(November 3, 2019 at 9:24 am)TaraJo Wrote:(November 3, 2019 at 8:26 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm not entirely convinced that accusations of tax crime, attempts to suborn your election process, illegal appropriations, and hush money payments count as 'tabloid fodder'. When there are creditable accusations, investigations are warranted. Even if (or especially if) those investigations show that nothing untoward happened.
Boru
I'm forced to admit, there's legitimacy to the charges Trump is facing. A whole hell of a lot more than there were against Bill or Hillary Clinton, anyway. The whole Ben Ghazi debacle was a legit concern, but it was investigated into the ground and Obama and Hillary didn't really do anything wrong there. And Obamas birth certificate has been investigated to no end with no legitimate proof that it's ever been faked.
But it still bothers me that politicians are more worried about playing "Gotcha" than they are with legislating and policy. Trump is passing laws that benefit exclusively white, wealthy, Christian, American men at the expense of everyone else. Isn't anyone able to attack him on this? Is anyone able to criticize his policy choices?
To confined politics to the actual evaluation of policies requires political maturity, a sense of intellectual responsibility, and a generally perception we are truly in this together, on the part of the Entire electorate.
We do not have this by the remotest stretch of imagination. We managed to have become even farther from this than we were 30 or 50 years ago.
Right now We can no more bring about better policy in this country by confining political discussion to sound policy evaluation as we could determine which of two theories in quantum mechanics were right by informing and then soliciting the opinions of aggressive, ill mannered, ungrateful 6 year olds interested primarily in throwing cushions and toys.
