmental power grabs.
If he succeeds in undermining climate change, he will have two benefits: first, he will have vanquished scientific and evidence-based opposition in general, and second, he will have undermined barriers between business and exploitation of known public health undermining scenarios.
If he succeeds in cowing the media, he will have removed one of the few non-governmental checks and balances on transparency of government.
Finally, if he succeeds in general, it will be at the expense of the already tenuous necessity for politicians to tie their agendas to evidence/science-based approaches to policy creation.
I say all of this not as an inveterate liberal, but as someone who is continually bewildered by the fact that Trump can make things up, without evidence, and have sufficient support to transform them into public policy. Actually I should cop to the fact that I'm not that bewildered--history is of course littered with leaders who have done the same, and whether or not they actually benefit the people who brought them to power is really an analyst's roulette game.
- ManFromUranus 10y agoThe embedded powers will be happy if Trump succeeds? The same "embedded powers" who tried to block him from even running on the GOP ticket? Whom he then had to threaten to run independent to let him into the primaries? The same embedded powers who've been attacking him from both sides of the media (left and right) since he announced he would run? I have no idea how you people come to these conclusions. I mean, if I watched more mainstream media and believed everything I was told, I suppose I can see how you would come to these sorts of conclusions. I can assure you they are wrong. I mean the CIA is against Trump and is trying to de-legitimize his election after the fact. Are those the "embedded powers" who will be happy if he succeeds? Who are you even talking about? The only ones on Trumps side are probably half the GOP, and the people, that's it, everybody else is against him.
- lemmsjid 10y agoI'm not sure I would fit in your definition of "you people" if you got to know me, but who knows :). The key is to not believe anyone in particular and look to how patterns have unfolded throughout history. There are few examples of people using Trump's tactics who have achieved good for their constituency. As Dear Abby or Ann Landers would remind us, people don't change nearly as much as you want them too, so if someone spends their life working for a particular set of interests and gains power by promising to look after a new set, I will believe their actions more than their words. And as an engineer, when someone posits simple solutions to complex problems, I will look to them to provide rigorous evidence to support their policies.