Balls, by Robert Gore
Political venues are nowhere to look for courage. Politics is a popularity contest and its winners lie, flatter, and pander. They don’t generally stand for anything grander than their own advancement. The venal pursuits of politicians and bureaucrats—power, money, sex, intoxication—don’t lend themselves to stirring moral defenses. Power ebbs and flows, but there’s a community of interest—perpetuation of a corrupt system. They’re all “part of the same hypocrisy,” and revelation of it serves no one’s interest.
Truth is the enemy of hypocritical regimes, which makes telling it, as George Orwell noted, a “revolutionary act,” bold and dangerous. President Trump spouts his share of nonsense, bombast, hyperbole, and lies, but it’s not those excesses that frightens and enrages the regime. Rather, he has shattered the veneer of respectability that cloaks its incompetence, corruption, and carnage. He challenges elite consensus on interventionism, immigration and trade, and the whole canon of political correctness.
Truth is the enemy of hypocritical regimes, which makes telling it, as George Orwell noted, a “revolutionary act,” bold and dangerous. President Trump spouts his share of nonsense, bombast, hyperbole, and lies, but it’s not those excesses that frightens and enrages the regime. Rather, he has shattered the veneer of respectability that cloaks its incompetence, corruption, and carnage. He challenges elite consensus on interventionism, immigration and trade, and the whole canon of political correctness.
Txs Robert.
Just a did-you-know.
It would've put the suspicion squarely where it belongs.
Many are upset because when you say "Country" that means Us all.
Behavior tells more about an individuals character than anything they might say. Having the courage to live your convictions is somewhat laudable but if you don't understand the nature of your behavior it can still be destructive. When I was young someone parked a new Cadillac behind my produce truck on a hill, wanting to ensure I didn't get near it with my truck I revved the engine before dropping the clutch to ensure I pulled cleanly away. The truck was still in reverse! If you are mistaken in your belief you will still be destructive.
Trump has displayed his character by taking advantage of laws that allowed him to bankrupt businesses and still make money on them, taking of private property through the use of courts so that he might benefit. Trying to buy politicians (the Clintons) to enable his business success by the compromise of liberty to favor his work. He is not a successful businessman in my terms he is a successful taker pretending to be a businessman. He is a showman and knows how to tell the political lies to ingratiate himself into the support of those he will take advantage of.
I really don't think he is a threat to the Deep State, he is their supporter pretending he is not.
Trump may spout his share of nonsense, bombast, etc. but it is because he is a brash successful American businessman. I like that too. The majority of American voters liked it as well, because brash is what Americans are. I'm glad PC is being beaten back.
Gabbard may be all of those things, but she is not respected worldwide.
1. She's from Hawaii
2. She's probably a feminist
3. She's a democrat.
But worse than those, she thinks she has influence with Middle Eastern potentates.
That's rather arrogant. American arrogance.
She may have courage and cojones, but that won't help if she doesn't think right.
Like I said, I don't trust her.
Clever, Bob.
But you are wrong. She is an influence peddlar, and leaders in the Near and Middle East know it. She is a young, Democrat feminist trying to prove to Americans and the world she could be a capable leader. Right there, her feeling that she has to prove something, even were she not a Socialist, is a mark against her. From the time I read that she wanted to speak with leaders in the Middle East, I suspected her motives.
I don't like her.
If she were sincere, she would at least wait until she had some experience, and learning under her belt.
Assange is not a traitor, nor Snowden, nor Manning. They do not hold positions in government.
It was a stupid move on her part.
To the Middle East leaders it as if she is putting her own country on the line. Not protecting it.
You will have to trust my intuition on this.
She veers Left, Bob. God only knows what she would do to capitalism going after "The Deep State". I bet she doesn't really understand it; only that some men are wealthy capitalists, and must be destroyed. I don't trust her.
It is not only traitorous in their eyes, it is stupid.
Reminiscent of Jane Fonda riding on one of Ho Chi Minh's tanks.