My goodness. You're obsessed.
Nope, just that your meaningless garbage rants pop up everywhere like fungus. You are quickly zeroing in on taking over IM2's ranking for most idiot troll.
Off to the Never-Neverland of Ignoredom for you. Now you can tell me how obsessed I am with your opinions about nothing all to your heart's content.
I don't ignore Mac. I actually think he means well. His pride however won't allow him to become self aware about his own hypocrisy.
Someone like joeb does not mean well. People like him are full blown traitors and enemies to human liberty and should be treated like that.
Period.
I couldn't agree more! Mac's basic message that our politics are out of control and corrupt and not serving the people is a valid one, just that like IM2, the way he goes about saying it just offends and turns people away instead of encouraging them to listen and debate. And as he loses more audience, his message only gets more shrill in frustration. Saying that there is no difference between the parties and that one is as bad as the other because both use similar tools of campaigning, etc., makes about as much sense as saying that the Allied Forces of WWII were just as bad as Hitler because both sides threw bombs at each other.
That leaves Mac with really no point in posting here at all because his only point anymore is to disagree with everyone on every thread to claim that ALL POLITICS BAD. He used to at least have some good points. He's not going to change nor reform a thing that way and I think you will find a near 100% correlation between those whom agree that our politics needs reform being nearly solely on the Conservative side while getting almost no agreement from the Hard Left that their party has a problem at all. That alone makes the point of the differences in the parties.
The recent Impeachment is the ideal example: OTOH, you had the Democrats who absolutely abused the system to the farthest most extreme limit possible tearing down our rule of law, while the Republicans used the framework of our system to preserve and uphold it. Mind you, I'm not saying the GOP did nothing wrong, didn't game the system or have partisan designs, what I'm saying is that the DNC operates now as a basically volatile, anarchistic machine tearing at the threads of our Republic seeking to fundamentally change the nation from what the Founders intended whereas the GOP works to preserve it. Had the democrats succeeded in removing Trump, the destructive effects of that action would have had massive repercussions for decades.
So, is there any movement - voice in politics to reform our political system as Mac might wish? I don't think so. At the heart of the problem is MONEY, and the more money involved, the more corruption. If you want to clean up and fix politics, you need to get money out of it.
ITMT, Mac is adding nothing to the discussion. Many/most on the Right would at least concede they are not happy with the status quo whereas most of the hard left here seem just fine with it. Indeed, it really is the Left which is most driving it, and like any company in competition to survive, they are dragging the GOP down into the mud with them just to keep up.
SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT TRUMP BUT HIS BASIC MESSAGE IS SOUND: That politics, politicians and Washington are FUCKED UP, and he is there to throw a wrench into the gears by ramming the bullshit right back into their faces. You would think that would resonate with a person like Mac but it doesn't.
Saying he's imperfect is missing the point: we are likely not ever again in our lifetimes going to get someone like him fight this way against a corrupt system at so great a personal cost. And if anyone thinks Bloomberg is going to fight for reform, they're an idiot: Bloomberg will only make it far worse.
But months ago I resolved that my time is just too valuable to waste here on reading and responding to people who just never get it, or don't ever have anything CONSTRUCTIVE, FRUITFUL or COGENT to say, it all amounts to NOISE. I've no time for eternal noise. My time here is better spent with people who actually see the big picture or are at least ADDRESSABLE in our differences and disagreements, as the point here is DISCUSSION. People whom I find impossible to ever have any sort of purposeful DISCUSSION eventually go on Ignore. In the real world, people must deal with how things actually ARE and making the best of them if they have any hope of really effecting positive change rather than forever spinning their wheels in the mud griping about IDEALS and projecting their misplaced frustrations on the subjects of our bad politics rather than those actually responsible for perpetrating it on us.
