TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?

[Mendalla]

I don't think he knows how to be Hitler or Mussolini all by himself.

Nor am I sure he is trying to be. He is simply doing whatever gets the attention back on him, no matter how rash or controversial it may seem to others. He is a narcissist feeding his ego and not much more.

But his operatives know how to steer things that way.

Which leads us to this. If I can read him that easily, surely the "operatives" can, too. Stroke his ego the right away and you get the results you are after.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Nor am I sure he is trying to be. He is simply doing whatever gets the attention back on him, no matter how rash or controversial it may seem to others. He is a narcissist feeding his ego and not much more.



Which leads us to this. If I can read him that easily, surely the "operatives" can, too. Stroke his ego the right away and you get the results you are after.

I mean the dangerous right wing element of his government, and outside geopolitical forces happening together. It doesn't make Trump less dangerous, though. It's still moving in a fascistic direction regardless of whether he thought it up or not.
*'far' right elements - domestic and foreign. From Stevens Bannon and Miller,to the KKK and Proud Boys,etc to Putin, and Balsonaro, and the Saudis etc. All the dictators smarter than him know how to use him.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

It baffles me that so much of the American public can't read him and see what's going on. Then again they don't read too many facts.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I think it's time for people to stop asking is it bad enough to be called fascist and start questioning what a right wing fascist movement would do to organize and move things in a fascist direction (they find any avenue they can) - and people need to keep a critical eye on that going forward. Looking at patterns because every fascist period is different and manipulates using current politics and culture - with a similar end goal.

 

[Northwind]

Nor am I sure he is trying to be. He is simply doing whatever gets the attention back on him, no matter how rash or controversial it may seem to others. He is a narcissist feeding his ego and not much more.

Exactly. He really needs the adoration. Whatever makes him look good (at least in his eyes) is a good thing.

Which leads us to this. If I can read him that easily, surely the "operatives" can, too. Stroke his ego the right away and you get the results you are after.

I read something that suggested he's a patsy for Putin. He doesn't actually have the skills or temperament to be a collaborator.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Trump is reluctant to join international calls into investigating the poisoning of Alex Navalny (sp?), Putin's activist political opponent. He was also reluctant to investigate the brutal assassination of a Saudi journalist/ US resident journalist - critical of the Saudi government.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

The cultural war going on is a choice between some people still uncomfortable with progressive social values like racial and lgbtq equality sucking it up and dealing with change vs. Tyrannical enforcement of "traditional" values, like dangerous racism and oppression of and further harm to minorities, including women,and people with disabilities.

Those are the choices and too many are choosing the second choice.

 

[Pontifex Geronimo 13]

The choice is between sanity and insanity. The LLeft is pushing racism and sexism all the while saying it is the other guys who are racist/sexist with never any evidence. Just the standard say it so many times that people will think it’s true.

 

[Northwind]

Yes, the current president is showing some signs of insanity or early dementia. He has always been paranoid and it is worse. He can't pronounce simple words. He has never until this position received negative feedback. He can't handle it.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

That's not true PG13. Where there's clear determination by a party to beat back human rights progress and minority voices calling out oppressive policies and systems that harm them - and trying to cancel education that teaches about human rights and social progress; it's the party using tyranny such as government organized militias and mercenaries on its own citizens - that's right wing fascism.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Oh yeah, a president telling people to vote twice to see if mail-in voting works - to commit voter fraud so as to confuse the outcome of an election - and probably then try to call voter fraud and say "I told you so." And blame it on the Dems. That's fascism, too. It's unusual, I'm not sure how unique it is in principle. It's another means of misleading people and stealing a supposedly democratic election.

 

[jimkenney12]

One definition of insanity is keeping doing the same things and expecting different results. We had over thirty years of cuts to taxes, attacks on labour rights, increasing globalization by corporations, cuts to services with increasing disparity, stagnation of real income for most working people along with rising social issues. Rural communities at a distance from major centres are mostly being hollowed out by decreasing and aging populations, loss of businesses and other employers. To believe Conservative policies which have been mostly a fail for people without significant means will fix problems they are creating seems to fit the definition of insanity.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

One definition of insanity is keeping doing the same things and expecting different results. We had over thirty years of cuts to taxes, attacks on labour rights, increasing globalization by corporations, cuts to services with increasing disparity, stagnation of real income for most working people along with rising social issues. Rural communities at a distance from major centres are mostly being hollowed out by decreasing and aging populations, loss of businesses and other employers. To believe Conservative policies which have been mostly a fail for people without significant means will fix problems they are creating seems to fit the definition of insanity.

I don't think the Conservatives want to fix those problems. I think they wanted to create them.

 

[Luce NDs]

One definition of insanity is keeping doing the same things and expecting different results. We had over thirty years of cuts to taxes, attacks on labour rights, increasing globalization by corporations, cuts to services with increasing disparity, stagnation of real income for most working people along with rising social issues. Rural communities at a distance from major centres are mostly being hollowed out by decreasing and aging populations, loss of businesses and other employers. To believe Conservative policies which have been mostly a fail for people without significant means will fix problems they are creating seems to fit the definition of insanity.

Doesn't that define critical methods of economic efficiency? Shavings ... accounted for by the opposing carpenter? Thus if you make something from "nothing" ... there is this silenced twin ... my dear friend! He may appear like smudged plexiglas as flexible and flows at the proper time ... out-of-here & now!

Speaking of critical heresy:

Would this be bad NU's to examine more closely? Echos of the Coddling of the American Mind ... translated into western psyche/philosophy:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-cohen-jail-us-president-stormy-daniels-crimes-1.5714152

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In Canuck lingo ... the chewing down of the limbic tree ... so the thought suffers fall-Acey ... defining intellectual fallacy as underground !

 

[Luce NDs]

I don't think the Conservatives want to fix those problems. I think they wanted to create them.

Creation of the bad and good in the Midnight of nothing ... nerve Anna! One has to have nerve to believe in such BS!

Then what portion of the populace choses insanity over the other small thing ... the diminishing psyche as it reaches towards the horizon ... one known as Rue-L ... a Hebrew word that few have encountered in full metaphorical context ... it means so much! The vanishing point simulates a boze'n; the God participle? Like the celtic item a hole-in-one? Get the picture of Uncle Sam as Yosemite a demos meant for a laugh!

Does mental illness exist as a virtue of escape? It is good for a break from Ruthless reality ... don't you love the plan? (it is a form of unseen behavioural therapy ... countered by CBT) cerious stuffings!

 

[Lastpointe]

One definition of insanity is keeping doing the same things and expecting different results. We had over thirty years of cuts to taxes, attacks on labour rights, increasing globalization by corporations, cuts to services with increasing disparity, stagnation of real income for most working people along with rising social issues. Rural communities at a distance from major centres are mostly being hollowed out by decreasing and aging populations, loss of businesses and other employers. To believe Conservative policies which have been mostly a fail for people without significant means will fix problems they are creating seems to fit the definition of insanity.

i am not sure that conservatives will fix the ills you list

but I would point out that since 1900 we have had 25 governments led by liberals and 12 by conservatives and one other

that doesn’t scream to me poor conservative policies. Seems like twice the number of our governments are Liberal. So who is actually to blame

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I think conservative governments just do more damage in a short amount of time because they don’t care about the problems that don’t affect the wealthy.

 

[Redbaron]

One big factor that has affected the conservative party in recent decades was the merger with the Reform Party. That has caused a sharper veer to the right wing than the old Progressive Conservative Party would have taken otherwise. Recent Conservative governments can't really be compared to earlier PC governments; that would be like comparing apples and bananas.

 

[jimkenney12]

The Liberals have been using neoconservative policies for some time, but especially under Chretien and Martin. They were more conservative than Mulroney

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Neoconservative, neoliberal, there’s hardly a difference. It all serves the corporate masters. Neoconservative would include “conservative Christian values”/ religious conservatives though, wouldn’t it? And that actual makes a big difference. They seem to really adore money and hate poor people even more than neoliberals do - unlike Jesus, though.