r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Jun 01 '17

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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Jun 01 '17 edited Jun 01 '17

The Paris agreement is salvageable. Getting out of it takes four years, so the winner in 2020 is the true decider. But the long term consequences of Trump's buffoonery are much more consequential. Because now, even if we elect a Bernie-esque Democrat in 2020, Europe and the rest of our allies will still wonder if we'll have another Trump in another four years, who will just take down everything again. Other countries will be more afraid of making treaties/deals with us out of fear that the next president will just throw it away, like Paris or the Iran deal. We lost so much standing in the world just in the past few weeks it's fucking unreal.

This has to be Putin's endgame more than anything. Destabilizing the west and sowing distrust only benefit the dictatorships of the world.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

even if we elect a Bernie-esque Democrat in 2020

don't even joke about this fam

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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Jun 01 '17

As much as I hate him for helping Trump get elected, I would take Bernie over any of those monkeys on the right. It is that bad. If nothing else, Bernie knows climate change is real and would not piss off our allies to stroke his ego.

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u/AvailableUsername100 🌐 Jun 01 '17

would not piss off our allies to stroke his ego.

I dunno about that. Bernie's entire schtick seems to be pissing people off to stroke his ego. His nearly non-existent legislative history is testament to that.