Posted on 09/15/2015 3:43:16 AM PDT by nikos1121
In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one — Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after six years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.
No doubt much of the stampede of Republican voters toward Mr. Trump is based on their disgust with the Republican establishment. The fact that the next two biggest vote-getters in the polls are also complete outsiders — Dr. Ben Carson and Ms. Carly Fiorina — reinforces the idea that this is a protest. It is easy to understand why there would be pent-up resentments among Republican voters. But are elections held for the purpose of venting emotions? No national leader ever aroused more fervent emotions than Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s. Watch some old newsreels of German crowds delirious with joy at the sight of him. The only things at all comparable in more recent times were the ecstatic crowds that greeted Barack Obama when he burst upon the political scene in 2008. Elections, however, have far more lasting, and far more serious — or even grim — consequences than emotional venting. The actual track record of crowd-pleasers, whether Juan Peron in Argentina, Obama in America, or Hitler in Germany, is very sobering, if not painfully depressing.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424008/donald-trump-voters-election-egomaniac
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You have a reading comprehension problem...why didn’t he mention Pol Pot, Mao, Lenin? They were charismatic. He mentioned Hitler, Obama and Peron specifically because they were elected by the people who tossed away good judgment to support demagogues who made wild promises.
Maybe I shouldn't jump in, but here goes:
Who is Thomas Sowell's "ilk"?
“Obama said he was going to lower the oceans...how did that political promise work out. How many pols say they would balance the budget? Pols make all kinds of promises...”
I’ll try again:
Trump is trusted no more or less than any other politician with regards to promises.
Trump promises to deport illegals. He MAY deport illegals using the “politician standard of honesty”
No other candidate will promise to deport illegals so if not for Trump illegals have no chance of deportation.
So I’m voting for Trump if he keeps his position on deporting illegals.
Just because Obama lied about “lowering the oceans” doesn’t mean Trump is lying about “deporting illegals”.
Why do you insist on using the same logical fallacy as the author of the article?
I used it to show how you’d rather elect Hitler than Trump. Isn’t it ridiculous?
“You have a reading comprehension problem”
I’m sorry did I misread the word “Hitler” in an article about Trump and his supporters?
Are you seriously defending this articles comparison by claiming I somehow “misread” or “didn’t comprehend” what was written?
I’m sorry if I make you and other supposed “conservatives” angry by pointing out that Trump is not Hitler as this article implies.
That’s just how I roll.....
My post was in response to your #38.
What you wrote in #38 is that comparing Trump to Hitler wasn’t necessarily over the top, it just flew in the face of convention.
That’s a ridiculous and tortured defense of a ridiculous article.
It’s like you and more than a few posters on this thread WANT it to be true that Trump = Hitler. It simply isn’t so and there is no argument that can make it so.
Sowell wrote a stupid article this time. Why don’t you just admit that instead of trying to defend that which is not defensible. It’s unbecoming of you, frankly.
Trump is causing the masks to fall off.
I will not sacrifice Sowell for Trump.
Sowell’s not wrong about the emotional aspect of Trump’s support.
Trump is fun. He’s bold. He’s brash. He’s a spectacle to behold.
However, anyone who fails to see the similarities between some of Trump’s supporters and the 2008 Obama worshipers is not paying attention. Now, as then, all things are forgiven or dismissed without regard to reason.
Apparently we are.
This will happen, of course. Anyone who doesn't understand the wonder of Trump is an automatic RINO. The cult of personality is loud and vocal.
I'm vocal, too. Sowell is precisely right.
Are candidate “choices” acted like the last 7 years didn’t even happened??? They were business as usual. They didn’t rock the boat. They didn’t MAD???
I mean if i were running for President at this time in our history..I would be MAD at the very least.
I would have a bold, innovative plan to try to SAVE America?
Something to set me apart from business as usual.
That is unless i was just another self serving politician who is otherwise powerless to do anything but go along???
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Comparison to Hitler? Good night....
Again, for those in the back row...Sowell’s use of Hitler, Peron and Obama was pointing out the fact that people vote for charlatans because they promised the moon...he did not mention other charismatic figures like Lenin or Napoleon because they came to power by military means. Sowell never said Trump was de facto Hitler...like I said, you have a reading comprehension problem...my advice, go back to school.
Credentials don’t mean poop, if you think someone is wrong
Circa 2008: "Obama's gonna pay my gas and my mortgage."
Guess how that woman feels now?
I'll just add that NO votes can be counted until ALL military votes are counted! And everyone has to show full facial picture ID, No exceptions.
A Hitler comparison makes the rest of his article unreadable. That kind of thing is a show stopper for me.
One of the characteristics of cults of personality is a tendency for cult members to either ignore or make excuses for traits in their leader that they mercilessly attack in other candidates. Few other candidates have as much of a track record of recent flip-flops on the issues (including immigration) as Trump, and yet his admirers seem to willfully ignore all this. In this regard some of them do remind of the "Yes we Can" Obama cultists - in terms of style at least if not substance.
I like a lot of what Trump has to say, and as far as I'm concerned even at his worst I'd rather see him than the likes of Jeb or Rubio, but that doesn't blind me to the fact that he's a deeply flawed candidate in spite of having some very good (current) messages.
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