<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> I didn't predict the rise of Donald Trump. Did you?? Keith or John</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">One writer said that the Repub people, the base, elected this current group to go to DC and do something about Obamacare and so forth and they didn't do that or much of anything else except stop Obama when they could. Many nonRepubs were outraged by this obstructionism, as was I, and maybe some Repubs were too.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">So the old saw holds: "Throw the bastards out!" Elect someone not in the pale of the party. I'll bet a lot of people saw someone like Trump coming; someone who is familiar with the rise of George Wallace, Huey and Earl Long, and others. We know Europe is in a spasm of far right ideology, with extremely notable exceptions, like the Muslim mayor of London. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Another line is this: Trump shows as a strong man, full of himself, radical opinions - above all someone different from the party mold. I'll bet a lot of his followers do not care what his foreign policies are. Doing a lot of bombing appeals to many. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Otherwise, I just dunno. If anyone else has advocated the things he has, he would have been laughed out of the race. I'll bet some of us have been wondering why he hasn't. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">This is it for me - no more politics till after the election. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:11 PM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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snip<br>
<span class=""><br>
>>> Nobody knows why but every once in a while highly civilized countries go<br>
>>> crazy,<br>
>><br>
>><br>
</span>>> ?> ?<br>
>> I do.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> I didn't predict the rise of Donald Trump. Did you??<br>
<br>
Not Trump particularly, but the kind of potential leader he is and the<br>
circumstances where a band/tribe/nation would follow him. Gave<br>
several historical examples in my writings over the years, Hitler, Pol<br>
Pot, the guy who touched off the Rwanda killings. Some of the early<br>
observations go clear back in the late 80s.<br>
<br>
I could go over the details again here, but just about nobody takes<br>
this seriously. And frankly if a few or even a lot of people did take<br>
it seriously, what could they do? That's the most frustrating aspect<br>
of EP, you can understand the problems and what it would take to fix<br>
them, nicely even, but I, at least, can't figure out how anyone up to<br>
and including the superpowers could do a damn thing about them.<br>
<br>
. . . . that's not entirely true. Have you ever had a smallpox vaccination?<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
PS. When I was in jail and totally pissed off, I wrote this up as a<br>
piece of fiction. A little chunk of it, "Tunnel of Love," was up on<br>
the net for something like 9 years, but the entire website went down<br>
and it was not backed up on the internet archive so it might be lost.<br>
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