Dick,
To my knowledge, neither Democrats, Socialists, nor Communists have spouted
racist ideology whether openly or in coded language aside from the
Dixicrats, when they were the southern branch of the Democratic Party. They
have since migrated to the Republican Party. The Republicans developed a
southern stragety in the 70's which they openly wrote about and they made it
clear that they would use people's prejudices in order to get their votes. I
have no idea what is in Trump's mind. I don't know whether he believes all
the filth that he spouts or whether he just spouts it in order to attract
votes. But I do think that he must be a dispicable person in order to choose
this way of running for the Presidency.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 1:31 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush
Gave Rise to Trump
Miriam:
Does it appear that Mr. Trump is expressing subjects in which he holds a
strong belief?
Or is it that he has simply developed a new technique for expressing a
system of lies and falsehood?
You have commented to the effect that 'a technique of word coding' has been
used (by Republicans) to express hidden meanings of certain subjects such
as racism and bigotry and anger. Were such techniques also put into use by
others? (such as Democrats or Socialists or
Communists?)
At this point in time I do not have a sufficient amount of information to
completely decide but I am developing and tendency.
R. E. (Dick) Driscoll, Sr.
On 3/2/2016 12:07 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I think that having a candidate who talks the way Trump does, is a
whole new
phenomenon although the anger, racism, and bigotry that he
expresses, are
certainly not. But certainly in my lifetime, the Does used coded
words like "welfare queen" to speak to the public's racism, and no
one dared
say directly, what Trump says.. Listening to just a short clip of
what Trump
says is truly horrifying. It makes me cringe. And when I know that
here on
Long Island, his numbers are really high, as are Hillary's, I feel
truly
frightened of my neighbors. I know for a fact, because she told me,
that the
individual who usually drives me to medical appointments at the
moment, is a
Trump supporter. So I certainly can no longer believe that at
heart, the
American people are good hearted and democratic.
Miriam
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Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 11:07 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: my blog carl jarvis
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Revenge of the Simple: How George W.
Bush
Gave Rise to Trump
I can always count on Matt Taiddi being a serious minded
entertainer.
While I truly enjoyed this article, I totally disagree with Mister
Taiddi's
claim that George Bush the Lessor, was the actual beginning of the
end. No,
I don't put Donald Trump's name up for that grand award, either.
The fact
is, we've had a pretty fair share of Flat Headers in the Oval Office
since
early in our Exceptional History as the True Democracy of the
People.
Still, we once seemed to learn from our errors in judgement, and
from time
to time we actually sent some pretty decent men to the White House.
But that cannot happen any longer. Not since our Controllers, the
Ruling
Class, figured out how to control the mass media and use it, along
with mass
advertising, to their advantage. By conditioning the minds of
Working Class
Americans to long for all of the symbols that seemed to indicate
owning a
piece of the Great American Dream, a job; a home; a family. And a
flat
screen TV. Things have replaced ideas.
Like the pretty shiny beads and bobbles our Fore Fathers dangled
before the
eyes of the Natives, we give up our principles and grab for the
Fool's Gold,
thinking, as we've been conditioned to believe, that this ownership
means we
have arrived as full Americans. We no longer care about the well
being of
our fellow citizens. If we succeed it is because we have outwitted
all of
the fools around us. If we fail it is because the Fools around us
ganged
up, forming Unions or becoming Socialists.
We no longer have the ability to use long term thinking and
planning.
Like a Sit Com, our problems are solved at the end of the half hour,
including commercials.
No, George Bush the Lessor did not begin this slide down the razor
blade of
life. He, like Donald Trump are products of the very system that
evolved in
order to keep the Ruling Class in power. Well my dear Ruling Class,
you
created them and you are stuck with them.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/2/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<mailto:miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Taibbi writes: "Donald Trump isn't the beginning of the end.
George W.
Bush was. The amazing anti-miracle of the Bush presidency is
what
makes today's nightmare possible."
GOP insiders are now frantic at the prospect of an
uncultured
ignoramus winning the presidency. (photo: Aude
Guerrucci/Getty Images)
Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump
By Matt
Taibbi, Rolling Stone
01 March 16
Bush was just an appetizer - Trump would be the main course
To hear GOP insiders tell it, Doomsday is here. If Donald
Trump scores
huge on tonight and seizes control of the nomination in the
Super
Tuesday primaries, it will mark the beginning of the end of
the
Republican Party, and perhaps the presidency.
But Trump isn't the beginning of the end. George W. Bush
was. The
amazing anti-miracle of the Bush presidency is what makes
today's
nightmare possible.
People forget what an extraordinary thing it was that Bush
was president.
Dubya wasn't merely ignorant when compared with other
politicians or
other famous people. No, he would have stood out as dumb in
just about
any setting.
If you could somehow run simulations where Bush was
repeatedly
shipwrecked on a desert island with 20 other adults chosen
at random,
he would be the last person listened to by the group every
single
time. He knew absolutely nothing about anything. He wouldn't
have been
able to make fire, find water, build shelter or raise
morale. It would
have taken him days to get over the shock of no room
service.
Bush went to the best schools but was totally ignorant of
history,
philosophy, science, geography, languages and the arts. He
once had to
read War and Peace. His take? There were "thousands of
characters" in it.
"I guess it had an influence because it was a discipline,"
he said.
"It was more that than remembering anything in it."
So Bush's main takeaway from reading one of the greatest
books ever
written was that it contained many things to memorize. But
he couldn't
remember any of those things.
Bush showed no interest in learning and angrily rejected the
idea that
a president ought to be able to think his way through
problems. As
Mark Crispin Miller wrote in The Bush Dyslexicon, Bush's
main
rhetorical tool was the tautology - i.e., saying the same
thing, only
twice.
"It's very important for folks to understand that when
there's more
trade, there's more commerce" was a classic Bush
formulation. "Our
nation must come together to unite" was another. One of my
favorites
was: "I understand that the unrest in the Middle East
creates unrest
throughout the region."
Academics and political junkies alike giddily compiled these
"Bushisms"
along with others that were funny for different reasons
("I'm doing
what I think what's wrong," for instance).
But Bush's tautologies weren't gaffes or verbal slips. They
just
represented the limits of his reasoning powers: A = A. There
are
educational apps that use groups of images to teach
two-year-olds to
recognize that an orange is like an orange while a banana is
a banana.
Bush was stalled at that developmental moment. And we
elected him
president.
Bush's eight years were like the reigns of a thousand
overwhelmed
congenital monarchs from centuries past. While the prince
rode horses,
romped with governesses and blew the national treasure on
britches or
hedge-mazes, the state was run by Svengalis and Rasputins
who dealt
with what Bush once derisively described as "what's
happening in the
world."
In Bush's case he had Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove thinking out
the
problem of how to get re-elected, while Dick "Vice" Cheney,
Donald
"Rummy" Rumsfeld and Andrew "Tangent Man" Card took care of
the
day-to-day affairs of the country (part of Card's
responsibilities
involved telling Bush what was in the newspapers he refused
to read).
It took hundreds of millions of dollars and huge armies of
such
behind-the-throne puppet-masters to twice (well, maybe
twice) sell a
voting majority on the delusion of George Bush, president.
Though
people might quibble with the results, the scale of this as
a purely
political achievement was awesome and heroic, comparable to
a moon
landing or the splitting of the atom.
Guiding Bush the younger through eight years of public
appearances was
surely the greatest coaching job in history. It was like
teaching a
donkey to play the Waldstein Sonata. It's breathtaking to
think about now.
But one part of it backfired. Instead of using an actor like
Reagan to
sell policies to the public, the Svengalis behind Bush sold
him as an
authentic man of the people, the guy you'd want to have an
O'Doul's with.
Rove correctly guessed that a generation of watching TV and
Hollywood
movies left huge blocs of Americans convinced that people
who read
books, looked at paintings and cared about spelling were
either serial
killers or scheming to steal bearer bonds from the Nakatomi
building.
(Even knowing what a bearer bond is was villainous).
The hero in American culture, meanwhile, was always a moron
with a big
gun who learned everything he needed to know from cowboy
movies. The
climax of pretty much every action movie from the
mid-eighties on
involved shotgunning the smarty-pants villain in the face
before he
could finish some fruity speech about whatever.
Rove sold Bush as that hero. He didn't know anything, but
dammit, he
was sure about what he didn't know. He was John McClane, and
Al Gore
was Hans Gruber. GOP flacks like Rove rallied the whole
press corps
around that narrative, to the point where anytime Gore tried
to nail
Bush down on a point of policy, pundits blasted him for
being a smug
know-it-all using wonk-ese to talk over our heads - as Cokie
Roberts
put it once, "this guy from Washington doing
Washington-speak."
This is like the scene from the increasingly prophetic
Idiocracy where
no one can understand Luke Wilson, a person of average
intelligence
rocketed 500 years into America's idiot future, because
whenever he
tries to reason with people, they think he's talking "like a
fag."
The Roves of the world used Bush's simplicity to win the
White House.
Once they got there, they used the levers of power to
pillage and
scheme like every other gang of rapacious politicians ever.
But the
plan was never to make ignorance a political principle. It
was just a ruse
to win office.
Now the situation is the opposite. Now GOP insiders are
frantic at the
prospect of an uncultured ignoramus winning the presidency.
A group of
major donors and GOP strategists even wrote out a memo
outlining why a
super PAC dedicated to stopping Trump was needed.
"We want voters to imagine Donald Trump in the Big Chair in
the Oval
Office, with responsibilities for worldwide confrontation at
his
fingertips," they wrote. Virginia Republican congressman
Scott Ringell
wrote an open letter to fellow Republicans arguing that a
Trump
presidency would be "reckless, embarrassing and ultimately
dangerous."
Hold on. It wasn't scary to imagine George "Is our children
learning?"
Bush with the "responsibilities for worldwide confrontation"
at his
fingertips?
It wasn't embarrassing to have a president represent the
U.S. on the
diplomatic stage who called people from Kosovo "Kosovians"
and people
from Greece "Grecians?"
It was way worse. Compared to Bush, Donald Trump is a
Rutherford or an
Einstein. In the same shipwreck scenario, Trump would have
all sorts
of ideas - all wrong, but at least he'd think of something,
instead of
staring at the sand waiting for a hotel phone to rise out of
it.
Of course, Trump's ignorance level, considering his Wharton
education,
is nearly as awesome as what Bush accomplished in spite of
Yale. In
fact, unlike Bush, who had the decency to not even try to
understand
the news, Trump reads all sorts of crazy things and believes
them all.
From theories about vaccines causing autism to
conspiratorial
questions about the pillow on Antonin Scalia's face to
Internet
legends about Americans using bullets dipped in pigs' blood
to shoot
Muslims, there isn't any absurd idea Donald Trump isn't
willing to
entertain, so long as it fits in with his worldview.
But Washington is freaking out about Trump in a way they
never did
about Bush. Why? Because Bush was their moron, while Trump
is his own
moron.
That's really what it comes down to.
And all of the Beltway's hooting and hollering about how
"embarrassing" and "dangerous" Trump is will fall on deaf
ears,
because as gullible as Americans can be, they're smart
enough to
remember being told that it was OK to vote for George Bush,
a man
capable of losing at tic-tac-toe.
We're about to enter a dark period in the history of the
American
experiment. The Founding Fathers never imagined an
electorate raised
on Toddlers and Tiaras and Temptation Island. Remember, just
a few
decades ago, shows like Married With Children and Roseanne
were
satirical parodies. Now the audience can't even handle that
much
irony. A lot of American culture is just dumb slobs cheering
on other
dumb slobs. It was inevitable, once we broke the seal with
Bush, that
our politics would become the same thing.
Madison and Jefferson never foresaw this situation. They
knew there
was danger of demagoguery, but they never imagined
presidential
candidates exchanging "mine's bigger than yours" jokes or
doing "let's
laugh at the disabled" routines. There's no map in the
Constitution to
tell us how to get out of where we're going. All we can do
now is hold
on.
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Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump
By Matt
Taibbi, Rolling Stone
01 March 16
Bush was just an appetizer - Trump would be the main course
o hear
GOP insiders tell it, Doomsday is here. If Donald Trump
scores huge on
tonight and seizes control of the nomination in the Super
Tuesday
primaries, it will mark the beginning of the end of the
Republican
Party, and perhaps the presidency.
But Trump isn't the beginning of the end. George W. Bush
was. The
amazing anti-miracle of the Bush presidency is what makes
today's
nightmare possible.
People forget what an extraordinary thing it was that Bush
was president.
Dubya wasn't merely ignorant when compared with other
politicians or
other famous people. No, he would have stood out as dumb in
just about
any setting.
If you could somehow run simulations where Bush was
repeatedly
shipwrecked on a desert island with 20 other adults chosen
at random,
he would be the last person listened to by the group every
single
time. He knew absolutely nothing about anything. He wouldn't
have been
able to make fire, find water, build shelter or raise
morale. It would
have taken him days to get over the shock of no room
service.
Bush went to the best schools but was totally ignorant of
history,
philosophy, science, geography, languages and the arts. He
once had to
read War and Peace. His take? There were "thousands of
characters" in it.
"I guess it had an influence because it was a discipline,"
he said.
"It was more that than remembering anything in it."
So Bush's main takeaway from reading one of the greatest
books ever
written was that it contained many things to memorize. But
he couldn't
remember any of those things.
Bush showed no interest in learning and angrily rejected the
idea that
a president ought to be able to think his way through
problems. As
Mark Crispin Miller wrote in The Bush Dyslexicon, Bush's
main
rhetorical tool was the tautology - i.e., saying the same
thing, only
twice.
"It's very important for folks to understand that when
there's more
trade, there's more commerce" was a classic Bush
formulation. "Our
nation must come together to unite" was another. One of my
favorites
was: "I understand that the unrest in the Middle East
creates unrest
throughout the region."
Academics and political junkies alike giddily compiled these
"Bushisms"
along with others that were funny for different reasons
("I'm doing
what I think what's wrong," for instance).
But Bush's tautologies weren't gaffes or verbal slips. They
just
represented the limits of his reasoning powers: A = A. There
are
educational apps that use groups of images to teach
two-year-olds to
recognize that an orange is like an orange while a banana is
a banana.
Bush was stalled at that developmental moment. And we
elected him
president.
Bush's eight years were like the reigns of a thousand
overwhelmed
congenital monarchs from centuries past. While the prince
rode horses,
romped with governesses and blew the national treasure on
britches or
hedge-mazes, the state was run by Svengalis and Rasputins
who dealt
with what Bush once derisively described as "what's
happening in the
world."
In Bush's case he had Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove thinking out
the
problem of how to get re-elected, while Dick "Vice" Cheney,
Donald
"Rummy" Rumsfeld and Andrew "Tangent Man" Card took care of
the
day-to-day affairs of the country (part of Card's
responsibilities
involved telling Bush what was in the newspapers he refused
to read).
It took hundreds of millions of dollars and huge armies of
such
behind-the-throne puppet-masters to twice (well, maybe
twice) sell a
voting majority on the delusion of George Bush, president.
Though
people might quibble with the results, the scale of this as
a purely
political achievement was awesome and heroic, comparable to
a moon
landing or the splitting of the atom.
Guiding Bush the younger through eight years of public
appearances was
surely the greatest coaching job in history. It was like
teaching a
donkey to play the Waldstein Sonata. It's breathtaking to
think about now.
But one part of it backfired. Instead of using an actor like
Reagan to
sell policies to the public, the Svengalis behind Bush sold
him as an
authentic man of the people, the guy you'd want to have an
O'Doul's with.
Rove correctly guessed that a generation of watching TV and
Hollywood
movies left huge blocs of Americans convinced that people
who read
books, looked at paintings and cared about spelling were
either serial
killers or scheming to steal bearer bonds from the Nakatomi
building.
(Even knowing what a bearer bond is was villainous).
The hero in American culture, meanwhile, was always a moron
with a big
gun who learned everything he needed to know from cowboy
movies. The
climax of pretty much every action movie from the
mid-eighties on
involved shotgunning the smarty-pants villain in the face
before he
could finish some fruity speech about whatever.
Rove sold Bush as that hero. He didn't know anything, but
dammit, he
was sure about what he didn't know. He was John McClane, and
Al Gore
was Hans Gruber. GOP flacks like Rove rallied the whole
press corps
around that narrative, to the point where anytime Gore tried
to nail
Bush down on a point of policy, pundits blasted him for
being a smug
know-it-all using wonk-ese to talk over our heads - as Cokie
Roberts
put it once, "this guy from Washington doing
Washington-speak."
This is like the scene from the increasingly prophetic
Idiocracy where
no one can understand Luke Wilson, a person of average
intelligence
rocketed 500 years into America's idiot future, because
whenever he
tries to reason with people, they think he's talking "like a
fag."
The Roves of the world used Bush's simplicity to win the
White House.
Once they got there, they used the levers of power to
pillage and
scheme like every other gang of rapacious politicians ever.
But the
plan was never to make ignorance a political principle. It
was just a ruse
to win office.
Now the situation is the opposite. Now GOP insiders are
frantic at the
prospect of an uncultured ignoramus winning the presidency.
A group of
major donors and GOP strategists even wrote out a memo
outlining why a
super PAC dedicated to stopping Trump was needed.
"We want voters to imagine Donald Trump in the Big Chair in
the Oval
Office, with responsibilities for worldwide confrontation at
his
fingertips," they wrote. Virginia Republican congressman
Scott Ringell
wrote an open letter to fellow Republicans arguing that a
Trump
presidency would be "reckless, embarrassing and ultimately
dangerous."
Hold on. It wasn't scary to imagine George "Is our children
learning?"
Bush with the "responsibilities for worldwide confrontation"
at his
fingertips?
It wasn't embarrassing to have a president represent the
U.S. on the
diplomatic stage who called people from Kosovo "Kosovians"
and people
from Greece "Grecians?"
It was way worse. Compared to Bush, Donald Trump is a
Rutherford or an
Einstein. In the same shipwreck scenario, Trump would have
all sorts
of ideas - all wrong, but at least he'd think of something,
instead of
staring at the sand waiting for a hotel phone to rise out of
it.
Of course, Trump's ignorance level, considering his Wharton
education,
is nearly as awesome as what Bush accomplished in spite of
Yale. In
fact, unlike Bush, who had the decency to not even try to
understand
the news, Trump reads all sorts of crazy things and believes
them all.
From theories about vaccines causing autism to
conspiratorial
questions about the pillow on Antonin Scalia's face to
Internet
legends about Americans using bullets dipped in pigs' blood
to shoot
Muslims, there isn't any absurd idea Donald Trump isn't
willing to
entertain, so long as it fits in with his worldview.
But Washington is freaking out about Trump in a way they
never did
about Bush. Why? Because Bush was their moron, while Trump
is his own
moron.
That's really what it comes down to.
And all of the Beltway's hooting and hollering about how
"embarrassing" and "dangerous" Trump is will fall on deaf
ears,
because as gullible as Americans can be, they're smart
enough to
remember being told that it was OK to vote for George Bush,
a man
capable of losing at tic-tac-toe.
We're about to enter a dark period in the history of the
American
experiment. The Founding Fathers never imagined an
electorate raised
on Toddlers and Tiaras and Temptation Island. Remember, just
a few
decades ago, shows like Married With Children and Roseanne
were
satirical parodies. Now the audience can't even handle that
much
irony. A lot of American culture is just dumb slobs cheering
on other
dumb slobs. It was inevitable, once we broke the seal with
Bush, that
our politics would become the same thing.
Madison and Jefferson never foresaw this situation. They
knew there
was danger of demagoguery, but they never imagined
presidential
candidates exchanging "mine's bigger than yours" jokes or
doing "let's
laugh at the disabled" routines. There's no map in the
Constitution to
tell us how to get out of where we're going. All we can do
now is hold
on.
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