10-08-2018, 10:49 AM
(10-08-2018, 02:34 AM)Galen Wrote:(10-08-2018, 02:11 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The left can get unhinged, or they can get busy.
Considering the track record of the left it seems far more likely they will become even more unhinged. Under normal circumstances this would be true but Trump really has a gift for pushing Dims over the edge. There are thing I don't about Trump but his effects on the left are the most entertainment I have had in years.
Sadist!
The Right has been abusing power, which suggests that they are even more troublesome than 'sore losers'. They are 'sore winners' who love to remind the Other Side of its defeats while making those defeats sting more intensely every time.
Most people get through 'sore loser' feelings... just think of die-hard Cubs fans all those years. Then winning gets sweet. But as with most baseball fans irrespective of the team they find that after the celebration is over it is no longer time to rub the win in someone else's face. One must pay for cable TV to see the games.
Trump has a 'gift' for piling on the insults. Most people have no use for that or can't get away with that. The late Don Rickles made a career cutting down Hollywood celebrities down to size. He did not do that to handicapped people, people with incurable diseases, or families with missing children; such would be unconscionable.
Donald Trump is the Darth Vader of American politics today, someone that people love to hate. But we all know that Darth Vader and his horrible Empire are somehow doomed.
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.