Posted on 03/14/2016 7:56:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ve reached a breaking point with those who continue to defend Donald Trump’s endless brutishness.
If you went back in time a year, and asked Trump supporters if they would ever vote for a man who made fun of POWs, mocked the physically handicapped, compared another candidate to a child molester, and shifted positions as frequently as a fat guy in a church pew, they would have likely said “No.”
How did we get here? How did we get to a place where Trump’s rhetoric and behavior is not only accepted, but emulated?
Donald Trump is a master manipulator. He came on the scene as a single issue candidate, with no other discernible positions. This was a necessity, because it allowed voters to fill in the rest with their own magic markers; the needs and ideas of millions of voters built Donald Trump from scratch. That’s why attributing any coherent policy position to the man is like trying to nail jello to a wall. His deliberately ambiguous and transitory rhetoric acts as a sort of scaffolding upon which anything can be built. This is a dangerous thing when you have an incredibly angry electorate.
When you pour yourself into an empty vessel, that vessel becomes personally linked to you. It harbors your needs, wants, and ideals in a way that nothing else can. Ultimately, what people see in Trump is their own reflection. When you see yourself in such a candidate, you’re much more likely to justify, defend, and even emulate their behavior–no matter how deplorable.
Given this, it comes as no surprise that we’re beginning to see violence at Trump rallies. Donald himself has made numerous comments passively or directly condoning violence against those who defy him.
(Excerpt) Read more at constitution.com ...
How long have you had boundary problems with perceiving appropriate anger? Do you regularly escalate things to violence? How long are you going to remain a liberal? When are you going to grow up?
Art of the Deal, baby!
Cool! We can all be billionaires.
Sign me up!
Shame on you for posting such a hideous “article”. You cruzbots just know no shame evidently.
For decades bastards like this auther have laid down and accepted every attack on freedom from the fascist left. You glorified yourselves with the delusion that you were above fighting. And here we are now at a place in our nation’s history where the left is more extreme than ever. They have destroyed America and you sat by with your pompous posturing staying “above the fray”.
We have seen the legalization of killing over 50 million babies idly sitting by, we have watched freedom after freedom being attacked and oppressed. We have seen our employer vilified and made an atmosphere where it is better for thousands of companies to leave our nation and take their good jobs with them...while we sat by and deluded ourselves with some false hope in free trade, which never was created...just stupid trade.
We sat by while the government took away our right to decide on whether or not to get health insurance, makes us men pay for pregnancy insurance, makes us pay for abortions...while people like the author and so many others intellectualized and rationalized all of this. Drumming up the masses to fight these injustices...all the while doing absolutely nothing except some theatrics to further give us false hope.
Finally we saw the holy sacrament of Marriage perverted beyond reason. And with it, the deprivation of religious rights for Christians specifically. And, we sat by while it happened...no law was created legalizing it, just a non-binding opinion from five individuals who through away justice and law for ideology.
So, now we have people who are willing to say “ENOUGH” and fight back and all the pompous asses can do is criticize. Well, either shut the fuck up, follow our get out of our way. We WILL not leave this evil nation to our children, we will do everything we can to bring freedom, justice, and moral decency back to this nation and make it great again.
You all who disagree, just sit back in your chairs...we don’t need cowards or fools.
When do I get my convertible Caddy and diamond encrusted pinky ring?
“Is Donald Trump Creating a Mafia-Like Culture of Thug-followers?”
No, that would be BLM among other communists.
That picture says it all!
Do the letters: F.O., Mean anything to you people?
Or, are all you tools of the establishment?
Go ahead, keep insulting us, keep on denigrating us. The establishments’s been doing it for decades. Sure, give us more; we like being used and abused.
Uh huh.
Not only that, but with people who haven’t voted in years, Independents, and Libertarians.
LOL
I doubt that seriously.
I would probably get banned for provoking you to unbecoming language.
I did a Google search on your tagline: "Objectivity is the essence of intelligence." Can you explain what that means? Just curious.
Check out this Emerson passage:
Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world. Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base; the one, and the two:
1. Unity, or Identity; and, 2. Variety. We unite all things by perceiving the law which pervades them; by perceiving the superficial differences and the profound resemblances.
But every mental act -- this very perception of identity or oneness -- recognizes the difference of things. Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to speak or to think without embracing both.
Is that what this objectivity is about?
You betcha.
That's why we love him.
Yes. It’s stunning to behold.
That would be Obama the Wonder jerk.
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