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Chris
05-30-2017, 11:03 AM
We the people don't need to act like the politicians and pundits.

POLITICIANS ARE IN “CRISIS,” NOT THE ORDINARY AMERICAN (https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/politicians-crisis-not-ordinary-american/)


Reading or listening to the mass media, it would be easy to assume that America is gripped in a major national crisis due to the words and deeds of Donald Trump in the White House. Democrats stonewall Congressional legislation and dream of impeaching Trump out of the presidency. The Republicans are in panic mode that they will lose their majorities in the House and the Senate in 2018 because Donald Trump is eating away at their credibility and legitimacy to get anything done in terms of ObamaCare, and tax and regulatory reform.

The media, itself, is in its own frenzy, especially in the left-of-center press....

...The people of the United States must be in a serious condition of psychological, social and economic paralysis, all due to the controversies, conflicts and confusions enveloping all that is happening in Washington, D.C. But step outside and look at what is going on around you. People are getting up every morning and going to work. Production goes on the same as before Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, with goods coming out of the manufacturing plants and facilities and on to the retail outlets where the consuming public continues to compare, choose and buy.

...Yes, politics, as always, comes up in various conversations, and political discussions have become more tense, confrontational and argumentative in some circles of people in the Age of Trump. But, for the most part, people compare notes on sports events they’ve seen, what their friends and families are doing and planning, what movies are worth seeing, and all the other affairs of ordinary, daily life.

In other words, for the vast majority of Americans it is as if the events going on in Washington, D.C. concerning the Trump Administration did not exist or matter. And, in fact, they don’t. Yes, government taxes, regulates, intrudes, surveillances, and in general makes life more frustrating, costly and less free than it could be. And for some of us, we wish government would do less or none of these things, leaving people more at liberty to go about their individual peaceful, personal and private business.

But in the reality of things American society has not been sucked into a vortex of political paralysis....

Common
05-30-2017, 12:08 PM
Well Chris I think were all in crisis in one way or another politically in these crazy times

Common
05-30-2017, 12:09 PM
The media HATES trump deeply because he doesnt kiss their ass like presidents past.

Chris
05-30-2017, 12:10 PM
Politics is in disarray, let them fail, we'll be fine.

jimmyz
05-30-2017, 12:42 PM
Trump is a wasp in a beehive. Lots of buzzing about for the near future.

Captain Obvious
05-30-2017, 12:49 PM
"Crisis" is in this case purely bedshitting snowflake manufactured.

tPF is fringe, if you get away from fringe sources none of this bedshitting is going on.

Chris
05-30-2017, 12:53 PM
"Crisis" is in this case purely bedshitting snowflake manufactured.

tPF is fringe, if you get away from fringe sources none of this bedshitting is going on.

I would agree, political forums are fringe. 0.0000001% of the pop.