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Topic	Pentagon cancels all construction contracts for Trump border wall
Monopoman 04/30/21 10:21:41 PM #7:	adjl posted... Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, it's not about "erasing legacies" or any similar pointless attribution of glory to basic government work, and instead about doing good/bad things to the country? Nobody cares about those specific aspects of Obama's legacy for the sake of preserving a legacy, they care about it because they feel those were good changes and that undoing them is a step backwards. Similarly, reversing harmful Trump-era policies is felt to be a good thing, and the complete worthlessness of the concept of "Trump's legacy" means that legacy's preservation doesn't even factor into that value judgement. It only looks hypocritical if you treat politics like cheering for your favourite football team. Pay any attention at all to the practical reality of the matter, and that impression falls apart immediately. I mean really for Obama his biggest legacy was Obamacare and that was mostly because that caught on as a term for it. Most presidents don't have a huge legacy attached to a huge project or change. I have a feeling if Obamacare never caught on then it would have been not tied to Obama as much. <cite>Monopoman posted [p:953423816] in Pentagon c... [t:79434507]...</cite> <quote>adjl posted... </cite> <quote>Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, it's not about "erasing legacies" or any similar pointless attribution of glory to basic government work, and instead about doing good/bad things to the country? Nobody cares about those specific aspects of Obama's legacy for the sake of preserving a legacy, they care about it because they feel those were good changes and that undoing them is a step backwards. Similarly, reversing harmful Trump-era policies is felt to be a good thing, and the complete worthlessness of the concept of "Trump's legacy" means that legacy's preservation doesn't even factor into that value judgement. It only looks hypocritical if you treat politics like cheering for your favourite football team. Pay any attention at all to the practical reality of the matter, and that impression falls apart immediately.</quote> I mean really for Obama his biggest legacy was Obamacare and that was mostly because that caught on as a term for it. Most presidents don't have a huge legacy attached to a huge project or change. I have a feeling if Obamacare never caught on then it would have been not tied to Obama as much. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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