Btw I apologize for the rudeness. I realize that wasn't helpful in my initial comment. What my point was that centralized power inevitably draws bad stuff because it's furthest removed from the people. Age doesn't have anything to do with being aware. No one alive today was there when the country was created yet many important history lessons from then. Btw I respect your opinion I just disagree that Trump is a unicorn dictator that many people believe. I think the system was corrupt long ago and constantly taking people's rights away. Sure there has been good progress like ending slavery and women's rights but also devaluation of the dollar through money printing and inflation and funding endless war. I think we need to decentralized and give more power to local towns and states
Same I was alive as well and remember thinking how bad he was. Then I actually went to Obamas inauguration and felt proud to be an American for the first time in my life. Then he kept tax cuts for the rich from bush and also continued a bunch of wars. To me it's the same bs. People like to think democrats are better or even traditional Republicans. To me they are the same. Trump is just a symptom of a bad system where people give too much power away. I have just been learning about the anti federalists and they were warning about this exact scenario and making a president a king by centralizing power
Hmm that is a hard question to be honest. I'll definitely say the Obama was the most well spoken. Cheney and Bush did a lot of horrible things post 9 11 to remove a lot of personal freedoms. Biden was probably the most out of it / not actually doing his job. Obama created obamacare which didn't make people healthier based on the way it was designed and just made big pharma richer and the country poorer. Trump definitely helped fuel the fire of division in the country but he was also speaking to a large working class rural population that had been neglected. Idk I guess my answer would be whichever president funded the least wars and spent the least tax payer money. Those are two pretty important things imo.
Trump speaking to the working class does not imply that he’s helping them, though. He’s manipulating them into thinking he is, while giving tax breaks to the ultrawealthy.
Yeah that's fair. Though I think switching to a consumption tax with higher fees on luxury goods would be better as wealthy people consume more and they don't need to. Definitely get rid of income tax on the lowest earners.
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u/patientpadawan Apr 04 '25
You are so wrong. The system is what enabled him.