I’d agree that he’s not a “fanatic”.foreverlax wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:08 pmSo you say, he is a liar, but not a fanatic. I would agree with that.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:59 pmforeverlax wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:09 pmWould you say this (fool and fanatic) applies top Trump as well....simply based on what he has said about himself (he never has any doubts).Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:39 pm
Your post brings to mind this saying, which I repeat often:
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
Trump is, charitably speaking, a strange guy. He has mostly bluffed his way to a fortune, but as the other saying goes, You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. There is something underneath the bluster and I believe that there's always a reason for whom we elect; you tell me. Tell you what?
Anyway, yes, he's not a trustworthy guy interpersonally. I am not so sure he's a fanatic though. He has held off (so far) on warmongering, unlike almost every other candidate known to man so far in my life. That to me is refreshing.
Between Warren and Trump, I am afraid to tell my rather sober and smarter LaxFan friends, I apologize, but Trump is my choice.
How about the fool part? When was the last time Trump admitted he made a mistake...or said he was sorry?
You lost me when you tacked to war mongering....
What about Bill Weld? Fiscal conservative, 2nd supporter and libertarian on social issues.
A corrupt fool, yes.
The warmongering question is interesting. Indeed there’s no actual evidence that Trump would have the stones to risk his own life in service, and at least so far it appears that there is no cause for which he’d actually fight.
But it’s really not clear what he believes in that arena, maybe he’d send troops to take some oil wells. He’s said we should have taken the Iraq oil, but then again he’s said a lot that may not be what he “thinks “.
But his foreign policy is perhaps best characterized as consistently aligned with Moscow. Almost ‘fanatically ‘ so.