(05-22-2021, 02:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(05-21-2021, 05:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: No, it is Trump supporters who have burned a bridge with Americans who prefer rationality, rule of law, wisdom, and intellectual integrity. Admit it: Donald Trump has huge gaps of character that I would not want in a subordinate. Unless I were in an industry such as entertainment or the arts in which character matters little, I would not hire him. To be a factory worker? Well, maybe that would break his narcissism, but I would rather let someone else do that. Fast food? He wouldn't last a week. Retailing? The question is whether he would insult a customer or boss or have a blow-up. Skilled trade? Do you think that his type willingly gets his hands dirty? Teaching or library work? Aside from having little desirable learning and having himself as the focus of the classroom or library, he'd be a disaster. Accounting? Too creative, and not in the positive sense. Writing, editing, or journalism? Do you see coherent communication? Police officer? He would be the worst sort, a brutal cop with sloppy paper work.
Most people who do real work have their narcissism broken, or they learn the hard way through vocational failures. In an economy in which most people are subordinate to some boss, Trump is the sort of person who tries to order people about before he has earned the position in which to do so. Most people chafe in jobs too small for their spirits, as someone said to Studs Terkel in Working. You might try reading that some day to understand what is demanded of people from domestic servants to pro athletes and elected officials or judges.
True, Joe Biden was the most viable candidate of all the Democratic candidates at the time. I mean, he was Obama's ( the greatest or at least the most highly anticipated Democratic president we've seen since John F. Kennedy) right hand man for eight years for God's sake. Now, we've got old Biden acting like he's Bernie in his stead. I wonder how many racist whites supported Biden/Bernie ( a fellow racist white who had represented the racist whites on the Democratic side for many years) in the last election. Bob says the racist whites switched parties. I think they stayed and continued voting to protect paychecks and benefits and the institutions associated with the Democratic party. Bob forgets that Biden and Bird ( the old clansman) served together and were close friends and political allies.
Byrd left the Klan early. I don't know how you project racism onto Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. Donald Trump is a different matter, as glaring as a peacock but without the beauty.
Quote:As far as I can see, the white tribe is still the most dominant of the tribes associated with the DNC today. I have a question. Are you able to adapt and adjust to living in an environment where the black tribe or any minority tribe has the right to do or say whatever they want with you. Personally speaking, I do not like the leadership of the white tribe on the Democratic side and I could care less about what eventually happens to them during the reckoning/resolution that's coming. Acerima is on a collision coarse with America and I don't see Liberal Acerima coming out of it in one piece. So, I suggest that you prepare for major impacts.
I am not at all a tribal person.
It is best that there be no collision. Maybe things get better for most Americans -- higher real wages, more competition in commerce, more educational opportunity... I hope that people start voting again on quality of promises for challenges and quality of achievements for incumbents instead of identity or talking points such as "I'm against abortion" or "I want to raise taxes on the rich".
Events move quickly in a 4T, toward the end with surprising speed before the social climate freezes. Society re-invents itself in surprising ways at the time that seem obvious after the fact.
Quote:As I've told Dave and shown others, I'm very similar to them in their way of thinking and my willing to slide the rule of law and morality to the side for the right cause as well. The only difference is, I'm more principled and I'm on the opposite side as them. Plus, I'm willing to wait (allow more time for the better people stuck among the tribes to move out of harms way and get out of dodge before its to late) for the white leadership cross the line that it should know better than to cross at this point in their lives.
If you still align with or adhere to Donald Trump as a personality, then you identify with something terribly amoral and devoid of any principles upon which America can congeal over the long term. The Service academies inculcate an honor code that says in slightly different ways "Do not lie, cheat, or steal; do not tolerate such by others". People who do this in the less-stressful environment of a university will find it tempting in the greater stress of combat. I consider Donald Trump's sleazy behavior in business and his serial adultery (which involve lying, cheating, and stealing because one or the other of those bad behaviors -- lying, cheating, stealing -- is necessary for dishonest business and for adultery).
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.