02-04-2017, 08:19 PM
(02-03-2017, 05:13 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-03-2017, 04:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:Actually, I don't support either one. I didn't support the life long public servant/politician who some how or anther became a multi-millionaire like you. I voted for the financially independent billionaire who promised to drain the swamp. Of coarse, he will need a super majority to fully accomplish that task. How long do you think it's going to be before your side finds it's being sued to death? How many so-called Greens like yourself voted for Hilary in California?(02-03-2017, 04:28 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: What Eric does is not a "stereotype" either.
And what you do is support corruption and pollution
Donald Trump did not run on a platform of ravaging the environment or promoting financial corruption. Neither did he say that he would gut public education. But he has quickly aligned with people who act as if no human suffering is in excess so long as they get what they want. We should have gotten a hint that he was bad news with his calls for violence, his ugly bigotry, and his "grab (women) by their pu$$ies".
The most rapacious plutocrats are not our benefactors; they are our exploiters. Military contractors should not be setting foreign policy; oil companies should not be setting energy policy; financial hustlers should not be allowed to determine how America does finance; mining companies should not be setting environmental policy. Donald Trump's policies are akin to letting pornographers determine the sexual mores of us all.
Four years from now we will be asking ourselves how we could have done to ourselves so much harm by electing Donald Trump, who offered vague promises of prosperity so long as we do not ask how we were to get it and who would reap the benefits. He has shown himself a cruel man, and I expect no trace of human decency in his economic policies.
When we get through this mess we will need to make major political changes, shoring up the Constitution against corporate power and ruthless operatives -- and lengthening the norm of education so that American adults can be less gullible when a demagogue, Left or Right, offers vague promises of safety and plenty so long as we do not ask any troublesome questions.
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.