Posted on 12/31/2016 10:27:31 AM PST by YihYthink
I don't normally post on Freeper web site because as a political observer I see myself as less then significant. Yet we are ending one of the most interesting election cycles in my lifetime and my fascination's with history in which I have lived through, to me their are comparisons that I have not seen related within current discussions.
Donald Trump maybe, (remains to be seen) a transformaitive President who takes on a corrupt burdensome bureaucracy. This is clearly understood by many yet I see Trump as something very much from the past. His view reminds me strongly of 1960's Democratic Party, the one of JFK and more dynamic expansion.
He fits the old Democratic party before it was taken over by left wing intellectuals who see the American experience to be corrupt because of the Constitution which does not recognize the legitimate roll of government which is central control.
Here are points to support my thinking
1. Trump pro American labor and concerned about unfair importing from other countries.
2. Pro American and believes in a strong defense as many Democratic leaders of that age did, yet strongly recognize social imbalances within our culture.
3. Believes in governments roll in correcting imbalances yet is more likely to move away from dependency type programs.
4. Like JFK sees the benefit of tax cuts to stimulate economic growth.
5. Believes in a robust science and space program to expand knowledge.
Of course Donald Trump is not a 1960's Democrat and his experience comes out of living the American dream not as a politician yet as a business man who believes in the greatness of America. Yet to me Donald Trump helps clarify how far the modern Democratic party has come from the age of JFK. The Party is the political wing of the leftest professors embedded in our American University system with tenure. This to me is the story in itself and I post this for consideration maybe someone has a much better view other then my simple view, a person who loves our country and the Constitution.
BTW, that was the month I was born.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb appropriately refers to them a IYIs — intellectuals yet idiots.
The IYI has been wrong, historically, on Stalinism, Maoism, GMOs, Iraq, Libya, Syria, lobotomies, urban planning, low carbohydrate diets, gym machines, behaviorism, transfats, freudianism, portfolio theory, linear regression, Gaussianism, Salafism, dynamic stochastic equilibrium modeling, housing projects, selfish gene, election forecasting models, Bernie Madoff (pre-blowup) and p-values. But he is convinced that his current position is right.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.oog6w3dzc
Sorry for the reception you are getting here from the nitpickers. Now that you have posted, you will find it addictive. Your views are worth discussing and you will see that it is pretty easy to give as well as you get from some of the munchkins around here.
Why not attack him for usage of roll instead of role while you’re at it, or did you miss that?
Didn’t read past the first sentence.
No doubt the rest of the material was just as “good”.
Donald Trump is likeliest the first president who has never before held public office of any kind before becoming president.
Some might bring up Dwight Eisenhower but he was a career soldier who became a 5-star general. One does not become a 5-star general without being able to maneuver the same politics and bureaucracy that career politicians need to navigate to get to the highest echelons of power.
You can go all the way back to the beginning with John Adams. He was irascible, dogmatic, deeply passionate, made enemies easily and was a master deal maker. He pulled the 13 colonies together for the Declaration of Independence.
He was as hated as he was admired but his impact on the earliest days of our republic demanding absolute liberty and personal freedom is undeniable. Trump is very much in the Adams mold.
you again ?
intellectual’s are open to debate the current democratic party has very few intellectuals. most of those that feel they have been educated within the democratic party mistake indoctrination with education. even though there are more democrats then republicans the party is disintegrating because of the inability to produce liberals with the capacity for leadership. I personally believe that the democratic party is in the process of disintegrating and eventually will lose control of both California and new York in the next ten years
Any other Republican would have wilted under the propaganda assault which Donald Trump bulled through. The Democrat Party is the Chutzpah Party - and Donald Trump out-chutzpahed them.
Yet it should not be overlooked that Trump would also have absorbed another lesson from that era. Nixon in 1968 showed how despite Kennedy's mythic aura, a Democratic nominee for President could be beaten by peeling away working and middle class voters through a combination of economic issues and anxiety over the future of the country.
Notably, Pat Buchanan -- a key Nixon aide in 1968 -- sees Trump's appeals in 2016 as an extension of Nixon's strategy in 1968 and Reagan's in 1980. Let us hope that Trump will avoid the pitfalls the led the GOP to lose or neglect their opportunities to convert Nixon and Reagan Democrats into solid GOP voters.
The Moon Shot - That was the biggest stimulus program that had real results. It was in effect one big technology industry incubator, with the results going well beyond the aerospace industry.
Beyond the moon shot there were the satellite, radar, aircraft, and many other technological fronts going on at the time. It is stunning to know the vast array satellites that were launched during that time.
bkmk!
Yes I follow Freeper for years don’t post much not interested in living in front of a keyboard. Life is fact very interesting at this time yet at the same time its also dangerous for free thinking men.
Love what you said
Videos that is why I flunked every English course I ever took and I get mixed up all the time. Antime I ever post anything anywhere I screw up its my nature and being in my late 70’s most like to continue.
yer killin me :)
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