[-empyre-] a week to go on the trump effect

[Alan Sondheim]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Lawrence Upton wrote:


"T. isn't the problem, so much as the neoliberal/corporate/diplomatic
structure that creates this kind of brutal power base in the first place."
A line in one of Douglas Adams novels comes to mind to the effect that the
politician we see is there to distract us from seeing where the power is

L



Agreed! But the problem is the clumsiness of Trump. I've long felt that it 
would be better to have a right-winger like Spence in power, because you 
can fight someone with a defined position; with Trump, it's one micro- 
disaster after another - the news here is full of this stuff - and first, 
it hides whatever he might be up to; and second, one of those disasters 
could end up being the stuff that real war is made of.

- Alan