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Much More Than Trump, by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 8 years, 1 month ago to Politics
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Disaffected veterans were the core of a group that would grow to millions, their “faith” in government and the people who ran it obliterated by its repeated failures and lies. Revolutions dawn when an appreciable number of the ruled realize their rulers are intellectual and moral inferiors. The mainstream media is filled with vituperative, patronizing, and insulting explanations of what’s “behind” the Trump phenomenon. It all boils down to revulsion with the self-anointed, incompetent, pretentious, hypocritical, corrupt, prevaricating elite that presumes to rule this country. It is, in a word, inferior to the populace on the other side of the yawning chasm, the ones they have patronized and insulted for decades, and the other side knows it.

This is an excerpt from an article first published on SLL March 3. It received more comments than almost any article SLL has posted. Two days before the election, a repost is appropriate. For the full article, please click the above link.
SOURCE URL: https://straightlinelogic.com/2016/11/06/much-more-than-trump-repost-by-robert-gore/


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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 1 month ago
    If only the people had representatives who understood the very limited function of government, but the two statist parties will not allow such ethical leaders as candidates, nor will the statist parties allow any ethical third party to compete fairly.
    Best of luck to followers of Donnie's act as King George III.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 8 years, 1 month ago
    The disaffected turned to the Tea Party to show their disappointment with the major parties. When the failure of that strategy became apparent, primarily due to deliberate sabotage by the elite, the increasingly angry voters decided to gamble on a human wrecking ball called Donald Trump. He was almost no one's first choice, but more people came to realize that the system needed a destructive force to cure it of its ills. If he's defeated, we will have a disease as head of state that will poison the republic for decades.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 1 month ago
    It IS much more than Trump, and it wont go away if he is not elected and his presidency supported. The "deplorables" will just look to other ways to become more independent of the government's socialist and crony programs. That will mean more off-shoring, less employment of americans, less reliance on the US paper dollar, more use of cash and other alternatives to the NSA's incursions into our dealings, less use of US government controlled banks, and in general less expectation that its worth it to work hard.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 1 month ago
    Your comment about how many people assumed that their government leaders were acting in the nation's best interest when going to war in Vietnam (or anywhere else) in a poignant one. On what basis should anyone be mandated to altruistically defend people in another sovereign nation? Are those people, or that nation, worth it? One can reasonably argue that people in other countries, or our own, are not worth dealing with until they are capable of offering value-for-value exchange.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 1 month ago
    The only time this drafted actually into the Marines now an old dino ever felt good about where this country was going was under the "preached less government" government led by Ronald Reagan.
    All that Reagan worked for has long gone to hell.
    Voting for Trump Tuesday. There's really nothing else for it.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 1 month ago
    Topped it again Robert...

    From the beginning of my research I saw that vicious animal we mistakenly call the 'elite' backed into a corner showing it's teeth...two sides of very different coins fighting for survival and finally a concerted call for "Ethics" as the ancients Mayans predicted...but where the failed is that only 1/2 of the western world would actually know what ethics are; but they do know somethings arye.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 8 years, 1 month ago
    Democracy is much easier to defeat than generally assumed. If you can convince the sheep that the wolves harbor no ill intent then liberty is only an illusion. It is said that in a democracy the people get the government they deserve. That sounds like the ultimate Chinese curse.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 1 month ago
    The portion of the economy that is gov't spending or spending heavily controlled by gov't is staggering. You and I think people should reject that. You struggle to imagine Trump and his supporters are a manifestation of that. Among millions of supporters, I'm sure some support him as a backlash against central management of the economy. But I think that is a minor aspect of it. I think it's people long for the prosperity that came from winning WWII without being bombed. The scared and confused of the world want those days back, and they could be led to accept less gov't interaction or WWII-level of price/wage controls and high taxes, if they thought either one would bring back the old days. The old days are not coming back, but these exact same people may call for socialism. They'll try anything.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 8 years, 1 month ago
    looking for Willie Nelson to strum a few cords of "On the Road Again"...already made friends with a former sniper who did 3 tours in Vietnam..
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