Trump, Kim sign "comprehensive" document

[Dill]

(06-13-2018, 06:41 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Says another dude on a message board.

Folks may think they know what is truly going on because of their access to social media or because they have become rooted in a ritualistic method of how politics work; however, there's a very good chance they are just as clueless as the ones they suggest don't know how it works.

Well this dude-on-a-message-board knew about the one-China policy. The "most powerful man in the world" did not. 

I also knew health care was complicated and what Brexit was, not to mention the nuclear triad.

Why should this make me "clueless as the ones they suggest don't know hot it works"? It doesn't, unless you change the meaning of "clueless."

Notice that rather than comparing and assessing facts of record, you construct these positional comparisons--dude-on-a-message-board vs the-most-powerful-man-in-the-world. This is simply an appeal to authority, to "faith." We don't assess leaders in a democracy by saying they must know what they are doing because they are "powerful" (after they are elected)--even when it doesn't look like they know what they are doing.

The Pop Warner reference also helps you break away from any kind of grounding in Trump's actual performance and the history of policy--as if simply breaking with tradition in itself assured success. It does not.