09-02-2016, 09:01 AM
(09-02-2016, 12:24 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-01-2016, 09:41 AM)Anthony Wrote:(08-29-2016, 01:26 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(08-29-2016, 09:33 AM)Anthony Wrote: In any event, thanks to Donald Trump, Social Darwinism of the Ayn Rand type is now in the same place that communism was consigned to 25 years ago:
Oblivion.
We are either going to end up with Malthusian, Zero Population Growth economic nationalism, or neoliberal globalism - at least over the short haul.
Only one of those two choices is on the ballot. And you can't tell where he really stands anyway.
Apparently Charles Koch can tell.
That's why he - and arch-neocon Paul Wolfowitz - are seriously considering voting for Hillary!
Yes, but that's partly because they think Trump is seriously unsteady, unschooled and ignorant about foreign policy. Compared to Trump, Wolfowitz and Koch are merely evil.
The neo-cons may have learned a lesson with George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- that a steady hand has more importance for someone who leads a nation. One need not be a fanatic to be an effective defender of American interests. Barack Obama, even a conservative must admit, has been absolutely horrible -- to terrorists out to do great harm to America and Americans. Dubya may have been more a glory-seeker than an ignoramus. Donald Trump? He will create a world more hostile to the American government.
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.