Game Changer! - Page 19

You are preaching to the choir, to bad some of the other people will not step forward with one concrete proposal Trump has put forth but he does talk bigotry and exclusion a lot so what is drawing people to him? I will let others come to the conclusion I have all on their own. Trump doesn't care about the constitution and if anybody believes he will force jobs back to America, they have been sadly taken in by the rhetoric of a madman. And in fact he has no problem hiring non-Americans to work cheap for him, for Trump it is about money, his money.

He waited till the country was ripe for a dictator to take control away from the lying polititions.
He tells what he thinks is truth, but his followers have their heads so far up his ass, they can't hear him. Truth such as; Putin is a 'strong leader' , China is a 'strong government', trump telling his followers how he, trump, 'loves to grab money, money, money' for himself and won't everybody love it when he 'grabs money for the country and makes america great again' ?
Wake the hell up, and get you head out I of his ass you stupid amer I can trump lovers !!!

Basically the same thing Reid is saying.  http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/harry-reid-attacks-donald-trump-gop-cowardice-mitch-mcconnell-paul-ryan/index.html

Everyone jumped onto the Authoritarian bandwagon, but there is a new kid in the block taking the heat!

 

What’s the difference between authoritarians and populists?

Authoritarianism and populism are easy to conflate, but they actually refer to very distinct tendencies.

Authoritarianism, as understood by political psychologists, refers to a set of personality traits that seek order, clarity and stability. Authoritarians have little tolerance for deviance. They’re highly obedient to strong leaders. They scapegoat outsiders and demand conformity to traditional norms.

Populism, on the other hand, is a type of political rhetoric that casts a virtuous “people” against nefarious elites and strident outsiders. Scholars measure populism in a variety of ways, but we focus on three central elements:

• Belief that a few elites have absconded with the rightful sovereignty of the people;
• Deep mistrust of any group that claims expertise;
• Strong nationalist identity

Very interesting! This:

 

Two big points immediately leap out.

1. Trump voters are no more authoritarian than supporters of Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.

In fact, they score slightly lower on these scales than Cruz’s voters. Why? Partly, this is because scales measuring child-rearing correlate very highly with fundamentalist Christian beliefs. By these measures, most Republicans look like “authoritarians” because so many are conservative Christians who advocate strict child-rearing practices. This is also why Bernie Sanders’s supporters are so much less authoritarian than Hillary Clinton’s — “Berners” are much less religious than other Democrats.

[How political science helps explain the rise of Trump, 3: It’s the economy, stupid] 

2. What really differentiates Trump’s voters from the other Republicans is the populism. 

Trump voters are the only ones to score consistently high on all three populist dimensions. Cruz and Rubio’s supporters, for example, don’t express high feelings of anti-elitism. In fact, on this scale, they are strongly anti-populist, identifying with authority rather than rejecting it.

[Message from Europe: Donald Trump may be showing us the future of right-wing politics] 

Trump supporters share anti-elitism with only one other group: Sanders’s voters.

But where Trump is a populist, we would argue that Sanders is not. Despite the fact that Sanders often gets called a populist, his voters do not conform to the populist stereotype. They generally trust experts and do not identify strongly as Americans. A better way to describe them would be cosmopolitan socialists. They see the system as corrupted by economic elites. But they don’t trust ordinary Americans and show only light attachment to Americanism as an identity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/09/trumps-voters-arent-authoritarians-new-research-says-so-what-are-they/

And this is very interesting, lol. I feel an implosion coming on. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/gop-senators-break-emergency-glass-on-trump-plans-220926

What I find so curious out of all this is some/part/most of the people who support Thumper and claim you are attracted to his anti-establishment BS are the same people who voted in the "establishment". WOW.

 

This is the new gold standard of being a hypocrite.

The problem with Hillary supporters is that they have no concept of hypocrisy.

And this from an article devoted to Bernie Sanders supporters. Oh, the irony of it all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/33-percent-of-bernie-sanders-not-vote-hillary_b_9475626.html

Now, let's take a look at the China article linked above by GSD, since I promised I would comment on it. I did, and here goes. Who here has a valid perspective on business dealings with China? I have a pretty valid connection in that way myself, that has spanned decades. Why would any one here even begin to take the Chinese government official party line over their own American perspective?

 

Perhaps the most telling bit in that whole article is the bottom line:

And yet despite his relentless attacks and steady political advance, Chinese premier Li Keqiang says relations between the U.S. and China will continue to develop no matter who wins the presidential race.

That's Beijing, putting on its best poker face.

Yep. That about sums it all up.

Does this sum it up, more Trump lies. I notice you didn't touch the fact that Trump uses China to manufacture the stuff he sells.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/manufacturing-jobs-are-never-coming-back/

 

And if you think Trump is not going to hurt foreign relations, you are completely and utterly deluded.

Guys manufacturing ain't coming back to the west until their are no more third world countries left to exploit and all the exploited workers in those countries stand up and demand the same rights and working conditions as the guys that lost their jobs to them.