01-21-2020, 05:05 PM
(01-20-2020, 12:51 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-19-2020, 07:07 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Because you, like Alec Baldwin, trash all 63 million Tea Partiers / Trump supporters by using exactly the same excuses that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust, and the same excuses that are used by other perpetrators of genocide and ethnic cleansing. These kinds of excuses are as old as time.
It's one thing to criticize the policies and politics of the president, but your trashing and condemnation of 63 million Trump supporters, almost all of whom are perfectly wonderful loving Church-going family men, women and children, probably a lot more wonderful than you are, is completely out of line, and should cause you to go offline for a few days and spend the time thinking about your values -- both about the Trump supporters, and about your excuses for Clinton's violent rapes.
Really? The slander has run in reverse, far more than the way you portray it, and the number of voters on the anti-Trump side was 66 Million. Trump has demagogued everything everyday since he entered the race in 2015. He, and his supporters, have no ground to stand on. They started the mud slinging, and now they're whining that they're getting muddied too. Boo-hoo!
Even more -- Trump did just better in the share of the popular vote as did Mike Dukakis in 1988, and Dukakis is generally understood to be a big electoral loser. Voters over 55 the Silent, Boomers, and now the earliest-wave of X on the whole are undergoing attrition by about 1.5% by year, and they are about 5% more R than D. The voters who replace them are now almost exclusively Millennial, and they are about 20% more D than R. That sort of replacement in the electorate dooms Trump to defeat unless he can suddenly win over America's young adults. He has nothing to offer them except more hardships unless one considers working longer and harder for less some blessed opportunity.
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.