11-14-2016, 10:03 AM
(11-14-2016, 02:52 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: So the Democrats are going to double down on their losing strategy? Excellent.
That 'losing strategy' may be the only defense of human dignity, the most precious commodity in human existence. We are humans -- not livestock or vermin. Trusting in the magnanimity of elites is pure foolishness.
I want our new leaders to know that there is some accountability for policies that hurt Americans. The worst thing possible is for people to shut their mouths, hide their pain with forced smiles, click their heels, salute a leadership that at most a half of the electorate has supported, and just work as commanded. Then they really get things at their worst because the Master Class will demand ever more.
It is worth remembering that what the Right says of liberals also applies to them when they go arrogant, corrupt, and despotic -- a Nation is free only when the government fears the People. Know well that we on the Left have heard the anti-government protests against them and can use some of the rhetoric of the anti-government rhetoric of Clive Bundy, et al.
What applies to governments also applies to the economic elites behind them. Those elites have no particular blessing from God to treat the rest of Humanity badly. We are all equal in our humanity, lest we kill each other.
....Donald Trump will establish policies that make America tribal -- communities defined by faith or ethnicity with sharp barriers between each other except in making alliances against enemies. He will shatter such unity as has been allowing some homogenization of culture. The dream of getting ahead in America will become protection of what one has.
The best thing that can happen is for Trump/GOP policies get a 1929-style crash that forces people to recognize the ineffectiveness of "Sadonomics". Then Americans will demand the sorts of economic reforms that better prepare us for the post-industrial world. A return to the Gilded Age is practically begging for the panics of the Gilded Era and its extension -- as in 1893, 1907, and 1929. America needs a 'new FDR' or a 'new Lincoln'. Hillary Clinton was not going to be that.
I see Donald Trump as Herbert Hoover without the moral compass. He will make a mess of the Obama recovery and support policies that intensify the human suffering for its own sake... which will be far more dangerous .
There is good reason for the existence of liberals. Where we are absent or where we are silenced, all sorts of horrors are possible. We are the better problem solvers for ethnic, class, and religious strife. Go ahead, right-wingers -- take delight in your complete dominion over much of America. The people that you angered against liberals can turn against you when the economy becomes a nightmare.
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.