Oddbean new post about login | logout Trump does have an issue with getting distracted by the wrong things. He needs to stick to the issues. There are millions of unhappy people desperately looking for an acceptable candidate. If Trump would focus on issues instead of snappy, "mean" tweets, I think the majority would flock to him.
I just learned that my sister-in-law and nephew are in line right now in Phoenix, Arizona to see Trump this evening, like 6 hours or so before the rally starts! And they are waiting outside, and it's 104°F! 😵💫
Sad...😢
I'm still waiting to hear how the Trump rally went. My sister-in-law and nephew waited 3 hours 45 minutes in the Arizona heat to get into the arena.🥵 The line was so long everyone likely didn't get in, she said. https://image.nostr.build/24c01c8afff8096f2aa23600f00d4cb24fee194c3c63cbf548d7d9b3bd190156.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f56d4388c55a935c1e11773ba597b130214223959dea964b8ce15bf2ebd74357.jpg They drank water from bottles they purchased labelled "Liberal Tears" 😂 They had to sit in the upper section because the bottom was full. https://image.nostr.build/d4e6782c5398c4a9a812c35b695e7f40066799750071019dccda152509090252.jpg The speaker appears to be Kari Lake, who ran for governor and possibly had that election stolen from her: (Note the message on the teleprompter 😆) https://image.nostr.build/e0982be355b150eea409340aac8b4a83f8355d2e8aec150cd819c3d50542a57e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3772bc801f29fa17cc75e3b2d9e046b6564b6c82e6931ec8c35575ca6276352f.jpg I think they went more for the experience and because the tickets were free. My nephew is only barely old enough to vote now, and I'm not sure what his political views are. I doubt I would have gone, personally, though I'm ashamed to say I did go see George W. Bush once while he was in office at a rally in Phoenix. I was still a 'publican then...🥸
I used to be way more involved in politics. I was even an alternate delegate at the RNC for Ron Paul (my husband was a delegate). That was an eye opening event to see how utterly corrupt the politics are and how undemocratic things really work. They literally had the results of the voice vote on the teleprompter to make sure they got the "right" answer and not necessarily what the delegates voted for. They turned off the microphones in the areas with Ron Paul delegates and the main group opposing the rule changes that stole power from the delegates was driven around town on a bus for hours to make sure he missed the vote. In the rule change vote, they didn't tell the delegates that they were voting to approve letting the executive committee make decisions without the, they just said it was a vote to approve what the committee suggested. They refused to allow calls for division that would've forced a counted vote. It was sickening. Of course the DNC is even worse. I'm coming to the conclusion that America is doomed.
What you described in being Ron Paul delegates for the RNC (right candidate 👍) reminds me of a book I read on how the US Constitution was passed, "Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788" by Pauline Maier, except then it happened on a larger scale, and for something far more significant. Basically corrupt shenanigans were used to steamroll acceptance of the Constitution, by the Federalists (who were like the Democrats of their day), which of course they don't teach you in school, and most Americans are likely ignorant of. Alexander Hamilton and others wrote The Federalist Papers claiming the federal government would be limited in its powers, to get the Constitution to be accepted, but then once in office they did the opposite. A bait and switch, just like so many politicians have done when they are elected... https://a.co/d/1iLcSOronly
Hamilton was the beginning of all that is bad in the Federal government. He was a smart man (unlike most of our politicians today), but he also had very tyrannical tendencies. Still, I think he would be appalled with what we have become today (culturally and what our government has become). As bad as he was, I don't think he would like what we have today.
I think you're right. Hamilton probably would be proud that America became a great and powerful empire and that the president is more powerful than the monarch of Great Britain, but he surely would be appalled at what the USA has degenerated to.
