11-19-2016, 11:19 AM
(11-19-2016, 05:44 AM)Galen Wrote:(11-19-2016, 05:34 AM)taramarie Wrote:I asked you to look at Trump's appointments in order to understand what is really happening and to take the measure of the man for yourself. I don't regard him as a cause but rather an effect but understanding his intentions may give you some insight where this current turning is going.(11-19-2016, 05:06 AM)Galen Wrote:Trump is one person. Just one. I am talking about all of the extreme partisan behaviour I see daily from Americans. They would rather stand there and tear themselves apart than discuss anything. They seem to scream to the wind and hope it sticks while cupping their hands over their ears to whatever the opposite side has to say. Sometimes they shut them down immediately with derogatory labels like sexist or racist without even knowing if it is true or not. And even if true does it solve anything. It appears to me all they know is how to tear things down and not build back up. If Trump wants to bring Americans together he has a hell of a job ahead of him. I would be surprised if he did. I have my doubts...like seriously I do not think he will be able to pull it off. It would take a frigging nuclear war to get many over there to pull their heads out of their asses to pull together. I am seriously just fed up with them over there right now. I wash my hands of them. They are broken and continue to shatter their country and honestly do not give a shit it seems. Boomers like you know who are going to get Millennials and some xers into some war for their uncompromising, intolerant and inability to listen ways just like the civil war era and get them killed for their ideals. This is what it is building to whether right at home or overseas. Best of luck guys but do not say the kiwi did not warn you. I wash my hands of you guys. This will only end in more grief and possible bloodshed. The world warned you all. The sooner Americans wake up the better. You do not build up by further tearing things down or people in some cases. You build bridges between the two. This is the last thing I will say on that. If people do not understand that, well guess they have to learn the hard way.(11-19-2016, 04:38 AM)taramarie Wrote: "One side will have the numbers to quash the other. We'll have to hope it's our side. That's how 4Ts work."
.......maybe in my way or the highway America....
Do yourself a favor and look at Trump's appointments in light of the promises on his campaign web site. Tell me what you think.
He is clearly to the Right of his campaign promises except on being a white nationalist, where his appointments match his statements.
He did not promise Gilded-Age economics -- but his appointments suggest that he would be satisfied with transforming America into the plutocracy that it was before 1932.
As a rule his appointments are extremists who fail to recognize the validity of the concerns of the other side, scientific fact (global warming, safety of pesticides), or Constitutional rulings (as on rights of the accused, contraception, and same-sex marriage).
He admires dictators. I would be less scared had he said that he admires Margaret Thatcher than such 'strong' leaders as Putin.
It's nice to hear about an infrastructure program -- but I count on it to be full of graft.
But I already have the measure of the man. He is a sociopath, a demagogue, and a private-sector kleptocrat. He sees any opposition as disloyal even to the point of treasonable. He recognizes no virtue other than profit. His sex life is shameful in the extreme.
If were to get into a war while he is President then I expect it to be bungled badly. If we are to get into a war, then let us at least have someone who recognizes the real danger and, like Lincoln or FDR, simply resolves to get the nasty business over.
He is a "My Way or the Highway" leader, the sort that people resist if they can, and cannot be trusted with civil liberties. He has willingly divided Americans into tribal groups based upon ethnicity and religion with the expectation that a unified 'white tribe' will prevail due to its sheer numbers of people who put ethnic identity above all else.
It won't be long until Americans despise him in numbers far greater than the peak numbers involving Barack Obama. Things will just get worse... and worse... and worse. By 2020 he or any hand-picked successor will be unable to win a free election to the Presidency.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.