it's sort of circular though because the same things that meant he didn't care were the things that led him to promise to do all this stuff that's not really possible.
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it's not that if someone like trump cared they could change everything; it's that only someone like trump who doesn't care would promise to make these sorts of changes because they don't understand how anything works.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
Someone like trump who had a specific ideological goal rather than being purely motivated by self interest could accomplish more profound and fundamental changes to the country
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I just feel like continuing down this line of argument we’re gonna get into apologia for why Obama couldn’t end the war on terror rather than why he /didn’t want to/
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Maybe The "soft power" elements of the system keeping someone who is both truly committed to and truly capable of radical change out of the White House are real, major parts of the system though
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Like they'll probably be arguing for years about "how exactly did Trump slip through the cracks here" But surely part of it was that he slipped through *because* he was not just reckless and unhinged but also profoundly stupid and ignorant
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
I don't want to say this in like a conspiratorial Illuminati way, like "Oh they deliberately let him in with the intention of letting him fail to convince the American people to accept change is impossible" I think it's simpler than that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
It's the same reason that nobody who spontaneously runs onto a football field while the game is going on is capable of stripping the ball from its carrier and running it in themselves for a touchdown Even when that is their clearly committed intention
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Like, if you run for President on a "FUCK THE SYSTEM" platform and go "FUCK THE SYSTEM" to everyone you talk to all day If things are fucked enough, you might win, and winning the election will feel really good
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
But then life is going to become unpleasant as HELL once you're actually doing the job and you actually succeeding at your goals will involve a lot of VERY tense meetings and a lot of people yelling at you and making you feel bad
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And you're gonna have to answer a lot of difficult, complex questions about what exactly it is you want done and if you haven't researched the answers well you'll feel like a dumb asshole and bad things will happen you didn't expect
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
All of this did, in fact, happen to Trump, because he's an idiot, and idiots are the kind of people who run onto the field in the middle of a game
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
A great athlete *could* in theory run onto the field in a middle of a game, but the process of becoming a great athlete would give them enough information about what this would entail that they would become discouraged from doing it Because it is objectively very hard
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