(03-09-2017, 11:55 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Perhaps but "normal" hasn't been working for a long time so something, anything different had to be tried. Seriously HRC the normal establishment candidate had to cheat to get the nomination and she was opposed by a 72 year old Socialist Jew. Its like Paul Robeson (a known CPUSA member) nearly winning the Dem Nomination and losing to Carter because Carter had to cheat in 1976.
The political system is broken, as is shown by the success of empty-suit right-wingers who will reliably do what the corporate lobbyists do. American moral life is broken because people are so addicted to entertainment that they will fall for a Nero, Caligula, or Commodus who offers them entertainment from the highest levels of political power and because so many people prefer 'easy learning' to the more difficult, but richer stuff. Too many Americans prefer the intellectual equivalent of "light instrumental music" of the 1970s to the richer, if more demanding classical or jazz... or soulful folk music. But we could live with the insipid, superficial music of quirky re-orchestrations of pop music and etherial arrangements of show tunes (all strings, but no violas) because such music did no harm. Genuine education takes effort and commitment by students, competence by teachers, and insistence by parents. It isn't cheap and it isn't easy, but it is necessary for making young adults capable of learning non-menial jobs and competent to do such civic duties as voting wisely. But who is going to do better in American life? The 'cubs' of "Tiger Mom" or the kids of some parents who tell their kids that it's acceptable to use bad grammar in school because they are white?
Quote:That being said I have noticed that when the Lugenpresse is busy discussing Daddy's tweets, Pakistan quietly arrests terrorists because he's put pressure on them by cozy-ing up to India's populist PM.
Lugenpresse? The people who coined that barbarous word would have put you in a cattle car for a one-way trip to a gas chamber.
Another possible explanation: Pakistani leadership is finding that the terrorists that it recently coddled have become Frankenstein monsters. That leadership may hate India, but Indian intelligence agencies and the Indian military aren't sending terrorists to do mass killings in Karachi. India is basically "East Israel" in its disdain for terrorists, especially after some ugly incidents in Mumbai.
Quote:Add to that the fact that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, etc are all basically viewed as corrupt lying liars (which they are) and Trump attacking the press wins him brownie points with the populace. Making fun of Glenn Beck didn't work because everyone who wasn't completely brain dead already knew he was a paid actor selling add time. He's never pretended to be an actual journalist---unlike say Mr. Maddow, or that pipsqueak with the glasses that comes on before her show. I can't be arsed to remember his name, I just want to punch his smug face.
Rachel Maddow follows the money, if necessary, because that is the entirety of the personality of Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump is the definitive 'empty suit' he is all too easy to figure out.
Quote:The fact of the matter is Trump has tapped into the spirit of the age. But of course I only know that because I'm a High Priest of Kek.
Stalin to Trump. I know what you used to be. It is a commonplace trick of Commies to infiltrate the Right to get it to become more egregious in its destruction of all human virtue, to make the capitalist order even more indefensible -- to hasten the proletarian rebellion against a brutal Master Class. Donald Trump is a really bad capitalist.
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.