Posted on 03/03/2016 5:47:01 AM PST by Texas Fossil
American voters are angry. They see both parties as corrupt, unstable organizations which care nothing about their constituents, and only about staying in power. Voters see the parties only interested in handing out favors to their rich friends, and not doing things which would help everyone. They’re doing their best Bruce Banner imitation by turning into The Populist Hulk after warning politicians, “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry,” for years. This isn’t just Republicans flocking to Donald Trump, but Democrats seeing Bernie Sanders as a possible alternative to Hillary Clinton (super delegates aside). Voter angst isn’t anything new, but the size of the anger has really caught a lot of party leaders and commentators off guard. It’s allowed Trump to win nine primaries and one caucus because voters see him as an expression of their own rage. Trump is even reveling in the fact supporters idolize him as the best way to “stick it” to the Republican Party.
"Many people are now saying I won South Carolina because of the last debate. I showed anger and the people of our country are very angry!"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2016
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France had a revolution, so did the US. Outcomes were incredibly different. Nature of the citizens and stature of those leading the revolt.
Solution? Purge the Commies and Traitors who are destroying the US.
Lighen up, Francis. No one is talking about trotting out
actual guillotines. Yet.
Can we tar and feather them first?
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Try to steal the nomination from the citizens choice and they might see a real French revolution instead of a rhetorical one.
The solution requires that the individual look beyond his or her own personal desires to the good of the cou try and its Constitution.
The ballot box is still preferable to the cartridge box.
I will personally engineer a new twin guillotine if I get front row viewing for the Dorkbama/Hillabeast completion following CW-II.
We had a war of independence. France had a revolution, or rather a devolution.
It was more about the nature of the revolt.
The American Revolution was all about Americans wanting to keep what was theirs, and not liking to be taxed and ordered about by far-off England, for the benefit of the English elites. It was a revolution of the American middle class against those who wanted their stuff.
The French Revolution involved the seizing of the property of the old elites, and degenerated into a fight over who would have power over those appropriated assets. It was a revolution of the underclass, to seize and redistribute wealth. As such, it resembled the later Russian Revolution.
These guys and gals just don’t know the visceral hatred shared against both parties. Now thanks to the media, the GOP looks like the only demon party but the dems are having their own upheaval tired of the force feeding of disliked candidates. Sanders for instance is not the real face of the dems, he is the anti party apparatus candidate for those who will never vote for the GOP. The information age has finally caught up to the political back room. Heretofore, most knew there were shenanigans but today with the instant sharing of as much info as one can digest, it becomes crystal clear we no longer live in a republic, we live in the equal of the era of the company store in that almost everyone on some level draws a check, directly or indirectly, from the government. They threaten to take away the goodies if you do not go along. It is only going to get worse on the current trajectory.
IOW replace damn near everyone in the current government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
We had a revolution, it resulted in a totally new form of government.
Yes.
I did not say it would be easy.
It is TIME to DownSize DC! Close entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments. Move center-of-gravity of government away from DC.
Alexis De Toqueville came to America to study this difference in outcomes. His conclusions were very pertinent to our situation today. The French revolution took over an existing powerful central government. Ours created a new condition working from the small town governments up with a very weak (by design) central government. He was not optimistic about the future if the power was reversed.
I would agree with that too.
“The ballot box is still preferable to the cartridge box.”
Agree, totally.
Oh, they will both (ComDems & GOPe) will try.
Americans were not starving. America did not have the wealth controlled by the Church and the nobility
Perhaps also important, France had America
The Democrats should be very worried about having their names on the list. When they are dealt with perhaps Mitt and old Bob and Mitch will appear near the top of the list
{The French Revolution involved the seizing of the property of the old elites, and degenerated into a fight over who would have power over those appropriated assets. It was a revolution of the underclass, to seize and redistribute wealth}
Similar to what I read here from the Trump supporters. and read elsewhere from the Sanders supporters. Similar veins.
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