Posted on 11/06/2016 12:59:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Yup, but like Jesus, we’re not here to judge or condemn them, but to be a light for them to come to Jesus.
Nice photo. I would have preferred one of Bush tearing her head off, but I don’t play those types of video games.
re: Conservative Movement lost on all but the foreign policy stuff
False Conservative movement won on domestic policy in ‘94, 2010 and 2014. Fitzegerald IL won on anti-corruption.
Trump has a backbone, cajones, courage.
Especially Rs in the Senate have been spineless. Arguing, and losing, on moving to the center. McCain and Romney were scared of being called names, racist, sexist, any name.
Romney made it very clear he did not want the votes of us deplorables ... not because he disagreed on the issues, but because people don’t act like that in his corporate board rooms.
Tump has a backbone.
Not about lower taxes? Could have fooled me. A corporate rate of 15%, and personal rates of 12%, 25% and 33%. (Trump can get rid of that last rate, as far as I’m concerned.)
Very well put.
As to defining enemies, the GOPe considers us the enemy and has sought to purge us for years. Why? Because the IDEAS we have are not as important as who we are. We aren’t the hip, cool insiders. WHAT THEY WANT ARE DEMOCRAT VOTERS WHO WILL VOTE “LIKE THEM.”
That’s why when you run a clever, appealing Sarah Palin they hate her. Forget she’s a woman. She’s not one if “their” women. I see this on our side with blacks or Hispanics. Where do you see Allen West get any respect? You don’t. He’s not one if them.
Trump is about to change all that.
Re: “What is happening is that Trump is strongly against exporting America’s industrial base.”
That was yesterday’s problem.
Tomorrow’s problem is automation, robotics, and highly sophisticated computer software.
American business and manufacturing will continue to produce enormous wealth in the coming decades.
But, every year, the number of human beings required to produce that wealth will get smaller, and smaller, and smaller.
A different kind of hubris. The truth:
"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
If ya can't beat em, join em.
Buy stock in Soylent Green?
As others have said, if its not important to stop Hillary, then why is it important to elect any Republicans at all?
If Trump loses, Trump people will not forgive the lack of support on the part of the GOP. They will, many of them, maybe most of them, never vote for GOP again. GOP is finished. It won’t much matter, we’ll have much bigger problems than the fate of a political party that has chosen to be irrelevant.
If Trump wins, GOP is revitalized, albeit under new management, which is to say, its rank and file.
Wonderful article, Vet! Who is this guy?
The only thing I feel really bad about is that I admired people like Mona Charen for years and never questioned why we never won! Now I know: Mona really didn’t care, did she? She had gotten hers and that was all that mattered. She wrote up her little articles and then retreated into her well-heeled life while I and my husband struggled...
Change is difficult.
Think about how smoothly the system rolls from Dems to Republican and back over the years.
And along comes trump. All of the normal relationships are threatened. They see him as uncouth, vulgar, and stupid. Mostly because he pulled the curtain back and show the general population what a scam the whole thing is.
They are, in a word, terrified.
Yes! At least in England during the enclosure acts and the industrial revolution, farmers and yeoman had jobs to go to: factory jobs. Of course, they went from being healthy people with long lives to being bent, unhappy slaves with lifestyles of about 35.
I know this because I study medieval British history of which so many people lived into their 80s. Compare that to the mid-Victorian era.
Great post.
Great article. Lots of other great stuff on the blog that came from.
The question is why do they hate Trump and his voters so intensely?
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I do think it has a single and simple answer.
These same people have been trying to convince us for decades that we must abandon the rule of law and accept the loss of our country to illegal aliens.
They have until now successfully rigged the primaries to only allow us to vote for amnesty candidates.
This time they got Trumped.
THAT is why they are so royally ticked off.
Yeb! was supposed to be the Designated Loser, like McAmnesty and Romneycare before him.
Trump is giving us a chance to reverse their 30 year bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws and THAT is what they simply cannot abide.
Trump’s “crime” in the eyes of these people is that he will shut down the Cheap Labor Express which has paid them handsomely to propagandize us that it is good for us.
No. Buy stock in legal marijuana.
Most of the human race is going to have a lot more leisure time.
I see a future that looks much like what the Swiss just voted against in June, and what Elon Musk talked about a few days ago - a guaranteed basic income for all citizens in the advanced countries.
Unlike human beings, machines and advanced software can be almost perpetually improved.
That means the cost of producing goods and services can be perpetually reduced, with a few hiccups, like nuclear war, plague, insane government debt levels, energy and natural resource cartels, etc.
It also means that huge profits will become highly concentrated among elite business owners, elite engineers, and elite business managers.
A significant part of those profits will have to be recycled to people who will become unqualified for gainful employment.
But, I think most Americans would jump at the opportunity to quit their jobs, modestly reduce their standard of living, and gain 24-7 of free time.
You got it right, it’s all about open borders.
It is Plato vs Socrates. Is the average person a moron who needs a wise elite to tell them how to live and is obligated to obey for their own good? Or is the average person capable of good decisions and should be free to make them as much as possible?
Liberals are in the first category, either expecting to be the rulers or hoping to be cared for without much care for the obligations (slavery) that come with it. The elite liberals HATE the ones who want to be free because it threatens their position as master, their ability to control others, their whole social order.
Hopefully, with Trumps' election, the Bush Revolution will be over.
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