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> A certain president was very responsible for our current Supreme Court Do you really think Trump had even heard of the judge names he picked? Also, do you t

by thunky 2y ago

> A certain president was very responsible for our current Supreme Court Do you really think Trump had even heard of the judge names he picked? Also, do you think Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio would have picked "good" justices? I think you're giving Trump too much personal credit here. Same for most of the other issues you highlighted, which I don't disagree with, but at the same time I don't think Ron DeSantis or any other candidate would have been a stark difference from Trump. For example, from https://www.aei.org/op-eds/what-it-would-mean-to-abolish-the-u-s-department-of-education/ https://www.aei.org/op-eds/what-it-would-mean-to-abolish-the...: "eliminating the Department [of Education] is hardly a new notion. Republicans have been calling for its abolition pretty much since its inception in 1979. In 1980, the year after Jimmy Carter fulfilled a campaign pledge to the National Education Association by creating the Department, Ronald Reagan pledged to dismantle it" "National figures’ promising to abolish the Department (and then not doing so) has been a staple of GOP politics and party platforms for four decades. In 1994, Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” advocated eliminating the Department. In 1996, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole did the same. In 2011, the GOP presidential debates featured an infamous moment when ED was one of three cabinet departments that Rick Perry promised to eliminate—and one of the two he could recall" In my opinion, we're not going to fix much by electing a "good" president. We've built a tower of shit and putting a ribbon on top isn't going to make it smell good. We spend so much time and energy arguing about the color of the next ribbon, and all that does is distract us from the shit pile.

consteval 2y ago
> I think you're giving Trump too much personal credit here Yeah I think you're right - it's more so his party. > I don't think Ron DeSantis or any other candidate would have been a stark difference from Trump Yeah probably not (and maybe worse even). > we're not going to fix much by electing a "good" president Probably not, but a blue president won't abolish the department of education. Nor would they instate a requirement that all government employees must pass an exam proving they're conservative (yes, real). The problem is we have two right-leaning party. The moderate one, the dems, who do almost nothing. And the far-right one, which is dangerous. Like... actively looking to make everyone's lives worse at the behest of corporations and the ultra-wealthy, and then to top it off, enforce religious values and good morals. It's a shitty situation, but in my opinion an easy choice. At least currently. The repubs have gotten much more radical in the past decade IMO.

by thunky 2y ago

consteval 2y ago

> I think you're giving Trump too much personal credit here Yeah I think you're right - it's more so his party. > I don't think Ron DeSantis or any other candidate would have been a stark difference from Trump Yeah probably not (and maybe worse even). > we're not going to fix much by electing a "good" president Probably not, but a blue president won't abolish the department of education. Nor would they instate a requirement that all government employees must pass an exam proving they're conservative (yes, real). The problem is we have two right-leaning party. The moderate one, the dems, who do almost nothing. And the far-right one, which is dangerous. Like... actively looking to make everyone's lives worse at the behest of corporations and the ultra-wealthy, and then to top it off, enforce religious values and good morals. It's a shitty situation, but in my opinion an easy choice. At least currently. The repubs have gotten much more radical in the past decade IMO.