Posted on 05/09/2017 5:52:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
One reason the Democrats don't get the credit they deserve is, I hope, obvious. Racism and other variations of bigotry prevent certain people from hearing certain messages despite messages being sent.
Hillary Clinton had a plan to help white working-class voters in states she lost to President Donald Trump. But because she was Clinton and Trump was Trump, that message was barely heard by voters who needed to hear it most.
George Orwell once made a distinction between nationalism and patriotism. Nationalism, he said in 1945, is "the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than advancing its interests." He added: "Nationalism ... is inseparable from the desire for power."
Patriotism, on the other hand, is a "devotion to a place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, militarily and culturally." Let's add politically, too.
The Democrats were already moving in this way. With the attempted repeal of Obamacare, they should double down on the trend. Nationalism and other variations of bigotry will always be challenging. But sadism meets its match against a broadly held sense of patriotism.
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The bigotry defined here is mostly in his head and in his own writings. He is a typical Democrat who sees evil in everyone else. But his own concepts are pure and altruistic - according to himself.
Recognize the slickly packaged globalist threat. The argument that would dismantle American heritage and culture,impoverish subject the American people to “international law” is covered with the American flag. One point he makes is accurate. The Democrats are united in their cruel purpose. Unless the Republicans show some testicular fortitude and unite for real purpose, they will concede the field to the vile and the results will be disastrous.
So in other words he has been a parasite on the taxpayer his whole life has never ever had a real job yet claims to speak “for working people”. Political progressism truely is a mental disorder.
Right. And she was so committed to this "plan" that she never showed up in those states to tell those white working-class voters about it.
I’ve listened to blithering idiots that made more sense than this guy.
It is impossible to be this deluded. The man is a foul liar, a scoundrel, a Marxist apparatchik for the NWO. He, like the rest of the elites, are deservedly, thank God, out of power and slinging mud in every direction like babies at a poop party.
Shrillary had a plan. Actually two plans. One plan stated in a speech was to appoint bill as “job czar”, stating bill “has more ideas in a minute, etc.”
The other plan involved “reading the propaganda campaign book”, put out while candidate, the title escapes me. As I recall only a few being sold.
That blurb needs some careful editing to make it more accurate. How about this:
John Stoehr is often confused by simple concepts in a way that only a cloistered academic who is a "lecturer in political science at Yale, a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly, a business columnist for Hearst Newspapers, an essayist for the New Haven Register and a U.S. News & World Report contributing editor" could be confused.
So he recites brainless talking points as if they were "the truth", insulated from reality as he is by the political monoculture and confirmation bias bubble within which he dwells, fearing to venture outside of its warm confines because that would require a level of native curiosity and intellectual honesty and rigor for which he is woefully unprepared, while being totally oblivious to his own prejudices and gaps in his knowledge and experience, all of which lead him to completely misunderstand the world around him.
BJ as job czar is laughable. He would spend all his time putting interns to work. Neither of them know anything about real jobs in the private sector.
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