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Our Exhausted American Mediocracy
https://www.amgreatness.com/2018/12/30/our-exhausted-american-mediocracy/
The unlikely 2016 election of Donald Trump—the first president without either prior political or military office—was a repudiation of the American “aristocracy.” By “rule of the best” I mean the ancien régime was no longer understood to suggest wealth and birth (alone),
But his pimping grandfather worked hardStop right there. Trump got where he is today largely through birth and wealth. So your premise dies a hard death just feet out of the gate.
Stop right there. Trump got where he is today largely through birth and wealth. So your premise dies a hard death just feet out of the gate.
So does that automatically exclude him? the overthrow the system- system Conclusion 1. pluralist, in which power is diffused widely amongst groups between which there is competition for …
Huh, wanna flesh that out for us, make sense of that abortable mess you just dropped?The fact of his birth, his upbringing and his wealth disproves your premise.
Huh, wanna flesh that out for us, make sense of that abortable mess you just dropped?
I read the entire thread, it's not a long thread at this point. He countered you on the point in post #4 which gave you at least an hour to digest before you spit out your lazy tripe again.Read post 2 which demonstrates how this thread is based on a false premise.
Donald Trump is the ELITE that the OP rails against.
I read the entire thread, it's not a long thread at this point. He countered you on the point in post #4 which gave you at least an hour to digest before you spit out your lazy tripe again.
At least chew on it a bit, give it a taste before you randomly spit. Which of the elite classes aligns with Trump, please?
Remind us and enumerate while at it.
Certainly not the elite from the left and right establishments, not the elite in our bureaucracies, not the elites elected to government, none on the left, few on the right, not the elites in the vast majority of our main lamestream media, not the elites in Hollywood, not the elites in academia...its mainly the normal folks of the base on the right, the left-outs/forgotten workers of former democratic stripe and any of other fair-minded and even handed among us.
Just like being born poor does not exclude one from greatness, being born rich doesn't either.
Show me his elite membership card, then.He countered NOTHING as Trump is a member of the ELITE and always has been his entire life.
The very tax cuts Trump promoted benefit him and his class the most. It is just what the OP accused others of doing - the elite pushing policies which benefit the elite class. That is Trump his whole life and that is Trump in office pushing policies which benefit the elite class.
Show me his elite membership card, then.
After that go bark up some other tree, preferably a lefty tree, the ones that have all the nuts hanging, ready to drop in such overwhelming abundance. Then flush when finished, courtesy flush before that.
Now that he’s in office, Trump is governing like conventional right-wing Republican. The policies he’s promoted would lead to more privatization, more tax breaks for the rich, more spending cuts for welfare programs like Social Security and Medicaid. He’s also studded his administration with bankers and billionaires and industry lobbyists.
This is not the stuff of populism.
He thinks like an elitist. His activities are those of an elitist. He defends being an elitist.Golf should be something beautiful, elegant, something people aspire to play eventually.
It may be elitist, and perhaps that’s what golf needs. Let golf be elitist. When I say “aspire,” that’s a positive word. Let people work hard and aspire to some day be able to play golf. To afford to play it. They’re trying to teach golf to people who will never be able to really play it. They’re trying too hard. Because of the expense of playing, and the land needed, golf is never going to be basketball, where all you need is a court.
Since launching his political career three years ago, Trump has laughably presented himself as a “man of the people,” but now he wants more. The president also sees himself as more elite than the elite, and he expects to be appreciated as such.
The New Republic had a good item along these lines, arguing, “Unpacking Trump’s statement, it turns out he’s not, as populist heroes traditionally have been, the avatar or even the tribune of the common man. Rather, Trump is the true elite, a caste of one, the ubermensch who is smart, rich and able to become president. His followers, meanwhile, are ‘the deplorables’ who are, pointedly, not elite in Trump’s manner but have their own form of greatness and smartness which is displayed in their willingness to subsume themselves (‘the most loyal people on earth’) to Trump. This is not the creed of populism but rather of the strong man with an army of loyal followers.”
Go ahead and call Trump an “elitist.” Evidently, he considers it a compliment.
What would you consider your reading comprehension level is? High, middle or low?Trump has been an elitist his entire life. Had he not been born into it - he would be parking cars at a hotel instead of owning them. Just look at his one big piece of legislation - tax cuts for the rich and corporations. An elite taking care of the elites. He is not there to drain any swamp - but only to expand his area of the swamp. He is the personification of what the OP pretends to rail against.
Read this
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/23/15791432/donald-trump-populism-latin-america-republican-party
Trump ran as a populist but governs as an elitist for the elites.
His attitude is that of an elitist and he is unapologetic about it even in his business and leisure activities.
Donald Trump: Let golf stay for the rich elites | Fortune
He thinks like an elitist. His activities are those of an elitist. He defends being an elitist.
Trump is the personification of what it means to be an elitist.
Confused about his brand of populism, Trump wants to be 'the elite' | MSNBC
What would you consider your reading comprehension level is?
Stop right there. Trump got where he is today largely through birth and wealth. So your premise dies a hard death just feet out of the gate.
The fact of his birth, his upbringing and his wealth disproves your premise.
Of course it does not. One can have the qualifications for being one of the elite without being elitist. Moreover Trump's base, from which he derives his support, and thence his power, is most clearly anti-elitist.
Whatever you need to float that Titanic [ I mean her cankles alone, are what, like a female elephant's?], bro. :lamoIn addition, the fact that more people voted against him than for him hardly serves as a repudiation of anything other than Trump
Whatever you need to float that Titanic [ I mean her cankles alone, are what, like a female elephant's?], bro. :lamo
Stop right there. Trump got where he is today largely through birth and wealth. So your premise dies a hard death just feet out of the gate.
Just like Newt Gingrich ranting on about suburban, book writing, snobbish, 'pointy-head' limousine liberals, when that
was exactly what he had become after leaving office...as a right wing partisan.
Trump is the very essence of the American entitled elitist. Entitled to inherit $400 million, entitled for that to be tax free,
entitled to loans to build two competing casinos within 2 miles of each other and then entitled not to pay his contractors
then further entitled to suck million$ off their creation yet walk away in bankruptcy upon the inevitable failure.
Trump according the the christian right's vote is entitled to cheat on his wives being a serial adulterer, phillander with
porn stars, pay them hush money and still be so virtuous to get their vote. He entitled to grab ******s and discrinminate
in his housing projects.
Your link and its rant is a contradiction and full of partisan assumptions.
As POTUS, trump unwittingly of course, is the deep state's, the elitist's most useful of complete idiots and is taking the heat
for their shared rent-seeking, conflicts of interest and all around corruption.
Are you joking or lost?High enough to understand what you asked of me and apparently higher than yours since you failed to understand all the evidence I supplied to you supporting my statement that Trumps was an elitist.
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The abused criticism of Donald Trump is that he is a narcissist. Well, as Dizzy Dean used to say, "If you can do it, it ain't bragging". Much of the distaste for Trump is that "he isn't one of us". This is an attitude stemming from the assumption of credit for the accomplishments of others, those accomplishments often being self proclaimed. It is the narcissism of poseurs. They are, in two words, elitist snobs.
In their frenetic pursuit of President Trump, the biased Media, Hollywood, and the “Ruling Elites” have exposed themselves far more than they have exposed anything to do with him.
'The blood of rage runs from their eyes'... to borrow a phrase. They scream about “White Privilege” yet most all the author refers to, are white. A self-appointed “Privilegedtocracy” who see us “Deplorables” as little more than human livestock... disobedient livestock... to be replaced with a more obedient foreign livestock, to be kept ignorant and dependent. Their virulent insane Trump hatred has shown us once again hate is indeed a form of fear. All could be lost if the “Deplorables” are not contained. So any and all “weapons” race, sex, economic status, religion will be used to attempt to divide America.
It’s hard to find any politicians on the Democrat side and awful few on the Republican side that one might consider to have even an average ability.
Really, what would you think after meeting a Pelosi, Occasional Cortex, Flake, Bloomberg on the street?
Elites for the most part tried to hide their failures and indiscretions in past eras. Not in ours. Much is going on in the background that doesn't make it into the newspapers. The fact that nobody knew meant that elites could think well of themselves without contradiction. Idiots, all. Why are they continually elected?
Yeah, right. :lamotl;dr
Yeah, right. :lamo
And mine, right back at ya is: I read yours, but its too damned stupid, lacks the usual credibility. So, itds,ltuc in your lingo. :2wave:
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