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If you only know Dr. Peale as the author of a book called "The Power of Positive Thinking" you would only have about 15% grasp the depth of whats going on here.
Alow me to write for the youngins. Dr. Peale would make the Tony Robbins and other folks today teaching and preaching the power of positive thinking look like amateurs. Dr. Peale book swept the entire nation in the early 60's. He combined what alot see as "new age" thinking which is nothing more than old age eastern thinking and combined it with the power of the word of God.
Now some of you will say no way is Trump a Christian man. Well I aint gonna judge that, but I do know that Trump was a big student of Dr. Peale who taught him how to control and disciplne and visualize the mind. Trump has perfected it.
When Trump speaks the way he does . . . We are going to do this or that and we are going to be big and be great . . . I am sorry but thats right out of the book of Dr. Peale. Trump is actually practicing exercising the rules and elements from that book and it works. Have a vision, repeat that vision, y'all know how it works, very few of us practice it. Trump did and does.
One more thing I learned about the man. Some say he may be one of the best students of Sun Tzu . . . The Art of War. Those who are familiar, say Trump is a master of Sun Tzu. those two combinations and understanding the meaning of that is all you need to know.
Good job Rita
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I have recently read The Prince, by Machiavelli, and clearly Mr. Trump has studied it. The book is a study of best and worst practices for rulers newly coming to power. He discusses all different sorts of situations in which a ruler may come to power, for example he notes it could be elected head of a republic or sovereign of a kingdom.
He sets out the scenario that in any political equation, one finds three groups pitted against each other that the prince must balance: The elite, the public, and the military. Elite hate and fear the public (especially when the public is armed - he goes into that!). Elites hate and fear a prince who has support of the people. Thus the military is the central factor. If the military and the people are loyal to the prince, there is little the elites can do to oppose him.
Interestingly, Machiavelli says a ruler doesn’t have to be especially generous to be accorded loyalty. He says the people really only ever wish for one thing: not to be oppressed.
