tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5205074198124845280..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The "Dress Rehearsal for Fascism"The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-82108915094403990102016-10-17T17:50:40.484-07:002016-10-17T17:50:40.484-07:00Anon; I think the Tea Party started this crap.
The...Anon; I think the Tea Party started this crap.<br />Their inflexibility warped USA politics.<br />One wonders just who they will wave their guns and flags at after a Clinton win?<br /><br />Re; Both have facilitated the capture of the government and economy by oligarchs.<br />Very true; the same goes for the rest of Western 'Democracy'.<br /><br />The sad thing is that these are the people that are truly too large to fail; they will not self destruct.<br />Trump whilst one of them is not part of the old money club and I will not be surprised if he is not bankrupt within the next five years even though he seems to play the money game as the rich and infamous do.<br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77162089989817575382016-10-17T13:48:24.207-07:002016-10-17T13:48:24.207-07:00Reagan put together a coalition of Christian funda...Reagan put together a coalition of Christian fundamentalists and neocons which dominated the party up until Trump became leader. Then neocons abandoned Trump for Hillary which has made the Republican base hate neocons. <br /><br />Libertarian Ron Paul also put the party at odds with the neocon establishment by opposing military interventionism.<br /><br />The thing about neocons (that also control Tea Party politicians like Ted Cruz) is that they are a tiny minority of Republican voters. They ONCE controlled the Republican party. Now they don't. They expect everything to go back to normal if Trump loses. It probably won't.<br /><br />Fact is a significant portion of the Republican base is open to progressive policies like single-payer healthcare (64% all voters.) The main reasons they nominated Trump is his anti-free-trade and anti-interventionism talk. <br /><br />Although the ESTABLISHMENT media portrays the Republican base as deplorable fascists for wanting to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants from stealing their jobs, the reality is they are gravitating back towards the economic-progressive center of the post-war era. Same with the Democratic base. <br /><br />Hillary is continuing the process of moving the Democratic party rightwards — right into neocon territory. <br /><br />The only difference between establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans is empty words. Both have facilitated the capture of the government and economy by oligarchs. (The Clintons made over $100-million from money being in politics; have raised $3-billion over their careers. Hillary is no election-finance reformer, that's for sure.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76766678112799027382016-10-17T11:35:33.202-07:002016-10-17T11:35:33.202-07:00@ Anon 8:07. Read Andrew Bacevitch's "The...<br />@ Anon 8:07. Read Andrew Bacevitch's "The New American Militarism." Or you can read the three part review I did of the book in August, 2010.<br /><br />No, the Republicans are not abandoning neo-conservatism. They have facilitated the political capture of two of the three branches of American government and their fierce rejection of election finance reform ensures their obedience to the oligarchs who sponsor them.<br /><br />Please, do tell us how the Republicans are abandoning neo-conservatism and in favour of exactly what? You put it out there, it's on you to back it up with facts and, no, what Donald Trump says cannot be taken at face value.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-9034173061689639032016-10-17T11:05:54.834-07:002016-10-17T11:05:54.834-07:00Filmmaker Faces 45 Years In Prison For Reporting O...<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/17/filmmaker-faces-45-years-in-prison-for-reporting-on-dakota-access-protests/" rel="nofollow">Filmmaker Faces 45 Years In Prison For Reporting On Dakota Access Protests</a>Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86064753082002927812016-10-17T09:33:17.088-07:002016-10-17T09:33:17.088-07:00From Wikileaks:
“Can’t we just drone this guy?” C...From Wikileaks:<br /><br />“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around” freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States. <br /><br />Clinton was upset about Assange’s previous 2010 records releases, divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan in July and the war in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources said. At that time in 2010, Assange was relatively free and not living cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador in London.<br /><br />http://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wikileaks-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-proposed-drone-strike-on-julian-assange/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-38970478742114208072016-10-17T08:54:06.398-07:002016-10-17T08:54:06.398-07:00
Fascism it is.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ar...<br />Fascism it is.<br /><br />https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/10/a-peculiar-coincidence/<br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15693004554364159742016-10-17T08:07:06.682-07:002016-10-17T08:07:06.682-07:00Social cons are not the problem. The establishment...Social cons are not the problem. The establishment is the problem. Neocon war-profiteering and neoliberal economic ideology. <br /><br />Fact is the Republican party has developed jettisoning the neocons. The Democratic party has regressed welcoming them with open arms (pun intended.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12591011685584364892016-10-17T07:58:45.787-07:002016-10-17T07:58:45.787-07:00"I feel sorry for Hillary "
save your s..."I feel sorry for Hillary "<br /><br />save your sorrow <br /><br />America's choice: Trump vs Clinton means the terrorists won.Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-28115702574124260622016-10-17T06:47:24.551-07:002016-10-17T06:47:24.551-07:00Sliding into the abyss -- and shouting Hallelujah ...Sliding into the abyss -- and shouting Hallelujah as they go over the edge.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-28992668357875120582016-10-17T03:09:34.634-07:002016-10-17T03:09:34.634-07:00What a bunch of hysterical ignorance. Anyone who c...What a bunch of hysterical ignorance. Anyone who compares Trump to Hitler or Mussolini is either ignorant of history or purposefully manipulating people. <br /><br />Trump is Archie Bunker. An imbecile. A spoiled trust-fund kiddie. A womanizer. A racist (although nowhere near as racist as Hillary "Super Predator" Clinton.) He would make for a terrible president. But he is clearly a lesser evil to Clinton who is an actual fascist corporatist (in the tradition of Mussolini and Pinochet) who believes democratic representation should be auctioned off to plutocrats effectively nullifying democracy. <br /><br />So just to compare the two campaigns: <br /><br />1) Trump is most certainly NOT running on putting an end to democratic government; it's a baseless accusation (something a US president couldn't do if they wanted to because they only control 1/3rd the government and would face public backlash and impeachment if they tried.) <br /><br />Hillary is. (Government by corporation via bribery is the negation of government by the people. It is literal fascist corporatism.)<br /><br />2) Trump is running on putting bribe-taking crooks like Hillary behind bars (using due process of law, of course, via a special independent prosecutor) which could turn the tide on 25-years of bribe-taking corruption that began with the Clintons. <br /><br />Hillary will expand pay-for-play, allowing corporations to own the government: Wall Street writes the banking regulations; the private prison industry writes criminal legislation; the military industrial complex writes foreign policy; the healthcare insurance industry writes healthcare reforms (like Obombacare); Big Oil writes environmental policy; etc.<br /><br />IN SHORT: progressives have principles. Research Jill Stein! She advocates a return to the Progressive New Deal Era that began with FDR and was ended by Reagan. GREEN NEW DEAL! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-57083360412783253982016-10-16T19:16:48.638-07:002016-10-16T19:16:48.638-07:00A new Civil War to preserve the Union?
As with th... A new Civil War to preserve the Union?<br /><br />As with the now defunct USSR; the USA is too large and diverse a country to govern.<br />Perhaps they will go the way of the UK but for different reasons?<br />Bigger is better has had it's day?<br /><br />TB <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86179479595561665462016-10-16T16:52:45.077-07:002016-10-16T16:52:45.077-07:00I read the NYT article, TrailBlazer. Theocracy, an...I read the NYT article, TrailBlazer. Theocracy, anyone? Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43024296553329765412016-10-16T16:50:18.959-07:002016-10-16T16:50:18.959-07:00I feel sorry for Hillary knowing that she will hav...I feel sorry for Hillary knowing that she will have to govern a heavily radicalized society. I feel sorry for ordinary, decent Americans who now realize that a significant faction of their society has abandoned democracy to embrace authoritarianism.<br /><br />Will there be some sort of insurgency? Given that Trump and now Pence are circulating the Big Lie that the election is rigged that's more than a slim possibility. A Putsch? Militarized cops gone rogue? The last days of Weimar replayed? A new Civil War to preserve the Union?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-41650726511564530472016-10-16T16:11:57.926-07:002016-10-16T16:11:57.926-07:00A sign of things to come?
Religion in the USA is a...A sign of things to come?<br />Religion in the USA is a powerful tool.<br />No successful politician will ever say he or she is an atheist; to do so would be political suicide.<br />The Tea Party/Evangelicals are a powerful organisation which I believe have have overstepped themselves in this current general election.<br />As a born again atheist I have to admit that the more moderate religious organisations within the USA do provide help and services that the socialist averse USA Government , no matter which party, will participate.<br /><br />TB<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/business/dealbook/in-religious-arbitration-scripture-is-the-rule-of-law.html?_r=0<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-78932561627724475332016-10-16T14:01:15.206-07:002016-10-16T14:01:15.206-07:00Nov 9 certainly has the chance to be a powder keg ...Nov 9 certainly has the chance to be a powder keg what with the 330,000 strong Fraternal Order of Police having declared for Trump. Brownshirts with badges. Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.com