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Goodheart

(5,760 posts)
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 10:48 PM Apr 2018

Just saw some videos of Trump promising to "drain the swamp"... and it just hit me...

I never noticed this before.... he doesn't actually know what "draining the swamp" is SUPPOSED to mean metaphorically.

Instead of getting rid of people who don't play by the rules he thinks that "draining the swamp" means getting rid of the rules so that they can't be broken.

So, there now appears to me to have been a massive disconnect between him and his millions of voters. They thought he was campaigning against the evils of corruption when he was actually campaigning to end the technicalities of corruption to allow more evils. And I'm not sure he was actually deliberately deceiving them.

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Just saw some videos of Trump promising to "drain the swamp"... and it just hit me... (Original Post) Goodheart Apr 2018 OP
A different way of looking at it Angry Dragon Apr 2018 #1
More likely he was just saying shit because he loves the sound of his own voice. cos dem Apr 2018 #2
I don't know about that marylandblue Apr 2018 #3
Under the premise that government employees are corrupt by definition, is my take. Goodheart Apr 2018 #5
That's been the Republican Party mantra for 40 years. marylandblue Apr 2018 #6
That is a long period...why haven't people realized this? BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #9
Bannon tested the phrase and told him to say it. IluvPitties Apr 2018 #4
Yep, Bannon and Cambridge Analytica came up with it before trump was even a candidate EleanorR Apr 2018 #7
He wanted to drain the so-called... 3catwoman3 Apr 2018 #8
It was more of a swamp remodeling project. tanyev Apr 2018 #10

cos dem

(913 posts)
2. More likely he was just saying shit because he loves the sound of his own voice.
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 11:01 PM
Apr 2018

I don't think he thinks about anything.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
3. I don't know about that
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 11:03 PM
Apr 2018

I think he and his followers thought it meant getting rid of government employees. One of the first things he did was freeze hiring, and then he tried, and is still trying, to make big cuts in spending. Also he hasn't filled a lot of political positions and says he doesn't need to.

EleanorR

(2,430 posts)
7. Yep, Bannon and Cambridge Analytica came up with it before trump was even a candidate
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 11:22 PM
Apr 2018

Trump was fed the line and kept saying it because it got him applause. He didn't a shit what it meant as long as it got him positive attention.

As far as dumping government employees, that's what fascists do, they get rid of all but the most loyal sycophants.

3catwoman3

(25,388 posts)
8. He wanted to drain the so-called...
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 11:36 PM
Apr 2018

...swamp in order to get to the really nasty, malodorous, decaying ooze at the bottom - that's shere he found his cabinet members and advisors.

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