01-18-2017, 10:04 AM
(01-17-2017, 02:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: ... however unfortunately most on the Right have been duped by the faux "Right" to believe in some sort of Donaldus Maximus notion. Donald will fix everything. He will Make America Great Again. He, the gold leafed sales puke, will use the Art of the Deal to fix our foreign policy problems and trade imbalances, and will overturn "8 years of hell" (according to a certain subset of Rightists). Now to be fair, the Obama years sucked a lot for Rightists. But what is now offered is not any better for real Rightists than it is for the Left. Everyone loses here.
Many people believe that the way to solve all political questions is to secure a combination of a politician with whom one agrees completely to whom one grants absolute power. That hero usually proves a sham.
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.