When people show you who they are, believe them.
Perhaps he would choose to knock it down at the end of his term. I'm not sure under what terms the President is given the White House. It doesn't sound like there's any requirement to return it in the condition they find it.
zerosizedweasle•3mo ago
cool_man_bob•3mo ago
Reap what? The second your side gets power again, your politicians will tuck their tails between their legs and let them off with a light scolding.
zerosizedweasle•3mo ago
renewiltord•3mo ago
One of the defining aspects of low-corruption societies is that they don’t have the loyalty based systems and instead have rule of law. But now we see how the loyalty systems come about: it isn’t the politician who makes it; it’s the populace.
Given a single deviation from the low-corruption norm, they demand loyalty test based operation and would rather move towards high-corruption.
A low-corruption society is therefore an unstable equilibrium. The moment a norm deviation occurs, the people desire greater norm deviation.
thebruce87m•3mo ago
wturner•3mo ago
duxup•3mo ago
The masses shouldn't, but sometimes they do, foolishly.
lithos•3mo ago
insane_dreamer•3mo ago
we're getting pretty darn close; all we need is a subverted election -- if it almost succeeded in 2020 you can be sure it's going to succeed in 2028 -- to close the circle