How to Build an Autocracy
Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 10 months ago to Government
This article is worth reading all the way through, skipping the preamble and starting with "In an 1888 lecture"
If you support President Trump, just imagine some other past president or presidential candidate whose policies you oppose.
I heard about it in an interview on the Kathleen Dunn show. It stood out when Frum said in the interview that totalitarian states occasionally add occult stories, e.g. alien abduction, to their propaganda to further the idea that truth really doesn't exist. That way their readers won't reject their stories if a fact is proven clearly untrue.
Here are some excerpts that deal with executive power, which is my biggest concern. https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
"Over the past generation, we have seen ominous indicators of a breakdown of the American political system: the willingness of congressional Republicans to push the United States to the brink of a default on its national obligations in 2013 in order to score a point in budget negotiations; Barack Obama’s assertion of a unilateral executive power to confer legal status upon millions of people illegally present in the United States—despite his own prior acknowledgment that no such power existed."
"Yet the American system is also perforated by vulnerabilities no less dangerous for being so familiar. Supreme among those vulnerabilities is reliance on the personal qualities of the man or woman who wields the awesome powers of the presidency."
If you support President Trump, just imagine some other past president or presidential candidate whose policies you oppose.
I heard about it in an interview on the Kathleen Dunn show. It stood out when Frum said in the interview that totalitarian states occasionally add occult stories, e.g. alien abduction, to their propaganda to further the idea that truth really doesn't exist. That way their readers won't reject their stories if a fact is proven clearly untrue.
Here are some excerpts that deal with executive power, which is my biggest concern. https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
"Over the past generation, we have seen ominous indicators of a breakdown of the American political system: the willingness of congressional Republicans to push the United States to the brink of a default on its national obligations in 2013 in order to score a point in budget negotiations; Barack Obama’s assertion of a unilateral executive power to confer legal status upon millions of people illegally present in the United States—despite his own prior acknowledgment that no such power existed."
"Yet the American system is also perforated by vulnerabilities no less dangerous for being so familiar. Supreme among those vulnerabilities is reliance on the personal qualities of the man or woman who wields the awesome powers of the presidency."
Heal yourself. Criticizing Trump for actions not taken while approving the great racist in chief shows no ability to reason and no philosophical consistency.
The Atlantic is a shameful statist-biased sewer of filth that made no mention of such criticism under Obama's traitorous rule.
Every single imaginary affront and as yet untrue accusation the Atlantic makes in this loathsome article, Obama was guilty of in reality during his administration. Both Clintons have been equally guilty of all these crimes that the Atlantic shamelessly projects upon an as yet innocent Trump, and worse.
It is my fervent hope that Trump tasks the federal agencies to uncover the disgusting truth of the Clinton's murderous crimes and prosecutes and convicts them and Obama for treason as well as murder.
The article is complete puerile rubbish.
LMAO
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
Now you read that pile of steaming merde from the biased abortion The Atlantic and you are sooooooo concerned. Trump gets 4 weeks during which he is a rational defender of Americans as he promised in his campaign.
You voted for that disgusting traitor Hitlery. She betrayed America repeatedly, but you still voted for the horrid thieving witch.
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Reckon if you have a certain skin pigment with a PC D beside your name, a slobbering love affair media let's you get away with saying it was all Bush's fault.
I basically agree with your blaming President Obama since after the recession of '08-09 the deficit broke 12 digits (staggering!), and he resisted plans to cut the deficit and conflated not borrowing with defaulting on the debt.
Regardless of whose fault it was, I'd like to see the problem addressed immediately: FY2018.
The chardonnay sippers are dismayed -this is without precedent in a democracy,
The unwashed are gleeful at the chattering classes dismay.
I actually think it's a normal feature of democracy. By "it" I mean gov't becoming intrusive and a large part of the economy, and then various interest groups, e.g chardonnay sippers, unwashed, struggle to pull together a majority group because the gov't, elected by the majority and unrestrained by constitutional framework, is very powerful.
I am not concerned with which interest groups influence the gov't. My concern is that citizens are dependent on being in a group that's in favor with the gov't. If the federal gov't were 2% of GDP, the limitations in the Bill of Rights were strictly enforced, and government were not allowed to interfere with people's property and mutual trades, then none of this would matter.
I'm not scolding the deporables of the world. I'm saying most of them supported President Trump. I completely reject the notion that these people oppose liberal socialist statist "leaders". I think socialist statism is part of what they want.
According to our progressive classes,
-Trump is just talking tough to get the vote of the unwashed,
-he will not really do that,
-he says anything as not a serious candidate,
-he is just the same as the others.
They are so dismayed by him, firstly winning,
then actually doing what he said he would do that they try to cover up being wrong (again) by claiming that politicians never do that, -unprecedented so how could they have predicted that?
As to whether it is usual or not, politicians are good at justifying diversions from election platforms,
-extenuating circumstances, -it was not a core-promise, -that is not what we actually said, -
we did not know at the time the extent of the mess left behind, .. etc.
Your other point, Yes.