The rise of American authoritarianism (BARF)

They are puzzled?

They have been force feeding their abusive, tyrannical views down our throats for my entire life. It has reached a point where exercising your first amendment rights can get you fined, cause you to get kicked out of college and barred from your professional career, cause you to lose your business, and even get you thrown in jail. This is not what the terrorists are doing illegally. This is being done under color of law. It is many times worse than the tyranny of Great Britain that caused the Revolution.

The rough language of Donald Trump pales in comparison to the populist outrage of real Americans against these pukes. He needs to buy a clue.

[Article] But political scientists say this theory explains much more than just Donald Trump, placing him within larger trends in American politics: polarization, the rightward shift of the Republican Party, and the rise within that party of a dissident faction challenging GOP orthodoxies and upending American politics. [Emphasis supplied.]

"Polarization" and "dissident faction" themes are not "new" -- they go back to the 1870's, when Main Street Republicans began to diverge from the "Stalwarts"/"Old Guard" (rich s.o.b.'s) over issues of access capitalism and abuse; the Main Street factionalists were rewarded by the ink-rich, newspaper-owning "Stalwarts" with the epithet "Mugwumps", an Indian word meaning "big chiefs", a way of mocking Main Street Republican politics with its impotence in the face of slush-fund money, bribery, graft, and the purchase of power, influence, and access-capitalist legislation.

This "omigosh they're turning into NAZIS!" is a crock.

The "rightward shift" is a separate lie. The idea that conservatives are moving in their values is one that liberals use to undermine the conservative appeal to tradition and settled law. Conservative opinions, as we confront new issues, are based on the same values as 50 or 75 years ago, while the liberals have moved to embrace, ee.g., homosexuality, pederasty, and now pedophilia, notions that their direct intellectual ancestors of the 1940's would have spat upon.

Therefore the notion that conservative values are migratory and Nazifying is a ramifying and multiplying canard, a vile political roorback, against good people.

[Art.] These Americans with authoritarian views, they found, were sorting into the GOP, driving polarization.

"Sorting into"? Oh, like they were somewhere else before, and migrated into the GOP to grab a fresh mug of steaming-hot racism and paranoia?

Well, if they "sorted into" the GOP, where exactly were they before they "sorted in"?

Don't be shy! Having trouble spelling "Democrat"?

"Driving polarization" means these people are the cause of the 140-year-old split between Main Street and the Yacht Club in the GOP, a notion easily falsified by even a passing knowledge of the history of the Republican Party. So it isn't an insight gleaned from careful study of scientifically verifiable social-scientific study, but just a slangy, hip way of slandering conservatives. Which was the object of the "study".

[Art.] These Americans with authoritarian views, they found, were sorting into the GOP, driving polarization.

"Sorting into"? Oh, like they were somewhere else before, and migrated into the GOP to grab a fresh mug of steaming-hot racism and paranoia?

Well, if they "sorted into" the GOP, where exactly were they before they "sorted in"?

Don't be shy! Having trouble spelling "Democrat"?

When the Soviet Union [during the Cold War] accused America of doing something that we were not, the real reason was that they were doing it and wanted to be able to say, “Amerika is doing it, so we might as well also.”

So when the Left accuses conservatives of being fascists or authoritarian, you can be sure that it is they who are trying to justify crushing our necks under their statist/collectivist jackboots.

If they are so smart and educated, how can they be so ignorant of the history of fascist ideology? Or perhaps they know, but are hoping the general population is.

The fact is, fascism is a Leftist anti-ideology. Anyone bothering to study how it developed would find that it is a bundling of trade-union Syndicalism, socialism and Marxist dialectic Futurism.

Fascism is a form of statist collectivism in which private property is tolerated so long as it serves the “public” via its agent, the State. Hence, Bernie may call himself a “democratic socialist” but he is fascist, through-and-through.

Leftist academics are fond of painting fascism as a from of capitalism run amok, but no fascist ever cited the likes of Adam Smith or John Locke.

But their point is to hoodwink us into a false choice between various forms of tyranny — and nothing else — then say that their version is nicer.

It’s not.

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” - Adolf Hitler

[Article] This activation could come from feeling threatened by social changes such as evolving social norms....

"Evolving social norms"? You mean, like the 2% + their media stooges administering the vast majority, the 98%, a handy-dandy PR beating in the face of 5,000 years of civilized human experience with deviant sexuality and practically closing the churches along the way? By using our own newspapers, television, and cinema as propaganda tools against us?

You mean, "social change" like that? Massive propaganda, plus subversion in all media, plus subversion by backstabbing NEA "educators" who conspired with homosexual NGO's to bring condoms, dildos, and sporty discussions about three-ways, fellatio, man-boy love, and lesbian reproduction into the classrooms -- and screening out parents, and keeping them in the dark while the perverts queered the kids? Like that?

..... or increasing diversity, or any other change that they believe will profoundly alter the social order they want to protect.

Oh, as in "diversity increased"? Like, one day we came out of our houses and cloudiness, raininess, and diversity had increased overnight?

"Diversity" didn't just "increase". Lyndon Johnson in particular moved heaven and earth to blow the hinges off American immigration policy and flood the whole United States with Democrat-voting Mexicans. Mexicans are stubbornly "culturally conservative" and don't change voting patterns -- plus, they live in a thoroughly socialist, once Communist, society where the government buys loyalty with huge subsidies for consumer staples from corn meal to gasoline. It's no wonder they vote PRI (cleptosocialist) and PRD (communist-lite) at home; but when they get here they vote for LBJ's good old 'Rat Party, which they've known since the 1965 Giant Immigration Fraud Act has been their "fren" and sponsor in wading across the Rio Grande. That's why Johnson wanted them -- he knew about Mexican voting patterns and tenacity. The Dems couldn't be, or find, better "frens" if they were waiting with hospitality tables on our side of the river with hot coffee and Mexican pastries and toys for the kids. They're the Free Ice Cream Party.

Tagging people as "haters" who are being majorly screwed and driven to their knees in their own country by a racketeering, predatory political cartel masquerading as a parliamentary, representative political party, is hugely unfair and partisan on the part of the "researchers", but it's SOP for the party that loves Fabian Socialism, Soviet Socialism, and every other kind of "ism" but the American kind.

The 'Rats and their client NGO's have a history of hooking up with academic like minds to conjure up poisonous propaganda like this, the classic case being the longrunning relationship between various mutable, kaleidoscopic gun-grabber NGO's and Johns Hopkins University, which has worked with the NGO's for some 25 years or more on developing statistically-supported (if illogical) talking points in their verbal war on private gun ownership.

Well, these guys are developing another reason why conservatives should lose their 2A rights .... and free-speech rights, and rights of assembly, and 4A, 5A, 6A, 8A, 9A, 10A, 14A, and any other kinds of rights one can think of ......because they're stinkin' NAZIS!!!

I am not one of Trump's supporters, but certainly do not hold them to be stupid, ill-informed, emotional and/or evil -- as the elites on both sides of the aisle characterize. They are fed up with being taken for granted if not openly disdained by the GOP leadership -- who consistently betray the principles of freedom, equality under the law and individual empowerment upon which the Party of Abraham Lincoln were founded.

Bravo. This article is indicative of the lunacy that goes on in the true Trump haters - I backed and donated to Cruz for six months before switching to a Trump/Cruz configuration.

Because so many have gone so bonkers trying to take Trump down, they have tipped the table in his direction by giving the impression (probably the truth) that they want to do a "Mississippi" on the whole Nation and it can't be helped that if they elevate Cruz with their shenanigans, many of the People will tie him to the establishment enough so that they are likely to do a "Romney" on him and allow Hillary in. I pray it isn't so, but Cruz seems to sense the same thing, hence his statement to CPAC about not doing what they are planning - anyone who thinks that he would have warned them if he thought it would propel him to the WH is naive.

Many of us "Trumpsters" do a lot of thinking and our conclusion is that he has the widest base of support, and has the greatest chance of attaining the WH and is the most "benign" guy we can get there. Unlike many of those who sneer at the "Trumpsters" we will vote for Cruz en-masse if he wins, even if we are pissed at how he gets to the General.

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