I mean it sounds ugly but then it's still quite cool. Liverpool the city of self-pity is so lifeboat that it barely regards itself a part of England, but Liverpool is cool and so is Manchester which is again similar in this blinkered and inhibited and yet daring and reckless way of behaving.
The founding myth and the wandering eye. Where you come from is your core sense of right and wrong, and then there's adventure, curiosity and smarts drawing your eyes to the horizon.
There's an unwelcome situation in the world and we need to make the best of it. Springboarding off my own posts helps me to understand things and my nuance will collapse anyway with war on the horizon, it doesn't actually do you any harm.
The Freemasons is an example of this. Anybody on the right who knows that the Freemasons were more the reason for capitalism and democracy rather than being the enemy of capitalism and democracy in a vast oligarchal global conspiracy should get out now. It's never too late to admit you were wrong. There's no shame in that.
Constitutionalism comes from an alliance between the elite and the skilled/professional/educated. It originated from the Freemen; the crafts, the guilds and the masons. America is young and has no medieval history and maybe this is why you don't recognise the feudalism you're embracing. The fight before us is not between capitalism and socialism, the choice of this century is between the vaguely capitalist system of today and the abyss of a new dark age made all the more sinister by the speed and motion of this century.
Liberals are the total opposite mistake. Mincing, nuancing and even occasionally the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And because of this you lose. People don't like liberals because they lose. Liberals need to take from Trump his ability to talk down to people and combine this with a real drive to teach people to read. Intellect has become an issue of inequality and you have to meet in the middle. FDR knew not to push people further than what they thought was common sense.
And we wonder why the man who champions the little guy can turn around and say he won't have anybody in charge of the economy who isn't already really rich - made rich by an economy which Trump himself claims to be rigged. How do you see that as merit? Where is the self-made American man rising up the ranks to achieve any station in life? Trump is behaving like a blatant aristocrat and this is his appeal to ignorant peasants - absolute monarchies were always an alliance between the aristocracy and the peasantry but America was founded to defy that system.
Liberals are the total opposite mistake. Mincing, nuancing and even occasionally the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And because of this you lose. People don't like liberals because they lose. Liberals need to take from Trump his ability to talk down to people and combine this with a real drive to teach people to read. Intellect has become an issue of inequality and you have to meet in the middle. FDR knew not to push people further than what they thought was common sense.
Remember that truth is practically irrelevant to laypeople and common sense. It's not common sense to seek truth it's common sense to say and do whatever is necessary to achieve victory. To win is the only consideration of a philistine, the trains running on time is the important matter. What are you winning? Where are the trains going? These are irrelevant questions to footsoldiers.
For ther first time in American history being American really pays off today. Be that stubborn delinquent rabble of insolent ingrates who disrespect life as a rule. Be as American as you possibly can if you wish to undo Trump.
It was disrespectful to the King that you even founded America. Where would you be now if you'd kept under British rule with that lackey mentality? Nice and civilised with first-rate healthcare, a low murder rate and a cultured people more like Canada. Where would the world be without the satanic superstition of America which gave the earth both the great depression and the great recession?
Considering whats happened - electing a moron - I accuse you of over-respecting the position of president. This is no time to serve the establishment and blindly respect authority for its own sake
Feminism hit men like a ton of bricks in countries of the protestant ethic(all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy)and now anything less than insane money isn't a very good way of attracting or keeping a woman. Men were told that if they went out and worked hard in life they'd be sorted, and instead the opposite is the case. Have some sympathy for the devils.
The added bonus is that this would inflate away much of the debt we already owe. The banks would likely never stand for it, and that's why we'd have to nationalise them like we did in 2008 - on our terms this time, not theirs.
instead of bailing out the banks in 2008 we should have given everyone free money straight off the printing press and paid for it not in debt, but by inflation spread across the entire of society. The lower classes get £500 a month for free and lose for example £200 in inflated cost of living and tax, the upper middle class gets the same £500 and loses all of it in tax and inflation, and the super rich gets £500 and loses £1000.
At one time life was very simple and equally social, and the jobs which needed doing ticked the psychological boxes particularly for men. However can the estate agent or social media manager come home with the same therapeutic effect of a hard days work? Or is the nature of work built-in to the economy of 2017 by definition a humiliation in a lonely and predatory society?
Sould we start giving everyone free money so they can invent themselves a job to do thus creating a kind of "peoples' economy" which piggy backs off AI and automation? It's not designed to pay its own way - it's based on free money - because it'll never materially compete with the robots nonetheless the "people's economy" exists for social reasons. The best social welfare programme is a job.
There are occasions when a man needs to be emotional to become more than himself. Anger is just as good as courage in a fight we can't all nonchalantly save the day like James Bond.
Or more likely all payments will be contactless and paid in dollars of attention. Future money will be directly generated by drawing attention to yourself bringing new meaning to the phrase image is everything.
Trump may come to represent the America that become so old in its way of doing things that the pay off from an update is immense in the same way that you really feel a new car after 20 years of running the old one into the ground. Timing it all is key. You can spend a lot of money on a new car every 6 months and not feel a thing.
From a consumer and business point of view it would be best if Trump borrowed heavily to modernise American industry by helping to replace swathes of the American workforce with AI; supporting mankinds unstoppable march towards the superfluous is the best thing for GDP which in turn may or may not create the rising tide which lifts all boats. But there's nothing conservative about doing this and there's a reason why liberal economics makes everything else more liberal. There'll be a showdown on the right, there's as large a gap within them as there is between gay rights activists and the muslims who share the left.
And I guess that's the blind spot in Trumpism. Globalism is bad for Americans because globalism is based on merit. Trumpism wants favour and protection for its own people, a return to the unprecedented advantage American capitalism delivered after the second world war - not because Americans and American capitalism are particularly effective(time has shown America to be a short-lived empire)but because there was a globe without global competition. The competition had annihilated itself and this created for many years a dreamland in the US which trickled down into the rest of the West. By 2017 this luxurious position is lost and today under globalism the western quality of life is to stagnate for decades until the developed economy comes to Timbuktu.
The pro-business thing to do with your inheritance isn't to give it your own kids but to find more productive sons and daughters of another family and leave it to them. Globalism is a move to stop nations from behaving in a familial way where it puts its own(less productive)sons and daughters first. Of course every country, even a liberal country, does more for its own people than foreigners but the aim of true capitalism is to reward merit and narrowly defined rational decision-making. It's not pro-business to invest more in low-productive druggies from the rust belt and it's not rational to feed your spoilt children when there are Pakistanis out there sewing soccer balls since they were 4 years old.
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RE: "Defensive narcissist"
I mean it sounds ugly but then it's still quite cool. Liverpool the city of self-pity is so lifeboat that it barely regards itself a part of England, but Liverpool is cool and so is Manchester which is again similar in this blinkered and inhibited and yet daring and reckless way of behaving.