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Democracies end when too democratic – America is a breeding ground for tyranny

9 points by remarkEon 11y ago

ZeroGravitas 11y ago
> what Trump has masterfully signaled as “political correctness” run amok Yes, that is masterful rhetoric, and not at all a tired cliche being pushed by the right for decades. This is one of many audaciously disconnected from reality moments in this piece. Clearly the author can't bear to face clearly his own complicity in this state of affairs. Though some part of him that feels the guilt forces him to recite all the Trump-like things his precious Republican elites have done to undermine his own argument. But at the same time he can't break out of his programming, and accuses liberals and gays of not caring about the white working class. Exactly the kind of argument Trump would make if he was not, ironically, the most pro-gay Republican candidate ever by quite a margin All the others chose to demonise that group for political benefit, and now we have a gay conservative pundit shocked, shocked that a Republican presidential candidate would demonise groups like Muslims or Hispanics. How naive can you be?
wwwdonohue 11y ago
> Barack Obama, whose 2008 campaign was propelled by small donors and empowered by the internet Except he took more money from the financial industry than any other candidate before him. > The country has endured far harsher times than the present without succumbing to rank demagoguery "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred." -- FDR The pundit/politico obsession with branding demagogues is really wearing thin.

9 points by remarkEon 11y ago

> what Trump has masterfully signaled as “political correctness” run amok Yes, that is masterful rhetoric, and not at all a tired cliche being pushed by the right for decades. This is one of many audaciously disconnected from reality moments in this piece. Clearly the author can't bear to face clearly his own complicity in this state of affairs. Though some part of him that feels the guilt forces him to recite all the Trump-like things his precious Republican elites have done to undermine his own argument. But at the same time he can't break out of his programming, and accuses liberals and gays of not caring about the white working class. Exactly the kind of argument Trump would make if he was not, ironically, the most pro-gay Republican candidate ever by quite a margin All the others chose to demonise that group for political benefit, and now we have a gay conservative pundit shocked, shocked that a Republican presidential candidate would demonise groups like Muslims or Hispanics. How naive can you be?

wwwdonohue 11y ago

> Barack Obama, whose 2008 campaign was propelled by small donors and empowered by the internet Except he took more money from the financial industry than any other candidate before him. > The country has endured far harsher times than the present without succumbing to rank demagoguery "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred." -- FDR The pundit/politico obsession with branding demagogues is really wearing thin.