Thread by @mhbx

@tommy_pane I know there are serious issues, corruption, systemic, political, social... all of it. If you read my posts you would know that. I am no Pollyanna thinking everything is just fine, except those damn Trumpies.
I am aware of the dangers & damages of unrestrained capitalism....

@tommy_pane 2/ again, if you read my other posts, you would know that. Especially global capitalism. Especially re the planet, our society, social good, etc.

But Trump is so much not the answer. He is a corruption beyond what he, or any of his supports, like you, think he would solve.

@tommy_pane 3/ That you cannot see that... that you think some sort of anarchy, or at least sedition like was on display yesterday is ok... No.
Whatever the problems of America are, and they are plenty... they are not solved by this madman, sotted with his power lusting, childs level ego.

@tommy_pane 4/ If you cannot make that distinction... If you cannot see how rudely he treats his "friends". (he has none. only people who he uses) then I question your ability to see anything at all.

Trump is using people by stoking their fears, and givingthem a place to retain their

@tommy_pane 5/ Giving people a place to think they are still superior.
It is sick beyond belief.

I don't blame the people. They are fed a steady diet of bullshit & nonsense...and are being told that every one else is an enemy.

But you should know better.

Or maybe..its all ok with you.

@tommy_pane 7/ You are worried about a corporate takeover?
Now?
Its been ongoing for decades... a century at least.

You think some level of authoritarian rule is going to fix that? That is definitionally facism.

You say, no no, the market will take care of everything.

@tommy_pane 8/ Remarkably , one of the most simplistic and inoperable ideas you propose. But benign. Except you and yours believe that nonsense and completely miss the difference between Commerce and Governance and the need for both, and the need for each to stay in their lane.

@tommy_pane 9/ We went through all that last year or two, no need to recapitulate all that. Just to say power is going to happen regardless of the form it takes. The constitutional values try to have the power reside in the people.
Put it in the market, and you'll have monopolies that

@tommy_pane 10/ will be unconstrained, and unconstrainable.

What Trump has been doing is attacking these underlying values and principle for his own power. IF you cant see that, then again, you are not looking. Or, you don't want to see.
Yesterday could not have been a more clear telling

@tommy_pane 11/ So no. I am not unaware of the problems.
I am quite aware that Trump is an answer that is akin to inviting the devil to heal you.
He may make some moves, but you have made a deal w the devil, and now owns you, and you will pay.

You should be able to see this pattern.

@tommy_pane 12/ It has been in public display from the beginning.

Trump thinks the apparatus of government is for his use and benefit.

His lying is other worldly. And those things his believers belief he will give them are chimeras.

No. The answer is not Trump.
Whatever the problem is.