tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post3273405241503767367..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: If America is ripe for Trump as a tyrant what does that say about Obama?Hunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-52581800199076633162016-06-29T04:23:52.554-04:002016-06-29T04:23:52.554-04:00"symptoms of extreme democracy, an apparent t..."symptoms of extreme democracy, an apparent tyrant in waiting, oligarchic support for the apparent tyrant," <<<br />Trump does NOT have oligarchic support -- but Hillary does.<br /><br />The closest to a tyrant in waiting in the US is Hillary Clinton, combined with the anti-speech thugs who use violence to protest Trump speeches.<br /><br />The thuggery and casual disobedience of laws is almost all on the Dem side, who themselves have pretty much excluded Christian, pro-capitalist folk from: media, academia (K-12 plus Uni), and bureaucrat gov't offices. All of these Dem strongholds of power would oppose a tyrant Trump, but support a tyrant Clinton.Tom Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-23572565747179534882016-06-21T01:53:26.146-04:002016-06-21T01:53:26.146-04:00Seems like our military and police forces would ha...<i>Seems like our military and police forces would have to be ripe for a tyrant. Of course, the US doesn’t have a tradition of military coups, so it’s easy to factor the military out.<br /><br />No tyrant can rule effectively without the backing of the military.</i><br /><br />Game, set match.<br /><br />As much as I despise Barack Obama's cynical manipulation of his constitutional powers, as long as the tyrant enjoys popular support, I suppose he's not a tyrant.<br /><br />Well done, Mrs. Webfoot. Excitable Andy and his bullshit invocation of Plato sit as great steaming pile of...Sullivan.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-19586696572624195402016-06-21T00:32:04.929-04:002016-06-21T00:32:04.929-04:00Seems like our military and police forces would ha...Seems like our military and police forces would have to be ripe for a tyrant. Of course, the US doesn’t have a tradition of military coups, so it’s easy to factor the military out.<br /><br />No tyrant can rule effectively without the backing of the military. I suppose that under certain circumstances that could change. Seems like FDR came the closest with imprisoning Japanese Americans, but that was during wartime. It could happen again, I suppose. Not sure if either Trump or Obama would ever have the kind of support FDR had. <br /><br />The military hates Obama. Trump may be a different story. If he becomes president and treats both the military and law enforcement well, then there might be a problem. <br /><br />Kind of far out there. I can’t imagine Hillary garnering that kind of support from our military leaders. <br /><br />Don’t mind me. I lived a few too many years in Pinochet’s Chile and made a few too many trips to Cuba for my own good. Military takeovers seem kind of normal to me in a weird way. <br /><br />I just don’t see that kind of caudillo on our political horizon. I could be wrong. Mrs. Webfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09688935118585583682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-72460812079198437432016-06-20T00:18:49.932-04:002016-06-20T00:18:49.932-04:00Good post.
The gaslighting of America:
You fee...Good post. <br /><br />The gaslighting of America: <br /><br />You feel more unsafe, but you're not. <br /><br />You think Congress is unresponsive, but they're not. <br /><br />You know a man when you see one, but you don't. <br /><br />We are witnessing the last gasps of a coherent American culture -- a Western culture -- before its slide into the grasp of MiniTruth becomes irreversible. <br /><br />We are flailing. <br /><br />And our betters object that we do not flail in principled fashion. Tim Kowalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196125161888520769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-21011654631586311742016-06-19T21:44:00.561-04:002016-06-19T21:44:00.561-04:00If we are to accept that America is an extreme dem...<i>If we are to accept that America is an extreme democracy and Trump is a tyrant in waiting, what does it say about the incumbent?</i><br /><br />Exactly. If Trump is Napoleon, that makes Obama Robespierre, which except for the guillotines he rather is. Instead of reinventing the months he reinvented the genders.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com