09-22-2021, 10:09 PM
(09-22-2021, 08:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-19-2021, 01:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Worse than being aged and insane... Donald Trump is terribly immature. He has a grade-school level of emotional maturity.
Look who's talking? It's hard to get over you're immaturity and the immaturity of today's Left without acting somewhat immature these days.
You do not know me well enough to judge my sanity and maturity. I know President Trump all too well from his behavior.
His attitudes toward women would have made him a sick joke at the college that I attended and graduated from in the 1970's. Trump has an attitude toward women highly characteristic of a rapist.
I have said plenty of things that make me incompatible with certain orthodoxies of the Left that I knew as a youth. Have you seen my defense of tradition as a fallback against hypermodern absurdity? Have you not caught on that I recognize law and order as necessary for the gain and preservation of civil liberties and human rights? Have you noticed that I stand for conservative family values as the appropriate model for people irrespective of their political positions because such conservative family values protect children? Have you noticed my support for old cultural models as the departure for anything truly innovative? Have I said anything good about Marx unless it is about some unique point not yet proven but not yet unproven? I have said that we need more capitalism in the form of formation of new small business because bloated bureaucracies are more likely to collapse than grow.
I may be multicultural in recognizing that our world has plenty of valid traditions from which people can pick and choose if alienated with what they have.
So on what am I not a conservative? Economic matters -- neoliberalism needs to go because it has failed except in intensifying economic inequality without appreciable growth. We got crony capitalism instead.
I do not know what sort of "Left" you think I am in. Marxism-Leninism and its offshoots are all reactionary failures. You surely missed my derision of the late Abimael (leader of the Shining Path) Guzman and figures of the Khmer Rouge.
Don't try to make a straw-man out of me. It will not work; I will not let it.
...Donald Trump is indefinsable under any criterion of "tradition".
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.