02-02-2017, 05:26 AM
(02-02-2017, 03:57 AM)Galen Wrote:(02-02-2017, 03:44 AM)taramarie Wrote: You know me, I treat everyone as an individual not defined by preconceived notions of what they are all like by my experience with some blue or red voters and the like. Sorry but people are not clones of each other and I prefer to keep it that way so my mind is kept open on that topic and not clouded by judgement. I have my reasons why and one of them is so open communication for each person is able to be done. I will not participate in smears of vast groups of people.
Know thy enemy. I would prefer to be wrong but I am a realist and you know your enemy by what they do, say and write. The left has and is making their intentions known: No dissent allowed.
The Left has practically no power in America. It commands nothing. The Trump maladministration has an agenda of making almost all American serfs in all but names of rapacious plutocrats who believe that no human suffering is in excess so long as it enriches and pampers them or enforces their will. The only good things about Donald Trump are that he is so inept that he inspires contempt for his semi-fascist ideology and that he has yet to call for torture chambers, concentration camps, and execution pits. He has an analogue who did great (if unintended) harm because of his character,
Look how quiet America was when Barack Obama was President. The Tea Party Movement took much longer to develop than has the mass rallies that oppose "The Donald". There are plenty of issues to protest about when an unjust ruler insists that he is the supposed arbiter of truth for all time. Il Duce ha sempre raggione... Der Fuehrer hat immer rechts....
Milo Yiannopoulis (correct the spelling) went to Berkeley to provoke a response like the one that he got.
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.
