Quote of the Day
It’s easy to talk about “sensible gun control” when you don’t actually lay out what that means.
spf4000
August 31, 2025
What “Meaningful Gun Control” is this author talking about? : r/liberalgunowners
You see this all the time in various forms. People will make some statement or series of statements that sound good, but do not include details. It might be better roads and bridges but no details about how it will be paid for. It might be affordable housing but do not mention they intend to take money from other people to pay for the housing.
Politicians are great on broad stroke statements. But they either don’t understand details are important, or they are deliberately hiding the devil in the details of what they intend to do.
Politics has been defined as Hollywood for ugly people. What the two groups have in common is that both are stupid, ignorant and arrogant.
“Politicians are great on broad stroke statements. But they either don’t understand details are important, or they are deliberately hiding the devil in the details of what they intend to do.”
Ab-sol-freaking-lutly!
But what else can they do? If they told the truth they would get hung.
Broad brush statements are popular because those who make them are well aware that the vast majority of the electorate is too stupid, shallow, distracted or otherwise preoccupied to delve into what was actually said. We live in a society ruled by “sound bites”.