Is Trump Populating the Valley?
Posted by ScaryBlackRifle 7 years, 4 months ago to Politics
It occurs to me that Trump, in his cabinet picks, is choosing extremely qualified individuals from among those he either knows personally or have been recommended by those he knows personally. Some of his picks, however, make little sense unless he is deliberately populating The Valley ... in which case, they make eminent sense.
Can it be that, rather than retreating to build a Utopian civilization, Trump is attacking the old civilization and taking all who are willing to come along with him? Rand's heroes built their new society in hiding in the hope that others would like what they saw. Trump is doing it in plain view: hiding, as it were, in the open.
I'm old enough to be cautious about hero worship and realistic about the ups and down of "regime change" right here in the US, but this analysis is the only one that seems to fit the pieces of the puzzle I actually know.
There were negatives about John Galt and others have voiced them. Some are voicing negatives about Trump (morally, how is he so different from Rearden?). But both men seem to be driven by a vision of the way the world ought properly be run.
Like I said, I'm still cautious and I know that I am only seeing what I am being shown, but this is what I think I am seeing.
And you?
Can it be that, rather than retreating to build a Utopian civilization, Trump is attacking the old civilization and taking all who are willing to come along with him? Rand's heroes built their new society in hiding in the hope that others would like what they saw. Trump is doing it in plain view: hiding, as it were, in the open.
I'm old enough to be cautious about hero worship and realistic about the ups and down of "regime change" right here in the US, but this analysis is the only one that seems to fit the pieces of the puzzle I actually know.
There were negatives about John Galt and others have voiced them. Some are voicing negatives about Trump (morally, how is he so different from Rearden?). But both men seem to be driven by a vision of the way the world ought properly be run.
Like I said, I'm still cautious and I know that I am only seeing what I am being shown, but this is what I think I am seeing.
And you?
The cancer would have been terminal. Time will tell how much Trump can heal this patient
It's interesting to me that the media has sort of followed The Peter Principle. (a person rises to the level of their incompetency.) They got away with their dishonesty either through omission or outright lies, for so long, that they became sloppy and obvious, even to the most casual observer.
I don't know the Carrier deal specifics, but I do think we need to have manufacturing in the US and we can not continue to reward other countries with lower costs controlled by inappropriate human rights, like China. We have made them strong, and we didn't have to. I hope Trump takes a reasonable position on this subject.
Trump offered to drain the swamp. Lets see if he can do it. Micromanaging his actions before he actually gets into the white house doesnt seem to be a great way to help that.
But I don't know that all knowledge must be acquired from reading. Some people know things instinctively and through experience.
We can hope that his rational free-market, pro-liberty picks overcome the stupid ones, but I'm not convinced. Treasury could have had a very wide reaching positive effect on free markets.
Trump could have a plan that recognizes some need for compromise with looters. That may be practical but that was not the way of the valley.
Let's start there.
No, I don't. I'm just kidding.
Haha...
As for the "cronyism", that can mean nothing more than "Hey, I've known this guy for a while ... he's straight up and I want to have him on my team."
In the end, even kids choosing teammates in little league baseball are involved in "cronyism".
For me, the question is "in play", but I don't have enough information to actually come to a conclusion yet. Is he building a winning team or just ingratiating himself with the denizens of the swamp?
He is definitely not ingratiating himself with the Washington swamp's denizens, but he might be making an entirely new swamp in Indiana.
I think we're adapted to like the idea of a righteous power finding the entire world decadent and destroying it in a great calamity, with only the righteous saved. It's in Gilgamesh, the oldest story known, and the Bible. When people take real action to bring about the apocalypse, it's criminally insane behavior. I do not think President elect Trump is thinking this way.