ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

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(01-20-2017, 12:06 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(01-20-2017, 11:24 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Resisting President Trump and the Reactionary Party will require courage much like that of those who resisted segregationism. We are in for unhappy times.

We resist the tyranny of someone who will act at least as despotically as George III. Only thing -- Donald Trump is elected... sort of.

It may be ironic, but we may have to limit the power of government just to prevent horrific evil.

This is beyond party. The threat is civilizational. A pathogen has entered into our political system. It is of foreign origin. The pathogen is Duginism. Duginism is a shifty beast. It is a beast that was created from strains that evolved from Marxist-Leninism, Stalinism and Fascism. The strains merged and for "good" (bad) measure they also adopted various ancient Siberian shamanistic, Confucian and various other anti-Western pieces of DNA. All of this occurred while the West was barking up other trees. In the West, we remained fixated on the threats of the previous century - Soviet Communism, Nazism and Islamic Terrorism. In that construct, Westerners on the Right feared Soviet Communism infiltrating the Western Left, meanwhile, Westerners on the Left feared Nazism infiltrating the Western Right. Everyone feared Islamic Terrorism.

Over yonder, across the pond, the evil was brewing. After the reputed "fall of the Soviet Union" and with the concurrent Chinese "Socialism with Capitalist Characteristics" of Deng Xiao Ping, the substrate for the new pathogen was ready. The now CIS turned East. Dugin showed up on the scene, absolutely at the right time and place. The scene was set for Eurasianism. The 90s brought the specter of of The Trans-Asian Axis, a precursor to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Collectively, both Russia and China could have access to liebensraum that Hitler could have only dreamed of. Initially the conquest would be via soft power. Along the way the Trans-Asian Axis morphed into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Later, it would involve war. The people of Crimea and Donbas now know this all too well. Now, the people of SE Asia and the South China Sea arena are also waking up to it. In the Baltics and Central Europe, fear of it is in the air. It .... THE FOURTH REICH.

It remains to be seen if this pathogen will truly take root here in the West, making our lands into Vichy or Quisling vassal states. But there can be no doubt that the pathogen is now here. The oceans do not afford any protection.

Who/what represents the threat to our civilization? It's not you or me or anyone else who is willing to fight/die defending America. You're right, the world has changed which means we have to change in order position ourselves to meet the challenges of a new world order that will be opposed to us and seeking to destroy our civilization and other civilizations that are closely related to us. The so-called free world.