They've raised their presence above the Just Noticeable Differential Threshold and will be eradicated for it by moderate/ centrists Democrats that are no longer intimidated through cancellation by them. The repercussion is that the old Democratic Party will become an unpopular centrist neoliberal party, and the radical Left will establish a new populist-Left party.
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WTF? How can something end that never began? I think starting this would be a good idea and what Democrats need to do to win.
^^Standing in the river...^^
Left wing lunatics? How about the other side - brilliant logicians?
Please, let me laugh in glee.
The guard is changing, that's all. Any "trickle down" remains to be seen.
The new guard is not paralyzed with risk aversion.
In other words, an opening to future possibilities now exists that wasn't there before.
Possibilities for the disaster of the century. Sold as Making America Great Again as the Insurrectionist Felon blows smoke (or bulshit) and pats himself on the back as America suffers and the world laughs at our ignorance.
America once again is feared. As it should be.
I always deny false narratives. This VDH video is full of them. Everything he says is a half truth, a distortion or a complete lie.
America should be feared because a moron is in charge? And that is the way it should be?
I strongly disagree.
Ad hominem is no refutation.
Trump is "The Prince"!
Power gained through fear only creates resentment leading to hate for the ones creating the fear.
Ultimately, those leading through fear collapse and lose bigly. It is ignorance that gravitate toward power and control through fear.
Humankind at large has not yet evolved enough to be able to live in peace and harmony as one. Perhaps in several million more years.
Minus: Ad hominem is no refutation.
Unrefuted lies don't magically become truths. And correctly calling out lies isn't ad hominem. FYI, citing the War Powers Act isn't craziness. Even if PAST Democrats didn't cite it when Clinton and Obama were president. You do realize there is turnover in Congress? CURRENT Democratic members of Congress aren't bound to adhere to "precedents" set by prior Democratic members of Congress.
If true, why do so many Russian women LOVE Putin?
You always fail to take the obverse side into account.
Just as in the phrase, "fear is the heart of love"... "love is at the heart of fear". Yin - Yang - Meden agan!
Power requires fear and love. And given Trump's support base, there's obviously a lot of love there.
Trump is NOT a racist. THAT is your UNFOUNDED "fear".
The one upon which you base your identity and EGO!
Calling things "lies" that aren't lies is ad hominem.
Refute the lie, don't just call the speaker a liar.
Minus: Trump is "The Prince"!
He isn't.
Copilot: Machiavelli didn’t glorify lying or cruelty for their own sake. He argued that a ruler might need to appear virtuous while being ruthless when necessary, but always in service of a higher goal: the stability and strength of the state. In that sense, the “ideal prince” is a strategic actor -- not a self-serving one. As the Psychology Today article you mentioned points out, Machiavellian leaders typically justify their actions as part of a larger, often nationalistic or institutional mission.
So if someone lies, manipulates, or uses fear primarily to enrich themselves or protect their personal brand, rather than to secure the state or serve the public good, that’s arguably not Machiavellian in the classical sense. It’s more narcissistic or kleptocratic than princely.
Some scholars have made this distinction explicitly. For example, a JSTOR article analyzing Trump through a Machiavellian lens suggests that while he may emulate the style -- boldness, unpredictability, dominance -- he lacks the strategic depth and civic purpose Machiavelli prescribed. [end]
You pretend that our government isn't "fascist" by definition. But are you anti-government? No, you fantasize that its' "fair" and meant to serve the people. Grow up.
You are forever throwing your problems at government to "solve". THAT is not government's function. That's yours.
Government only serves itself.
Who is naive enough to think that Trump is an "ideal Prince"? He's simply not a "bureaucrat" as Biden had been. America had been running on bureaucratic autopilot for the past 4 years.
And Trump is STRATEGICALLY remaking the bureaucracy, replacing civil servants with AIs that FOLLOW ORDERS (programs).
Minus: Power requires fear and love. And given Trump's support base, there's obviously a lot of love there.
And they will continue loving him as his policies destroy their lives?
Minus: Trump is NOT a racist. THAT is your UNFOUNDED "fear".
BS. That donald trump is a racist is proven by his words and actions. That's the opposite of "unfounded". That donald trump is a racist is well documented.
Minus: The one upon which you base your identity and EGO!
You base your identity on being a superior (in your mind) White Male. You are so frightened when this identity is challenged you made up terms like "neoracist" and "neosexist" to slander people who stand against racism and sexism.
The RINOs HATE Trump? Anyone surprised?
The neoracists swim in deNile and manufacture new racist boogeymen to ANTI. @@
I'm not a superior white male. I'm just a white male with a Very Superior IQ. NOT Genius though. Meden agan!
Bla, bla, bla... Your sense of the non existent self and your love of labeling is interesting. Has your mirror spoken?
Has the chameleon in yours?
No chameleon. Just pristine non-dual awareness.
Oh, cyclopian vision. Got it. My name is "No Man"... (Homer, "Odyssey")
Illusions mark you well.
^^Sings Paeans to Poseidon^^
Flexing again?
Like Mr. Olympia. :)
The ego @ work.
Beats the Id.
No such thing. Just as there is no physical ego either.
So why do you keep fighting the Ego, Les? Are you nutz?
Because I'm honest enough to know and admit the "ego", which is nothing other than ones own obscurations and delusions, must be guarded against or one can constantly fall prey to one's own obscurations and delusions. Tame the "ego", sever attachments, aversions, and suffering/dissatisfaction is greatly lessened or it becomes much less.
I'm working on my deep aversion to the FOTUS and his administration. I'll likely never overcome that.
No one can.
Vanitas!
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