Been ages since I frequented any ivory towers at all. Basically, I understood what Trump represented the day he descended the escalator in his own NYC Tower. And I've just gone from there. I saw through him on day one, in other words. Didn't require reading anything at the time. "Here comes a demagogue, and this cannot be a good development". I trust my instincts at times. He's done nothing to prove my instincts about him wrong. I have the benefit of being retired, and understanding that I was witnessing history, I have spent hours every day studying the man and his followers. And I was not at all surprised that he declined to say he would accept the results of November 8th. In fact, I knew he would not. I do trust my instincts on the man. I can find many pundants who obviously agree with me, but I stand on my own most of the time, and just trust what I see....
You're making incoherent statements here about how "it didn't require reading anything" and later "spending hours studying the man and his followers". I could claim to have just known everything outright and brag about immersing myself in material that just vindicates my initial prejudices, except that's not true of me or a lot of other people.
It would come off glib to observe that Trump's appeal to many people is precisely because there are so many people being just done with the ways you approve and your reasons for approving those ways. Of course you can dismiss them as deplorable ignoramuses and rest on your historical laurels, or run out any of a number of insults to Trumpsters and Trump himself. But I sorta think the real issue is all that Hillary represents.
Is Hillary the norm you want for the next 100 years? My guess is that your answer is "yes" to that. To me, that discredits your entire claim to education, to historical perspective, to valid instincts, and to the culture that you choose to associate with.
I don't think anyone knows Trump, as he is actually unpredictable on purpose. It's his mode of conduct. After so many years of politicians following the perfect standards for campaigning and public manipulations, a lot of people are just done with the usual political show.
I've seen you embrace without criticism a lot of media trash and pass it along as scholarly fact, so I'm doubting your insticts and your "history". I think you are a sad case of delusional fantasy....
yah, and I expect the JazzFanzers to be nitwits enough to say the same of me.
Actually, I've had to change my opinions of Trump about every other week, but more and more, he is making intelligent, informed statements about things a lot of politicians have not understood.
For example, if the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, without legislating something in its place, the issue would fall to the individual states, and people would just go where they needed to go to get the law, and the services, the way they want it. Tenth Amendment plus no national definition of the legalities of protecting either fetus or mother in the process. I'm not sure that's the best way, but I'm sure we will not ever have unanimity on the issue, and I'm tired of statists politicizing the issue. I think we have a human being from the instant of conception but who can place a value on that if the parents fail to. The full term abortion/merchandizing of parts is macabre. I know our medical technologies/services can save many babies from twenty weeks on, and a lot of people believe it's good to do that.
Trump is pretty smart to get the Federal government outta the business of legislating this. If you believe the world is overpopulated and you believe we must reduce population, you will arrive at a different conclusion. I just don't want our Federal government being empowered to impose those imperatives.
Trump's got JFK's economic plan in view, the same one Reagan did pretty well with, and I think we will prosper with it. If you believe America should be leveled with the rest of the world economically, as Obama and Clinton do, you will see that idea as practically evil. I might think it evil to deliberately impoverish Americans while professing to be their advocates, but that's because I know Hillary for the Demagogue she is, really.
We can trade insults forever, if you wish, but the words you wrap yourself with just don't look right to me, and your beliefs don't look right to me, and your education looks suspect for all your fond memories of your career and your study. You'd have to be willing to take a fresh look at everything you believe to look credible to me. Failing of that, I sorta sense I'm talking to an echo chamber from a failed past.
I think it was about 1973 when I first encountered the distinct recognition of a fully vested ideologue who howled at the idea that we have a production problem and asserted we have a population problem. The ideas were planted in Cbina around 1950 by the Ford Foundation, and population controls were instituted along with Mao's agrarian reforms that forced doctors to hoe weeds and everyone reduce their material living circumstances. I believed from about 1970 that the material welfare of the United States could not be sustained by raw materials and labor from the poor nations, that there needed to be more of a parity. My opinion has always been that the repressive governments around the world have hindered rather than helped the human race, and seeing Hillary bringing the same toolbag to manage America is just not, imo, going to do anybody any good.
I'd rather reform the UN to require members to implement constitutional limits on governance and send fairly elected representatives to the UN than go on with fascism. Hillary represents unbridled fascism, cronyism and corruption and massively abusive government power. She is the real "demagogue", and if you can't see that I can only conclude you won't see anything in whatever I could possibly try to say.
Is Trump different? Well, he talks different, and a of people hope he will turn out different.
