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Santee you must understand that if Trump were to single handedly cure cancer the headline in the WaPo and the NYT would be: TRUMP HATES PEOPLE WITH AIDS, Doesn't Lift A Finger To Help Them. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome!
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My commitments to social justice remain unchanged. If I am ranting it is because I am seeing three generations of social progress unravel before my eyes. I am very unhappy that the poorest and most vulnerable of society are being called on to make further sacrifices so that the wealthy get more. I am very unhappy that the scientific progress of centuries is being driven from the marketplace of accepted ideas. I am appalled that superstition is replacing science as a governing philosophy; that overt racism is fashionable again; that cruelty is replacing compassion in public discourse. What progressives will soon learn is that there is not enough money available from the "pure" sources. As for the voters, haven't they repeatedly shown that they can be duped into voting against their interests? Also, many in the heartland find the progressive belief that they alone know what is good for the voters to be the height of arrogance? Isn't that exactly the attitude that got Hillary in trouble? Please understand that I regard the use of wealth and ownership of property as privileges granted by society and fully revocable. If it were up to me, the ruling class would be standing trial to account for their stewardship. Given what I see here every day in Oakland, that trial is not likely to go well for them. (Do you think the Koch brothers would mind sharing their various houses with a few hundred homeless veterans with PTSD? ) |
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I don't remember private phone conversations being transcribed and given to the press before for any president. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...cid=spartanntp
The Philippines transcribed the conversation and gave it to the US press? So I guess no conversation is off the record anymore. I do believe the majority of the US press wants to vilify Trump. Too bad he helps them accomplish that task by providing so much ammo - seemingly on a daily basis. |
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Think the public should get ready for war in North Korea, it is one of the ways Trump can get his garbage out of the daily press.
It needs to be done too, just the cost in lives could be enormous. |
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This statement remind me of Josef Stalin's justification of the mass starvation following the forced collectivization of agriculture in the USSR and of Chairman Mao's rationale of his "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution" programs. Quote:
No one who grew up in the United States of the 1950s, is white, and has listened to private conversations of white people would make the misguided claim that the economy is causing racism. Black folks often make racists comments about Jews, Arabs, and Asians. We have come a long way in this country, but racism is endemic. All that has happened is that white supremacists feel safe in publicly expressing their views. Quote:
I suggest reading A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn to get some perspective. I also suggest reading one of the many collection of excerpts of James Madison's notes at the Constitutional Convention, Decision in Philadelphia by Collier and Collier, or The Case against the Supreme Court by Erwin Chemerinsky to disabuse yourself notions that the United States government was designed to be democratic institution to represent the will of the people. It was specifically designed by the wealthy property owners to protect their position in society from the great mass of tenant farmers and working poor. Things appear no closer to change than they were when Karl Marx realized in 1848 that the revolution was not imminent. Quote:
Final observations 1) it is extremely unlikely that the voters can seize control of the government by legal, peaceful means. It is what I would prefer happening because violent revolution kills many people and has historically most often resulted in psychopaths holding dictatorial powers. 2) IMO the effects of climate change are going to be of major concern to y'all by the time you reach age 68. |
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