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Originally Posted by nightfighter
I appreciate your thought out answer and opportunity to discuss and possibly enlighten from a more centralist position than is exhibited by the legions of either side....
I know what you mean by a political center, or centrist position, but I don't think there is actually such a thing. I don't consider myself as being in some center between the Dems and the Repubs, or between Progressivism and constitutionalism. I think there is a huge amount of different political possibilities, of possible ideas. But, being a constitutionalist, that great diversity must reside within constitutional principles and boundaries.
Any compromise between constitutional principles and the limitless government power that informs Progressive political ideology is a partial destruction of the Constitution. And any further compromise is a further destruction. And that is not just some aside in the discussion. It is the crux of the matter for me. Any compromise is merely a given position, not some center. What is the center between Dems, Repubs, Libertarians, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, and a host of other ists and isms?
What is the center between good and evil, or right and wrong--except some compromise that weakens the good and the right? And in which direction will the next compromise go? Every little bit that the good and the right give up in order to partake in some wrong or evil, will make the good and right less so. And every compromise between the Constitution and Progressive ideology makes the Constitution less so. Until it is gone.
But I get that things change. There may well come a time when the Constitution is a barrier to the progress that our evolved society needs in order to work for what is truly the best.
I don't think we are there yet. And what is trying to take the Constitution's place is, to me, a regression back to the age old ruling class control of authoritarian government.
But I have benefitted and been benefitting through the various administrations in my two different careers and the market for my retirement plan. I don't see that I can elevate this administration to being responsible for putting me on that track. Nor has it reduced or taken away many of the obligatory increases in cost of living, licensing, and recreating (fishing license) that has been getting piled upon us since I entered adulthood in the seventies and began to be responsible for paying my own way 100%. Nobody gets the brass ring from me, and that goes back to Carter/Reagan years.
What constantly intrudes on us, and on a free market that would benefit your investments, is the capture of our government and its regulatory agencies by huge monopolistic corporations. These are made possible by complicit politicians who profit from it and by Progressive ideologues who believe they are doing what is best for us by controlling the market rather than protecting its freedom.
What I just cannot get past is Trump's continued lying. Lying when he knows it is lying. Lying when we all know it is lying. What other pols have done or are doing does nothing to minimize this. It has been four years of shaking my head and yelling at a TV screen with disgust. If nothing else, this refusal to concede and sticking his head in the sand has taken his remarks off the TV for the most part.
Sorry, dinner is ready! Gotta go...
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I am also frustrated that Trump has to comment on every little thing. Sometimes his comments are actually lies. Mostly they are exaggerations, errors, sarcasm, and self congratulation--as well as, not infrequently, being spot on. And I understand his self-promotion. I think he IS unfairly not given due credit. He has gotten done what Repubs kept telling us what they were going to do, but somehow just weren't able. He has not been a do nothing President, and, in my opinion, most of what he has done has been good. If he would just have shut up and do, it would have been better. And a lot less irritating.
But I am far more annoyed by weak incompetent lying politicians who promise then renege. And I totally despise Progressivism.