"Don't look now, but while our best conservative is running a political campaign, Trump is leading a rebellion. Not as a liberal or a conservative politician, but as a successful red-blooded, can-do American capitalist.", Jim Robinson
Posted on 01/25/2016 5:20:45 AM PST by RoosterRedux
In an earlier piece -- which I strongly urge you to read -- I expanded on certain factors evident in the Trump phenomenon. Trump is
And as I wrote, "[W]hen you have a hero, leading the troops in the heat of battle against a despised oppressor, you don't worry about his marriages, past ideological indiscretions or salty language. You charge right behind him." This is largely why Trump's contradictions don't matter. Yet more can be said.
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Trump has been criticized for speaking in vague generalities and not providing specifics on the campaign trail. This misses the point. If advertising a product on TV, do you willingly provide mundane details about its ingredients or describe the intricacies of its manufacturing process? That's more the stuff of documentaries, and, insofar as the vendor goes, would only be found on an Internet product-information page (tantamount to a politician's policy-position page) provided for those interested.
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The Cruz worshipers are just too emotional to recognize their own projections.
It was merely to point out Hitler is not the only example of a charismatic leader.
That's not difficult at all. Trump is a known celebrity with huge name recognition, a successful businessman (at least perceived as such) running for office at a time of immense national malaise, disaffection with politics in general, and a popular belief that something has to be done to reverse the general trend of the country. Desperate people do desperate things. I suspect it's human nature. If you want to see it portrayed in literature, you've only to read chapter 25, particularly the part where the two charlatans, the King and the Duke are called out by the local physician.
"I was your father's friend, and I'm your friend; and I warn you as a friend, and an honest one that wants to protect you and keep you out of harm and trouble, to turn your backs on that scoundrel and have nothing to do with him, the ignorant tramp, with his idiotic Greek and Hebrew, as he calls it. He is the thinnest kind of an impostor--has come here with a lot of empty names and facts which he picked up somewheres, and you take them for proofs, and are helped to fool yourselves by these foolish friends here, who ought to know better. Mary Jane Wilks, you know me for your friend, and for your unselfish friend, too. Now listen to me; turn this pitiful rascal out--"
Good try, but pearls before swine.
The take away for some will remain supporting the dodgy, repulsive nerd who leads with footnotes and marginalia.
Unfortunately, that's how a large number of people vote. Hence Obama. It's one way to combat what the Democrats have been doing. That's why you see them going apoplectic over Trump. He stole their playbook.
We have a MUSLIM RADICAL running America into the ground and you say Trump could lead to Hitler?.
You could get a job writing for the "Onion."
Obama did the same.....
Your analogy is right on.
PS: you are NOT saying Trump is Hitler as some want to put words in your mouth. You are speaking of the times and of hysteria of the masses.
I am a Cruz supporter, but I think this is an excellent analysis.
Well said, Maverick68.
( However, it can get worse if hillbilly moves into the WH instead of into prison!)
They have their obama, and their ‘hope and change’.
Why can’t we have Trump, and our ‘make America great again’?
After all, didn’t obama bring them their ‘hopes’ and ‘changes’?
Trump just might make our country great again - if he just accomplishes one thing - stop the invasion of illegal aliens and terrorists, we will be heading in the right direction.
The worst scenario would be - he is just as bad as Hillbilly/Sanders/Bloomberg.
So let him give us a voice now. If he turns out to be bad, we are no worse with him than with hillbilly or Bush or others.
I, (an educated and intelligent person, if I can say so), do think Trump will be a great leader leading us to greatness again.)
Never. Ever. NO MATTER WHAT. Ask if things can get any worse. NEVER.
Because Oh, you better BELIEVE it can. And that is just daring those ‘things’ to do so. Soon.
-George’s Law (not me. My dad. But I’ve never seen it fail.)
“IF advertising on TV, the details”.............
I keep seeing the advertisement on TV for an older person to convert their normal bathing facilities into a ‘walk in tub’ for safety. The ad says “It only costs $150 a month-—’so affordble’”.......... I finally got close enough to the TV to read the fine print....
That “Only $150 a month” is for 120 months !!!!!!
That means the cost of that ‘safer bathing facility costs an elderly person on Social Security a whopping total of $18,000. The entire bathroom could be changed around for that kind of money!!!!
With the price of oil hitting bottom it is starting to cripple the oil / gas industry. These high paying jobs are starting to lay off big time. This is going to hit the economy hard.
The Reign of Terror (9/05/1793 – 7/28/1794) was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution . It was incited by conflict between 2 rival political factions within the Jacobins (the Society of the Friends of the Constitution) - the moderate Girondins and the radical Mountain. The Mountain prevailed 8 months after King Louis XVI was publically beheaded by guillotine on 1/21/1793. The revolutionary national government, the French National Convention, now dominated by the radical Jacobins, established the Committee of Public Safety in order to suppress internal counter-revolutionary activities and raise additional French military forces. It established the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris which was composed of a jury, a public prosecutor, and 2 substitutes, all nominated by the National Convention; and from its judgments there was no appeal. Through the Revolutionary Tribunal, the Terror's leaders exercised broad powers and used them to eliminate the internal and external enemies of the republic. It was not only the nobility who died in the Reign of Terror. Any one who broke the Jacobin’s laws or was even suspected of breaking their laws or working against them could be arrested and sent to the guillotine, most without a trial. Even powerful people who had been involved in the Jacobin coup were executed. The repression accelerated in June and July 1794, a period called la Grande Terreur (the Great Terror), and ended in a coup on 7/27/1794 leading to the Thermidorian Reaction in which several instigators of the Reign of Terror were executed by guillotine, including Maxmilien Robespierre, its prime instigator. The Terror was marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris = 8.1/day on average over 326 continuous days) and another 25,000 in summary executions across France (over 326 continuous days all over France, 127.6 people on average were executed each day). Many of the U.S.'s founding fathers, particularly Thomas Jefferson (who had served as the U.S. Minister to France during 1785-1789), supported the French Revolution but were horrified at how it degenerated out of control into the Reign of Terror.
After the Reign of Terror, Napoleon Bonaparte rose from an obscure lowly artillery officer to become general of the army, then to dictator in 1799 and went on to become the emperor of France in 1804. For a decade and a half Napoleon wrecked Europe. He hijacked the platitudes of the French Revolution to mask his own dictatorship at home and imperialism abroad. Napoleon’s own political agenda was a mishmash of conservative authoritarianism and populist social justice. So effective was the strange brew that even to this day scholars fight over whether Napoleon was a proto-Hitler whose unhinged ambitions led to millions of innocent European, Russian, Caribbean and North Africa dead, or a loyal defender of the French Revolution, whose 11th-hour iron hand alone kept alive the threatened ideals of fraternity and egalitarianism. For a while at least, Napoleon really did “make France great again,†at least in terms of territory and power.
Commodus followed Caligula.
"Don't look now, but while our best conservative is running a political campaign, Trump is leading a rebellion. Not as a liberal or a conservative politician, but as a successful red-blooded, can-do American capitalist.", Jim Robinson
Like I said. . .
But on the positive side, oil & gas inflation was a lot/ most of what drove the economy into the ditch. I know it was for my family.
I would say that maybe instead of pouring all that money into their gas tanks, they’ll start spending money in other areas- which would help the economy, but it seems the food producers (& at ridiculous profits via foreign production) are lining up to be the next bubble.
Somebody’s always gotta get greedy.
We’ve been needing to come to our senses for a long time. These bubbles had to burst sooner or later. I don’t know how that can happen without any pain anywhere.
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Ridiculous profits? OK. Have you ever worked for a poor person?
It’s really depressing to see how many supposedly rational people have gone full-blown Hitler on us. When anyone compares someone to Hitler, that just means that they have no argument to make, very similar to screaming “racism” at every turn.
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