04-01-2021, 12:03 PM
(04-01-2021, 11:34 AM)hollodero Wrote: Well, the quote said "crook", and the meme was posted by someone not known to be overly critical of Trump, so I might get why the response was as it was, but whatever... the important thing to me is this, I feel your counter plays in the hand of the "everyone is bad anyway" defense mechanism of Trump (or other bad actors). - Left and right, liberal or conservative, they are all partisan, biased actors, the politicians are all crooks, everything and everyone is awful and always will be awful, it's all the same and so there's no reason to take issue with Trump or thrive for anything better than Trump - and every critizism is hypocritical in its nature anyways.
Just to clarify, I don't say that is your intention at all: I just say that your take fuels those arguments and I consider them more troubling than allegedly uber-partisan takes. Might be worth a thought - or not.
Yeah, I can see that. It's more a function of how blindly partisan the poster who countered is and I'd also counter by saying people inclined to view things that way don't need much encouragement anyways. Every U.S. President leaves office a wealthy person, which is troubling. I'd really prefer a law that prohibits them from making any such deals while in office, book deals, whatever. They should use their presidential salary and any money they brought into office with them. There will be plenty of time to milk that cow after you leave office.
