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Video of Trump vowing to terminate Obamacare goes viral after he backtracks
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Why is it a problem that a politician changes their mind on some topic after getting more information about it?
Because he's lying
Precisely. There’s a big difference between learning something new and improving, and bad faith.
In general, it's usually a good thing and indicates they're responding to new information rather than digging in with entrenched beliefs based on outdated information.
However, with this guy, he just says whatever he thinks will make the ratings go up. He also lies and bullshits with impunity, and that's when he knows what he's saying at all.
I don’t know why it’s just occurring to me now but he’s the crypto currency of presidential candidates. Say or do anything, so long as line goes up.
Thanks to George W. Bush, the idea that a politician could change their mind based on new information got popularized as being a “flip flopper”, and discourse was shut off thanks to the juvenile repetition of the term, along with “stay the course” and “you wouldn’t change horses mid-stream” phrases that W was noted for.
So changing your mind as a politician is always a difficult thing because opponents will attack you for it, and of course it’s bad in the US thanks to the grade-school level of discourse in congress choosing things like “flip flopper”, “snowflake”, or claiming earthquakes and floods are punishment from god.