Posted on 10/19/2016 9:12:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump’s ‘Make America great again’ slogan and this Republican Congress's actions raise unanswered questions
Recently I appeared at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., for a talk entitled “Making America As Good As Its Promise.” So you don’t confuse the theme of my talk with the slogan of a particular presidential campaign, let me delineate the difference.
When I hear Donald Trump suggest that he wants to “make America great again,” it always triggers the same three questions in my head.
One: How is Trump defining “greatness”? I’m not sure he and I share an understanding of what makes a nation truly great. For me, it starts with how you treat the children, the poor, the aged and infirmed, how you embrace equality as you labor for equity. Equality means that everyone gets the same in America, whether they need it or not. Equity says we commit to ensuring that all fellow citizens have the basic resources that will give them commensurate opportunities to contribute meaningfully to our society....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
That's simple. America, where innovation and leadership are abundant.
America, where the world looks to for guidance.
America, a country full of opportunities and businesses
Most importantly, where there is a rule of law that applies to all Americans.
Well, Tavis...you’re new overlords will either speak Spanish or Arabic.
What a racist, anti-white buffoon.
Oh, and a filthy communist to boot.
We’re already slaves, all of us, working 7 months out of the year to pay our taxes at nearly 60%
Black people have enslaved themselves.
Open the gate to the prison. The freed inmates walk outside. They turn around and go back to their cells. But life is so scary relying on myself.
What children? PP gets its way, there won’t be any children. I’m quite confident that the writer cannot undertake to name the difference between “society” and government:SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Socialists propose that government can be a patron - and so it can, at the cost of crowding out patronage by society. This does not elevate society, rather, it reduces it down to the level of government - from a blessing to an evil. And in so doing, reduces government from “its best state” of necessary evil toward the intolerable evil of tyranny.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . . For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
"Because I am an idiot!"
But he’s right, because all the leftist controls of speech and opinions and groups can be turned on anyone. In my humble opinion the Democrat establishment believes blacks are inferior and will control them by any means necessary. They are being replaced by Hispanics.
“Again”? You mean “still”? Democrats have controlled black society since well before the civil war. First they were slaves on southern, Democrat-owned plantations, then sharecroppers on Democrat-owned lands and now back to Democrat-controlled plantations in the urban centers of American cities. But at least they’re getting a good education...
Blacksploitation Picture: In Clintons’ World, Workers Get Slave-Wage Shaft
“When you urge garment manufacturers producing in countries like Bangladesh, where wages are far too low for workers to adequately support their families, to move production to countries with even lower wages, it undercuts the efforts of apparel workers across the Global South to persuade governments, employers and major apparel brands to lift wages to a decent level.”
— Labor advocate Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, who criticizes the Clintons’ Haiti project as a misguided American relief effort that glossed over (Cheryl Mills business partner) Sae-A’s labor-relations history.
Well played, lol.
Michelle Goes Low:
Assaults Our Intelligence With “Sacred Purity of Our Daughters” Con
Our First Black First Lady, Michelle Obama, “who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners,” as President Barack Obama likes to say, has now resurrected an Old South Democrat taboo and twisted it into a new feminist call to arms against Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton’s erstwhile Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
Pussy grabbing, it seems, trumps miscegenation as the Great Big Bugaboo Democrats are trotting out today to inflame passions in their all-out war against Republicans.
“I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for President of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women. And I have to tell you that I can’t stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted,”Michelle Obama told a New Hampshire audience yesterday (10/13/16)
“This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior.”
“I’m in awe,” tweeted Hillary Clinton in response. “Thanks for putting into words what’s in so many of our hearts.”
Of course, as President, Clinton’s serial philandering husband was IMPEACHED for lying to a Grand Jury about his in-office, sexually predatory behavior with White House subordinate Monica Lewinsky, which he lied about in a sworn deposition he was compelled to make in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. The suit was later settled out of court for $850,000, and Bill Clinton was later disbarred for having committed perjury.
Shortly after they first met, Michelle urged Barack Obama to attend, and later join, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where she had been a long-time member. Senior Pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright officiated at their wedding ceremony, and baptized their daughters, as well. Obama wrote, in his book “The Audacity of Hope,” that he was particularly inspired by Rev. Wright’s sermons.
Rev. Wright, for one, took great exception when celebrated African American author Toni Morrison said Bill Clinton was “our first black President. Blacker than any actual Black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.” Which begs the question: What would that make First Lady Hillary Clinton?
“Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger,” Wright preached back in 2008, when Obama and Clinton were competing for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. “Hillary has never (been) defined as a non-person … Hillary is married to Bill, and (we’re told) Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the Black community.” Candidate Barack Obama told the American people.
As President and First Lady, Barack and Michelle have widened the mutual admiration circle considerably. They have proudly welcomed to the White House such celebrated and well-heeled African American luminaries as Jay Z and Beyonce, who is as fine a role model for the spanking new “Don’t Touch Me There” Ethos as the Obama’s could hope for their teenage daughters to emulate:
“First both of my legs go back on your head,
and whatever you want, yeah baby, I’m bad”
“I can’t wait till I get home so you can turn that cherry out
I want you to turn that cherry out, turn that cherry out.”
“Now my mascara running, red lipstick smudged
Yeah, he’s so horny he wants to fuck
He popped all my buttons and he ripped my blouse
He Monica Lewinsky-ed all on my gown
Oh Daddy, Daddy, he didn’t bring the towel
Oh baby, baby, we better slow it down.”
Tavis Smiley is a race-hustling clueless asshat.
“For me, it starts with how you treat the children, the poor, the aged and infirmed, how you embrace equality “
1. Children? You black folks abort your children and black males abandon their own flesh & blood & families. Or if you do have children, there isn’t sufficient assets to raise and support them. 1 Timothy 5:8 comes to mind for all of you.
2. The Poor? Poor decisions breed poor finances. It doesn’t take a room temperature IQ to figure that out. Live under your means & delay gratification. But I totally understand that dysfunctionality doesn’t comprehend that.
3. Aged & Infirmed ? Like throwing them in nursing homes or letting FEDGOV take care of them? I call BS on your assertion that you “care”.
4. Equality? LOL! Says the lying hypocrite who would never embrace an equal wage for himself so that all have the same salaries in the name of equality.
These clowns are too easy to expose.
This is one of those *you can’t make this sh!t up* pieces?
Repatriation, not reparation.
Time Magazine actually let this article be published?
Perhaps I'll buy a bullwhip and some shackles just in case.
What does he mean “again”. The Dems continue to enslave his people and he has bought it hook line and sinker. The dems have fooled them into thinking that they left the plantation. The left the cotton plantation only for it to be replaced by the concrete plantation. Only difference is they are free to leave anytime they want. They choose not to.
After reading this, I am inspired to write an article entitled, “Why I Fear Some Americans Are Getting Stupider by the Day.”
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