r/agedlikemilk • u/karmaceuticaI • 1d ago

Curdled.

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u/OregonHusky22 1d ago

Trump 2.0 doesn’t have John Kelly, doesn’t have Steve Manuchin, doesn’t have any of the Jared and Ivanka faction. None of those guardrails are there, just yes men.

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u/gcg2016 1d ago

And, to be clear, most of them were also awful in their own ways. They were mostly about self-enrichment rather than installing a new world order.

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u/apathetic_revolution 1d ago

Exactly as the founding fathers intended. They knew the government was going to be run by self-interested assholes. They built a system that was supposed to pit self-interests against each other in factions so that only common interest could be pursued.

Clearly, the founding fathers never envisioned fully-automated weaponized avarice. They thought we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot with muskets.