07-08-2018, 11:50 AM
(07-08-2018, 10:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > I have a huge problem with Donald Trump ignoring or gutting the
> political wisdom of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt
> (actually all three of them -- and that includes Eleanore), and
> Martin Luther King, Jr. in return for vague promises of some
> super-prosperity that will be worth the loss of personal freedom
> and dignity. The best that Donald Trump and his followers have to
> offer is a gilded cage for us all with the stupefying pleasures of
> mass low entertainment so long as we acquiesce with the absolute
> plutocracy that Donald Trump offers us. You can imagine what I
> think of the offer of Donald Trump and his ideological supporters
> -- or you can read my posts and see what I have to say.
> But I will say this of the PRC -- it at least recognizes the need
> for a consumer society and the wisdom of offering it as an anodyne
> for the poverty of China... and the complete lack of personal
> freedom. I'm guessing that the Chinese self-described Communists
> are perfectly welcome to watch American-style or even American
> mass low culture at will. But we had that before Trump, so here it
> is a question of taking away other things in return for offers of
> vague benefits worth empty, miserable, stupefied lives.
Lol! So you like dictator Xi Jinping more than Trump. Quelle
surprise!
Reminds me that people like you also loved Mussolini -- maybe he was a
dictator, but he kept the trains running on time.