Once upon a time -- and not so long ago -- political leaders who spoke truthfully and forcefully earned respect and praise, and they were often rewarded by voters for doing so.
Imagine such a thing
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Once upon a time -- and not so long ago -- political leaders who spoke truthfully and forcefully earned respect and praise, and they were often rewarded by voters for doing so.
The elite leaders of this supposedly classless society were corrupt plutocrats, a mafia dressed in Marxism. The party was infested by careerists, and its grip on power was defended by propagandists who used rote phrases such as “real socialism” and “Western imperialism” so often that almost anyone could write an editorial in Pravda or Red Star merely by playing a kind of Soviet version of Mad Libs. News was tightly controlled. Soviet radio, television, and newspaper figures plowed on through stories that were utterly detached from reality, regularly extolling the successes of Soviet agriculture even as the country was forced to buy food from the capitalists (including the hated Americans).
Members of the Communist Party who questioned anything, or expressed any sign of unorthodoxy, could be denounced by name, or more likely, simply fired. They would not be executed—this was not Stalinism, after all—but some were left to rot in obscurity in some make-work exile job, eventually retiring as a forgotten “Comrade Pensioner.” The deal was clear: Pump the party’s nonsense and enjoy the good life, or squawk and be sent to manage a library in Kazakhstan.
This should all sound familiar.
The Republican Party has, for years, ignored the ideas and principles it once espoused, to the point where the 2020 GOP convention simply dispensed with the fiction of a platform and instead declared the party to be whatever Comrade—excuse me, President—Donald Trump said it was.
seektravelinfo wrote:shivers wrote:She, her father, and what's left of their trusted colleagues are skilled politicians, not to be underestimated. I can't help but wonder what they're planning. Whatever it is, they won't save the party.
Their skills lie in how strategic they are in unabashedly and aggressively taking power, ethics be damned.
Tarkan wrote:seektravelinfo wrote:shivers wrote:She, her father, and what's left of their trusted colleagues are skilled politicians, not to be underestimated. I can't help but wonder what they're planning. Whatever it is, they won't save the party.
Their skills lie in how strategic they are in unabashedly and aggressively taking power, ethics be damned.
As compared to someone like Joe Biden, who somehow managed to pull crowds of less than 10 to his rallies, but managed to get more votes than Obama ever did. That wasn't an unabashed and aggressive power grab. Nope, not at all.
Tarkan wrote:seektravelinfo wrote:shivers wrote:She, her father, and what's left of their trusted colleagues are skilled politicians, not to be underestimated. I can't help but wonder what they're planning. Whatever it is, they won't save the party.
Their skills lie in how strategic they are in unabashedly and aggressively taking power, ethics be damned.
As compared to someone like Joe Biden, who somehow managed to pull crowds of less than 10 to his rallies, but managed to get more votes than Obama ever did. That wasn't an unabashed and aggressive power grab. Nope, not at all.
They needed "alternative facts" to have his inauguration crowd look as good as they claimed it was. Truth wills out.seektravelinfo wrote:It’s stunning that Trump’s effectiveness to his base is measured by them by his rallies, as though a MAGA rally is the same as governing.
seektravelinfo wrote:It’s stunning that Trump’s effectiveness to his base is measured by them by his rallies, as though a MAGA rally is the same as governing.
Tarkan wrote:
As compared to someone like Joe Biden, who somehow managed to pull crowds of less than 10 to his rallies, but managed to get more votes than Obama ever did. That wasn't an unabashed and aggressive power grab. Nope, not at all.
sparrow wrote:Tarkan wrote:
As compared to someone like Joe Biden, who somehow managed to pull crowds of less than 10 to his rallies, but managed to get more votes than Obama ever did. That wasn't an unabashed and aggressive power grab. Nope, not at all.
You really do live in an alternative universe don't you?
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