The question is, are such "empty suit" people suitable for running a civilization? When you remove, God, country, tradition, etc., what is left to give you strength in difficult times? When I saw the scared looks and tepid reactions from these old technocrats after the Paris attacks, I knew the answer was "not very damn much".
]]>I think people are a little confused about Trump. The neocons are terrified of him, and are already running to Hillary and the Democratic Party, where they originated. Trump isn't some loose cannon Millennarian W. Bush type; I don't think he has any delusions about remaking the Middle East into a clone of America or whatever. He wants to return the GOP to its pre-neocon, more isolationist foreign policy, and after Iraq people across the spectrum agree. I think Hillary the Pentagon favorite is more likely to get involved in some imperial adventure than Trump, and Rubio the neocon puppet most definitely is.
Trump appears to be leading an insurgency against the entire D.C. and media Establishment. It's amazing to watch everyone lining up to attack him; I've never seen anything like it. Why are they so afraid of him? It suggests that someone like this is very necessary.
]]>How failed is the Democratic Party if billionaire Trump is the class warrior and champion of the working/middle class, at least in a lot of people's minds? A lot of this is about class warfare, and the fact that there is a massive squeeze going on with the middle class; that below the salary class especially, things are rough, and globalism/immigration, combined with an apparent elite indifference or hostility, really has a lot of people angry. Trying to brush it away as racism is part of the problem; it's as if there is an elite plot to gut an entire demographic, while using “PC” to try to silence them. But things are boiling over, and the old playbook isn't working, and I do think widespread civil unrest may be coming soon if something doesn't give.
Anyway, that's how it looks to me, down here among the peasants.
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