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Si certus es dubita
Re: Campaign 2016 - I'm Biden my time till I doctor the hearing.
Everybody gets this, it's hardly an earth-shattering revelation. The question has always been to what degree the GOP nomination is decided by the invisible primary. The average unit of Republican power isn't an old white male, it's a hedge fund manager's bank balance. The GOP is a machine to keep wealth flowing from the middle to the top, and the conservative rhetoric they employ is the delivery mechanism. The only question concerning Trump is whether he gives them the outcome they want, and he still appears to have no shot in the general.
The drunkard's walk of the American far right occasionally meanders over towards fascism, and this is one of those times. Until now the GOP has never outright adopted fascism as a philosophy, at least outside of foreign policy, partly because there is still a libertarian wing that counters it, partly because the American left is so moderate that the extremism of fascism is viewed as an impractical electoral strategy. But now on the right we have the marriage of demographics, geography, religion, and politics, all of them emphasizing resentment, fear, victimhood, and violence.
We are living in dangerous times, and it would be nice if conservatives of conscience set their own house in order. God knows there are much better models of conservatism out there. Not to mention that if you look at the history of fascist regimes, while they may soar in the short term they tend to end badly.
A surprisingly good summary of Trump I read recently went something like "maybe he's not telling the truth, but his telling the truth that the base of the party wants to hear". That's the part that pundidiots (and several lefty USCHO posters) don't get.
Everybody gets this, it's hardly an earth-shattering revelation. The question has always been to what degree the GOP nomination is decided by the invisible primary. The average unit of Republican power isn't an old white male, it's a hedge fund manager's bank balance. The GOP is a machine to keep wealth flowing from the middle to the top, and the conservative rhetoric they employ is the delivery mechanism. The only question concerning Trump is whether he gives them the outcome they want, and he still appears to have no shot in the general.
The drunkard's walk of the American far right occasionally meanders over towards fascism, and this is one of those times. Until now the GOP has never outright adopted fascism as a philosophy, at least outside of foreign policy, partly because there is still a libertarian wing that counters it, partly because the American left is so moderate that the extremism of fascism is viewed as an impractical electoral strategy. But now on the right we have the marriage of demographics, geography, religion, and politics, all of them emphasizing resentment, fear, victimhood, and violence.
We are living in dangerous times, and it would be nice if conservatives of conscience set their own house in order. God knows there are much better models of conservatism out there. Not to mention that if you look at the history of fascist regimes, while they may soar in the short term they tend to end badly.
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For your sake I'm hoping you're just drunk! 