Posted on 01/18/2017 2:25:45 PM PST by Lorianne
The Eastern Establishment fears and loathes Outsiders, and seeks to destroy them, usually via the mainstream media.
Political agnostics who are skeptical about Big Government "solutions," left or right, view the current hullabaloo about the Trump presidency with some detachment. What's remarkable to us is the extremism, not just of those bitter about Clinton's loss, but by insiders who are threatened by the possibility Trump may upset their insider skims and scams.
As an opening observation, I don't recall bitter Nixon supporters issuing death threats to performers at John Kennedy's inauguration in 1961--and the 1960 election was extremely close.
I also don't recall bitter Gore supporters issuing death threats to performers at G.W. Bush's inauguration in 2001--even though the 2000 election came down to a few hundred votes in Florida.
Trump is a lightning rod for a spectrum of people and organizations. Let's see if we can separate the spectrum into socio-political groups.
In times of turmoil, identifying a bogeyman/woman as the cause of the turmoil is a classic mechanism for shirking responsibility and agency. This is the psychological source of witch-hunts (it's all the witches' fault!), scapegoating, show trials, and so on: it isn't our fault things are falling apart, or the fault of our institutions--it's the bogeyman/woman's fault.
This transference/projection concentrates the blame and responsibility on The Other--a scapegoated group, or even better, one individual or a small group. Those making the accusation reckon pointing the finger at some target lets them off the hook: I am blameless, it's all his/her fault.
Trump is tailor-made for the part of Bogeyman--ditto the Russians. Decades of films depicting the heroic Americans besting the low-down dirty Commies seem to have seeped into the American Id: when in doubt, blame the Russians. If they are temporarily unavailable for scapegoating, then blame an Asian bogeyman.
For Progressives, symbolism is more important than substance. Never mind that the incomes, wealth and opportunities of the bottom 95% have steadily eroded in the eight years of the Obama presidency, or that an American neocon-neoliberal foreign policy was running amok globally. To Progressives steeped in the mythology of political correctness, the symbolism of the speech acts being uttered mattered far more than the substance or the consequences.
President Obama did not just promise hope and change--he was a legal-eagle master of delivering the symbolic speech acts that Progressives longed to hear, because they confirmed the world-view of legalisms, "rights," and all the other high points of the mythology of political correctness.
In other words, we don't actually have to threaten the status quo by changing anything, all we have to do is utter the correct phrases, and the erosion of civil liberties, opportunity and wealth will all magically vanish in the warm and fuzzy phraseology of political correctness.
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I am absolutely flabbergasted at how nutty the losing left has been after this election.
I suspect, it’s fueled by the elitist left, and their fear that they will be sent to jail/fined for their corruption and illegal actions during the last 8 yrs.
There are trillions of dollars that floated around, they’re deathly afraid we take those dollars back!
“...and the 1960 election was extremely close.”
The Electoral Vote wasn’t close at all. The Popular Vote was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960
And Wiki isn't always correct, so you shouldn't use it to cl,aim proof of anything at all.
Since the democrats outright stole IL and TX, that would have shifted the election to Nixon.
Hey, nopardons! You are absolutely right. Old man Kennedy engineered JFK’s election and Nixon - a decent man - refused to upset the country by contesting it.
The far Left has upset this country for 60 years. When will the chickens come home to roost? I guess Trump did, lol!
I may have been a teen, back then, but this was well known, has been written and talked about ever since then, and anyone who posts something other, especially on this site, is an uneducated moron and should refrain from ever posting about ANYTHING, ever again! I am fed up with preposterous garbage and lies being posted here!
And yes, Mr. Nixon was an honorable, good man !
Of course you’re right - You’re YOU! When have you or I been wrong, lol?
Nixon should have never resigned. But of course he was an honorable man with a conscience - as are many Republicans and conservatives - and he did what he thought was the right thing for the country. Ushering in Carter, Clinton and Obama. But how was he to know?!
Nixon was the worst president until Obama. (Carter was horrid, but had no legacy.)
Nixon started the country on its road to destruction through his Imperial Presidency, and he propped up Communist China. He created the EPA,DEA, OSHA, and DNR by fiat. He ended the gold standard, imposed federal speed limits, and perfected the methods by which the Federal government blackmails states even today.
Decent man, maybe—horrid president as you can tell by the change in historical references. Thirty years ago, Nixon was the bogeyman, today he’s a statesman who made some bad decisions. Why the change? Obama is Nixon’s son...
I was a young vol for Nixon-Lodge in Arlington Hts, IL, in 1959-60, so I remember what fraud went on in Cook Cty.
I cross-ref’d Wiki historically accurate numbers, and that’s all I was quoting.
Nixon was a VERY honorable man and was put through the wringer, for DECADES by the lefties/COMMUNISTS/Dems of this nation. And those who still besmirch is name, should be ashamed of themselves.
He had the misfortune of not being very telegenic at the dawn of the age of televised political debates.
No president is perfect, but there have been far worse presidents, since Mr. Nixon, and yes, BEFORE him as well.
You spew LEFTY propaganda/memes against him and are utterly clueless re most of the rest of what you wrote; especially about China and Obama!
You are in extreme need of some serious reading about those times, sans biased crapola!* And FYI...Mr. Nixon was a staunch anti-Commie, whereas Obama is a damned RED DIAPER BABY.
I'll give you a teensy clue, oh clueless one....opening up China was a much needed "wedge" between the USSR and China, who were colluding at that time !
You're old enough to remember what was what back then, so posting what you did, was pathetic and irrelevant, and wrong! You invited a pile-on and a trouncing.
I worked on BOTH of Mr. Nixon's WINNING presidential races, in NYC and unlike you, PROUD that I did so.
Those who heard the debate on radio, all agreed that Nixon had won; some of those who saw the televised version, said that JFK had AND believed what the lefty MSM claimed.
I was it on T.V. and thought that Mr. Nixon had won the debate and even as a young teen, was NOT taken in by the MSM...which pushed VERY hard for JFK.
He was sweating and had a five o’clock shadow, didn’t compare favorably at all to Kennedy. Later, he wasn’t up against a pretty boy for one, and for another they’d figured out how to avoid some of the less flattering aspects of his appearance. I wasn’t on this earth yet at the time, but have seen old recordings.
Take a chill pill.
He was sweating due to having a raging temperature AND the lighting.
He was also fighting the "Kennedy mystique", that the MSM had been spewing for months and the anti-Nixon sentiment, that the MSM had spread for over a decade.
I had been following Mr. Nixon, since he was Ike's V.P.! My mother turned me into a news and political "junkie" from an extremely young age, and believe it or not, believe it or not, back then, grammar schools actually taught CURRENT EVENTS as part of the curriculum.
Ask your parents, or someone older, to tell you what the tenor of the times, back then was like. It's the ONLY way to REALLY understand history. Just reading books about the time, viewing old kinoscopes, listening to recordings, just doesn't tell the whole story, but it's better than nothing.
Take your own advice; Francis.
“Opening up China” and I’m the one spewing leftist memes! Mao holds first place as the largest mass-murderer in all of history, and you think it’s a great accomplishment to shake his hand and spit on the graves of his victims. How wonderful that Nixon got into bed with Red China and his establishment descendants have built Red China into a greater threat than the USSR!
My criticism is from the right. Nixon was a statist egomaniac. Obama has taken full advantage of the executive over-reach that Nixon instituted, so yell all you want. Obama and Nixon share the same arrogant spirit and utter disregard for the Constitution.
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