We’ve all dealt endlessly with the separation of Church and State concept, right? What about separation of business and State? What more do we need to see before people collectively realize big business running government is a clear path to ruin?
I hate these fucking businesspeople who put profit over people, be it their own workers or the general population. You cocksuckers know who you are.
Oh no. Someone at the CDC has an ethics problem. If only someone could make ethics guidelines for government officials, and have their recommendations adhered to.
Guidelines are not helping, obviously. We need specific, punitive LAWS to deter and punish this sort of behavior in elected officials. Years-long investigations drowned in partisan BS followed by the obligatory hand-slap aren’t cutting it.
We have a provision in the Constitution that addresses one part of this, but it is being swept aside for partisan reasons. If Republicans in Congress can’t hold a Republican President to account for his adherence to the Constitution, worrying about the CDC official is pretty small potatoes.
Basically, HUD lawyers tell Ben Carson not to have his son arrange events for him to meet with his son’s business partners. Carson totally ignores the advice of the attorneys.
Because…we are now in a world where there are no consequences. I’m sure it will change back immediately if a Democrat is ever elected to the White House.
That is precisely the problem. “Consequences” always had a different meaning for politicians. The higher they go, the less clear the concept becomes. I have recently been clutching the belief that modern communications, media and Internet Time would have a mitigating effect on the tendency for politicians to become corrupt in one way or another. It is obviously much more difficult for them to go undetected these days, but it doesn’t seem to matter - there are no consequences. WTF?
I would have thought so too. But people will tend to believe whatever supports their world view and prejudices. Opposite views are considered attacks and fake news.
We are all guilty of this to some degree (after all, who wants to be wrong, when it’s easy to find an opinion that supports your interpretation of what may be happening)
I’ll blame education systems to a degree. Is critical thinking supported as much as wrote learning? “Believe this, it’s in a book”.
I’ll also blame the overprotection that children have been getting. Less and less lessons are learned the hard way as they are protected from the real world more and more.
All this bullshit media is received by everyone in an uncritical fashion, which is actually making it harder to distinguish non-issues from misconduct. The Internet is like, 75% of the problem, really.
I don’t think you’re following my point. The Internet is not simply a different means of passing electrons (that happen to represent news articles) from the way electrons were passed before. The Internet, IMHO, is changing the way people communicate, including news.
To put it simply, 50 years ago everyone trusted Walter Cronkite. He was on TV, providing news and some opinion, and his stature of being on TV gave him a certain level respect even if you didn’t like what he was saying.
Now, literally everyone who runs a blog, Facebook page, or whatever has the same access to eyes as Walter Cronkite. With so many sources of information, how do we know what to trust? We trust what fits into our narrative, of course, making everyone more prone to being manipulated by BS that generally wouldn’t make it through a high school newsroom editing process.
I think since the early days of the Internet, we’ve been told so many times that more information is better. What we’ve gotten is the same amount of quality news, and a huge explosion in crappy news, and the crappy sensationalist news is getting more eyeballs.
Complete stupidity in one sentence. Reread what he wrote. A gay slur and unrelated misogynistic language directed at a female he would never use against a man.
I’d call any man parlaying government resources into personal wealth a Fucking Whore Bastard. So what? Your perception of racial and sexual bias needs the squelch turned up a bit.
