Safe to say this guy was a trail blazer who helped enact legislation few thought would be possible. Just a couple of weeks ago he interviewed with CNN’s Jake Taper and talked about issues facing both politics in general as well as specific issues within both party’s.
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Dodd-Frank was a classic government overcorrection to a problem. Ultimately the fiat system is the root of the problem.
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Yes, it was! Still, it was remarkable that he was able to help pass that legislation through, given how powerful those companies were and continue to be. That's a hell of an undertaking.
Glazing a Bolshevik revolutionary like this is a great example of how weak and pathetic most Republicans are and lose to absolute clown opposition.
Was he a more respectable foe than the current crop? Sure but the bar isn't that high.
The bar is so low. Ultimately we have problems much deeper than politics.
110% agree. Politics is just where it can show its head.
Sadly, for most people this seems to be the space they focus on most and have the mistaken belief political solutions should be the primary approach.
I've been re-examining my priors recently and it has me remembering things I had forgotten. Modernity and post-modernity has blinded us. We can't go back but we should look back and see what we have lost. There are always tradeoffs.
Politics are older than the written word. Things really go off the rails when good people abdicate over these transcendent virtue signals.
True, and yet you'd think that spectrum of political thought only goes back 100 years or so based on where we are today.
Dang didn't know that when someone died, we should just shit all over them because they believed in something I didn't. For better or worse, he stood for what he stood for, and he didn't waver. Look at today's politicians from both parties flip-flopping. This guy didn't do that. Not to mention, he had his limits in how far progressives should push things, and that is what we saw in the interview a couple of weeks ago.
Plus, I will give someone credit where it is due, and that is being publicly gay in Washington, DC, in the 1980's was no easy feat.
You referring to SN or elsewhere?
I'm talking about just in general... I mean, at the end of the day, a guy died who blazed a trail for people who instead stayed in the closet. I think it is pretty vile to speak ill of the dead (with exceptions of truly vile people).
Yeah, in general I agree. There are exceptions we all have though. Decency is a victim of modern culture but it is also used as a shield for more vile behaviour.
Calling someone a Bolshevik isn't shitting on someone to other Bolsheviks, its the highest complement, actually.
Being consistent is what put him in a different class than the current crop. 'More respectable' is in regards to that specifically. May as well glaze Lenin while you're at it though.
Pushing things down a slippery slope then abdicating responsibility when they go off the cliff isn't commendable.
Should never have entered public discussion at all, slippery slope. No shortage of gays on the right that understand people simple minding their own businesses and not drawing attention to it was the right trajectory. Bessent could have been Tres Sec under Reagan and no one would have given a shit because he doesn't make a spectacle of it.