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Smart is good. Smart and creative is better. Putin is the latter. We could use more creativity in both warfare and diplomacy. The next world war, if there is one, will depend on bits more than bullets so long as mutually assured destruction keeps working to prevent all out conflagration --...

This is not inconsistent with MMT economics. MMT economists are experts in fiat money economies . They recognize deficits can not only be too large but also too small. Somehow the myth got started that MMT economists maintain that deficits don't matter at all. Although some MMT economists may...

Yup.

No you don't see. But you've provided a lovely example of what i commented on in post #117. Are you related to jem, a.k.a. TJustice? :D

Sorry but you don't see. Chaos in societies isn't good. But it may be an unavoidable consequence of doing things one way in preference to another clearly inferior way, even though the inferior results in no chaos. Absolute dictators have marvelously efficient ways of avoiding chaos. A nice...

There is an alternative way to interpret what's going on in Britain. It can be seen as a marvelous example of democracy under the parliamentary system. So much better to handle controversy this way, I believe. Though admittedly a democratic solution is bound to work out like kissing your...

This is a profoundly democratic result. that's what's important, even though "democracy is the worst form of government". You have me confused with someone else. I have never "typed" or claimed that! Nor would I ever. I could make a strong argument for illegitimacy on other grounds however...

All of us are fallible . Either those seeing grave dangers in Trump are right, or those who see him as a somewhat harmless fool capable of only temporary and limited damage are right, or those who see him as a hero and conqueror of the "Deep State" are right, but all of us can not be right.

I have a preference for parliamentary government. Our 1787 constitution did not travel well into the twenty first century. But who in 1787 could have foreseen that in two and one-quarter centuries corporations would gain the same first amendment free speech rights as people? I wonder, how long...

He definitely does not have the judgement and experience it takes to be a good president. And he does at times act like "an idiot" in the way we throw that word around to mean someone doing something that seems to us just plain stupid. But isn't there far more going on than meets the eye...

That's right. Once I become emotionally invested in a perception that has the ring of truth at least to my ears, only with difficulty will I be able to distinguish this perception from truth, assuming they are not the same. And the same will be true of yourself of course. There are clear...

Let me quote myself then in what is bound to be a vain attempt to explain how it is that people can be manipulated so as to remain blind to truth even when it is right in front of them. "The demagogue takes advantage of how difficult it can be to distinguish perception from truth. The goal of...

I am basing my remarks on the opinion of not one or two but many professionals. This is easily researched on the net. (There is not reliable evidence of psychosis in his public persona so far as I am aware) I find it incomprehensible that any observer of Trump's behavior, whether or not they...

I guess where we differ is you see Trump as similar to other politicians, whereas I see him as unique. I would like to say unique in U.S. history, but I'm unqualified to say that with any authority. In my mind he is without question unique from Eisenhower on. My earliest memory of a president...

I'll get back to you. I thought as you, but have changed my mind a bit based of more recent events..

Trumps distorts reality. What he says typically bears some resemblance to truth, although sometimes it's entirely fiction. His inclusion of truth makes his remarks effective and dangerous. He intentionally plays on peoples perceptions, and uses this technique to create scape goats. It is the...

Why do you continue to support the "deep state" then? The "deep state," as you call it, just sent 3000 of our troops to help defend Saudi Arabia! This is after The Crown Prince of Saudi Arbia ordered the murder of an American green Card holder and U.S. Journalist!

You'll find it on You tube. But I can paraphrase. I think. He said that when Mexico sends (immigrants, these people, or what ever he called them) they are not sending us their best, they are sending their rapists and their murderers, and then he said, I assume some are good people. I think...

I am a prisoner of my education. It won't allow me to make arguments such as yours, nor bother to pay them any attention. Nevertheless my instinct tells me I should if i don't want our world to be taken over by lame brain thinking.

This is actually very important information, because our President has tried to portray immigrants as rapists and murderers, when on average the rate they commit serious crimes such as murder,rape, etc., is significantly less than the rate that citizens commit these crimes. So no, we can not...