Do you know why?
Because Congress passed laws to make taking bribes legal... like buying thousands of books written by a congressmen - or giving to a 'foundation' that allows the congressman to 'do good' while flying around the world staying in first class accommodations for free...
Or giving 'speeches' to empty rooms for a few hundred thousand dollars... for 43 minutes time. If that's not a bribe nothing is. Can you imagine the outrage if the wife of the police chief gave a 'speech' to drug lords for 43 minutes - collected a half million - and the police chief let 20 thugs out of prison?
We would all know that was a bribe. We know the other is too.
Trump gave money to all of 'em. Everyone buys the people we elect except the citizens. We GIVE TO THEM - we get NOTHING IN RETURN. The American people are conned every year by the so called 'elites' - or 'the crooks' as I tend tot think of them.
Also, many of us - myself included - we're democrats years ago. How did Winston Churchill express it? Not a heart if not liberal when young... not a brain if not conservative when older?
I flat out don't care what Trump was in the past. Do you Responsibility 2nd think of me as 'liberal' because I was a democrat years ago? Do you think I'm 'not as conservative' as you?
I have a little experience in this area.
Developers have to be non-partisan. This is because both the Ds and Rs will have their hands out, and they have to be paid or you don’t get what you need to start turning dirt.
It is that simple, and that corrupt. If you don’t pay, all the little city forums will study your question until the next ice age, and your project will die.
This is what everyone discounts about the guy. Trump could sicken us to the point of rebellion by telling us what had to be done in order to get stuff built over the course of his career. He could make millions selling books about it that would make Clancy spin in his grave.
Maybe Trump realizes it is now broken past the point where before you did what you had to in order to get stuff done. Before, stuff got done.
Now, the only stuff getting done is stuff that is doomed to fail. Solyndra type stuff.
Even Tesla. Great car. Took billions in taxpayer funded money to make nominally viable. Much of that cash goes back into politicians pockets.
Today, Government is a full partner in your business. We used to talk about how the PLA owned 51% of any business you moved over to China, and how commie that was.
We’re doing that here. We’ve adopted that model here.
Either Trump is going to fix it, or we are going to wipe it all out, and I suspect he knows that’s what its coming to.
All. Righty Then. Lets give ol' Comb-over the benefit of the doubt and assume he is what he says he is now. A conservative.
But lets not lose sight of what he was in the past - is currently - and will forever be:
A self-promoting, look at me, opportunistic, populistic, double talking 21st century snake oil salesman. With a big mouth and no political experience.
Well Said.