01-13-2017, 10:14 AM
(01-12-2017, 06:27 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-12-2017, 12:32 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:I wouldn't trust Trump if I were you at this point.(01-11-2017, 08:17 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Are you paranoid? Are you crazy? Are you so used to crying wolf to get attention and to get whatever it is that you want? I think this 4T forum needs to create a special corner/room for you and a few others to do your thing while the rest of talk to one another more realistically. People like you drove the old 4T into the toilet. I'm tired of you. Middle America is tired of you. The Democratic party is going down because it appears to be loaded with people and controlled by people like you. I feel bad for the regular Democrats. The only ominous resemblance that I see is the Democratic party seems to be a lot like Yugoslavia.
I assume the worst with people who show evidence of violence, dishonesty, and quick anger. I distrust extreme egoism. I distrust people who show contempt for learning and rational thought processes.
Now why should I trust Donald Trump?
Why do you trust him?
For us liberals there is still some safety in numbers. There just aren't enough jail cells to hold us all. We liberals are more cosmopolitan than some of our heroes, the blacks struggling for their civil rights in the South in the 1960s were... they could have never been 'home' anywhere else. We still recognize that the rule of law still holds, and that it is wiser to do protests or demonstrations in places where the city government is still liberal, like Chicago, than in hick towns in which the sheriff thinks that Donald Trump is everything that America has ever led to.
Donald Trump will create plenty of countries hostile to American foreign policy and especially to the Trump ideology. But if I am in grave danger in America and might be useful in ... let's say Indonesia, which offers political asylum... I am no fool. Tyranny deserves no loyalty. But in any event I have been through enough in recent years that I can easily imagine myself in a situation in which death solves all my problems. I might still need some comfort in the Hereafter or in reincarnation, as I have yet to find it... The life of a political refugee is agonizing in its way, but so is languishing in a political prison.
First the tyrant goes for overt opponents. Then he goes after those who show subtle signs of dissent... maybe someone who tells an unflattering joke or grumbles about his work being too hard. Then he goes after those who might shade a bit the wrong way.
...I have valid heroes. Do you?
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.