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- Fax_Benson6
Here's my take, then I'm out for a while (apart from a few snide comments in the notes)
The real problem with Trump is that he's intellectually bankrupt. The reason he ran such a divisive campaign isn't because he's innately racist (although he is certainly a misogynist), it's because that's all he's got. He's dangerous because he doesn't know what he's doing and the only thing he can realistically deliver on is the domestic immigration issue, the same as UKIP etc.
That infowars Trump video montage. It's called 'this will get Trump elected' or something, and it worked. But it's a collection of cherry-picked clips from 40 years of public comments and there's not a single policy idea. It's just Trump repeating the problems back at you, with a wanky piano score to make it seem profound. How's he going to get these manufacturing jobs back? Undercut Chinese wages?Green tech?
I tentatively predicted a Trump win. Others here did so much more confidently. I think lots of people understood that the conditions were right for someone to harness the resentment. The system's corrupt. The working class have been disenfranchised. Mass immigration doesn't work for the hosts. The left is in crisis. Globalisation only works for those at the top. This isn't new. It isn't news. We know all this. Mainstream media has been talking about nothing else. Trump is the wrong man at the right time.
Let's shake up Washington and see what happens isn't a plan. As we've proved in the Middle East, getting rid of the dictator is the easy bit. It's what comes next that we tend to fuck up. Because we're obsessed with the other side being the problem, and that getting rid of it is an end in itself.
The opportunity to do something constructive was huge, but people decided to saddle up with with the first dickhead to ride into town.
Great minds should be lining up with Trump to set a new agenda. What an opportunity. Where are Trump's best people? Why are Trump and Farage the spokespeople for this incredible new movement? Why is it full of cunts? Where are the normal people? They're not interested because it's backwards bullshit.
- that Infor Wars video was pathetic. It was propagandist but there was nothing endearing about trump. He embodied everything he claimed to be against.lowimpakt
- he's always been a vacuous and untrustworthy assholelowimpakt
- maybe that's what America needs._niko
- Amen fax.fadein11
- Russia and China don't play by any rules, their power is on the rise. They don't give a fuck about anything. Not climate change, not weapon proliferation_niko
- he was quite a looker back before the hair problems, though. Bit of a black and white film star thing going on.Fax_Benson
- He should make the world black and white again.Fax_Benson
- and certainly not political correctness. Maybe the US is handcuffing itself by being too nice. Playing by rules that no-one else cares for._niko
- _niko that's not true. china pays more attention to green energy than any other country in the world. (keep in mind that they are more than a 1.3bn)********
- Don's all over the Russia issue.Fax_Benson
- and i'm saying this knowing that our largest client just invested a shitload of money in africa and australia to build solar farms.********
- good postBluejam
- I hear you but green energy is one thing, pollution is another._niko
- and in the local sector there is a simple basic rule: they don't want to pay for medical treatments because of air pollution.********
- This is a really great post Fax. Bravo man.kona
- It's interesting how democracy seems to be hastening rather than slowing the decline of the West. Trump and Brexit both self-inflicted wounds.yuekit