The left has only themselves to blame for Trump
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We live in an era when reporters are too busy hanging out on Twitter, with no time to interview sources and write stories. News stories themselves are often little more than a series of posts strung together into an article, with the tweets furnished as images (evidence) of their claim.
Everybody’s offended by something, and today’s “journalism” insures they will keep being offended, because news outlets live and die by the mouse-click. I suppose we should be grateful. The ever-growing list of things guaranteed to offend someone means that at least we have variety in our public discourse.
Public discourse? Wasn’t that when we used to discuss ideas? Political ideas? Scientific ideas? Social problems and fixes? Didn’t we have discussions to try to figure out what might work best to solve the problem – or determine if there even was a real problem?
No, we don’t have discussions anymore. If we had a discussion, instead of an offense parade, new ideas might emerge. Even worse, the emergent idea might not fit our view of the world, which is what we are really trying to implement. So we twist and tie the facts, which often turn out to be other people’s lives, into convoluted knots we think will sell our side of the argument. When others don’t agree, we play the outrage card! End of discussion.
Basing news stories for the public on Twitter rantings, with Fakebook as a backup source, seems like journalistic malpractice in the extreme. The first is designed for people who have no life, and the latter is a depiction of the fantasy life they would like to have. Perhaps that is why news executives are so optimistic about replacing their newsrooms with artificial intelligence algorithms. Talking-head news programs could then be delivered by chat robots. The entire apparatus would be programmed to deliver propaganda, 24/7, for whomever has the money to pay for it. Elections decided by orchestrated outrage; what a concept!
The reason this is the left’s fault is that the political left has been on the march since at least the days of LBJ, who inherited the presidency after JFK’s assassination. LBJ’s War on Poverty was to produce the Great Society. Vietnam war protesters marched with LBJ, while taking over the educational establishment, Hollywood and much of the federal government. Trillions of greenbacks were redistributed from productive Americans to alleviate the guilt of America’s elitist, entitled families. All to no avail.
Today’s left wants America to repeat that bit of its history with the entire world. Immigrants, it would seem, have a basic human right to go where the subsidies are richest. The only solution is an end to national sovereignty and a one-world (iron-left-fisted) government, without private ownership of firearms or any means of resistance. That’s the end game for the leftist paradise, the mythical land that has only ever existed in the left’s twisted imagination.
The real truth is that a strong and prosperous America is the best hope for moving so much of the world from squalor and poverty into freedom and prosperity. That move takes money and leadership, however; not outrage and slogans.
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“The real truth is that a strong and prosperous America is the best hope for moving so much of the world from squalor and poverty into freedom and prosperity. That move takes money and leadership”
I agree with this, I disagree we currently have the leader with the personality, morals or brains to accomplish it. He may try, but I doubt he succeeds.
Great leaders dont need to go around telling everyone how great they are compared to everyone else. they quietly show it. Time will be the test. And with time we'll see all the results, both the positive and negative.
PS: Great leaders also operate from detailed plans even in times of great stress. trump is more like a fart in a skillet under stress. And I don't see that changing. As I say Time will tell.
I disagree, many leaders are known for their personality traits, George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. Abraham Lincoln
George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela., Adolf Hitler,
Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein and the list goes on and on.
I also disagree here as well.. Obama lead the recovery America had after the stock market collapsed, the housing market collapsed and the job market collapsed. In contrast: Trump took over a growing economy, lets see where he leaves us as he exits.
The bulk of that crisis was already dealt with and the worst possible outcomes avoided and in the past by the time that sleazeball took office. He just used it as an excuse to ram the national debt up sky high with wasteful government spending at an extreme level.
Oversaw a steady recovery for every minute of his term, If trump accomplishes the same I will actually have underestimated him after all.
Please let this slimeball surprise me !
PS: IMO. President Obama still deserves some personal respect besides the office, I dont feel quite the same with trump. Never have.
I don't think I personally will ever feel OK with a person such as I see trump as being.
and hope I never do.
I also dont think much of the way he does much of anything. I sure wasn't raised like this man was and I'm glad I wasn't. I dont care how much hes financially worth, As a human being IMO: He is much of what I see as whats wrong with much of humanity in total. Lots of nasty just below the surface of a pretty smiling picture.
The man behind the curtain. Usually so much uglier than the illusion.
Time will tell whats behind trumps curtain. And I certainly hope the country is economically still moving up when this ones done. We'll see.
Nope. The debt exploded because we had to dig ourselves out of the worst recession since 1929. At least he had an excuse. What is trumps excuse for exploding the debt? Great economy.....one would think the debt would be shrinking, but it's growing faster than when Obama was president...
Do tell, HA, what is trumps excuse? The right bitched about the debt DAILY for 8 fucking years, now they don't say a word....
Can you explain that?
Not really.
Maria Butina. Is the explanation for the Trump and Trumpism.
'strong and prosperous America.' ? ? 'squalor and poverty into freedom and prosperity.' ? ? Catch words for the weak and insipid the right wing will guarantee shall never happen.
Trump is the result of Heartland America getting tired of the above and taking matters into our voting hands in Nov. 2016. We clung bitterly to God and our guns while proudly wearing as a badge of honor Hillary’s deplorables label.
Anudder nutter seed from corny.
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They are sore losers who can’t get over that they were beaten by deplorables from America’s Heartland who like to rub it in on how many wasted votes they got from places that don’t matter like California and New York.
The author of this article writes Christian based amarageddon and end of the world novels. A lot of them.
by the way, from the article
actually, viet nam war protesters marched against LBJ. I guess we can assume that everything in the article is the opposite of the truth.
Your point being?
True enough, but it has always seemed to me that in the years following that time, there has been more animus from the Left leveled at Nixon for Vietnam than Johnson.
Actually the people who voted for trumptard are the ones to blame. Whoever wrote the article clearly has no clue how elections work.
Actually it was Hillary and her campaign that didn’t know how elections work. Like going to California, New York, and Chicago to run up her vote totals there while ignoring Wisconsin and Michigan. All hail the great blue electoral college wall.
Um, the people who voted for trump are responsible for putting him in office. It's really that simple. My guess is this is one in a long line of articles heading towards the right wing making excuses about trump when his lame stupid ass is thrown out of office in disgrace. I bet the day after trump is impeached there will be a slew of articles out there blaming the left for trump being elected in the first place... Oh wait, this is one...
#sad
"Look what they let us do! They should have stopped us!"
NO matter what bad happens trump will always blame others.
No matter what good happens trump will always try to claim it.
Two simple trump isums
Yep, which is the same excuse they will use for another issue....but I would be off topic..
That is one of the most prominent traits in narcissistic pschopathy. Trump demonstrates every characteristic of a malignant narcissist. Unfortunately, he won enough electoral votes to win the Presidency. Now that the emporer has no clothes for all to see, the only two options are to impeach him for provable offenses or vote him out of office. The best way to do either is to allow him to rant his way into the scrapheap of history.
Megalomania: A delusional state where a person believes that they are superior to others. They may believe themselves to be a god, a famous person or a gifted athlete. They may feel they have great social, political or other powers.
No wonder they love and relate so well to Trump. They're all members of the same whining sniveling crybaby bullies club.
It has to be a mental disorder.
Corny, get this; every time you point fingers, there's 3 pointing back at you. For a reason. Look in the mirror when spinning your bull.