Thursday, November 10, 2016

Linings

Ralph Nader: The Silver Linings of Silver-Tongued Donald
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3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

The reason is too complex and nuanced for most readers. Trumpism is going to be a baseball bat to the heads of many as the Trumpist death squads appear in the not too distant future. In a Putin style Republic people will start to mysteriously disppear and fall ot of windows etc. The Internet will be used to ruin anyone that opposes them and worse. This is just starting kids. Those of us that remember Richard Nixon's odious regime are now going to see something that most never thought would land in America. Trumpism is the American version of Putinism, Peroniosm, a cult of personality style Fascism and Nationalism. It's going to be ugly and vicious and my guess is once the violence starts nobody is going to be brave enough to stop it. All you need to do is go back 6 decades to the disgraceful way America comported itself during the McCarthy witch hunts. This time around its going to be other groups , but the savagery and the methods will include torture and murder and its not just going to be overseas this time.

1:59 PM
Jim Sande said...

I suspect that you are correct. I would expect the unexpected. Trump says anything, why would he act morally or truthfully now. The dread of a period with lots of fear has descended.

2:20 PM
Glynn Kalara said...

One thing that we all know about Donald he absolutely revels in revenge and paybacks. Now with unlimited power who is this guy going to emulate? I can tell you this its not going to be Lincoln or Truman. It's more likely to be AH, Mussolini,Franco, Stalin and Mao. At a min.Nixon on steriods. The nightmare has returned only this time I fear we won't beable to exit by simply holding an election. Here's a really scary no. to ponder. AH in germany in 1933 won his position as Chancellor with 33% of the vote. This guy has 48% of it and the Congress and the SCOTUS who or what is going to stop him? Add to this that he's more then likely a standard issue psychopath and you could conclude we are now hip deep in shit and the tide is rising around us fast. Franlin said (226 yrs. ago at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention) when asked by Betsy Ross what form of Gov't do we have "A Republic if we can keep it?" He said that because every Empire that had once been a Republic had fallen not one survived the test of time. It's now going to be our turn and the fact that 50% 0f the population has chosen an open Fascist for President doesn't give me any kind of faith going forward that ours will survive the coming tests this man will surely render it. I fear 100 yrs. of social , political and economic progress is now on the line with a radical far right Congress and President and soon the same on the court once again. If I were Justice Ginsburg I'd hire a food tester and a body guard.

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