Sam Smith - Don’t
feel confused over Donald Trump’s latest position on DACA. As with other matters, his position is whatever
seems the most self serving thing to say at any given moment. A more traditional view of his stance on political
matters was reflected in the NY Times:
On Sept. 5, the president
moved to end the DACA program and called on Congress to pass a replacement…. Mr.
Trump has told Congress it has six months to find a legislative fix to shield
the young immigrants that President Barack Obama gave protections to through an
executive order. But Congress is struggling to find a way to pass a law to give
the young immigrants quick protections, and prospects for quickly enacting a
replacement seemed dim late Wednesday.
Trump’s approach
to political, as well as all other, matters is how will it benefit him. The
fact that he can so easily flip his position on DACA, combined with the media
treating this as just some more politics, is a reminder that we live in a time when,
since facts don’t matter much, neither does consistency.
2 comments:
Another example of how facts do not matter to politicians is that in RI the legislature is trying to use taxpayer money to build a new baseball stadium for the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox. The two things that seemed to be out of bounds to talk about were how real estate driven economic development policies often lead to disaster (think Houston and the Great Recession) and the RI legislature's long term record on large economic development projects, which is abysmal.
At some point life will be continuously about surviving natural and nuclear disasters. First they came for the mastodon, then the dodo, then all of us.
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