10-08-2018, 03:54 PM
(10-08-2018, 03:27 PM)Galen Wrote:(10-08-2018, 10:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(10-08-2018, 02:34 AM)Galen Wrote:(10-08-2018, 02:11 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The left can get unhinged, or they can get busy.
Considering the track record of the left it seems far more likely they will become even more unhinged. Under normal circumstances this would be true but Trump really has a gift for pushing Dims over the edge. There are thing I don't about Trump but his effects on the left are the most entertainment I have had in years.
Sadist!
Not really. Its much easier to win if you can get your opponent to destroy themselves. Once Trump realized there was no working with the Dims he started doing things that most people wouldn't care about but cause the left to go bananas. Unlike you I would be willing to bet that Trump has read Sun Tzu.
Donald Trump, from most accounts, isn't much of a reader.
Donald Trump has been good at insulting his opponents, offending the sensibilities of anyone not with him, and working contrary to the values of those who were never going to vote for him. Since environmentalists were never going to support him, he could promote ravaging the environment on behalf of special-interest groups.
This polarizes politics even more, and it is better at creating hatred than at creating concord.
We shall see how this works in the 2018 midterm elections. Nobody has ever done this before (except for Lincoln freeing the slaves, which is commendable), so it is either a consummate stratagem or consummate folly. In between? I doubt it.
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.