12-14-2016, 07:51 PM
(12-14-2016, 11:51 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: You expected the military to vote for "what does it matter any more" Clinton? If the Democrats wanted the military vote, they should have nominated Webb.
Donald Trump is already having a stormy relationship with the military and the intelligence services, much in contrast to Barack Obama who was at worst at arm's length but knew that the generals, admirals, and intelligence chiefs knew what they were doing in day-to-day matters. Sure, he never was a chest-beating nationalist, but that's fine for a civilian not looking for trouble.
Barack Obama at least asked the right questions because he knows the limits of his knowledge. Donald Trump thinks that he knows it all, just as he is certain that global warming is an unsupportable, unpatriotic myth.
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.