19 Jan 21
What happens?
Maybe they've been on this planet for over 70 years, but somehow remained a child. Maybe they learnt no linguistics throughout all the best schoolings and maybe they eat junk food all day long, feel no consequences for their actions and do as they please.
What would that country be like after, say, 4 years under this child?
19 Jan 21
@yo-its-me saidThe failures of a child are almost always the result of bad parenting. So first you need to check on the parents and/or whoever it was that gave this 70 yr old child the authority to run the country.
What happens?
Maybe they've been on this planet for over 70 years, but somehow remained a child. Maybe they learnt no linguistics throughout all the best schoolings and maybe they eat junk food all day long, feel no consequences for their actions and do as they please.
What would that country be like after, say, 4 years under this child?
19 Jan 21
@rajk999 saidSure
The failures of a child are almost always the result of bad parenting. So first you need to check on the parents and/or whoever it was that gave this 70 yr old child the authority to run the country.
But what happens to the country?
Riots? A threat to democracy itself?
@yo-its-me saidIf someone gives a child a hand grenade to play with, there is likely to be disagreement among the adults in the room how to deal with the situation. Some will attempt to get the hand grenade away from the child immediately, with the risk that if the child resists, the grenade may go off and kill everybody in the room. Others will try to humour the child, hoping the child doesn't throw a temper tantrum and detonate it in a fit of pique. Still others will try to get the child's confidence and guide the child towards responsible adulthood. Still others will dither, now this, now that. Others will run for cover and hope for the best. Yet others will arm themselves with their own hand grenades (in order to feel 'safe' ). Some factions might even come to blows over what to do. In short, there will be division and heated argument about how to deal with the child with the hand grenade.
Sure
But what happens to the country?
Riots? A threat to democracy itself?
PS Any sane person wouldn't give a hand grenade to a child in the first place. But as Adlai Stevenson once said, "In America anyone can become president; that's just one of the chances you take."
19 Jan 21
@moonbus saidA country's president does not fall from the sky. He comes born and bred by the same Americans that hold similar values and nurtured him into what he is when he takes office. Trump represents the typical values and conditioning of most Americans. Like I said, parents brought him up that way and then placed him in charge.
If someone gives a child a hand grenade to play with, there is likely to be disagreement among the adults in the room how to deal with the situation. Some will attempt to get the hand grenade away from the child immediately, with the risk that if the child resists, the grenade may go off and kill everybody in the room. Others will try to humour the child, hoping the child doe ...[text shortened]... venson once said, "In America anyone can become president; that's just one of the chances you take."
19 Jan 21
@rajk999 saidHis niece's book probably reveals a lot about Donald's upbringing. I'll order a copy (if it hasn't sold out already).
A country's president does not fall from the sky. He comes born and bred by the same Americans that hold similar values and nurtured him into what he is when he takes office. Trump represents the typical values and conditioning of most Americans. Like I said, parents brought him up that way and then placed him in charge.