drinkTHEkoolaid Posted June 4, 2016 Posted June 4, 2016 Donald Trump is the response to a bullying culture by Glenn Reynolds Abusive political correctness drives voters into the impolitic billionaire's loud embrace Back in February, analyzing Donald Trumps appeal,David Gelernter wrote: Political correctness. Trump hasn't made it a campaign theme exactly, but he mentions it often with angry disgust. Reporters, pundits, and the other candidates treat it as a sideshow, a handy way for Trump (King Kong Jr.) to smack down the pitiful airplanes that attack him as he bestrides his mighty tower, roaring. But the analysts have it exactly backward. Political correctness is the biggest issue facing America today. Even Trump has just barely faced up to it. The ironic name disguises the real nature of this force, which ought to be called invasive leftism or thought-police liberalism or metastasized progressivism. The old-time American mainstream, working- and middle-class white males and their families, is mad as hell about political correctness and the havoc it has wreaked for 40 years havoc made worse by the flat refusal of most serious Republicans to confront it. {snip} Political correctness is not, as some might claim, just an effort to encourage niceness. As Gelernter notes, its an effort to control people. Like the Newspeak inGeorge Orwells 1984, the goal is to make it impossible for people to speak, or even think, unapproved thoughts. 5]Of course, by limiting what people can think and say, political correctness has hollowed out Americas universities, cheapened and distorted its politics, and served (and this last is entirely intentional) to make those who favor traditional American values like free speech feel marginalized and at risk. (I saw someone on Twitter talking about America-shaming last week, and that term fits pretty well.) But as leftists like to say, you cant make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. 5] 5]Almost as irritating to a lot of people, though, is the extent to which self-described conservative politicians, pundits and media organs have gone along. Part of this is because PC is often misleadingly sold as politeness, and elite American conservatives are suckers for etiquette. Part of it is because those conservative leaders move in an upper-middle-class environment where academic norms govern everyone, including them. 5] 5]But when respectable people wont talk about things that a lot of voters care about, the less-respectable will eventually rise to meet the need. Thats what Trumps doing. And a lot of people are cheering him on not so much because theyre fans of Trump personally as because theyre happy to see someone finally stand up to the PC bullies. 5] 5]Will electing Trump solve all the nations problems? Nope. But, as mentioned above, it will show that more than half the country rejects the culture of political correctness, and the political class that let it take over. And for many people, thats reason enough. 5] 5]http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/31/donald-trump-politically-correct-speech-codes-column/85163810/ 5] 5]Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. I think this is a very good analysis
TH3 Posted June 4, 2016 Posted June 4, 2016 (edited) No it's the 40% of the primary voters who want to send a big FU over the last 7 years. It's a pure payback and not rational. But you reap what you sowPayback for what? The hot mess of 2016 with all the gays married and T people peeing who knows where and none of our troops coming home in boxes and a relatively good economy or the hot mess of 2008 where we were in 2 unfounded wars, our economy was in free fall, unemployment was 10 percent plus, the auto industry was bankrupt? Payback for millions LESS iillegal immagrants than the Bush years, a lower yearly deficit? You say it is not rational....do you mean that this "payback" is an unfounded concept? Edited June 4, 2016 by baskin
B-Man Posted June 4, 2016 Posted June 4, 2016 Obama's economic boasts go boom — that is, bust! http://washex.am/24oNDMm The late Obama-era economy produces statistics that most people probably find puzzling. The headline unemployment rate, now at 4.7 percent, might suggest we were back in the dot-com boom of 1999. But no one feels the energy or optimism of that era. The stock market doesn't look the same either; it's a bit down from where it was 18 months ago. And growth has been dismal — an annualized 0.8 percent in the first quarter, following 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter before that. Job creation numbers have been mostly respectable, usually approaching or exceeding 200,000 a month. So Friday's report, of only 38,000 new jobs in May, was a gut punch. That number would leave an average major league baseball stadium with many seats to spare on game day. It was the worst jobs report since the labor market bottomed out in 2010 after the Great Recession. Just to rub it in, estimates for job creation in March and April were revised down by a combined 59,000. If George W. Bush were president, you'd be hearing about an economic slowdown.
reddogblitz Posted June 4, 2016 Posted June 4, 2016 Payback for what? The hot mess of 2016 with all the gays married and T people peeing who knows where and none of our troops coming home in boxes None? http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/03/defense-secretary-carter-american-killed-combat-iraq.html How many innocent brown people have our drones and bombs killed? I guess they don't count.
DC Tom Posted June 4, 2016 Posted June 4, 2016 None? http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/03/defense-secretary-carter-american-killed-combat-iraq.html How many innocent brown people have our drones and bombs killed? I guess they don't count. They never did count. All anyone ever cared about was Americans dying. And they stopped dying in 2012. Don't ruin the narrative with facts.
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Donald Trump with Rosa Parks and Mohammed Ali Context or GTFO
B-Man Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Context or GTFO Bad night TYTT? That's the kind of reply I would expect from Gator Victor Borge,Anita Bryant, Muhammed Ali, Rosa Parks and Donald Trump after receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (Yes, you read that right) October 27 1986.
/dev/null Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Context or GTFO Times were different. Trump was a Democrat back then before he w as a sexist racist look at the shiny thing to distract your attention from oh hey look something distracting Notice who is missing from that list of token Negros? Yeah Muhammad Ali. Cuz maybe, just maybe, Trump contributed to Ali's death Ugh, trying to think like a shill for The People's Party© makes my head hurt
Taro T Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Donald Trump with Rosa Parks and Mohammed Ali Only a misogynistic homosexual hating individual would associate w/ Anita Bryant.
DC Tom Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Times were different. Trump was a Democrat back then before he w as a sexist racist look at the shiny thing to distract your attention from oh hey look something distracting Notice who is missing from that list of token Negros? Yeah Muhammad Ali. Cuz maybe, just maybe, Trump contributed to Ali's death Ugh, trying to think like a shill for The People's Party© makes my head hurt Here's one: http://www.gettyimages.com/pictures/donald-trump-guest-and-muhammad-ali-news-photo-75445594#donald-trump-guest-and-muhammad-ali-picture-id75445594
Azalin Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Times were different. Trump was a Democrat back then before he w as a sexist racist look at the shiny thing to distract your attention from oh hey look something distracting I used to be a Democrat too, but that was well before they openly embraced socialist principles in favor of traditional American values. I don't hold it against anybody who was a Democrat at one time if they bail on the party. The more, the merrier I say.
Doc Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Here's one: http://www.gettyimages.com/pictures/donald-trump-guest-and-muhammad-ali-news-photo-75445594#donald-trump-guest-and-muhammad-ali-picture-id75445594 Who is the blond?
Doc Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Sharon Stone. No, the one behind Don and Ali and talking with Billy Crystal.
4merper4mer Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 No, the one behind Don and Ali and talking with Billy Crystal. That's the chick that is married to Ellen. I think her name is a car. Like Mercedes Rules. It must be a fake name.
TakeYouToTasker Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 Bad night TYTT? That's the kind of reply I would expect from Gator Victor Borge,Anita Bryant, Muhammed Ali, Rosa Parks and Donald Trump after receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (Yes, you read that right) October 27 1986. My point being that the award in question had nothing at all to do with Trump's views on race or immigration. It was a chance photo taken of 100 honorees, and is being circulated today because of Ali's death. It's nonsense, and has no place in a 2016 political discussion.
B-Man Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 My point being that the award in question had nothing at all to do with Trump's views on race or immigration. It was a chance photo taken of 100 honorees, and is being circulated today because of Ali's death. It's nonsense, and has no place in a 2016 political discussion. I respectfully disagree. My point is that Mr. Trump has been in the public eye for decades. As Tom has pointed out there are other times when Mr. Trump has met with the Champ, has well as thousands of other examples of African American celebrities and businessmen and women meeting and dealing with the Donald. Surely they are not all hypocrites ? Donald Trump's experiences in his adult life are part of the 2016 political discussion .....as are Hillary's.............(and Bernie) (Nit) picking that this is only one chance meeting is a very narrow interpretation of what can be contributed to the thread. Sorry. .
Doc Posted June 5, 2016 Posted June 5, 2016 That's the chick that is married to Ellen. I think her name is a car. Like Mercedes Rules. It must be a fake name. That is NOT Ferrari deTestarossi.
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