Generational Dynamics World View

[pbrower2a]

(01-02-2018, 07:15 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(01-02-2018, 05:25 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: >   I'm not sure 20 Korean women is "many" compared to the numerous
>   rapes in Nanking and other cities.  

If you're looking for someone to debate this with, consider joining
the discussion in the comment section of the article.  You'll have
loads of fun!!

(01-04-2018, 09:57 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(01-03-2018, 03:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   Bill Clinton did far worse than what would now be tolerated. The
>   generational cycle has gone from the relatively-libertarian (at
>   least on lifestyles) Culture Wars to a Crisis Era. I consider it a
>   good thing. I think that young, aspiring, talented people will be
>   wise to marry as early as possible instead of sowing any wild
>   oats. Monogamy is a good thing -- as this 'leftist'
>   states.

That's just a left-wing excuse.  Clarence Thomas was subjected to a
high-tech lynching because he asked someone out on a date.  Bill
Clinton was credibly charged with violent rape by multiple women, and
was excused by the loony left.  I don't know what you mean by "would
now be tolerated."

Check the thread on sexual harassment and careers ruined. we are no longer in the 1990s.

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(01-03-2018, 03:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   She "stood by her man", as was then expected -- and
>   pragmatic.

So you agree that in the 1990s, liberals and feminists considered it
to be OK for a democrat to rape a woman, and it's OK for his wife to
"stand by her man."  That is what you're saying isn't it -- that rape
was OK in the 1990s?

They were standing behind Bill Clinton because he was a 'good liberal' Thatt was no help for someone like John Conyers or Harvey Weinstein last year.

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(01-03-2018, 03:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   All that kept the Ku Klux Klan from murdering on the scale of
>   Nazis, let alone Commies, is that it never got power.

What's your point?  That Trump is like the KKK?  You're an idiot.

So you conflate Trump with the KKK, and you excuse rape by Democrats
in the 1990s.  If Trump merely tweets something you dislike, you say
he's Hitler, but it's OK for Clinton to rape someone, because it was
in the 1990s.

I was conflating the Klan to the Nazis.

(01-03-2018, 03:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   There are loose ends everywhere.

Those were well-documented threats directed by the left at the right.
There were no loose ends.  You call them "loose ends" because you
don't want to admit they occurred.

On the other hand, everything you write about Trump is just one
incoherent loose end after another.  Have you read lately what you
wrote in "The most dangerous time since the Civil War"?  Really, it's
just one idiotic thing after another.  Implying that Trump is a
fascist pig.  Calling the tax cut "extreme legislation."  Calling
Trump a "dictator" when he's rebuffed by the courts and needs Congress
to pass laws.  Or "low-service government that privatizes everything
on behalf of rapacious monopolists."  I could go on, but these are
some of the stupidest things I've read -- well no, that's an
exaggeration, there are a lot of people on the loony left who say
equally stupid things.  Stupidity is the norm on the left.[/quote]

Is it safe to trust President Trump? I see his tweets, and I recognize the emotional mturity of a grade-school school kid in his syntax, logic, and grammar. There needs to be an adult around when one has lots of people of such moral and emotional development. That's why we have schools and teachers for normal ten-year-olds and why we have prisons and guards for adults and adolecents of similar levels of moral and intellectual development.

I look at Donald Trump, and I see someone who fits a Marxist stereotype as a capitalist. I look at the economic agenda of he Republican Party, the Club for Growth, FreeomWorks, and the John Birch Society, and I see a Marxist stereotype of capitalism.
Can technology and GDP per capita reddeem the bad capitalist order that the GOP and related entities seem to want? If anything it is even more inexcusable and despicable. A rich gangster is no better than a street thug.

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(01-03-2018, 03:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   Social democrats, who have an excellent record on human rights,
>   due process, and political clarity -- or totalitarian
>   Marxist-Leninists?

Everyone's a "democrat."  Hitler was a democrat.  Putin is a democrat.
Maduro is a democrat.

Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro were/are social democrats with great
records on human rights, due process, and political clarity.  You can
see it today in Venezuela, right before your eyes.

Here's what "social democrats" are really like:

** 29-May-16 World View -- Hugo Chávez dismantled Venezuela's businesses on purpose to create Socialist Paradise
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e160529

In that article, I described what "social democrat" Chávez did:

• Dismantle all the private businesses one by one
  
  
• Use the vast oil wealth to import everything that had previously
  been produced internally.
  
  
• Eventually dismantle all private businesses while importing
  everything.
  
  
• Finally, the government would own all businesses, and the
  government would produce everything
  

That's how "social democrats" work.  That what Bernie Sanders and your
friends on the loony left would do if they got power.  That's what the
loony left means by "great records on human rights, due process, and
political clarity."

And I notice one other thing: I haven't heard you or any of your loony
left friends condemn Chávez or Maduro for how they destroyed Venezuela
with "social democracy."  Oh sure, you're willing to condemn Stalin
now (though in the 1930s you would have praised him to the skies).
And you're willing to excuse Clinton's rapes in the 1990s, but say
that today they're "no longer tolerated" -- though you wouldn't be
saying that if Hillary still had a chance to run.  But you and your
loony left friends refuse to say a word about Venezuela, even though a
disaster is unfolding right before our eyes.

Like all leftists, you advocate the stupidest, most destructive
policies, and then when they fail you just say "Awww, that's too bad,"
and go on to the next stupid, destructive policy.  That's why I say
that people on the left have no morals and no ethics.

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I'm thinking more of European social democrats -- not Chavez, Castro, Mugabe, etc. European social democrats see nothing wrong with capitalist success. Their socialism needs a strong private sector.

Government operation of manufacturing, retail trade, and agriculture does not work well. That is well demonstrted. Countries that overthrew Commie rule or seceded from the USSR typically sold off the 'socialized' sector to make possible a social market society -- and not some Gilded-Age nightmare that Trump and company lust for.

Maybe countries emerging from a feudl order and frontier societies need to go through the Gilded stage of development that I understand that Trump means in "Make America Great Again". Things were great for shysters, slumlords, loan-sharks, and sweatshop exploiter in those times. No thanks!