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The Threat of Change
armstrong economics ^ | Mar 10, 2016 | Martin Armstrong

Posted on 03/10/2016 5:08:17 PM PST by dontreadthis

Why Trump Haters Really Hate Trump It’s not the hair. Or the bad manners. Or the “beautiful” wall he says he’ll build. There’s a different, more subtle reason why the Republican establishment, donor class, political operatives, and the news media in general hate Donald Trump. The reason can be found in a New York Times best selling business book, Stacking The Deck, by Wharton professor David Pottruck. Pottruck, the Charles Schwab CEO who took the genial brokerage house online and into the big time, says that organizations hate change. Hate it with a PASSION! That’s because when there’s a new way of doing things, a new way of solving problems, a new way of relating to everything, they feel threatened as a deep personal-loss. Change renders meaningless the value of their hard-won experience and know-how. In politics, it may means family member lose their cushy jobs and perks. Student loans of government employees get automatically paid off by government – TAX FREE. Those in government have done things one way forever. Change is NOT FAIR to them Everything they have done to line their pockets is threatened. The rules of the game may no longer apply. So they dig in their heels and will do whatever it takes to resist change. They resist perpetually until forced otherwise. They subvert any process that would lead to change. Until they lose, it becomes open warfare against the people to sustain the establishment and its perks. And so it is with Donald Trump. Like him or not, he has completely rewritten the rules of Presidential politics. He bypasses the media, taking his message, raw and unfiltered, to the millions of people who follow him on Twitter. The party establishment went from underestimating him and laughing at him to fearing him breaking out in night sweats. They fear all power and their relevance will vanish into thing air. Donors gave Jeb Bush $120 million and he came in dead last. The money, like Jeb, is gone and it could not save their fiefdom. Now wealthy donors have a choice. Oppose Trump and he wins and they are out in the cold. Understand there is a change in the wind and shift sides to the people. How ironic. It took a billionaire to neuter the billionaire donor class. Most of the media hates Trump to the core and dislike the fact they are no longer able to play kingmaker losing their power fearing they will be irrelevant with the internet displacing them. The political class have lost the power to rule behind the curtain from paid operatives and cronies who cannot transition to the new world where the old rules of campaigning don’t apply. Trump has spent more on hats than he has on polls so the pollsters also have lost their importance. Diplomats worldwide are running scared because Trump will renegotiate everything from a business standpoint that cannot be bought like Hillary & her foundation. The handwringing, the dire predictions of doom, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth have little to do with Donald’s positions, but their loss of power. They complain Trump is bringing in new voters who are not Republican. And this is bad? The Trump threat isn’t to the Constitution, to America’s standing in the world, or even to Republican Congressional candidates, it is to the establishment. If you think Trump’s supporters are angry about the way the government and the business world colluded, you are right. The establishment fails to appreciate the anger. They’re just furious. Even if Trump fails to win, there will be more in the wings. He is inspiring a change and he doesn’t even understand how profound.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bsarticle; hopeandchange; hopenadchange; trump; trumpspam; whocares
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1 posted on 03/10/2016 5:08:17 PM PST by dontreadthis
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2 posted on 03/10/2016 5:09:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: dontreadthis
Why Trump Haters Really Hate Trump It’s not the hair. Or the bad manners. Or the “beautiful” wall he says he’ll build.

There’s a different, more subtle reason why the Republican establishment, donor class, political operatives, and the news media in general hate Donald Trump. The reason can be found in a New York Times best selling business book, Stacking The Deck, by Wharton professor David Pottruck. Pottruck, the Charles Schwab CEO who took the genial brokerage house online and into the big time, says that organizations hate change. Hate it with a PASSION! That’s because when there’s a new way of doing things, a new way of solving problems, a new way of relating to everything, they feel threatened as a deep personal-loss.

Change renders meaningless the value of their hard-won experience and know-how. In politics, it may means family member lose their cushy jobs and perks. Student loans of government employees get automatically paid off by government – TAX FREE.

Those in government have done things one way forever. Change is NOT FAIR to them Everything they have done to line their pockets is threatened. The rules of the game may no longer apply. So they dig in their heels and will do whatever it takes to resist change. They resist perpetually until forced otherwise. They subvert any process that would lead to change. Until they lose, it becomes open warfare against the people to sustain the establishment and its perks. And so it is with Donald Trump.

Like him or not, he has completely rewritten the rules of Presidential politics. He bypasses the media, taking his message, raw and unfiltered, to the millions of people who follow him on Twitter. The party establishment went from underestimating him and laughing at him to fearing him breaking out in night sweats. They fear all power and their relevance will vanish into thing air.

Donors gave Jeb Bush $120 million and he came in dead last. The money, like Jeb, is gone and it could not save their fiefdom. Now wealthy donors have a choice. Oppose Trump and he wins and they are out in the cold. Understand there is a change in the wind and shift sides to the people. How ironic. It took a billionaire to neuter the billionaire donor class.

Most of the media hates Trump to the core and dislike the fact they are no longer able to play kingmaker losing their power fearing they will be irrelevant with the internet displacing them. The political class have lost the power to rule behind the curtain from paid operatives and cronies who cannot transition to the new world where the old rules of campaigning don’t apply. Trump has spent more on hats than he has on polls so the pollsters also have lost their importance.

Diplomats worldwide are running scared because Trump will renegotiate everything from a business standpoint that cannot be bought like Hillary & her foundation. The handwringing, the dire predictions of doom, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth have little to do with Donald’s positions, but their loss of power.

They complain Trump is bringing in new voters who are not Republican. And this is bad? The Trump threat isn’t to the Constitution, to America’s standing in the world, or even to Republican Congressional candidates, it is to the establishment. If you think Trump’s supporters are angry about the way the government and the business world colluded, you are right. The establishment fails to appreciate the anger. They’re just furious.

Even if Trump fails to win, there will be more in the wings. He is inspiring a change and he doesn’t even understand how profound.

3 posted on 03/10/2016 5:11:31 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: dontreadthis

Gee, they should have left America as a Christian nation. No one would be coming after them now.


4 posted on 03/10/2016 5:14:59 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: dontreadthis

The protected class status of millions of people will be upended - recede back into the shadowy underground -


5 posted on 03/10/2016 5:15:13 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: DoughtyOne

What, exactly, is a “hater”?


6 posted on 03/10/2016 5:19:01 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hater?s=t


7 posted on 03/10/2016 5:20:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: donna

Coming after them with a casino and strip club owner that denies he needs the forgiveness of Christ. Interesting times.

The times are creating interesting bedfellows. And if you lie down with dogs, youll wake up with flees.


8 posted on 03/10/2016 5:21:46 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I don’t think the author knows what the word means. He uses the word like a liberal.


9 posted on 03/10/2016 5:23:12 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Okay. No problem.


10 posted on 03/10/2016 5:25:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: dontreadthis

I’ll take NYC Democrats masquerading as conservatives for $1000, Alex.


11 posted on 03/10/2016 5:26:41 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: cuban leaf

A sinner, like we all are.


12 posted on 03/10/2016 5:26:54 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: dontreadthis

A NEW way of solving problems?? Since when does Washington solve problems? We’d be happy to have a president that just didn’t cause any new ones! That would be a good start.


13 posted on 03/10/2016 5:29:11 PM PST by uncitizen (Revenge!)
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To: cuban leaf

“you’ll wake up with flees.”

If a dog has ticks then, you must flee!


14 posted on 03/10/2016 5:30:20 PM PST by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: BigBobber

the Daily Double means that you get the most conservative candidate PLUS a Globalist. You don’t get to pick.


15 posted on 03/10/2016 5:30:36 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: dontreadthis

I don’t hate trump. I think he will be a disaster as president. I don’t believe he’s had some kind of transformation or evolution.

I think he is extremely skilled at what he does. I respect it, but I don’t agree with it.

I do believe that change can be a positive. I also believe it’s necessary, now more than ever. I do not believe trump will bring the change that’s needed and further do not believe he could achieve that change. I believe he will be incredibly destructive to the conservative movement.

I believe that we need to become the constitutional republic who’s promise so many good men died for. I believe it will take a principled conservative who has proven that he will fight for us. That conservative must understand the system, the how’s and why’s of its creation. That candidate must know the constitution and hold it sacred.

That candidate is Ted Cruz.


16 posted on 03/10/2016 5:33:37 PM PST by Outlaw76 (Conservative, Showman, Rino. Make your choice wisely.)
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To: dontreadthis
Please consider the possibility that expertise isn't entirely worthless.

Throwing it out and relying on magical thinking isn't a good policy recipe.

I notice that in politics everyone is trying to completely delegitimize opposing viewpoints.

Consider the possibility that people on the other side may have valid reasons for concern.

Sometimes it's not a battle between your right idea and the other person's wrong idea, but a conflict between valid (or invalid) ideas that you both have.

17 posted on 03/10/2016 5:33:39 PM PST by x
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To: dontreadthis

“The handwringing, the dire predictions of doom, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth have little to do with Donald’s positions, but their loss of power. “

Bottom line —it’s about loss of power and has never been about the American people.

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18 posted on 03/10/2016 5:33:47 PM PST by Mears
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To: donna

Technically true, but we are not talking about salvation here. We’re talking about the character of a man asking us to trust him as our leader. We’ve all sinned, but I’ll not vote for Hugh Hefner either.


19 posted on 03/10/2016 5:33:57 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Outlaw76

to recover from a Post-Constitutional Republic cannot be accomplished by a single individual, even a President.
The People must be educated/re-educated. This will take time.
There may be some intermediate steps.


20 posted on 03/10/2016 5:42:14 PM PST by dontreadthis
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