thebuzzardman wrote:I'm with Taibbi. I totally understand what is driving his campaign on the populist side and it would have GREAT for a good populist conservative candidate to emerge. Instead, we got this shuckster clown, which winds up setting those items back in the American agenda, as well get Hilary and 8 more years, probably of the same corporate oligarchy bullsh*t. Plus a segment (large) even more angry and isolated from the government.
This are the things that lead to people expressing themselves politically in ways other than votes. You know, like riots, shootings, bombings, those sorts of things. Not saying it happens, but it starts us further down that road we're already on.
The problem with the Trump supporters is that they kept voting for candidates who had no interest in helping them. The Democrats are a center-left party that found electoral success by moving to the center (much like Labor in the UK). The Republicans continued to move farther right every election - and yet managed to continue winning the votes of lower middle class whites being disenfranchised by globalism. Trump says he's going to change all this - yet nothing in his history or behavior suggests he is legitimately concerned about anything but his own vanity. He is as much a creature of the globalist elite as anyone - which is likely the real reason why he refuses to disclose his taxes - but without their redeeming qualities.
The funniest part of this thread is usually when the Trump supporters claim that his detractors have been brainwashed - when all the evidence suggest that they're the people who have drunk the most offensive, reactionary Kool Aid known to man. As a life-long New Yorker, I've lived with Trump's presence since the early 80s - and he's always been a self-promoting buffoon. I never bought into his shallow act at all. But I never knew that he would stoop this low in an effort to seize political power.
If we want to fix this thing, we're going to have to put our heads together and start thinking nationally (as I've written continually elsewhere, both in the NY Times and in my own pieces for my website). But Trump is not a nationalist. Trump is a narcissist. A narcissist cannot convince anyone to begin caring about his countrymen - and understanding that we're all in this together is the soul of a defensible 21st century nationalism, as opposed to a fascist state.
America will never be a white Christian nation again - and there's nothing than anyone can do about it. If the racists and bigots have an issue with this, then my advice is that they make alternative arrangements - because we're as sick of them as they claim to be of us. The future of America will be multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-spiritual. The smarter America's people collectively become, the better our nation will do.
