02-09-2018, 11:10 AM
(02-08-2018, 10:12 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > "As demonstrated in the next war, World War I gave at best
> temporary and superficial solutions to the failings of the pre-war
> world. It weakened the best of men and empowered the worst. Donald
> Trump, who seems to have little studied history of any kind,
> attaches himself as much as possible to military pomp and
> regimentation -- just like the Emperors of Germany,
> Austria-Hungary, and Russia, all of whose political systems
> disintegrated at or near the ends of the war. A militaristic
> culture is spoiling for a fight, and those spoiling for a fight
> usually get one. It is the same with kings in palaces as it is
> with angry drunks in seedy saloons."
As far as I know, Obama, Bush and Clinton were also ignorant about
history. Obama was particularly contemptuous of most history because
he was contemptuous of anything that came from Boomers, just as you're
contemptuous of anything that comes from Trump.
Trump started out with chief advisor Steve Bannon, who is an expert on
history and Generational Dynamics. Unfortunately, he's gone now. I
don't know how knowledgeable Trump's other advisors are about history.
My guess is that James Mattis and Rex Tillerson are a lot more
knowledgeable about history than a scientist like Ash Carter or a
total idiot like John Kerry.
Quite honestly, I don't understand how you can interminably keep up
the pretense that anything the comes out of Trump's mouth,
irrespective of what it is or what it's about, is automatically
apocalyptic, racist, white supremacist, war-mongering, misogynistic,
homophobic, and generally in Hillary's Basket of Deplorables.
By the way, living in your bubble, are you even the tiniest bit aware
about how there are daily revelations exploding and building a case
against Hillary, and now stretching to Obama? Obama's administration
was the most corrupt in my lifetime -- IRS targeting of conservatives,
extortion from the financial crisis, lying daily about Obamacare,
sabotaging the election against Trump, and so forth. Obama thought he
could get away with it forever, but now it's all pouring out. Instead
of listening to MSNBC 24 hours a day, you really should allocate one
hour a day to Fox news, so you can see what's going on in the world
besides idiots wanting to impeach Trump.
