Posted on 09/08/2018 1:37:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats get the circus, we get another Supreme Court Justice. I will take that trade.
Nailed it.
Are we really in danger from the likes of Booker & Harris? An old quotation from Karl Marx occurred to me a while back: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
The first time around resulted in Stalin & Mao. Truly tragic for their countries & the world. This time around the socialists are being led by these people, & Alexandra Occasio-Cortez & Julia Salazar, etc., etc... Truly a ship of fools. Their actions are foolish & their beliefs are idiotic. Yes, they have followers, but more & more I believe we’ve passed a corner on this stuff.
At the circus you can see death-defying trapeze acts. At the Kavanaugh hearing you can see stupid political stunts. At the circus they have lion tamers. At the Kavanaugh hearing they have race baiters. The circus has elephants. The Kavanaugh hearing has an elephant in the room that no one acknowledges.
I agree, they personally pose no danger, rather it's the new authoritarian ideology they are putting forward that is dangerous. Altho some of the new Ds are identifying as socialist I'd argue that what we're seeing is new and as yet, nameless. It's a morphing of a powerful central government with crony capitalism and private, global social monopolies. Some call it globalism, internationalism, corporatism, all are valid to a degree. The bottom line for me is we're not in normal R v D politics; what Booker & Harris are selling is dangerous to individualism and personal freedom.
“It’s sad?”
It’s filthy rotten to the core...not sad.
In no Graham fan, but he did a great job at those hearings.
FWIW, my impression of the hearings is that he’ll be much less conservative than I’d like. He is pretty much 100% Establishment. I think he’ll be much more like Kennedy than Alito or Thomas. I hope I’m wrong
Yes, what they’re selling is dangerous. And too often our side isn’t effective in responding. But with the real-time example of Venezuela, & conversation about what fascism really is, I think we’re already beating them back. We’re not done yet by a long shot, but we are making progress.
How is this different than any other Republican nomination hearing for the Supremes.
Beck apparently has another book (“Addicted to Outrage”) coming out. The implication of the book is that Americans are all irrationally outraged, and we need to reduce our political rhetoric to restore civility and productive national debate.
I believe Beck is entirely off course in his analysis. It is our growing federal spending and national debt levels, which continue to expand unchecked, that have intensified both Tea Party and average American citizen concerns - and motivated "building the Wall" and other policy interests. We are headed for economic chaos (destruction of capital markets, and high inflation) if we do not see sovereign debt begin to at least level off, if not decline, under Trump. I admire what President Trump has done, but until I see debt and deficits change direction, I for one will remain "rationally outraged" and I will remain on “high” alert politically & financially over the next several years. It would be a shame to have markets crash due to unsustainable debt levels that were not Trump's doing but that happen under him, I hope he addresses this soon. By both cutting fraudulent welfare spending, and using our economic growth to reduce debt/deficit levels.
I’ll cede to the floor that Graham did a good job w/ this circus. But he’s still an a$$hole, overall.
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