[FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

[Marcus Daniels]

Well, I wasn’t talking about Putin.  I’m talking about Thiel’s remark:

"[..] our education culminates with the knowledge that the broader education of the body politic has become a fool’s errand."

Whether Trump is really legitimate (in a deep way) or not isn’t just a question of undisturbed counting, it is whether voters care more about facts or their feelings.   Does our democracy really have any more grounding than Netflix suggesting new movies to watch?   Do people care more about unknowable intentions or knowable behaviors?  If we as a democracy make terrible choices, at some point Karma has to close the loop.   It seems to me that will be the next phase of things.  Trump is just the instrument.

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Charles
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

Is it a lose if your kid goes to the principal’s office for abusing his classmates, or goes to jail for a night for drunken bad behavior?

Sure... the situation would be improved, and we would call it a win, if we could send Putin to the principles office... Part of my point was exactly that it seems unlikely a public accusation by Trump would do anything towards getting Putin to "learn there are consequences to things and stop doing those things." Does anyone think Obama's sending home a handful of diplomats did that?

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