@Finn dAbuzz,
Here's a little more on the Canadian lumber tariff I mentioned. This will definitely hurt the local economy and personally affect one of my musical colleagues who happens to run a lumber business. But, as the article says, it's hard to please everybody in this dispute. Just pointing out that this move is not welcome news in my world and it doesn't make me want to support Trump.
Quote:I wrote a fairly long and detailed response but decided to toss it.
Well, I'd come pretty close to tossing mine before finally deciding to post it. I do appreciate the attention you pay to your writing, your grasp of history, and your sense of humor and I worried that my response might have sounded a bit
intemperate— there may be little point in continuing the discussion but I'm glad it progressed as far as it did.
I accept that there's a bit of derangement on the part of some of the anti-Trump people — not on this forum, of course — but again, it's only been three months and the political climate may cool off, even if the planet's doesn't.
The main thing is, any rapprochement has to be based on this president's actions, not on the idea of restoring civility so that he can govern effectively. The second option might be laudable but realistically, the gap between the parties has grown so astonishingly wide over the past twenty years or so that neither side trusts the other enough to lay down their rhetorical arms unless there's some concrete sign of compromise. No one wants to make the first move. Once again, as the president said:
Quote:However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
