[ExI] GOV _ TRUMP

[Dylan Distasio]

I think someone on this list has lost their reason.  Hyperbole much on the
Nuremberg comment?

And I still haven't heard a suggestion from you on how to alleviate that
wealth gap that doesn't involve forced redistribution (I include taxation
under this umbrella since it is conducted at the barrel of a gun).

Globalism has attempted to destroy the fabric and importance of sovereign
nation states.  This cycle that began with Brexit, followed by Trump, and
possibly Le Pen is the blowback.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:34 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ​> ​
>> Trump's celebrity certainly helped him,
>>
>
> ​A vast understatement, there is no way Trump would be president today
> without that goddamn TV show "The apprentice".  ​
>
>
>> ​> ​
>> but I don't think the vast majority of Trump voters said to themselves,
>> "Well, this should be entertaining..."
>>
>
> ​I think the mob that was screaming "*LOCK HER UP!*" at Trump's
> ​Nuremberg rallies were having even more fun then they had when they were
> watching "The apprentice".
>
>
>> ​> ​
>> Reason/entertainment is a false dichotomy: just because it wasn't reason
>> doesn't mean it was entertainment value.
>>
>
> ​I think they figure Trump did a good job as the MC on a entertainment
> show and they used induction to conclude that he ​would do a good job as
> Commander in
> ​Chief
>  too.
>
>
>> ​> ​
>> It could have emotion/fear/frustration/etc that led them to vote for
>> Trump.
>>
>
> ​I grant you that a creature ​like Trump could never be president if
> millions of people were not scared and frustrated by the enormous wealth
> gap. They were so scared they lost their reason and couldn't see the
> obvious fact that Trump would only make that gap even larger. This isn't
> going to end well.
>
> John K Clark
>
>
>
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