01-15-2020, 07:25 AM
Sorry John X -- it is support for President Trump that is delusional these days. Trump is the apotheosis of Tea Party politics taken to its logical consequence in the Presidency -- if given the opportunity. The opportunity arose as a freakish opening, and that opening may slam shut in November.
If America could survive the violent criminality of the outlaws such as Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, and Murder Incorporated it was because law enforcement was developing the techniques for squashing them. It is telling that American prosecutors used the techniques that worked against American gangsters such as the Italian and Jewish mafias against other sets of gangsters after WWII: the horrible people who ruled Germany and Japan during the war. Be glad that your father was not in Greece under Nazi occupation!
I would like to see tribal thinking vanish from American politics. Know well that the electoral support comes most critically from white folks in the Mountain and Deep South -- parts of America often nastier in economic reality than in places in which historically-disadvantaged minorities predominate. In such places, educational standards are abysmal. Note well that our President has expressed his 'love' for low-information voters. To be sure, educated people can be corrupt, selfish, and angry, too... but I have rarely seen good results from being ill-informed in any way. (Worst is being slightly knowledgeable and pretending to know more than the experts).
It is the Tea Party in the Mountain and Deep South that carries the legacy of the agrarian racists of the "Kukluxistan".
What could be more tribal than this?
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No, Obama was not much of a liar as President; he seems to have more reliably put America's diplomatic and defense interests above any prospect of personal gain or political advantage. Even current detractors of our 44th President recognize him as almost freakishly clean of corruption. You are free to believe that he is awful -- just as Alec Baldwin and I are able to see Donald Trump. At this point I would be willing to bet ouzo to the best beer that I have ever had that Trump loses in November or is impeached and removed before then -- except that I don't gamble. The bet would be off, of course, if the Grim Reaper were to take away you-know-whom.
OK, so President Trump claims that any country under the rule of a black person is a $#!+hole. So Trump delivered America from being a $#!+hole? The logic is good, but as computer people said when computers were new -- garbage in, garbage out. A flawed premise with solid logic simply achieves more impressive foolishness.
...on this date in 1929 was born Martin Luther King, Jr., who made America come to account with the consequences of systemic racism. If you want to blame the nastiness of the South on the presence of so many African-Americans, then ask yourself what institutions blacks dominated in the early 1960's... their churches.
So tell me what was the $#!+hole -- the Eighth Street Baptist Church of Birmingham, Alabama -- or the Klavern in which fascist pigs plotted bombings? Fascists similar in hatred to those who ravaged Greece during WWII. Like the Nazis, the Klan hated blacks and Jews alike.
If America could survive the violent criminality of the outlaws such as Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, and Murder Incorporated it was because law enforcement was developing the techniques for squashing them. It is telling that American prosecutors used the techniques that worked against American gangsters such as the Italian and Jewish mafias against other sets of gangsters after WWII: the horrible people who ruled Germany and Japan during the war. Be glad that your father was not in Greece under Nazi occupation!
I would like to see tribal thinking vanish from American politics. Know well that the electoral support comes most critically from white folks in the Mountain and Deep South -- parts of America often nastier in economic reality than in places in which historically-disadvantaged minorities predominate. In such places, educational standards are abysmal. Note well that our President has expressed his 'love' for low-information voters. To be sure, educated people can be corrupt, selfish, and angry, too... but I have rarely seen good results from being ill-informed in any way. (Worst is being slightly knowledgeable and pretending to know more than the experts).
It is the Tea Party in the Mountain and Deep South that carries the legacy of the agrarian racists of the "Kukluxistan".
What could be more tribal than this?
No, Obama was not much of a liar as President; he seems to have more reliably put America's diplomatic and defense interests above any prospect of personal gain or political advantage. Even current detractors of our 44th President recognize him as almost freakishly clean of corruption. You are free to believe that he is awful -- just as Alec Baldwin and I are able to see Donald Trump. At this point I would be willing to bet ouzo to the best beer that I have ever had that Trump loses in November or is impeached and removed before then -- except that I don't gamble. The bet would be off, of course, if the Grim Reaper were to take away you-know-whom.
OK, so President Trump claims that any country under the rule of a black person is a $#!+hole. So Trump delivered America from being a $#!+hole? The logic is good, but as computer people said when computers were new -- garbage in, garbage out. A flawed premise with solid logic simply achieves more impressive foolishness.
...on this date in 1929 was born Martin Luther King, Jr., who made America come to account with the consequences of systemic racism. If you want to blame the nastiness of the South on the presence of so many African-Americans, then ask yourself what institutions blacks dominated in the early 1960's... their churches.
So tell me what was the $#!+hole -- the Eighth Street Baptist Church of Birmingham, Alabama -- or the Klavern in which fascist pigs plotted bombings? Fascists similar in hatred to those who ravaged Greece during WWII. Like the Nazis, the Klan hated blacks and Jews alike.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
