RandyBrian wrote:
All people ARE inherently selfish and self centered and have a strong leaning towards cruelty. Kindness, courtesy, thoughtfulness, and both sympathy and empathy for others are all traits that must be TAUGHT and learned. Some cultures, such as the Judeo-Christian culture America is primarily based on, strives to teach these things to our children. Many other cultures do not.
The only people who honestly think all people are inherently "selfish and self-centered" (pst, they mean the same thing) are the Christians and that's because they're stuck with a narrative that was designed to make them more easily controlled by the church. It goes back the that whole "if you don't do what we tell you, you will burn in hell foreveeerrrr!"
It also enforces the false impression that the only good people in the world are Christians
RandyBrian wrote:
Having said that, you guys are putting a lot of emphasis and extrapolating a lot of conclusions from a few sentences in a speech by Senator Graham.
Read the title again... It says more indications that he right wants a dictator. I didn't actually say they do I said there are indications that they do. You people are always so reactive when you read my posts that wind up missing my point almost all the time. I was simply pointing out what one person said and how a crowd reacted. You might think it's an inconsequential remark but it's going to raise eyebrows on the left because no one on the left would say anything like... it's just not in our mindset. We are not a people psychologically beaten into submission by a religious and overbearing narrative.
RandyBrian wrote:
President Trump has never been crazy. I did not and do not fear him, and I don't think anyone else does either.
I never suggested Trump was crazy either... Maybe you were picking up on some other comments that suggested it would be an advantage if people thought he was.
RandyBrian wrote:
What he WAS, is unpredictable in a political sense. He could not be trusted to bow to pressure from other politicians or groups, like most politicians.
Yes, he could - and he was. You just have to talk money. Ask the NRA or the America First PAC or for that matter any of the donors that that added up to millions put toward electing Trump.
But what being unpredictable also meant was that our allies started to distrust us and our federal government under Trump wound up being he most dysfunctional administration we have ever seen. It weakened the American resolve.
RandyBrian wrote:
His opponents, in Congress or among the world leaders, were never quite sure how he would react. And yes, IMO this is a good thing.
I struggle to understand how you would think so. Name one thing that a POTUS can do by being unpredictable that he couldn't do as a well-understood leader of the world's predominate super-power.
Seriously, name one damned thing. I bet you can't.
RandyBrian wrote:
His priority was keeping his campaign promises and striving to get America back on it's feet again. Yes, he was and is blunt and abrasive.
America was already on it's feet again - Obama already took care of that. All Trump had to do is not screw it up which he did anyway and the fact that he has no tact or manners and he talks like a retard matters less to me than the actions he has taken, all of which put working Americans at a disadvantage.
RandyBrian wrote:
But
all the accusations leveled against Trump over the last seven years are made up lies or exaggerations. He has NOT lied 40,000+ times. He is NOT a con man. He is NOT racist. He is NOT crazy. He is NOT corrupt. He is NOT and never was authoritarian or trying to be a dictator, and not a single one of you on the left have EVER presented a single solid credible item of evidence that Trump was/is any of these things you have accused him of being.
Dude, the evidence is ALL OVER the place. Yes, he did all those things. You're just in denial. I don't even know why you people continue to act like none of it happened. Obviously none of that matters to you as much as your loyalty to your political messiah, so why not just admit and say you don't care? The truth will set you free.
RandyBrian wrote:
Donald Trump's presidency will INDEED be studied and reviewed by psychologists for the next 200 years. But not in the way you think. This time in our history will be analysed endlessly in an attempt to understand HOW a once respected political party could have become SO radicalized that it would embrace constant lies, exaggerations, and two pathetic and false impeachments to destroy a political enemy.
Nah, I don't think so. Here's why. The ONLY people who actually believe your BS are the Trump followers themselves (which is typical of personality cults) That cult has always hovered around 38% of the American people. On a global scale where Americans make up about 5% of the world population that amounts to roughly about 2%. So if history is going to treat Trump kindly, he really needs to win in 2024 so he can implement the censorship needed to rewrite history in his favor. Even then, it won't be the history taught in other countries.
RandyBrian wrote:
They will scratch their heads about how America allowed the News media to become so one sided and corrupt that they would throw away their traditional role and embrace one political side against the other, and embrace lies and distortions as standard daily fare. So much so that the American population came to completely distrust anything they say.
The American public will continue to trust their own sources in the media and the narrative that the entire free-press industry bridled themselves into some kind of agency for a political spat against one measly guy will be catalogued along with the rest of the hoaxes and ridiculous conspiracy theories.
RandyBrian wrote:
The psychologists will write endless papers on how the low-information voters were led by the nose by the DNC and MSM to hate and revile a President who in no way deserved such scorn.
In you dreams buddy - LOL
I'm not even a Democrat and I a certainly didn't need to get my lead from the DNC. Anyone who doesn't have their heads up their ass can see Trump for what he is.
RandyBrian wrote:
But mostly, the medical professionals of the future will be shocked, dismayed, and fail to EVER fully understand how SO MANY bright and intelligent and well educated people, not the low information or the uneducated, so willingly engulfed themselves into the dark and violent abyss of Trump hatred.
Statistics show that Trump supporters are the the lowest educated of all the voting blocks. So, yeah that leaves a LOT of smart people on the other side and trust me... It's no mystery to them how they arrived at their conclusions about Trump.
RandyBrian wrote:
How people that really SHOULD have known better, angrily and spitefully condemned not only Trump, but most of his supporters, all fellow Americans, as being unpatriotic and seeking to not only turn America to over to tyranny, but actually believed that Trump supporters tried to 'overthrow' our nation for Trump.
We go by evidence and when the evidence shows someone shitting on our Constitution and fleecing our republic then yeah, it reason enough to condemn the POS. As for his followers, well - that's just sad. It's a shame that our democracy can be influenced by such a mindless cult of idiots.
I'm sorry but in 2016 I gave Trump supporters a lot of leeway because I figures he's new on the scene but today, I can find no excuse. If you're still trying defend Trump after all the crap he obviously got caught doing the you just aren't paying attention to reality.
RandyBrian wrote:
Yes, many hundreds of books will be written trying to explain this dark period in America.
Ah... we agree on something. ;)
RandyBrian wrote:
I wonder if any of them will ever hit on the truth? Or will they just scratch their heads and decide that liberalism really IS a highly contagious disease, and will quickly infect and spread and depress the victim's ability to be reasonable, objective, just, or fair? Along with their ability to think and critically evaluate evidence and facts?
If ANY of you had the slightest idea of what critical thinking actually is, instead of just hearing it from liberals and throwing it back at 'em, you would be able to use it and see for yourself that liberalism is what MADE America.
That won't happen though because your a religious man and religion has always opposed the teaching of critical thought because it leads people to question their authority.
RandyBrian wrote:
That they enthusiastically embraced hatred and deceit and lies and false propaganda and fake news because, after all, the end justifies the means.
You're still projecting.
RandyBrian wrote:
These questions will be addressed endlessly, but I doubt they will ever see the real reasons for the Democrat party's rapid fall into a pit void of truth or integrity or morality. Or ever really understand how people like you could have ever embraced such depravity and dishonor.
I can't speak for the Democratic Party but for me personally, it is above everything else, my morality that puts me at odds with the most vile and president we have ever had.