09-13-2020, 05:56 PM
(09-13-2020, 04:10 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-12-2020, 08:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(09-12-2020, 03:27 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-12-2020, 08:33 AM)David Horn Wrote:(09-11-2020, 02:09 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: How do you not see the plutocracy that mainly exists on the Democratic side today? How do you not see the obvious morons and imbeciles who represent your interests?
If there has ever been a greater case for "the pot calling the kettle black", I can't think of one. The shear mendacity of the entire Republican Party mated to the most officious POTUS in history makes any counter arguments about poor behavior and performance by the Dems moot by definition. And yes, the Dems and their many followers have shown us little to be proud of either. It's just the shear magnitude difference that makes their trespasses so unimportant at this point.
Dude, America needs a rich American asshole in the White House and the hard Left has earned/ rightfully deserves the whooping that its got coming. Clinton lost because she used a term to describe a large group of Americans that could be easily used to describe her and equally applied to herself. So, how hard is it going to be to toy with Gumby and challenge Gumby and force Gumby to admit stuff that incriminates himself and the party he represents today.
Dude, most Presidents have been rich. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have since gotten rich off speaking tours and writing books. If you are President, then you have tales to tell unless you are so out of it once no longer President that people write about you without consulting you. Trump has done horrible stuff, including disparaging veterans and people in active duty to the Armed Services. As a right-winger who sees soldiers as "losers", "fools", and "dopes", he is the sort who would, given the opportunity, expend them either for his personal glory or for the profits of war profiteers.
Calling "deplorables" what they are, was not really relevant. People who were offended by one gaffe, and identified with the term, and meanwhile ignored the hundreds of gaffes made by her opponent, were ignorant and foolish enough to be swayed and hypnotized by Drumpface to begin with.
The Left has been whooped and injured for over 50 years already. One more is not going to change us, Classic Xer, or our disgust for your side's deplorable ignorance and evil.
Ideally we shore up our educational system so that people are wise enough to recognize what Hillary Clinton called deplorable for what it is. Orwellian Newspeak is deplorable. Mocking the disabled is deplorable. Bragging about grabbing women by their "kitty-cats" is deplorable. Sending in toughs to confront peaceful protesters is deplorable. People can disagree on economic philosophy, but they cannot rightly disagree on basic decencies.
In Michigan we have some trend to make K-14 as the norm of education, as K-12 is inadequate for preparing people for the sophisticated technology that we have. At the least people need formal learning in economics, psychology, philosophy (if only for formal logic), and comparative political systems just to be able to deal with the more sophisticated demagogues and scammers of our time... and perhaps some art and music appreciation and world literature so that people can insist upon satisfying lives no matter what their economic circumstances.
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.