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20 sats \ 10 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Nov \ parent \ on: Why doesn't Nixon get more hate (or does he?) econ
I think it's very fair to argue that they should generally be more reviled than they are. Nixon was not unique and probably not even as bad as his predecessor.
I don't think it's impossible for a president to do good, despite being at the head of a criminal organization. They would just have to be dedicated to minimizing the harms done by their executive branch.
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I think you would come up with problems of interpretation on what the five bad things were. Everybody has a different outlook on which are the worst.
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Mine would likely be very similar for each president: unjust wars, unjust prosecutions, unjust taxation, authoritarian economic meddling, debasing the money supply.
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Don't they all fail on these very criteria?
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That's my point.
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I haven't read these articles, but this series might be a good place to start such a summary.
When can they do good? Even Biden had his chance to do good and look where that has gotten us.
I think the point is that the state has slipped the chains of the constitution! The state has done it through all three branches of government. SCOTUS has been the worst of the bunch, IMO.
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I meant it hypothetically.
Let's say Ron Paul had won one of his races and he set about doing what we expected him to do. The state would still be harming people everyday of the Paul administration, but since his efforts would all be directed at minimizing those harms, we could say he did good as president.
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Yeah, but he never got the chance due to McCain skulduggery. I saw, with my own eyes, what they did at conventions!
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