Yes, Mr. Sowell, we are emotional. This is our country. We are Americans and proud of it, and I guarantee you there many many people living here, from families that came here generations ago, that do not want to see any more illegals, and yes... yes.. Mr. Sowell, they want a wall built, and they want to make this country great again.
So, keep writing your articles...that make absolutely no sense to me. Yes, we have other candidates out there, but they say nothing, and do nothing.
Vote for Trump because he has good hair.
great post.
I’m voting wrecking ball 2016!
I am sorry, people. Those of you here that are so fascinated with Thomas Sowell and often preach his amazing intellect, etc. ad nauseam.
Sowell was writing OP EDs nearly 18 months ago about how we had to vote establishment Republican and opt for the second most evil, most electable Republican we could stomach. I remember at least two of his OP EDs that discussed this at length at the time.
Here, in this drivel, he pulls out everything but the kitchen sink. Comparisons of the populist narcissism of Trump with Adolph Hitler and the eventual damage that caused; visions of the scorched radioactive bodies of our children because of letting our ‘emotions’ getting away from us (i.e., not voting establishment’s next best evil electable), and the final invocation of Juan Peron and Barack Obama.
The problem is Mr. Sowell that you talk like you want the American voter to be informed, but when we ‘get’ informed and learn all about you and your ilk, our politicians and government and vow to do something about it, you suddenly don’t think righteous indignation is good any more. It’s emotional and you don’t like it because your side doesn’t win and your go-along job and fame are threatened. In other words, we are becoming hip to your game.
Take your drivel on off to the curb where it belongs, Sowell.
when you’re losing your country, citizens are permitted to exercise their survival instinct.
Mr. Sowell’s thoughts are better suited for another time.
That is what the elites are counting on to get in their man Bush.
We can only hope that the months still remaining before the first primary elections next year will allow voters to get over their emotional responses and concentrate on the life-and-death implications of choosing the next president of the United States.
Sure...The 40% in New Hampshire who support Trump are just uninformed, a little too emotional...a little too ignorant...
Sowell is just another Washington Cartel Shill...If Sowell is able to influence any one, that's the person who is too ignorant to be voting...
So, yes it is very much like those situations. I don't know much about Peron. But Hitler and Franco were NOT elected. Hitler was named Chancellor by a MINORITY of NSDAP who had allies in the Nationalist Party. Franco was a general who staged a coup.
I won't kid Freepers: the Mussolini connection has crossed my mind. There are big differences. The Italian fascists were a minority in a multi-party system who had a paramilitary thug group and who had a LARGE portion of the press on their side. Trump is a total outsider, with the media and established parties against him, with no paramilitary at all.
One big danger is that our own military in fact hates Obama. We don't want to ever have to pit the military against the civilian here or we are finished.
Sowell is scum to compare Mr. Trump to Hitler
as he takes time from bowing before his Caliph.
Join the resistance movement and make American great again.
I agree with Sowell on emotionally imagining any candidate will solve whatever we view as a problem. This morning an FR poster said, “President Trump will nuke them.” An article yesterday was titled, “Imagining a Trump presidency.” Many posters say something like, “Trump will (fill in blank with whatever they would like to do.)”
Having been betrayed by the GOP, whom we elected with great hopes, we are now focusing on a savior. Not a president, mind you, but a savior. There is only one savior and He is not human. We all need to take a step back and a deep breath. Sure Trump is saying all the things we’d like to hear, but then every politician does. It’s just that they are mostly known liars. Trump is an unknown and we are painting our own views and imagined actions on somebody who in all likelihood is mostly ego. (Everybody scream, “You’re fired!”) We need a sober statesman as president, not an egomaniac.
Somebody said to me, “Trump wrote the art of the deal.” Maybe he did. But he has lead thousands of investors to ruin while remaining rich himself. He gambles with other people’s lives and money while remaining aloft from the bad results.
We need to make an informed decision, not an emotional one. Emotion got us into the current crises. It won’t get us out again.
Thomas Sowell has been a great, great man—but he’s now 85 years old. His ghostwriter is probably from the mainstream GOPe/RINO pundit class.
A majority of We The People feel our nation is already GONE. Politicians (mostly Republicans) refuse to listen to US.
To our governing class I say:
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
(-James A. Baldwin)
(p.s., we feel we have nothing to lose, at this point)
Sometimes you just need to vote for the guy that cares the most about the COUNTRY and is willing to out his fortune and honor on the line to do it.
Trump isn’t a perfect conservative, but I know he will get the most important things fixed... amnesty, destruction of political correctness, economy and cleaning some house. I would take all of those things over voting in a pure conservative who might fix only one of those things with a lot of luck.
This is rather telling.
That’s pretty low for Sowell to compare Trump to Hitler. REALLY low.
He would have been more effective to compare Trump to Arnold Schwartznegger. (and more accurate).
Oh my!! Sowell goes down deep in the muck for the Hitler comparison. Geez, these guys do not know apples from oranges. Truly disgusting commentary by Sowell.