Rand Paul: Yeah, I Guess I'd Support Trump As The Nominee

[erowe1]

I don't feel that Rand would endorse Trump if he were the nominee. He has really admitted as much.

And you are acting like that's a big deal, solely because of some kind of emotional concern for symbolic gestures, and total disregard for anything that actually matters.

Feels over reals.

 

[erowe1]

What limit is there on the power of the Supreme Leader in North Korea? Okay, he's not allowed to stop or reverse time but that's the laws of nature stopping him, not the NK constitution.

When all is said and done, practical limitations that arise from the innate difficulty of getting what they want is what limits all regimes, not ink on paper. The one in Washington DC is a lot more powerful than the one in North Korea.

 

[jmdrake]

When all is said and done, practical limitations that arise from the innate difficulty of getting what they want is what limits all regimes, not ink on paper. The one in Washington DC is a lot more powerful than the one in North Korea.

There are no practical limits to what the one in North Korea can do to the people inside North Korea. As powerful and as bad as Washington D.C. is, the little guy still sometimes wins. Remember the Bundy ranch standoff? Be honest with yourself. How do you think that would have gone down in North Korea?

 

[erowe1]

There are no practical limits to what the one in North Korea can do to the people inside North Korea

Sure there are. You can't get milk out of a cow if you don't let it eat. All regimes always face practical limitations on maximizing what they can get out of their subjects.

Remember the Bundy ranch standoff? Be honest with yourself. How do you think that would have gone down in North Korea?

And that is part of why the regime in Washington DC is so much more powerful and so much less constrained by pragmatic limitations than the one in North Korea. The North Korean one doesn't feed its cow enough. It's a massive strategic error on their part, one that is counterproductive for the rulers just as it is harmful for their subjects.

Washington doesn't give people a longer leash because of the Constitution. They do it because they're smart and it works well for them. They arguably come closer to ruling the whole world than anyone else so far.