Time For A Reality Check

[Cannuck]

There's a lot of whining going on here by the anti-Trump crowd (yes I know he and his supporters are racist bags of shyte). There's also a sense of wonder on the pro-Trump side. Finally the world is returning to normal. Women and colours are going to be put in their places. Papa Trump is going to look after people. With any luck, the Muslims will be rounded up and sent packing (or better yet incarcerated) so we can get back to prayer in school and making stores close on Sunday.

Reality, of course, is a completely different thing. A very large portion of the Trumpites are crotchety old people that are going to be dead in a few years. An even larger percentage of Trumpites are simpletons that will publicly espouse their silly racist views thereby undermining the cause. The simple reality is that the world is changing and as much as the Trumpites wish to cling to the past, they really aren't going to stop progress. In 50 years, people will view this era in American politics the way we view the McCarthy era.

Isn't fear a silly thing?

 

[Ludlow]

Stop being a silly sap,,,,,,sap.

 

[Cannuck]

Stop being a silly sap,,,,,,sap.

You'll be dead in a few years so I doubt too many people care a whole lot about your opinion... except for maybe other crotchety old farts. Of course, their fate is the same as yours

 

[pgs]

The sky is falling , the sky is falling , run run the sky is falling .

 

[Cannuck]

The sky is falling , the sky is falling , run run the sky is falling .

I'm really not surprised that that would be your take.

 

[Ludlow]

You'll be dead in a few years so I doubt too many people care a whole lot about your opinion... except for maybe other crotchety old farts. Of course, their fate is the same as yours

Stop being a dummah, dummah.

 

[Cannuck]

Stop being a dummah, dummah.

Stop being a crotchety old fart.

 

[Ludlow]

No you are

 

[tay]

 

[Angstrom]

There's a lot of whining going on here by the anti-Trump crowd (yes I know he and his supporters are racist bags of shyte). There's also a sense of wonder on the pro-Trump side. Finally the world is returning to normal. Women and colours are going to be put in their places. Papa Trump is going to look after people. With any luck, the Muslims will be rounded up and sent packing (or better yet incarcerated) so we can get back to prayer in school and making stores close on Sunday.

Reality, of course, is a completely different thing. A very large portion of the Trumpites are crotchety old people that are going to be dead in a few years. An even larger percentage of Trumpites are simpletons that will publicly espouse their silly racist views thereby undermining the cause. The simple reality is that the world is changing and as much as the Trumpites wish to cling to the past, they really aren't going to stop progress. In 50 years, people will view this era in American politics the way we view the McCarthy era.

Isn't fear a silly thing?

You obviously don't get it. Not that I'm surprised. Here watch this.
https://www.facebook.com/viralthread/videos/598130190359668/
It will explain perfectly what is happening.

That link is the reality check you are looking for.

 

[davesmom]

I don't think women and minorities are going to be 'put in their place'. More likely they will be thought of and treated like citizens who are like everyone else, equal under the law. Not special, not in need of help to succeed, not superior to, inferior to or different than anyone else. Just EQUAL.
That would be nice.


I don't think Muslims will be rounded up and sent packing. More likely they will be held to the same standards of equality as every other citizen and not given special 'religious' exemptions from the law.

 

[Cannuck]

You obviously don't get it.

Yup, seen it. Does nothing to refute the OP.

... will be thought of and treated like citizens who are like everyone else, equal under the law...

Hehehe... yes, of course.

 

[Machjo]

There's a lot of whining going on here by the anti-Trump crowd (yes I know he and his supporters are racist bags of shyte). There's also a sense of wonder on the pro-Trump side. Finally the world is returning to normal. Women and colours are going to be put in their places. Papa Trump is going to look after people. With any luck, the Muslims will be rounded up and sent packing (or better yet incarcerated) so we can get back to prayer in school and making stores close on Sunday.

Reality, of course, is a completely different thing. A very large portion of the Trumpites are crotchety old people that are going to be dead in a few years. An even larger percentage of Trumpites are simpletons that will publicly espouse their silly racist views thereby undermining the cause. The simple reality is that the world is changing and as much as the Trumpites wish to cling to the past, they really aren't going to stop progress. In 50 years, people will view this era in American politics the way we view the McCarthy era.

Isn't fear a silly thing?

You're making one big mistake there. Not all white nationalists are formally uneducated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi_doctors

Many physicians joined the Nazi Party. Joseph Goebbels was a doctor of philosophy. The British Naitonal Party has attracted members of the formally educated class including at least one doctor. I believed David Duke has received superior education too.

It would be a mistake and even dangerous to presume that ultra-nationalists, as sick as they are, are necessarily stupid. Kellie Leitch is a doctor too.

Let's not kid ourselves. There are probably more bigots teaching in our public school classrooms than we might like to admit.

 

[Cannuck]

You're making one big mistake there.

No I'm not

 

[Machjo]

No I'm not

Do you presume that the sickness of bigotry is necessarily linked to formal education? Just read Book I of the B&B Report written in the 1960's. Every Commissioner who participated in writing that book had received superior formal education, yet that book makes Trump look moderate. Granted, the 1960's were a different era, but many Canadians, formally educated Canadians included, continue to praise that book today. Let's not confuse the sickness of bigotry with the lack of a formal education.

 

[Cannuck]

Do you presume that the sickness of bigotry is necessarily linked to formal education?

Do you not bother to read posts you quote and respond to?

 

[Machjo]

"Reality, of course, is a completely different thing. A very large portion of the Trumpites are crotchety old people that are going to be dead in a few years. An even larger percentage of Trumpites are simpletons that will publicly espouse their silly racist views thereby undermining the cause. The simple reality is that the world is changing and as much as the Trumpites wish to cling to the past, they really aren't going to stop progress. In 50 years, people will view this era in American politics the way we view the McCarthy era.
"
They might be just as educated as the average American and represent a cross-section of classes. I'm not denying that bigots suffer a sickness, and a dangerous one at that once they are organized, but that sickness does not necessarily make them all simpletons.

 

[pgs]

I don't think women and minorities are going to be 'put in their place'. More likely they will be thought of and treated like citizens who are like everyone else, equal under the law. Not special, not in need of help to succeed, not superior to, inferior to or different than anyone else. Just EQUAL.
That would be nice.


I don't think Muslims will be rounded up and sent packing. More likely they will be held to the same standards of equality as every other citizen and not given special 'religious' exemptions from the law.

Makes sense .

 

[Remington1]

Oh well, The Donald will be cleaning the 'swamp', not very flattering to the tadpoles, insects and frogs.

 

[pgs]

You're making one big mistake there. Not all white nationalists are formally uneducated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi_doctors

Many physicians joined the Nazi Party. Joseph Goebbels was a doctor of philosophy. The British Naitonal Party has attracted members of the formally educated class including at least one doctor. I believed David Duke has received superior education too.

It would be a mistake and even dangerous to presume that ultra-nationalists, as sick as they are, are necessarily stupid. Kellie Leitch is a doctor too.

Let's not kid ourselves. There are probably more bigots teaching in our public school classrooms than we might like to admit.

Actually the father of our vaunted health care system the honorable Tommy Douglas was a doctor and a staunch proponent of eubonics go figure .