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pokoko on 30 November 2016
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method114 said:
pokoko said:
It's really interesting to me that anyone believed otherwise in the first place. He's a billionaire who has played the political game his entire adult life. He's donated to whomever he thought would benefit his interests and he's used lobbyists to get his way. He's a wealthy businessman who makes deals with other wealthy businessmen in order to make them all more money. His continued success in the business sector depends on laws and regulations that favors his positions and on the support and cooperation of other influential corporations, business partners, and, yes, politicians.

All of which is public knowledge.

It's like thinking Dracula would be a great guy to put in charge of stopping the spread of vampirism.

I think in general there's nothing wrong with using the system in place to get ahead while thinking at the same time that it needs to be changed. As far as I last heard  he was still very serious about shutting down lobbying in government. It was on his little first 100 days agenda thing.

We'll see if he takes meaningful action on that subject or not eventually.  As someone who has used lobbyists for his own personal benefit in the past, there is no reason to believe him more than any other politician.  

He'll probably just extend Obama's time limit on becoming a "registered lobbyist", which doesn't really amount to much difference.

However, I'll be very pleased if he really does live up to his promises on this.  Individuals not in office shouldn't have more control of legislation than people in office.  I'm just saying that, given his track record, I'm not expecting a massive reform.  He has to prove himself first on issues like this.