The institutionalized left has brainwashed the Western world into insanity. The brainwashing is wearing off, but only part way. Now there is the anti-immigrant, isolationist backlash, an angry emotional response to the overreach of transnational progressivism. This too will end badly. It’s not too soon to plan for the day when Trumpism is as discredited as what it is replacing…
[quote]So in the confusion that follows a seismic movement, it’s easy for another form of socialism to sell itself. Socialism, only now with more blood-and-soil! The government is not your mommy. It is now your daddy. Surrender yourself to the government.
Arguably that form is even more short lived, though they DO tend to have snazzier uniforms.
It is important in the maelstrom building, to remember your principles, and to keep your head. Schadenfreude will be rife (Really, did you bring enough popcorn for everyone?) but Schadenfreude is not a philosophical or political theory.
Remember the vision of the founders. Hold on to that. Statists of various stripes will come out of the woodwork to offer you the easy way out and the snake oil.
But in the end we win, they lose. Things will just be really choppy on the way there.[/quote]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Can you please post a Beyond Trumpism for Dummies version? I have no idea what you or Hoyt are on about other than that CNN is the canary in the socialist coal mine.
It’s more of a methodology than an ideology. And the West is very vulnerable to that methodology at this moment in history.
The New Left has systematically undermined common sense, and what they tried to substitute for it is dying of its own unrealism. Now this is what fills the vacuum. Fear, anger and pandering to same. What’s needed is to restore common sense. Those in power will not allow that to happen, so it will have to be an underground insurgency of the rational. The elite must be overthrown, and the moronic masses must be deprogrammed. By the time this happens, democracy will already be extinct - but perhaps it can be recreated in some form with a less stupid voting population.
Scott Adams makes the case that The Donald is someone who won’t do reckless things*, but there are similar movements all over the Western world. And the real problem is the culture. Trumpism is merely a manifestation.
That’s pretty much Trumpopulism’s schtick, is it not, minus the superlatives?
‘Business as usual sucks. The elite must be overthrown. It’s time to replace the old system with something better. Not sure what that is exactly but one thing’s for sure. It’s going to be YUGE!’
[quote=“fred smith”][quote]Whiskey Tango Foxtrot![/quote] (Love this by the way. I had forgotten that you can be funny!)
Do I detect incipient support for HRC growing in you?[/quote]
As an expat, I – like our government-loving Canadian friends – have already voted with my feet so I have the luxury of loathing both “presidential candidates.” So, no, I’m not going soft on HRH. Having said that, in the very narrow intersection of my personal interests with those of the average American who will have to live under HRH, HRH serves best because she would be more likely to stand up to any incursions by the mainland Death Star and she will probably – certainly – lard up the U.S. economy more than Trump which will only help my businesses in Taiwan and Japan.
My real takeaway from the current presidential election though is what an indictment it is of the middleman political system when the best that system can cough up for president in a nation of 300+ million are a crook and a clown. That’s a problem – a deep structural problem.
I would love to see how California could actually secede and still be financially viable. Without the US printing money, California would be bankrupt, especially after giving away all their money in welfare and benefits. When you factory in their support for illegal immigrants, it would be humorous to see how quickly the new country of California would go bankrupt.
I don’t think Silicon Valley and the farms they have could produce enough revenue to cover operating costs of the government and its programs.
That’s the whole point of it. Let liberals actually have to live out their Utopian fantasies, sit back with a cool drink and watch it all fall apart, ride in with the cavalry and take it all back. Win.
With colossal collateral damage having been done in the meantime. But whether they change or not, we’re facing a humanitarian disaster either way.
There’s nothing wrong with these blue areas except the people who live there are brainwashed. Fix that and they’d be fine without being under the feds.
Sure, I am not denying that liberalism has already done immense damage to an entire civilisation. Of anyone at this site, I probably argue that position the strongest. I just think that sometimes, things need to run their course. You can’t necessarily tell people that they’re being stupid; they need to discover it the hard way. You can tell them, but I don’t think that anyone here would advocate for the reforms needed, such as completely cleaning house of the poisonous education system, media, etc.
A strange little irony is that Castro died, 101 years later, on the day that Pinochet was born.
He’s a master negotiator, up against master intimidators. He’s flexible; they’re rigid. He’s got wiggle room; they don’t compromise. And he’s outmaneuvered them before.
But in the long run, The Donald is expendable. Just so long as he lasts long enough to destroy those who need to be destroyed.
Trump isn’t a solution to America’s decline. He’s a symptom of it, like a pustule that shows up one morniing when you get out of bed. Permanent resistance/obstructionism/gridlock is another symptom.
The only way this detour into populism ends is in total victory by the Party, a party rejuvenated and reawakened by its brush with Donaldism and leavened by the overriding need to win an unwinnable thousand year religious war.