Jackson Hinkle Speaks With Col. Douglas Macgregor
The video is 41 minutes long. It moves right along and covers quite a bit of territory. One part that struck me was when Macgregor says, with regard to overall American policy: Nobody in Washington seems to have thought through anything. Everything seems to be impulse and emotion, nothing is rational. Yeah, sounds about right:
Definitely worth watching. I was impressed with the Colonel's retelling of Eisenhower's advice to Kennedy, Ike told JFK to be a good butcher or find someone else to be your butcher, to rid his administration of bad actors. The colonel also correctly observed that Trump was too nice and trusting, not a butcher, to our detriment.
Having worked and consulted -- very naively -- for government entities in the build-up to the gigantic mortgage implosion of 2008 - 2009, I have learned that the interest of most politicians and almost all of the interest groups that support them is solely for themselves. The " impulse and emotion" are advertising slogans to sell the well-meaning and good-hearted fools who make up the populace to support those self-interested policies. The people running the show know exactly what they want for themselves, and their policies to accomplish that are excellent. What it does to our country means nothing to them. I am not exaggerating.