11-12-2015, 08:38 PM
Trump's poll success is merely a measure of how effective the neo-con fear mongering really was. He's not a serious candidate. Nobody really thinks this braggart and blowhard would make a good president. However, the racist and fascist public stance on issues he takes is resonating with a significant share of the American people. Why?
My answer is, since 2001, we Americans have been subjected to a steady stream of fear-mongering and war-mongering from the administration of George W. Bush and his successor, and via the mainstream media, that has apparently decided that the best way to gain a) voter turnout, b) support for some political or economic "reform", c) support for a stupid war, and/or d)advertising revenue, is to try to scare the crap out of us. Here are some of the top hits (not in any particular order):
Anthrax scare (which turned out to be our own Army's anthrax)
Terror alert color system
Weapons of mass destruction
"the terrorists will follow us home"
7/7
Charlie Hebdo
Paris 11/13/15
Sandy Hook
Charleston
San Bernardino
racial tensions in the streets
police use of excessive force
(not to mention 9/11 itself.)
The end result of all of this is the "success" of Donald Trump. Now, he will either tear the Republican party apart with his demagoguery and extremism, (and incidentally, handing the election to the Democrats), or simply tear the whole country apart with his demagoguery and extremism. You fear-mongerers, and the media who have assisted you, and blasted this stuff into our living rooms 24/7 for 14 years, have taken this country down a dark and ugly path which is fixing to (if it has not already) gone out of your control.
It doesn't take a political genius to know that, even if Trump is contained, that any candidate who feels they might be behind can tap into this vein of hatred and fear which has been deliberately sown into the electorate. You will not be able to control this monster you have created so long as you keep trying to scare us. The most extreme and least controllable candidates will continue to rise to the top of the pile like scum on pond water.
Paradoxically, the only way now that you might be able to keep the Republican party from imploding in 2016 is to give Obama some public successes that will serve to reduce the latent fear of the electorate and take some of middle America back to the mainstream alternatives, which we all know the 1% actually favor. But you are fast running out of time.
While waiting to see if either Obama wins the war against terror, or if the Republican party devours itself like a pack of feral dogs, I suggest we ponder whether we should call him "FrankenTrump" or "Trumpenstein."
My answer is, since 2001, we Americans have been subjected to a steady stream of fear-mongering and war-mongering from the administration of George W. Bush and his successor, and via the mainstream media, that has apparently decided that the best way to gain a) voter turnout, b) support for some political or economic "reform", c) support for a stupid war, and/or d)advertising revenue, is to try to scare the crap out of us. Here are some of the top hits (not in any particular order):
Anthrax scare (which turned out to be our own Army's anthrax)
Terror alert color system
Weapons of mass destruction
"the terrorists will follow us home"
7/7
Charlie Hebdo
Paris 11/13/15
Sandy Hook
Charleston
San Bernardino
racial tensions in the streets
police use of excessive force
(not to mention 9/11 itself.)
The end result of all of this is the "success" of Donald Trump. Now, he will either tear the Republican party apart with his demagoguery and extremism, (and incidentally, handing the election to the Democrats), or simply tear the whole country apart with his demagoguery and extremism. You fear-mongerers, and the media who have assisted you, and blasted this stuff into our living rooms 24/7 for 14 years, have taken this country down a dark and ugly path which is fixing to (if it has not already) gone out of your control.
It doesn't take a political genius to know that, even if Trump is contained, that any candidate who feels they might be behind can tap into this vein of hatred and fear which has been deliberately sown into the electorate. You will not be able to control this monster you have created so long as you keep trying to scare us. The most extreme and least controllable candidates will continue to rise to the top of the pile like scum on pond water.
Paradoxically, the only way now that you might be able to keep the Republican party from imploding in 2016 is to give Obama some public successes that will serve to reduce the latent fear of the electorate and take some of middle America back to the mainstream alternatives, which we all know the 1% actually favor. But you are fast running out of time.
While waiting to see if either Obama wins the war against terror, or if the Republican party devours itself like a pack of feral dogs, I suggest we ponder whether we should call him "FrankenTrump" or "Trumpenstein."
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."