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Bloomberg’s Admiration For One-Party Authoritarianism
American Conservative ^ | February 18, 2020 | Daniel Larison

Posted on 02/19/2020 6:18:40 AM PST by C19fan

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Center for American Progress/Flickr FEBRUARY 18, 2020|11:14 PM DANIEL LARISON Matt Purple does a fine job summarizing what’s wrong with Mike Bloomberg in a new article on the main page. This one line captures the essence of who Bloomberg is:

It’s that callous indifference that makes him truly unique.

It is this same callous indifference that informs so many of his views, including his views on foreign policy. When asked about the Iraq war, he expresses no regret for supporting it. He claims that the invasion was an “honest mistake” instead of the massive crime that it was. Incredibly, he is even less repentant about his Iraq war boosterism than someone like Max Boot. Bloomberg previously spread the outrageous lie that the Iraq war was somehow connected to 9/11 when he said in 2004, “Don’t forget that the war started not very many blocks from here.” He and other Iraq war supporters like him were catastrophically wrong and hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and all he can say is, “I don’t live in a regret world, and I didn’t make the decision.” His answers to a questionnaire from The New York Times on foreign policy endorsed military action in almost every scenario where it was offered as an option.

There are two statements in particular that Bloomberg has made in the past that convey both his contempt for democracy and his admiration for one-party dictatorship.

(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: authoritarianism; bloomberg
Bloomberg is a Progressive's ideal man as a technocratic dictator.
1 posted on 02/19/2020 6:18:40 AM PST by C19fan
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To: All

What a choice the Democrats have the Communist v. Autocrat.


2 posted on 02/19/2020 6:20:04 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I am willing to bet that Bloomberg admires the way Red China has its finger on all aspects of their economy. He probably wishes our country could operate that way.


3 posted on 02/19/2020 6:22:03 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: C19fan

Microtyrant is an absolute nightmare of a human being, and the Democrat Party is such a bunch of soulless whores that they would elect Genghis Kahn if they thought he could beat Trump.

I don’t see us going on like this much longer. There are some very dangerous, stupid, wicked people in this country, and they are not going to stop.


4 posted on 02/19/2020 6:23:40 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: C19fan

I’m no psychologist but I believe Bloomberg is a psychopath. That is not necessarily a bad thing. There are a lot of psychopaths in the world and many of them are extremely successful. Basically, if you don’t care about other people and simply focus on what is good for you 100% of the time, you can rise and be a successful politician, or successful entertainer, or successful business leader. Psychopaths are not slobbering, evil monsters. They are self-centered and driven.

But do we really want a psychopath as President? Probably not.


5 posted on 02/19/2020 6:23:40 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: C19fan

The little guy can’t decide if he’s a “republican” or a democRAT”. He vacillates between the two, to the extent that he should just go full UNIPARTY and be done with it.


6 posted on 02/19/2020 6:29:17 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: chris37
A) MicroMike is an absolute nightmare of a human being
B) the Democrat Party is a bunch of soulless whores
C) Dims would elect mini-Genghis Kahn if they thought he could beat Trump.

Nice wrap.

7 posted on 02/19/2020 6:53:59 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

according to the dems we already have one, so it should be no problem electing another as long as hes one of theirs


8 posted on 02/19/2020 7:00:01 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turnobody even flinches as the gunshots are heard.)
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To: Liz

Thank you very much!


9 posted on 02/19/2020 7:07:01 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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A brilliant wrap.


10 posted on 02/19/2020 7:09:19 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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