VegetableMan wrote:
Because people were fed up with politicians from both of our corporate owned parties, for starters. Michael Moore called it when he predicted that Trump would win and it would ne the "biggest f**k you to the establishment, ever."
The establishment backed one of the most unlikeable, corrupt politicians in history: Hillary Clinton. The Hillary campaign and the Democrats elevated Trump in the media, a move that was referred to as the "pied piper' strategy. Yep, that worked out well, didn't it? And not forget how the Dems sabotaged Bernie Sanders campaign by spreading a lot of lies about Sanders being an atheist, among other misinformation.
The whole Russia narrative was concocted as a smoke screen to deflect attention away from the shenanigans of the DNC. Hell, they would have been happy to take us to WW111 to cover us their corruption.
During the Clinton administration, both parties moved further to the right. Now the Dems are moderate Republicans at best; at worst, they are neoconservatives like Hillary and Obama. If the Democratic Party doesn't reform, which I don't see happening, and start representing the working class again, we will see another term for Trump. And we'll probably get someone even worse down the road.
Here's an article worth reading to further understand how we got to where we are today:
Noam Chomsky Predicted the Rise of TrumpThe changing demographics of the US are largely involved.
When I was young, maybe 20% of the US was nonwhite.
Now it's projected that by 2040 that nonwhites all by themselves will constitute an actual numerical majority of the US population.
But even before that, nonwhites working with progressive whites will be a majority in US elections, just as they were in 2016 when Trump was defeated in the popular vote 65 million to 62 million (with about 8 million more votes for 3rd party candidates).
Trump is the last dying gasp of a proportionately shrinking white population that like one set of predecessors will be swept away,
gone with the wind - unless he is successful in setting himself up as a tyrant. And it is precisely that which must be stopped.
"The risks are very serious. If the comments of the Republican leaders vying for the presidency correspond to the reality of the future White House, we should expect a real disaster, and that is: We ignore global warming, we tear up the nuclear agreements with Iran, we increase our military power, we act with greater aggressiveness and determination in the rest of the world despite the risks of unleashing a world war. If a country with the power of the United States endorses these policy strategies, the chances of survival of the human species are minimized."- Noam Chomsky, 2016, 'Republicans Are a Danger to the Human Species' - The author and philosopher discusses global warming, war with Russia, the U.S. presidential election and the survival of human civilization.
23 Nov 2018, 8:56 pm
