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If Not Trump, Who Will Cure the Rot?
WSJ ^ | Sept 23, 2016 | Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

Posted on 09/24/2016 6:54:33 AM PDT by Brilliant

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To: Jack Hydrazine

Trump gives us a fighting chance. He will need our support.


21 posted on 09/24/2016 7:33:03 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Brilliant
A Trump presidency will bring about massive change in the country...

The progressive left will try to destroy the country to stop him...

Expect massive riots in the inner city, federal government grinding to a halt as the marxist fifth column embedded in every agency take their masks off.

"The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution"

Unfortunately, to stop the progressive left, Trump will have to destroy part of the country in doing so...to restore law and order..

Some of the country needs to be destroyed, we can always rebuild...to be great again.

22 posted on 09/24/2016 7:43:45 AM PDT by Popman
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To: DJ Taylor
Anyone who didn’t see this coming just wasn’t looking, as one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religions has long survived.

Cursed from the start by slavery, we sealed this nation's fate 50 years years ago when we allowed Democrats to import millions of new voters from the Third World.

Trump can't save us. He can only postpone the inevitable. Eventually, blood will spill.

23 posted on 09/24/2016 7:49:45 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Oldexpat

He won’t be prez and neither will Hillary.


24 posted on 09/24/2016 7:53:24 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Thamks

May God bless Israel and all those who protect and defend her.


25 posted on 09/24/2016 7:55:01 AM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: Brilliant
From what I've read, ready or not, our times are just about out of time.

As such, I think Trump is either the anti-Christ, himself, or he's this generation's "Reagan" sent by Grace to restore US.

He's either one or the other, not someone somewhere in between.

Looking at Trump's record so far, I tend to think he's the Reagan we've been looking for, hoping for and waiting for.

26 posted on 09/24/2016 8:03:48 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Brilliant
I'm not a big fan of the WSJ, but the author of this piece really hits on some important points. Just one example:

At bottom, it’s this rottenness of American political culture that allows Mr. Trump, for all his flaws as a candidate and human being, to find traction with so many voters. Not because he’s a uniquely attractive individual, but because he’s uniquely willing to violate the political taboos and challenge the status quo.

27 posted on 09/24/2016 8:05:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: DJ Taylor
That's a great post, but keep in mind that this country has been diverse, in many ways, since its inception. Heck -- this country was so diverse that our Constitution even includes specific items to address groups of people who really didn't fit in our national fabric (Indians and slaves).

The big difference today is that "diversity" didn't have a price when we were mostly agrarian, and had a frontier where people could relocate when they felt like it was time to move on.

Several things changed this dynamic completely, and they aren't all recent developments. In rough chronological order, I'll list a few of them here:

1. industrialization

2. the admission of Arizona and New Mexico into the Union just before World War I, which completed the contiguous 48 states and put everyone in this land mass under the control of one government

3. urbanization, and continued densification of urban areas

4. advances in telecommunications and computer technology, which effectively shrank the world and added a gray area in the definition of a national border

The end result of all this is that not only do we have a nation of 310-320 million people -- but we are living increasingly in circumstances where we have no choice but to interact with other people in the course of our lives.

This is why I believe that the core of most political, economic and social ills we face is that we are forced to interact with people -- under something other than our own terms -- who have absolutely nothing in common with us. And I don't just mean that in racial/ethnic terms, either.

28 posted on 09/24/2016 8:16:56 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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The story of the Tower of Babel is in God’s Word for a reason. The “powers” are trying to rebuild the tower after God said “you can’t build that”, and scattered them into diverse tribes and different languages. He knew we accomplished more and remained better people in small groups with a common culture.


29 posted on 09/24/2016 8:57:37 AM PDT by WVNan
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"...we are forced to interact with people -- under something other than our own terms -- who have absolutely nothing in common with us."

Why is it that we can’t all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren't as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.

This most basic of all survival instincts is self preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, nativism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.

30 posted on 09/24/2016 8:58:22 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Brilliant
Not every problem can be solved with a modest policy tweak. Sometimes a wrecking ball is needed.


31 posted on 09/24/2016 12:30:54 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
“He won’t be prez and neither will Hillary.”.......

OK Jack, what are you going to say on October 3rd when nothing has happened on the 2nd? Sounds like wishful thinking by you expecting some miracle.

32 posted on 09/24/2016 4:17:27 PM PDT by DaveA37
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“He won’t be prez and neither will Hillary.”.......

OK Jack, what are you going to say on October 3rd when nothing has happened on the 2nd? Sounds like wishful thinking by you expecting some miracle. I'll believe in on the 3rd.

33 posted on 09/24/2016 4:17:53 PM PDT by DaveA37
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It’s just the beginning. It’s not like everything will suddenly quit functioning.

Go back to the beginning of the lead up to the End Times back in the fall of 1966. More specifically the evening of 14SEP1966 (that was when Rosh HaShana took place that year). Did anyone notice the day after that the slide suddenly started? No.

It was just the beginning of the slide to the End Times. Look how that slide has occurred over the past 50 years.

If I could have told you back then before some time before that date that you would see a major slide in humanity over the course of the next 50 years starting on that date would you have scoffed then? Of course, you would have!

But then look at what has occurred over the last 50 years. Things shifted in a big way around that time going downhill and hasn’t stopped. Think of it like a parabola. We peaked out and just started going down. At a certain point on that parabola things go down hill pretty fast. Kinda like that roller coaster that goes over the first hill it climbs. It’s gonna be a wild ride! Yeehaw!

2OCT2016 is the begging of the end. Just the beginning.

You are going to be amazed at how fast the downward trend to the end picks up steam just like that parabola.

Also, don’t forget about the Lunar Tetrad we just had the past two years in 2014 and 2015. Major changes in history occur not long after those happen.


34 posted on 09/24/2016 4:37:19 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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At bottom, it’s this rottenness of American political culture that allows Mr. Trump, for all his flaws as a candidate and human being, to find traction with so many voters...

Horse manure. Is Donald Trump, for example, more or less flawed as a candidate and person than, say, Hillary? Or her sweet Babboo?

How does Trump's family compare to Jeb's? Or Cruz?

I thought Jenkins was better than that. There's no excuse for recycling this cr@p.

35 posted on 09/24/2016 7:22:29 PM PDT by gogeo (Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump.)
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