Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

(03-06-2018, 02:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > We will need a President with a moral compass, respect for process
> and precedent, high levels of integrity and wisdom, and
> clear-headed rationality as a rule. I think that Xenakis would be
> perfectly happy with someone like Obama except for having a
> conservative agenda. Indeed, I can predict that the next
> conservative President who has real success will have a
> personality much more like that of Obama even if he has an agenda
> that includes the evisceration of trade unions, a big cut-back on
> the welfare state, privatization of much of the public sector, and
> tax reforms that load more taxes on the non-rich but create
> capital for investment in job-creating plant and
> equipment.

The reason I rarely criticized Obama personally is because I never had
the fanatical, obsessive, irrational, vitriolic, uncontrollable hatred
for him that you have for Trump.

Obama was driven by a hatred of Boomers that he inherited from his
dysfunctional childhood when his father deserted his mother. Obama's
policy was to do the opposite of whatever Bush would have done, which
is why Obama had one foreign policy disaster after another. Obama
should have united the country on race, but instead he used his own
race as a bludgeon to make himself the most racially divisive
president in my lifetime. Remarks like "you didn't build that"
illustrate why Obama was completely illiterate about economics, and
explains why he used his pen and his phone to implement the stupidest
and most destructive economic policies since Nixon's price controls.
Obama always considered himself the smartest person in the room, even
when he was the stupidest person in the room. So no, I don't think
much of Obama's personality.

You wrote yesterday that "Trump never changes his mind," which was a
ridiculous thing to say, as I showed you when I responded. Actually,
you were writing about Obama, who always asked himself, "What would
George Bush do," and do the opposite, or "What would Jeremiah Wright
do," and do that, and refuse to change his mind, and lie repeatedly,
even in the face of one disaster after another. Obama's policies were
guided by hatred, emotion and stupidity, never by facts.

If you fanatics succeed in getting rid of Trump, then there is someone
who can serve as "a President with a moral compass, respect for
process and precedent, high levels of integrity and wisdom, and
clear-headed rationality as a rule." That would be Mike Pence, who
has a very strong Christian moral compass, and has the other things
you describe. In addition, he'll continue Trump's policy of making
America great again.

Writing my daily "World View" articles, I see fanatical hatred all
over the world. There's your fanatical hatred of Trump, Cynic's
fanatical hatred of Boomers, Sunni jihadists' fanatical hatred of
Shias, al-Assad's fanatical hatred of his opposition, Burmese
fanatical hatred of Rohingyas, Sri Lankan Sinhalese fanatical hatred
of Tamils, and so forth.

You're all the same. You spew hatred all over the place, you incite
violence, and you make the world a miserable place. You're the reason
the world is headed for war.