Helsinki--the Tipping Point?

[Belsnickel]

(07-17-2018, 03:00 PM)treee Wrote: I think the midterm elections (for the House in particular) will be a true referendum on how the US public feels about Trump representing the U.S. on the world stage. I'm pretty sure this worries a lot of R incumbents in purple states.

I don't think they will be. The approval rate of Congress has been abysmal for years, yet the same folks keep getting elected. People piss and moan but then vote for the same people time and time again.

(07-17-2018, 03:29 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: pretty sure you just described every politician in DC Dem or Rep....

Its why some of us voted for the non politician option

Yeah, non-politicians in the House of Representatives is fine. Even in the Senate it can be okay because of the structures in place. But putting someone who doesn't understand the bureaucracy in charge of the bureaucracy isn't smart. He wasn't really an outsider. He was one of the people pulling the strings and making everyone disgusted with Washington, by paying off politicians to get his way. Yet he pulled the wool over the eyes of so many, making them feel like he was just like them, that he had their best interests in mind. He has always been a part of the problem, but he made people think he was the solution. What's worse is that he is is inept and lacks any real values to guide him. The word is that his bearing is set by whomever he speaks with last.

I understand the desire for something new. But what has happened is that we were having a problem with foxes killing the hens and then put a fox in the hen house. Albeit he isn't the brightest of the foxes, not as sly as most of them, but he is a fox none the less.