12-19-2020, 08:55 PM
(12-18-2020, 07:57 AM)David Horn Wrote:(12-17-2020, 02:09 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(12-17-2020, 01:50 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-17-2020, 08:24 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I doubt even Trump want to see an end to democracy. He just wants to scam his base out of as much cash as possible. The fraudulent voting thing is just a way of doing that. You have to keep the tensions high to keep the big bucks rolling in and bribe your enablers to keep it going. Democracy failing doesn't matter that much to him. So what if he destroys the country in the process of making a little money?
I'm not so sure of that. Democracy is the hardest environment for grifting, especially for well placed grifters. Assume the Donald knows this at the gut level, if no other way.
I'm pretty sure. It is working. Folks are sending him a bunch of money. I'm sure if he could find a way to be president for life he'd try for it, but in the meanwhile he'll take the cash.
On that we agree. Trump's #1 issue is money, followed by money, money and his family. That's it.
Nitpick: I think that he long put "sex" and his personal esteem before "family". For all I know he might now be impotent.
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.