Posted on 02/01/2016 11:27:03 AM PST by jazusamo
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Will this November's presidential election come down to a choice between a felon and a pied piper?
People who call Barack Obama a lame duck president seem not to have noticed that he is exercising more power than ever, and has turned the Republican Congress into a lame duck branch of government.
The best New Year's Resolution I ever made was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. That may be especially valuable during an election year.
With 4 of the 9 Supreme Court justices being more than 75 years old, the next president will probably be appointing replacements who can help determine the direction of American law well into the next generation. This is just one of the many very serious things that we can only hope the voters keep in mind, instead of voting on the basis of just one issue or on emotions.
Among the common phrases of the past that we seldom hear today is "None of your business." Apparently everything is other people's business these days, including the media's business and the government's business.
In this scientific age, it is amazing how many people act as if magic words can make realities vanish. For example, they talk as if behavioral differences between groups can be made to disappear by saying the magic word, "stereotypes." This fallacy affects everything from statistical claims of discrimination to admitting refugees with cultures hostile to our own.
After a famous naval victory in the War of 1812, Commodore O.H. Perry reported: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." After the Republican Congressional majority's repeated capitulations to the Democrats' minority, Congressional Republicans could say, "We have met the enemy and we are theirs."
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And that's exactly why Trump is succeeding.
Absoutely right.
Please remove from the list.
I no longer wish to hear from a once brilliant mind at the nadir of life.
While I don’t disagree with Sowell’s decided opinion of Trump, he is indeed correct about the uncertainty of the Country’s future. And this is truly sad for those of us with offspring and love of country.
I agree with you.
Choices, Persona, and Policy.
A commanding persona is an absolute requirement for the R.’s, because much of the establishment media’s focus, during elections, is to take them out.
It would be nice if policy was the only determining factor in our selection in this election, but that is just fantasy. Our choice must take into account both policy and persona.
Leadership is displayed through a candidates persona or personality as well as policy. Trump’s policy may not be pure, but he is the only R. candidate who commands a room and terrifies the press(why they have worked so hard to take him down). Reagan is the only other R. candidate I remember with this ability, though a different style.
Remember Romney, spending half his time apologizing for being wealthy. Compare that to Trump, who during his very first press conference announcing his candidacy stated, yeah I’m not just wealthy I’m a billionaire. Seems like a trivial thing, but Trump demonstrated confidence and leadership, Romney, something less. Our other candidates dance around issues like immigration, playing the nuance game with us, while Trump simply states, we are going to build a wall. And lets the cards fall where they may. Leadership and confidence on display.
Bump
“Will this November’s presidential election come down to a choice between a felon and a pied piper?”
I reject the premise.
Even though at least the above is a choice.
I sense panic.
For “nadir of life,” read “the moment he started disagreeing with me.”
Facts:
1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.
2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.
4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?
5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.
Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.
Trump takes on political correctness in a way no other candidate even dares. In fact, they are cowed by it.
I wonder who Thomas Sowell does want for the nominee if it isn't Trump. It would be nice to know.
Congressional Republicans are embarrassed of Nero, I mean Trump, but they'll soon fall into unconditional love with him just like they did with Clinton. And he'll bestow upon them their highest rates of approval and coveted incumbency in history! Their wildest dreams of progress and getting stuff done for the people will come true and it's going to be AMAZING!
All depends on how you interpret it. Maybe he means he'll get her into a room and beat the crap out of her.
Perceptions are the only things that matters in this election. The MSM has too much control over the majority.
The majority of people are not capable of “rational” thinking period because they believe in the Lies repeated over and over in the MSM. We are in a desperate situation where the insane (and psychopaths) literally control ALL three branches of our government and the Press. Thomas Sowell’s idea of politics can never work in today’s corrupt cartel controlled system.
The alpha male persona is what is going to push Trump over the top, because for several generations the emasculation of our boys to create dependent, doped-up sissies—puerile narcissists— incapable of long-term commitment or risk-taking is making too many women PUKE——and the masculine males are pushed to the point of revolution- frustrated as their handcuffs are locked and keys thrown away: humiliation 24/7 in this culture of dependent servitude and hate and Marxist grouping to destroy Christian worldview and demoralize them and destroy their children.
The deliberate vilification of white males and Christianity is destroying all our Traditions, destroying unity, and forcing a moral relativism of chaos and nihilism, and when we look at the rot in culture—as bad as the homoeroticism of the vulgar Weimar Republic——we can understand that without Virtue, civil society will collapse.
Perfection in Trump is not needed-—but his bully club is— to destroy the cartel who can bribe and buy every single judge and bribe them like the Justice Roberts-—and we allow such Marxists as Kagan to throw out Rule of Law for Rule of Oligarchy. Will he put Marxists on the court or a Clarence Thomas? I think the latter and he would be nasty enough to control the vilification of PC culture, since he understands it so well.
Sowell is correct about the principles and virtue needed in leaders-—but with a system that is so completely corrupted, that will never work today. We need a Napoleon for a while, and then the Cruz, and I think that his love for his children and future grandchildren will maybe influence his choices for the “old” system of “Rule of Law”. Hopefully, he will put people like Cruz in as AG and Rand Paul in charge of the IRS. He is not a dumb man and he seems to really love his children (the future).
This election is between Life and Death of this country. Sowell is absolutely correct on many, many things, one of the wisest people I have read, but I hope to God he underestimates Trump. (He deserves to be wrong a few times in his incredible long life).
As much as I respect you, i have to disagree, Zero didnt turn the Rep Cong into lame ducks... they did that all by themselves... I cant think of a SINGLE person that did anything meaningful to stop them.
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