Real Clear POlitics: 1735 PRoject

[Hurlburt88]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/25/the_1735_project_an_introduction.html?callback=in&code=M2E0NTRKNMYTNTGZYY0ZMJE1LWI5YWQTYTG2ZDG4ZTMYNZGZ&state=a45ba00baa0d487a960fcc25a06bbbfb

I fine the questions & problems posed interesting, and will follow.   Some of you might be interested as well.

[Mick1]

Interesting article. Calls out both Trump and Clinton (though not equally) for resisting the election results and lionizes Al Gore for the peaceful transition, so to speak. If memory serves, Gore fought the result in court as well in Florida.

I’m not surprised that the American public’s trust in both Congress and the medica has declined. Both parties go negative. They go negative because it works. As long as we have the majority of a voting public who votes on how they feel instead of a calculated response to specific issues that they’ve investigated, we’ll continue to circle the drain.

The public doesn’t trust the media, because the media opines, it doesn’t report. And it chiefly opines from one angle. Even when the media reports instead of opines, they collectively select the stories, which influences public opinion. And the public knows it.

As far as the government goes, politicians have been lying to the American public for centuries, but it now seems that they’re lying about important things. They’ve promised all things to all people, they’ve fallen short, and it’s very visible. Now that they can’t really work together, their all-or-nothing approach offends 80% of all voters. Tip O’Neill and Reagan compromised, why can’t the current batch of dunderheads?

Audaces fortuna iuvat

[rjnwmill]

I appreciate the fact that this is the first piece in a series. Nonetheless, the irony brought a smile to my face.

I think his premise is plausible. Politics and media focus on problems rather than solutions. Problems can be used as wedge issues to build a coalition and there are no measurable results. A sticky problem associated with proposed solutions. See Newsom and homelessness.

The author here identified problems with our current structures but teases the reader to continue reading his work to get his recommendations as to solutions. 😂

Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long

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