I was watching "Schindler's List" last night. It's arguably one of the best films ever made and is as wonderful as it is obscene and tragic. Nazi's were inhuman assholes. How the hell did they get that way?
Honestly, look at the republican party or the tea parties today. Read the comments on practically any Facebook site or Topix and you'll readily see that there are some seriously demented people out there among us today. I've been hearing that some of the crazy Trump-love we are witnessing is backlash by republican's as much against the GOP as against Obama. Fox, Breitbart and media whores like Palin and Nugent and the like have fired up some very dull-minded folks, maybe a bit too much. There are people who really think that they can- and should- "take their country back". These people don't realize that it's just political rhetoric. They didn't lose a country, just the last two elections. Yeah, the president has more melanin than previous presidents but we knew that when we voted him in- twice. Nobody lost a country, least of all the assholes. They are still quite vociferous and seem to be multiplying.
The media is having a go at painting Trump and Sanders both as anti-establishment candidates. Both won in New Hampshire, as they were expected to. However, whereas Trump is an asshole out for his own self-aggrandizement, Bernie Sanders is out to fundamentally change politics and America. Neither may win the nomination but, if either were to win, I believe America would be alright.
Trump has some of the mannerisms of Benito Mussolini but I really doubt he has the perverted lust for power Il Duce had. Trump's more of an Ill Douchey. He's comical. He's not the guy to fundamentally change America into the the corporatocracy it already is or into the fascist state some teapublicans might think we need. I could be wrong. I know a lot of idiots like him and harbor hope that he'll be the benevolent dictator he acts like but, this asshole publicly feuded with Rosie O'Donnell. Would Hitler have done that? If the GOP goes off the deep end, they'll do better than Trump as the face of the party.
Of course, if he won and picked Palin as his VP, and there was a fire at the Reichstag while Trump and Sarah were there...Paul Ryan would then be president...
But, I digress. The dangerous rhetoric is there and there are certainly a lot of people who buy into it but, not enough to sway this nation. Plus, the timing is all wrong. If Trump- running as an independent- came along in '08 and ran as a populist and screamed about big government and Wall Street and promised walls and jobs, maybe that would fly. No republican had a chance after Bush. And I'm not saying Trump could have beaten Obama but, the time to save a country is during the Bush Recession, not eight years later after someone did a pretty damn good job of fixing it despite the obstruction of republican assholes whose boss brought upon the ruination. Timing is everything. Like building a wall in 2016 to stop an influx of illegals in the 1980's. Kinda muy estupido, si?
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Those who think trump is bad, at least Trump says that Social Security is earned and not an entitlement and wants to preserve it along with Medicare. Cruz, the most radically right of the candidates, and Rubio who shows all the symptoms of a New World Order Globalist are the only ones with an outside chance of denying Trump the nomination. Both Cruz and Rubio have solid pro-business and anti-working class and anti-veteran voting records in the Senate.
Cruz seems to have a greater allegiance to a world government than he does to America based on what he has supported in the past. He is trying to run away from those positions while campaigning for the Republican nomination.
While Trump sickens me as a person, he might end up being the most working class friendly candidate that the Republicans have to offer. Trump has conducted himself in a very obnoxious manner in the debates and on the campaign trail, but he has used the Muslim threat rhetoric loudly enough to divert enough attention away from his lack of clear cut conservative credentials. I suspect he is deliberately vague on many issues because he would rather run in the general election as a moderate than from the right. His opponent is looking more like it will be Hillary who has baggage of her own. Personally, I wouldn't trust Hillary any further than I could throw her, and at age 66, that isn't very far. I was hoping for Sanders, but it looks like his recent gains in the polls are now reversing.
You're not alone is that belief. It's in the back of a lot of people's minds that no candidate can live up to his promises so, most people are looking to vote for attitude and intent. Trump probably won't do anything he says- especially building that wall. The State Department, Justice Department, Pentagon, etc. will educate ...on his first day... about his limitations as president.
It's funny that people who pretend to love the Constitution so much fail to understand or appreciate that the founders designed this country to not be run by a king- the dictators of the day. They actually believe that a dictator will restore the imaginary rights they've lost in the last 7 years, whatever rights those may be.
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