Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[Galen]

(11-06-2016, 12:00 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(11-05-2016, 11:41 PM)Galen Wrote: There is very little difference in Red or Blue Boomers, they only differ in the goals they choose to pursue. With Boomers it is always: I am right and everyone else is wrong.  Don't have much use for either of them.

I was speaking of a very specific form of spiritualism.  The America of the nineteenth and early twentieth century was very much a Christian nation.  As for what Trump is, she can look up his speeches on Youtube and work that out for herself.

So, what you are saying is that you are right and I am wrong?

Again, if you look at a group and say they are all alike, you are stereotyping.  You are not going to give much in the way of a meaningful opinion.

Trump is a representative of the red world view,  or is pretending to be, I'm not really sure how sincere his act really is.  An awful lot of his positions flip flopped as he decided to run as a Republican.  He is at least as valid a representative of a group as Eric is a representative of boomer spiritualists...  which is not very.  Trump, at least, has demonstrated he can gather a following who will agree with him, while Eric...  isn't doing as well in the polls.

I am simply pointing out that you missed a very important part of what I wrote.  I was referring to something from a very specific time that has evolved over the years that I don't approve of.  If you took the time to notice you would realize I said nothing about Christianity or Buddhism.  What came of the the sixties and evolved into the New Age movement was very selective about what it took from Eastern mysticism.

Red and Blue Boomers suffer from the same problem.  They believe that they are right and everyone else should bow down before them and are equally clueless.  From my point of view they are the same problem with different goals.

Trump is simply a reaction to the status quo as it has existed for some time.  He is simply a big middle finger to the elites in the US.  Given the fact that we appear to be halfway through the current fourth turning I expected someone who was a departure from politics as usual to show up.  The fact that it was Trump was a bit of a surprise to me.  Truth is, he had a good life and is risking it all on his presidential run.  If he loses, the elites will go after him with a vengeance.  I wouldn't have expected him to take that kind of risk since, contrary to popular belief, he isn't idiot and would have to be aware of such consequences.