Morninggggg eagle~~~ Good vid....
Thought I'd share this with you..I posted it elsewhere but sure fits with your thread~~~
A different perspective~~~
Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected
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Were in a funny moment. Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant, are struggling to comprehend the central fact Republican primary race, while regular people have already absorbed what has happened and is happening. Journalists and politicos have been sharing schemes for how Marco parlays a victory out of winning nowhere, or Ted roars back, or Kasich has to finish second in Ohio. But in my experience any nonpolitical person on the street, when asked who will win, not only knows but gets a look as if youre teasing him. Trump, they say.
In America now only normal people are capable of seeing the obvious.
But actually thats been true for a while, and is how we got in the position were in.
But I keep thinking of how Donald Trump got to be the very likely Republican nominee. There are many answers and reasons, but my thoughts keep revolving around the idea of protection.
There are the protected and the unprotected. The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.
The protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successfulthose who have power or access to it. They are protected from much of the roughness of the world. More to the point, they are protected from the world they have created. Again, they make public policy and have for some time.
I want to call them the elite to load the rhetorical dice, but lets stick with the protected.
They are figures in government, politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, theyve got some money. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of themin Washington it is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill; in Brussels, significant figures in the European Unionliterally have their own security details.
Because they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. Theyre insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions.
One issue obviously roiling the U.S. and western Europe is immigration. It is THE issue of the moment, a real and concrete one but also a symbolic one: It stands for all the distance between governments and their citizens.
It is of course the issue that made Donald Trump.
If you are an unprotected Americanone with limited resources and negligible access to poweryou have absorbed some lessons from the past 20 years experience of i*****l i*********n. You know the Democrats wont protect you and the Republicans wont help you. Both parties refused to control the border. The Republicans were afraid of being called illiberal, r****t, of losing a demographic for a generation. The Democrats wanted to keep the issue alive to use it as a wedge against the Republicans and to establish themselves as owners of the Hispanic v**e.
Many Americans suffered from i*****l i*********nits impact on labor markets, financial costs, crime, the sense that the rule of law was collapsing. But the protected did finemore workers at lower wages. No effect of i*****l i*********n was likely to hurt them personally.
It was good for the protected. But the unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country, either.
The unprotected came to think they owed the establishmentanother word for the protectednothing, no particular loyalty, no old allegiance.
Mr. Trump came from that.
This is a terrible feature of our agethat we are governed by protected people who dont seem to care that much about their unprotected fellow citizens.
And a country really cant continue this way.
In wise governments the top is attentive to the realities of the lives of normal people, and careful about their anxieties. Thats more or less how America used to be. There didnt seem to be so much distance between the top and the bottom.
Now is seems the attitude of the top half is: Youre on your own. Get with the program, little r****t.
Social philosophers are always saying the underclass must re-moralize. Maybe it is the overclass that must re-moralize.
I dont know if the protected see how serious this moment is, or their role in it.
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=296&mn=17577&pt=msg&mid=15791036"Get with the program r****t"........xenophobe......homophobe......Islamaphobe....... and all the other phobes...... Conform to our policies and ideology or be outed, shamed, and audited.
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I'll only add Peggy Noonan makes a pretty good point. Those who create the policies that set conditions in the real world never have to experience the reality of them.... They are protected.......
Is Trump the one to bring that reality front and center? Millions seem to think so........
At the moment - we have real problems - and it's not confined to a moment - it's been building for at least 40 years or more... America is not at a "tipping point".... We're at the breaking point.... No solutions from the Oligarchs, they take and take, and take... They don't represent those that put them there - not anymore... They're in it for all the free stuff and power that they can get....
Trump puts it out there, Cruz does too, but doesn't get as much traction as Trump because of the MSM decidedly created Trump's candidacy.... And now - as one article already put forth - they can't handle him or the t***h.... Cruz had been attempting to put that message out there - but his efforts have been sabotaged by McConnell and the rest of the losers in Congress, as well as the MSM and yes, Trump.... So - it'll be a waiting game for Cruz to see whether he'll survive Texas....
Rubio needs to lose - and lose badly....I hope he does, the mealy mouth "establishment" is no better than those now throwing millions his way to take Trump out..Bush couldn't do it and I doubt Rubio can either....
Super Tuesday will be very interesting, if Trump takes the 11 states "projected", mathematically delegate wise he will have already "won"..The RINOS' will have to literally throw the e******n to win it... I put nothing past them either...
Morninggggg eagle~~~ Good vid.... br br Thought I... (