American Conservatives are Embarrassing

[midcan5]

"The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." John Stuart Mill

http://www.justplainpolitics.com/sho...79#post1293479


"Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized." Joseph Goebbels

[Micawber]

'Can America's political discourse get any cruder?'

"Forgotten by the fevered crowd was the supposedly bedrock conservative principle that people are responsible for their own actions, and that it's time to stop blaming society."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/neil-ma...alin-1.3416452


Conservatives must now face the monster they have created after sixty years of disparaging government, why all of a sudden would they think their idea of government is better than another. Nations deteriorate from the inside, the destruction of America started in earnest with Ronald Reagan and the rise of oligarchy. Sixty years on, an education that excluded diversity, reality, science, history, and every other American value has had great impact. Mirrors are obviously missing at the National Review and other conservative locations. The scary thing is, Trump and Cruz could actually be more extreme and they'd still appeal to the conservative American. Doubters check Iowa voting. The apologetics begin.

http://www.theamericanconservative.c...-conservatism/
http://www.theamericanconservative.c...tism-vs-trump/
http://www.theamericanconservative.c...rumps-chances/

I completely agree with this.

[midcan5]

I was glad to see this thread has had so many views, it's a positive for American democracy when ideas are read and thought about. Trump is much worse than even I had imagined. He is the spoiled self centered rich boy thrown into a position in which his immaturity shows clearly. Americans raised with a silver spoon have so bizarre a sense of reality. When your every whim is praised by your nanny and psychologist your life is an isolated world, you do not mature nor ever grow up. Sad.

"It can be tempting to latch onto one of Donald Trump’s less-admirable qualities and assign it almost supernatural explanatory power. The way to understand the chaos he’s unleashed is through his narcissism. His showmanship. His anger. (That last one was mine.) I have come to fear, though, that we’ve been neglecting our president’s stupidity. Americans knew evil was banal, but we never dreamed it could be this dumb." http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...president.html

[midcan5]

A piece to help you understand conservatives and why they follow so easily when fear is used on them.

"After an electoral season that blurred the line between fact and fantasy, a team of UCLA researchers is offering new evidence to support a controversial proposition: that when it comes to telling the difference between truth and fiction, not all potential voters see it the same way."

http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...202-story.html

"Conservatives thrive on a world filled with mysterious evil and unfathomable hatreds, where good is always on the defensive and time is a precious commodity in the cosmic race against corruption and decline." Corey Robin 'The Reactionary Mind'

[midcan5]

Did anyone else find it embarrassing the way the Trump cabinet and his staff blessed him this past week? Was that un-American or what, when did Americans bow down to a person. Reminds one of the fascist leaders ans their sycophants.

And what's with all these lawyers? Now American taxpayers are paying for his facilities and his constant golfing. Sad.