Too early to say? Allow me to take a stab.
I believe somewhere in a previous post the good Dr. Fate made an interesting point about Agent Orange that I would like to pick up here.
Whether you love him, hate him or are completely neutral on Trump, he has accomplished something that perhaps no other US President has done so far and so effectively.
Trump has exposed national American politics and its many players for what they really are...namely, a massive, privileged, conniving, deceitful, jar of unconscionable, self absorbed, self centered, self serving maggots.
Specifically, this group is comprised of the press, government agencies, his own party and of course, his rivals both here and abroad. He himself is no exception to this pile of rotting decay. He is in many ways its current personification. Nevertheless, he has managed to both intentionally and unintentionally illuminate, in letters writ large for even the common American to see, just how disgusting the core of national American politics really is, and politics in general.
It is because of his Presidency, that I now know with certitude, that lying is simply a political tool alongside all other political tools that might be called upon to advance one's cause or agenda. I've always suspected this was the case, but prior to Agent Orange, I naively assumed that truth still played a role within the realm of national politics. That is no longer the case. It does not.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, I am still naive enough to believe that local politics continues on the whole, not to have succumbed to the same squalor and decadence. Though I'm probably wrong about that too.
So, President Agent Orange's legacy?
1. National politics and national politicians and all who move in their circles are corrupt and
2. Lying is considered by this same cesspool to be a political tool used in advancing an agenda.
Thank you Mr. President for your legacy. At least now I know.
I believe somewhere in a previous post the good Dr. Fate made an interesting point about Agent Orange that I would like to pick up here.
Whether you love him, hate him or are completely neutral on Trump, he has accomplished something that perhaps no other US President has done so far and so effectively.
Trump has exposed national American politics and its many players for what they really are...namely, a massive, privileged, conniving, deceitful, jar of unconscionable, self absorbed, self centered, self serving maggots.
Specifically, this group is comprised of the press, government agencies, his own party and of course, his rivals both here and abroad. He himself is no exception to this pile of rotting decay. He is in many ways its current personification. Nevertheless, he has managed to both intentionally and unintentionally illuminate, in letters writ large for even the common American to see, just how disgusting the core of national American politics really is, and politics in general.
It is because of his Presidency, that I now know with certitude, that lying is simply a political tool alongside all other political tools that might be called upon to advance one's cause or agenda. I've always suspected this was the case, but prior to Agent Orange, I naively assumed that truth still played a role within the realm of national politics. That is no longer the case. It does not.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, I am still naive enough to believe that local politics continues on the whole, not to have succumbed to the same squalor and decadence. Though I'm probably wrong about that too.
So, President Agent Orange's legacy?
1. National politics and national politicians and all who move in their circles are corrupt and
2. Lying is considered by this same cesspool to be a political tool used in advancing an agenda.
Thank you Mr. President for your legacy. At least now I know.