10-04-2016, 11:26 AM
(10-04-2016, 09:20 AM)playwrite Wrote: But Trump IS a robber baron. The other barons just need to adopt some of his brand; but not all of it because the barons can point to his lost and tell the sheeple that they can't go completely nutso, wink-wink, until fully ensconced in the WH.
The sheeple group of Albion's Seed are not going to change; they will always be manipulated by the plantation elites - their slaughter in the Civil War made that pretty clear. They are destined to fade with demographics and that will eventually undermine the political power of the latest plantation elites and robber barons - this could be the last national election where they had a chance; 2020 might make that clear.
It could be Ivanka to carry the torch in 2020, but I'm not sure a woman leader will fit the mold of what the sheeple will buy unless she comes from the Palin mold, but that is not Ivanka. More likely, it will either be another media-driven male, maybe Glen Beck or Sean Hannity; or, it will be Ryan, Cruz or Rubio trying to be a media-driven person. They will all try to find the perfect balance between like-Trump-but-not-too-much-like-Trump to align with their sheeples' desire of wanna-Trump-but-one-that-can-sneak-into-the-WH-and-then-rain-down-hell-on-all-the-libratards-and-all-"the-others." Trump will have a big role as kingmaker for the GOP nomination , but fortunately not for the actual WH.
In the end, Donald Trump's contradictions will take him down. He is a robber baron of the worst kind, someone who makes his money by exploiting a shortage (real estate in greater New York City) that he never solves. At the least, John D. Rockefeller II got America some cheap fuel and may have saved some whale populations. He is anti-government, but his political experience looks largely like getting zoning variances and tax breaks.
Sheeple? That's too nice. Trump supporters seem like the weird sheep-wolf hybrid... and I don't mean the sheep-guarding dog that looks like a sheep. The sheep-wolf hybrid follows its wolf-like leaders with utter submission yet attacks with canine ferocity those that the wolf-like leaders ask be attacked. Those people will still be around, searching for some other authoritarian hero in 2020 and later.
Rich media figure? The image is falling apart. Donald Trump's proposals will make America a nastier place.
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.