Thread: President of the US of A

Ok, it looks like Donald Trump is going to be your next president. I want to know what you guys think about that. To me, writing from the other side of the world, I have a mixed interest. It may not be my country, but the decision you guys make effects the rest of the world. While he is undoubtably a great businessman, I worry that once he gets into international politics he will show the same 'bull-at the-gate' approach that turned people off Reagan and Bush. I reckon his IQ is probably double that of the three previous Republican Presidents combined and I feel that all those Presidents lacked the true statesmanship shown by Clinton and Obama. That said, I am neither Democratic, nor Republican. My personal feeling on politics is that we, the citizens, are the prey caught between two predators and we play a balancing game designed to keep either side from devouring us. In the words of someone who's name escapes me, 'The citizens of a State are like the residents of a prison, except that every three to five years they are given the opportunity to vote on who their captors will be for the next three to five years and the decisions they make justify their imprisonment in the first place.' So, current US politics, what do you think?

Bob

Personally, I think the political system in this country is a joke run by circus clowns!

Originally Posted by DoughBoy68

Personally, I think the political system in this country is a joke run by circus clowns!

Ah, but which clown?

Originally Posted by BobH

Bob

How much popcorn you got there Bob?

Originally Posted by puketui41

How much popcorn you got there Bob?

More than enough even if this thread gets going.

Bob

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Originally Posted by puketui41

In the words of someone who's name escapes me, 'The citizens of a State are like the residents of a prison, except that every three to five years they are given the opportunity to vote on who their captors will be for the next three to five years and the decisions they make justify their imprisonment in the first place.' So, current US politics, what do you think?

You might be thinking of Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, "Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear", Vol. 2, Part IV, Ch. 6:

"Our contemporaries are ceaselessly agitated by two conflicting passions: they feel the need to be directed as well as the desire to remain free. Since they are unable to blot out either of these hostile feelings, they strive to satisfy both of them together. They conceive a single, protective, and all-powerful government but one elected by the citizens. They combine centralization with the sovereignty of the people. That gives them some respite. They derived consolation from being supervised by thinking that they have chosen their supervisors. Every individual tolerates being tied down because he sees that it is not another man nor a class of people holding the end of the chain but society itself. Under this system citizens leave their state of dependence just long enough to choose their masters and then they return to it."

Originally Posted by honedright

You might be thinking of Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, "Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear", Vol. 2, Part IV, Ch. 6:

"Our contemporaries are ceaselessly agitated by two conflicting passions: they feel the need to be directed as well as the desire to remain free. Since they are unable to blot out either of these hostile feelings, they strive to satisfy both of them together. They conceive a single, protective, and all-powerful government but one elected by the citizens. They combine centralization with the sovereignty of the people. That gives them some respite. They derived consolation from being supervised by thinking that they have chosen their supervisors. Every individual tolerates being tied down because he sees that it is not another man nor a class of people holding the end of the chain but society itself. Under this system citizens leave their state of dependence just long enough to choose their masters and then they return to it."

Yup! That's the one! And still true, not just of the US.

Originally Posted by puketui41

Ok, it looks like Donald Trump is going to be your next president. So, current US politics, what do you think?

I think you need to realize the not ONE vote has been cast yet,,, and not one "Political Expert" has called anything during this election cycle right..

Soooooooo