re: #143 KGxvi

Maybe my outlook is too long term, then, because I don’t see how selling out to a hostile adversary helps me secure power beyond the end of next week. What good is having power if gaining it means weakening American standing internationally (meaning you have less power)? What good is having power if gaining it means that the system/society/economy you seek to control is weakened by outside forces?

This is the sheep mortgaging the fields to the wolves. Any short term gain you might think you have is clearly outweighed by the eventual fuckedupness you’re going to experience.

I think the second part of the story is that these GOP goons don’t really believe their own thousand-year Reich stories about how they can stay in power indefinitely. So the power they seized is transitory and their plan is apparently to loot as much as they can as fast as they can during this opportunity.