Posted on 02/15/2016 10:09:57 AM PST by catnipman
It’s not just Scalia - it is the real likelihood of 3 more Justices that may be needed to be replaced.
I am not thrilled by the vision that Trump offers. I do not fault him for talking loudly about the wall, or making Mexico may for it. That is only hyperbole that make it clear that he intended to hold Mexico to account for its role in this mess. Mexico has had corrupt government since, say the day it declared independence of Spain. Potentially one of the richest countries in the world, it has funneled almost all its wealth into the hands of politicians and oligarchs (like Slim, for instance.) it has shirked its duty to provide health, education and welfare for its peoples. It feeds off the money that the people who send money back home, Its policed force has been corrupted by another stream of income from Notre America, the drug trade. It cannot prove for the security that is its first responsibility. And we cannot doubt that the United States Government has not been complicit in all this.
Nor do I take issue with Trump call radically to limit the immigration of Muslims into the United States. Since 9/11 the US Government has been trying sell us the idea that Islam is a religion of peace, and to talk about a war on terror when its is radical islam, a movement widespread in the Islamic world that is the seedbed of all that is happening. Nor should be ignore the radical differences between Muslim and Christian peoples. Latino immigrants do not bring good political ideas into this country but as Christians people they do not bring a plague of cultural practices that we ought to abhor and a practical incomprehension of the fundamental ideas of liberal democracy.
But, beyond this, Trump does grasp the importance of examining the social decadence that has helped bring us to where we are today. His defense of Planned Parenthood might seem small potatoes to some, but In my world view, its shows his inability to grasp that the sexual revolution which we have help spread around the world is leading the death of our society. White Americans, like white Europeans, have stopped having children, and it was the dearth of American children that created a demand for foreign immigration that has become so great as to swamp our a society. Further, it has educated the Millenials in a worldview that is counter to their long term interests. They have lost respect for the civilization into which they were born. They have bought the lies of the left about the supposed superiority of social democracy as practiced in Europe. Where is the recognition that the wealth of Germany is based on the sixty years of protection we gave the Germans, allowing them to prosper without having the need of a large and costly military? We hear about Sweden, forgetting that Sweden grew rich during WWII by supply Nazi Germany with iron and øther resources. Trump needs to expand his vision beyond the narrow horizons of NYC, who actually think that those who gather at Davos every year for anything more than a gated community,I think he is too old, too much a part of that crowd to do that.
Interesting points; it remains to be seen. Not sure Cruz would be up for the global big picture, either. If Trump does not win, I hope he will develop a conservative media network, now that Fox has gone leftist since Murdoch turned it over to his sons last summer.
Just a note to your point about Germany -- I'm watching Trump's rally in Augusta GA now, and around minute 30 or 31, he starts talking about the U.S. protecting Germany and what an unremunerative thing that is. Now he's talking about defending Japan, S. Korea, etc. So, he may be more on top of that issue than you thought.
http://rsbn.tv/live-stream-donald-trump-rally-in-north-augusta-sc-2-16-16/
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