08-22-2017, 07:16 AM
(08-22-2017, 06:54 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(08-22-2017, 06:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: History shows that fascistic regimes start wars that democratic countries dread -- but that the democracies win. Twist America in 1940 into a fascist society (1915 Klan) and Germany and Japan into liberal democracies, and... our freeways in the East are called Autobahns, and some of the most common names for little girls on the West Coast include "Michiko" and "Sumiko".
Fascistic regimes greatly overestimate the likelihood of winning because of the 'ethnic' superiority of the people that they lead... to disaster. Once the democracies start winning, they establish themselves as the best of all possible worlds, and make sure that people who happened to be on the wrong side have no cause to resist.
You should be concerned about a possible Washington-Beijing Axis. What the Russians could have done in 2016, the Chinese can also do. Maybe they would be more subtle, supporting Americans more amenable to free trade without the knowledge of such people that the support for their candidacies has come ultimately from China. If the Chinese dislike the way America is going now, then maybe they will support Democrats.
So your response to the ridiculousness of your mental model is to drag out the Man in the High Tower and to claim that Vladimir Putin somehow, someway mind controlled the American people to vote for a man you don't like.
Well at least I have my answer. You work on being clueless. Not even my politically brain dead mother bought the "Muh Russia" narrative. China has greater problems than a possibly hostile man in the White House. They have to deliver the goods to their people or face revolution.
As I said, Europe has no ablity to fight a world war, and Asia has no desire to (not even Mr. Kim).
The world has a surplus of high ego low rationality actors. No area of the world has a monopoly on them. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't invite Trump to move in.
We also have no shortage of high partisan pundits cherry picking reality to advocate extreme world views.
Saddam thought it was clever to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. Bush 43 thought it clever to remove Saddam, to destabilize the middle east. Kim thinks it clever to work up nukes. Don't think you understand the high ego highly partisan mind, or count on folks to think like you do. It is in many ways amusing to watch extreme partisans passing in the night, but such views should not be mistaken for reality.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.