Posted on 09/20/2015 4:09:29 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
The Party for Socialism and Liberation, one of many communist groups in the U.S., argues that “the long period of reaction that began in the late 1970s and greatly accelerated under Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States is drawing to a close.” Leaving aside the Marxist rhetoric about “reaction,” one has to say there may be some validity to what the communists are saying. After all, Bernie Sanders seems to be leading the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Marxist Jeremy Corbyn has become head of the Labor Party in Britain, and the socialist New Democratic Party is poised to win national elections in Canada on October 19.
On the Republican side in the U.S., the leading candidate, Donald Trump, seems to have no ideology at all. While he has made illegal immigration into an issue, his statements on other issues demonstrate no coherent outlook on the nature or size of government. On foreign policy, his claim that he could negotiate with Russia’s Vladimir Putin seems to be a reflection of his “Art of the Deal” approach to business matters. But Putin means business, and the Russians can’t be trusted. It’s shocking that Trump thinks he can somehow negotiate a good deal with Putin, whose military position has been enhanced under the presidency of Barack Obama.
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Largely I agree with it.
But they are overly focused on Russia.
China is where we should focus as well, they are now larger producers/exporters than any other country including America.
All of our presidential candidates except Donald Trump, seem to be completely for the current sell-out. There is a huge amount of money sold-out, and it appears to me, a large portion of that is ... well let's say our current situation benefits a small group of owners.
We need to repatriate American businesses.
Whoever has sold them out, Trump seems 100% focused on America. And he's the only one. That is why I am supporting Trump.
Bring American manufacturing back to America.
No he isn't, but he's not the next Bush, nor is he the next Obama, or Clinton.
Trump is not Reagan
He is focused on other issues.
You sure?
There are quite a lot of similarities, to me.
“The Party for Socialism and Liberation, one of many communist groups in the U.S. ...”
For the record, they are an offshoot of Workers World Party. WWP supports North Korea, the ChiComs, and other such regimes. They defended the Tiananmen Square massacre, where Chinese troops outright slaughtered perhaps over a thousand student protesters (reports vary). They also supported and defended Saddam Husein, before, during, and after, the wars.
No one in the modern era could ever be compared to Reagan on any level.
Not on policy, not on communication, not on foresight and not on shear will.
GO CRUZ!!! Keep it up Trump!!
“Bring American manufacturing back to America.”
Yes. Do you have any idea why corporations have shut down production facilities in America? Or why we get ‘outsourced/offshore’ call-centers?
Whatever the reason.
We have been selling out our very own country now for over one entire generation.
Everything for sale in every store, in every town, county and city in all of America is “Made in China” it seems.
Everyone is for this, in our current political establishment. Trump is for America.
We have waited for someone to take America’s side, for a very very very long time.
Just saying.
I agree with you, and I’d love to see them back in America too.
But the reason(s) is important to know too.
One big reason is Cost. Cost of production, and Labor hire, including benefits... overhead costs too. Cheap labor galore offshore in places like China, India, etc..
So, why else? Because if big corporations wanted to pay for labor hire & overhead costs in places like America, it’d eat into their profit margin in a big way... that isn’t ‘socialism’ per se. It is about profitability.
End result, the big companies benefit (larger profits, due to reduce cost). Customers suffer (due to poor customer service & poor quality), and politicians talk and promise...
Now, am all for Cruz and Trump, Trump better than some Dem. But reality remains of how they’ll address this cost/profit/price issue.
I strongly believe it is time to begin rebuilding our own country, once again.
Just saying. America first.
“You sure?
There are quite a lot of similarities, to me.”
Other than urinating standing up what are the similarities? As I recall Ronald Reagan didn’t insult people. He was a uniter not a divider.
Trump is not nearly as robust, ideologically. Thomas Sowell was a Marxist until 30, Ronald Reagan was publicly inveighing against the Taft-Hartley Act when he was forty. But they studied intensively, and they were very intelligent - and both wrote powerfully against socialism. (Reagan’s writings were mostly his own speeches). Donald Trump has no such track record of conversion to conservatism, and the result is that you can’t say for sure that he would be able to rebut a socialist like Sanders effectively.Ronald Reagan knew their arguments - and his own - inside out and upside down. Being wrong too loudly in Reagan’s presence was a good way to have your head handed to you, rhetorically. As Bobby Kennedy famously found out. The same would be true of Thomas Sowell, now 84 years old and past being a candidate for anything - but still an extremely sharp cookie. Trump may know something is wrong and just say it’s stupid. Beyond that, I’m not terribly confident that he can answer the second question. Sarah Palin would IMHO be more reliable in that scenario.
I guess I think Trump is good at thrust-and-parry with reporters but it’s questionable if he has read enough of the right things to be able to handle anyone deeper than that. Hillary, he’d be fine with. Sanders? He could go wobbly. IMHO.
Trump tends to make rhetorical “tar babies” that reporters can’t help kicking, and coming out looking foolish with the public. We can hope, against Sanders, that Trump just uses the debt to China as a sledge hammer: “If you borrow the money from China for that, how will your children ever pay it back?"
Great! then literally re-invest in America from the huge profits and make sure job opportunities are created in America, for American citizens, in various industries.
In tandem, get rid of inefficiencies and bureaucracies in business and production processes; that’s partly the way to reduce unnecessary cost, improve quality, customer service and become price competitive, while hiring your own labor, onshore, not offshore.
BTW, in reality, I see a fine line between socialism and greed (profits per previous comment). Only difference is the socialists like to claim they share wealth; they don’t.
I completely agree.
America needs to bring back our own businesses. Trump is the (only) politican saying that.
The only one. Anywhere.
I understand what you mean by that statement because I am proud to say that I am old enough to have voted for Ronald Reagan twice, but I think that in one respect Donald Trump is like Reagan. One of my favorite characters in the Bible is Esther, a woman of whom it was said in Esther 4:14 "...And who knows but what you have come to your royal position for such a time as this." I am beginning to view Donald Trump in this light. Reagan was definitely sent by God for the political era of his time, but I think Trump may be the one for this time in the history of our country.
A case in point is how utterly wrong the so-called conservative pundits are about Trump as compared to the GOPe candidates - especially Jeb Bush. I always DVR "Special Report with Bret Baer" in case I am unable to watch it and I was just watching a "throwback Thursday" panel of Fred Barnes, Jeff Birnbaum, and Mort Kondrache. They could not possibly have been watching the same debate that I was! They consider Trump to be "dead in the water" and that Bush or Rubio will be the eventual nominee! Bret kept pointing out that the post-debate polls said otherwise and that the demise of Trump has been predicted before, but to no avail. These beltway pundits just do not get it!!!!
No. Next question.
You are correct no one can be Reagan but today is a much different time and remembered how maligned Reagan was by the idiots in this country who now want to laud this great man. Trump seems to have as Reagan did grow into a conservative and is fearless in stating the truth so maybe he has learned to follow not be Reagan.
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