12-18-2018, 08:51 AM
(12-18-2018, 08:24 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Donald Trump has hijacked American conservatism, attempting to attach it to his personal narcissism, to superstition, to bigotry, to cruelty, to economic elitism, and even to linguistic fraud out of Nineteen Eighty.Four.
They chose an outsider. They selected someone who wasn't one of the Washington DC elites, with an agenda that backed the elites. This I have no trouble with. They just chose the wrong outsider. The reds seem to select people like Trump or Palin, trying for a Reagan like agenda. If only they could get rid of the elite corruption, they would like to see that agenda succeed. I don't think that it can. It is too much of the past. But I don't blame them for disliking the corrupting and elite influence of the Republican establishment. They also disliked Hillary as she was painted for years as a member of the Democratic establishment. The Democrats would do well selecting someone far away from that.
(12-18-2018, 08:24 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: "The wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, with peace on earth, good will toward men" -- Longfellow.
Not this crisis / awakening. (I am still inclined to see the next decisive wave played out in the voting booth and congress rather than with violence. The spiral of violence is going nowhere thus far.) Not with representative democracy. The representatives will cozy up to the elites. There will likely be at least one more go aground.
I might be surprised. When the culture remakes itself, it usually goes much farther than anyone expected during the prior awakening. But I don't really see a sign of that much of a makeover.
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.