03-26-2017, 07:42 AM
(03-20-2017, 03:25 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:Quote:1. The Dutch have a proportional representative government that allows for multi-party systems.
Also a parliamentary system which requires that people act responsibly to be attractive as coalition partners. That's not how we have things. Our Parties are preset coalitions.
Quote:2. Everyone in the (mainstream media) was wrong about the US election. I find it fascinating though that HRC had the money, the press and (Hollywood) on her side and she still lost.
Some of the moneyed elites were scared of him -- but once President, Donald Trump sold out the common man to get their favor. The common man who voted for President Trump has been had, and knows it, unless "deplorable". He was seen as a demagogue, but he has proved useful to the most rapacious elements in American life by standing for economic hustles, for tax cuts on behalf of the Master Class, against the environment, and (soon enough, I predict) against unions.
Quote:3. The (Democrats) have been losing seats and states since 2010. Not really a surprise there.
I can't predict how unpopular President Trump will be in November 2008 -- but all House seats are up for grabs. An unpopular President and an unpopular Congress creates a "Throw the bums out" climate. This time it more likely hurts the Republican Party. I expect that pattern to be as reliable with Trump as with Obama.
Quote:4. The left still has yet to demonstrate that Donald Trump is racially, or religiously bigoted. Indeed, I don't think they can, cause if he were they would have "exposed" it by now.
He is doing an excellent job of proving that himself. He needs no help from 'the Left'.
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.