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Trump is simply a cancerous growth that fed on the poison that the radical Right began disseminating 40 years ago or more.
This is not going to go away in 2 years when Trump leaves office. It is no coincidence that the emergence of the Trump movement corresponds to the end of the Greatest Generation, who saw the devastating end results of nationalism first hand. After WWII we had common sense civil discourse in politics and a willingness to compromise when push came to shove. Now that generation is gone and the lessons they learned are largely forgotten.
Well said.
Remember though that amongst millennials it is widely held that the boomers sucked all life out of the economy, bankrupted the nation, and gave them two minimum wage jobs to work with no healthcare.
This is not going to go away in 2 years when Trump leaves office. It is no coincidence that the emergence of the Trump movement corresponds to the end of the Greatest Generation, who saw the devastating end results of nationalism first hand. After WWII we had common sense civil discourse in politics and a willingness to compromise when push came to shove. Now that generation is gone and the lessons they learned are largely forgotten.
I think it will largely go away in 20 years or so when the Christian Right fades into the sunset like previous authoritarian religious movements have always done.
Jerry Falwell Sr is already gone. Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, David Barton, John Hagee, and Franklin Graham are getting up there in age. The fact that most of the conservative evangelical leaders are over age 60 and there aren't very many young voices stepping up to replace the 'old guard' as they die off gives me hope. Jerry Falwell Jr and Matt Hagee really don't pull the same weight their fathers did. We just have to make it another decade or so.
And I agree on the Greatest Generation. Most people today don't realize the jarring similarity this has with the populist movements in Europe during the 1930s. Where and when else in history have we seen a nation overtaken by a movement dedicated to racial and cultural purity that also dehumanized those who didn't conform?
I think it will largely go away in 20 years or so when the Christian Right fades into the sunset like previous authoritarian religious movements have always done.
Jerry Falwell Sr is already gone. Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, David Barton, John Hagee, and Franklin Graham are getting up there in age. The fact that most of the conservative evangelical leaders are over age 60 and there aren't very many young voices stepping up to replace the 'old guard' as they die off gives me hope. Jerry Falwell Jr and Matt Hagee really don't pull the same weight their fathers did. We just have to make it another decade or so.
And I agree on the Greatest Generation. Most people today don't realize the jarring similarity this has with the populist movements in Europe during the 1930s. Where and when else in history have we seen a nation overtaken by a movement dedicated to racial and cultural purity that also dehumanized those who didn't conform?
Nationalism is universal - whats abnormal is globalism and multi-culturalism.
There wouldn't have even been any "allies" without nationalistic fervor ...you think people are going to go risk their lives for some world government?
LOL.
Liberals truly are deranged. They hate reality, so they substitute fantasy in its place.
I think a better way to have a happier life is just to #walkaway from the keyboard. I do it occasionally, and my outlook improves dramatically, but somehow I just keep getting sucked back into the toxicity of on-line political forums. I love to debate, but I worry that this environment is slowly poisoning my soul.
I think it will largely go away in 20 years or so when the Christian Right fades into the sunset like previous authoritarian religious movements have always done.
Jerry Falwell Sr is already gone. Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, David Barton, John Hagee, and Franklin Graham are getting up there in age. The fact that most of the conservative evangelical leaders are over age 60 and there aren't very many young voices stepping up to replace the 'old guard' as they die off gives me hope. Jerry Falwell Jr and Matt Hagee really don't pull the same weight their fathers did. We just have to make it another decade or so.
And I agree on the Greatest Generation. Most people today don't realize the jarring similarity this has with the populist movements in Europe during the 1930s. Where and when else in history have we seen a nation overtaken by a movement dedicated to racial and cultural purity that also dehumanized those who didn't conform?
If you would just move out of your parents house you would see reality more clearly. Those men you mentioned hold no power. What a way to waste life.
If you would just move out of your parents house you would see reality more clearly. Those men you mentioned hold no power. What a way to waste life.
Every post from him is another manifestation of his obsession with religion. Ascribing every thing that happens to Christian fundamentalism, which is of course, a deranged and paranoid outlook.
And as a party they are unbelievably stupid. They would have all of the far left loon votes anyway and they choose to cater to them thus alienating everyone in the middle and pretty much all independents. And for what? Votes they already have.
Both parties are full of scum. But the lunatic left is truly about hate and fascism at this point. Their platform is the product of mental illness. Totally insane and pathologically dishonest.
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"insane and dishonest" you say
