08-03-2016, 11:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2016, 11:48 PM by Eric the Green.)
Quite the opposite of what kinser says it's true (not that this should surprise anyone).
Clinton is the progressive who is seeking change. She has not only made change all her life, as her husband said, the policies and platforms she is running on are the changes that we need. Politicians like Hillary who represent the people and their real concerns are not the Establishment. Corporate titans and their Republican representatives are the Establishment.
Trump represents the Establishment. He represents big money, pollution, trickle-down economics, racial dog-whistles and southern strategies, nationalism, guns, militarism and law and order and shooting young blacks in the street. That is the same old shit. Anyone voting for the Grump is voting to uphold and uplift the Establishment.
And there's nothing new about the Establishment deceiving people to vote for it with misleading slogans. In the 60s it was the "silent majority that has been forgotten." In the 80s it was "freedom." Now in 2010 it is "politicians are stupid so change the Establishment." Exactly the opposite is true in every case of Republican sloganeering. There is nothing new here. Republicans are the party of 1984, and in fact, 1984 was the election in which their slogans had the most deceiving effect, boosting Big Brother Ronnie into office. Now the deceivers want a "Daddy" figure. Nothing new there at all. The Republicans deceive misinformed folk like kinser and classic Xer into voting for them all the time. Nothing new at all.
Clinton is the progressive who is seeking change. She has not only made change all her life, as her husband said, the policies and platforms she is running on are the changes that we need. Politicians like Hillary who represent the people and their real concerns are not the Establishment. Corporate titans and their Republican representatives are the Establishment.
Trump represents the Establishment. He represents big money, pollution, trickle-down economics, racial dog-whistles and southern strategies, nationalism, guns, militarism and law and order and shooting young blacks in the street. That is the same old shit. Anyone voting for the Grump is voting to uphold and uplift the Establishment.
And there's nothing new about the Establishment deceiving people to vote for it with misleading slogans. In the 60s it was the "silent majority that has been forgotten." In the 80s it was "freedom." Now in 2010 it is "politicians are stupid so change the Establishment." Exactly the opposite is true in every case of Republican sloganeering. There is nothing new here. Republicans are the party of 1984, and in fact, 1984 was the election in which their slogans had the most deceiving effect, boosting Big Brother Ronnie into office. Now the deceivers want a "Daddy" figure. Nothing new there at all. The Republicans deceive misinformed folk like kinser and classic Xer into voting for them all the time. Nothing new at all.