(06-21-2020, 02:43 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Yeah.... putting a "businessman" in charge of government is turning out to be one of the worst ideas in history.
Not surprising. A lot of upper class businessmen are essentially autocrats. Shortsighted, with various degrees of slaveholder tendencies; made worse in a vulture capitalist society where the highest virtue is filling your own pockets.
Country? Citizens? Constitution? These are tools for making money for yourself.
It's like putting a parasite in charge of your bloodstream.
"The advantage of faith over reason, is that reason requires understanding. Which usually requires education; resources of time and money.
Religion needs none of that. - It empowers the lowliest idiot to pretend that he is wiser than the wise, ignoring all the indications otherwise "
- A. Ra
Religion needs none of that. - It empowers the lowliest idiot to pretend that he is wiser than the wise, ignoring all the indications otherwise "
- A. Ra