PM: BWOD, Re: How is Trump happening

Fear and loathing, basically. The BBC had quite a decent piece on it: User Posted Link

But basically connecting with disenfranchised poor white people, cf UKIP, on the basis not of rationalism or hope but division and prejudice - picking out the eternal untermensch and blaming them for people feeling left out/left behind.

His playbook is straight out of Goebbels (if you don't believe me, you haven't read what Goebbels wrote/said).

The political elite in America as here must take its share of the blame for this. Washington, as Westminster, inhabits a bubble entirely distant from the lives of most of its citizens. The American version is more detached, more religiously fundamental, and more armed than anything we see here but the gist is the same.

Sadly I don't think he'll meet UKIP's fate at the polls, though I don't think he will make it all the way to the White House. Whoever does needs to do a better job of reconnecting the government to the people it serves than has been done in the past few decades by either party. Someone over here might think about that too.

Posted By: Old Man on January 26th 2016 at 22:58:50

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PM: BWOD, Re: How is Trump happening (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 26, 22:58:50
- When not so pissed will try to explain (General Chat) - Bungle, Jan 27, 00:09:47
  - Fear is any controlling government/dictator's favourite way to get the masses to do (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 27, 00:11:32
- She.n (n/m) (General Chat) - Bungle, Jan 27, 00:06:52
  - Thanks autocorrect (n/m) (General Chat) - Bungle, Jan 27, 00:07:11
- nice use of untermensch (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 26, 23:28:52
  - It was a reference to the Goebbels film (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 26, 23:37:37
- Goebbels bullshit was hardly original. Extreme left, extreme right as bad as each other. (n/m) (General Chat) - harry boulders, Jan 26, 23:14:52
- Tories are like that too (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jan 26, 23:09:11
  - Lol (General Chat) - Hulk Rules, Jan 26, 23:55:37
    - This place seems to have been infested by them (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jan 26, 23:56:23
  - Building a wall to ban foreigners or muslims? (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 26, 23:35:02
    - It'd create 1000s of jobs (General Chat) - harry boulders, Jan 26, 23:38:44
- Nazi-lite is rife these days; Hermann G?ring's thinking... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Jan 26, 23:06:29
- "reconnecting the government to the people it serves" ? (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 26, 23:04:24
  - He says so (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 26, 23:11:05
    - Tory scum (n/m) (General Chat) - Men without hats, Jan 27, 17:57:33
    - Agree that he should run his bit of politics according to those principles (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 26, 23:34:18
      - He's exactly that. Extreme fundamentalist Christians and Islamists aren't so far apart (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 26, 23:38:43
        
        Sadly I agree with you. The world needs less fundamental extremism (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 26, 23:45:59
        
        The last WWI veteran died a few years ago (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jan 26, 23:49:38
        
        Thanks for assisting with my point about the fact that they're dying off (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 27, 00:12:29
        
        You said they are passing away now (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jan 27, 00:31:19
        
        I included world war 1 in with 2 (because I see them as related wars) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 27, 00:34:02
        
        No you thought ww1 veterans were passing away now (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jan 27, 00:43:22
- Trump in the White House doesn't bear thinking about (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jan 26, 23:03:52

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