01-24-2019, 12:50 AM
David, your assessment of Donald Trump is spot-on.
The Right used to hate the Soviet Union because it was socialist in the sense of the government owning everything and leaving nothing to a privileged class of capitalists. The Right envied the labor discipline and the command system, wishing that it could adopt such in the service of class privilege.
Putin is ex-KGB, but unlike his predecessors as bosses from Dzierzhinksy to Kryuchkov he has never had to sell Marxism-Leninism. He needs not try. He can appeal to the vanity, selfishness, and cruelty, and alienation of capitalists just as his predecessors could appeal to the vanity, selfishness, cruelty, and alienation of people willing to sell at the least some spy secrets to the USSR. Putin can offer a business deal as a Soviet-era Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, or KGB never could. Putin can find more traitors willing to sell out democracy because those who sell out no longer need sell out their class privilege or identity. A traitor like Donald Trump who wants to change the system to fit his vision (he has a vision, and it is a sick one) has more to offer than does a treacherous spy like Aldrich Ames who wants to keep up some Good Life that necessitates the survival of the system whose secrets he sells for 'thirty pieces of silver'.
But Donald Trump has something in common with Commies: a contempt for liberal democracy. The President that we elect in 2020 must reassert the values that really did make America great.
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The American Right was opposed to the Soviet Union and its Communist system for obvious reasons. As an older American, you should be able to know and understand those reasons. If not, here's a reason, every American citizen (regardless of their economic status/class and political affiliation (Republican or Democrat) who own property like homes, farms, business's, land of any kind, cabins and so forth would no longer have a right to own them because the individual freedom and financial means to do so wouldn't exist under the Soviet Union and it's Communist system. Every blue minded poster should be able to read this and hopefully learn why the 99% approach doesn't ever work for them within the US like it could/should be able to within some poor Latin American countries that haven't been torn apart and ravaged by cival war's between Communists and Fascist Regimes or dictators.
The Right used to hate the Soviet Union because it was socialist in the sense of the government owning everything and leaving nothing to a privileged class of capitalists. The Right envied the labor discipline and the command system, wishing that it could adopt such in the service of class privilege.
Putin is ex-KGB, but unlike his predecessors as bosses from Dzierzhinksy to Kryuchkov he has never had to sell Marxism-Leninism. He needs not try. He can appeal to the vanity, selfishness, and cruelty, and alienation of capitalists just as his predecessors could appeal to the vanity, selfishness, cruelty, and alienation of people willing to sell at the least some spy secrets to the USSR. Putin can offer a business deal as a Soviet-era Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, or KGB never could. Putin can find more traitors willing to sell out democracy because those who sell out no longer need sell out their class privilege or identity. A traitor like Donald Trump who wants to change the system to fit his vision (he has a vision, and it is a sick one) has more to offer than does a treacherous spy like Aldrich Ames who wants to keep up some Good Life that necessitates the survival of the system whose secrets he sells for 'thirty pieces of silver'.
But Donald Trump has something in common with Commies: a contempt for liberal democracy. The President that we elect in 2020 must reassert the values that really did make America great.
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The American Right was opposed to the Soviet Union and its Communist system for obvious reasons. As an older American, you should be able to know and understand those reasons. If not, here's a reason, every American citizen (regardless of their economic status/class and political affiliation (Republican or Democrat) who own property like homes, farms, business's, land of any kind, cabins and so forth would no longer have a right to own them because the individual freedom and financial means to do so wouldn't exist under the Soviet Union and it's Communist system. Every blue minded poster should be able to read this and hopefully learn why the 99% approach doesn't ever work for them within the US like it could/should be able to within some poor Latin American countries that haven't been torn apart and ravaged by cival war's between Communists and Fascist Regimes or dictators.