Trumpbart hey!! What nonsensical absurdity was it to validate this one. Trump is more insecure than people give him credit for. Even though his belief clearly align with Bannon, as a president elect, he should have shun this one. There are boundaries, and in my opinion the likes of Bannon have a place for a specific group of people, but he does not belong in the White House. What next Duke??
The New USA: A Triumph of Leftism
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America’s Next Leftist President: Donald Trump
Another leftist has won the White House.
Yes, President-elect Donald Trump is a leftist. He advocates policies that violate individual rights. That’s what it means to be a leftist.
Granted, Trump may not be as far left as Hillary Clinton on certain issues. But, then, neither is President Obama. As Marc Thiessen points out, Trump’s presidency will be in many ways “a third Obama term.”
Consider the evidence:
Trump promises to spend “at least double” what Hillary would have spent on new infrastructure projects. How will government pay for these projects? It will forcibly seize funds from citizens (via taxation or inflation), thus violating their rights.
Trump aims to increase the federal minimum wage by “some magnitude” so “the people” will have more money. This, of course, will increase rights violations by increasing the extent to which government forbids employers and employees to contract by mutual consent to mutual benefit. It will also increase unemployment by making more would-be employees unaffordable to employers. Wage control is a staple of the left.
So too is maintenance of entitlement programs. Here Trump promises to stop Republicans from tampering with Social Security, Medicare, or even Medicaid. He will “save” these coercive Ponzi schemes and unfunded liabilities from those who seek to wind them down. In regard to Social Security, for instance, Trump says that whereas “other people want to cut the hell out of it, I’m not going to cut it at all. I’m going to bring money in, and we’re going to save it.” Thus he aims to maintain the status quo in which government forces some Americans to pay for the retirement and health care of other Americans. In addition to perpetuating this massive violation of rights, Trump’s leftist approach to entitlements will drive today’s Americans and future generations ever deeper into debt.
As for Obamacare, Trump says he will replace it with a new scheme in which “Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now”—and “The government’s gonna pay for it.” In other words, he aims to replace Obamacare with government-funded universal health care. Whereas Obama’s gang of statists could not make socialized health care work, Trump’s gang “somehow” will. Move over Barrack—The Donald’s got this.
Trump embraces the left’s MO with regard to freedom of speech, as well. Free speech is fine, according to Trump—so long as it doesn’t involve writing “a hit piece” or saying something “mean” about him or his policies. Recall his threat to use antitrust laws against Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com to silence the Washington Post; and his desire to “open up the libel laws” so he can sue the press when they say things he dislikes.
Trump aims also to curb international free trade—as only a leftist would. For instance, he vows to “rip up” international trade agreements and to impose massive (up to 45 percent) tariffs on imports. This, of course, will violate rights and throttle producers. But leftists don’t care about rights or producers. They care about the “collective,” the “community,” the “common good,” the “nation.” Just as President George W. Bush “abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” so too a President Trump will abandon free-market principles to “make America great again.”
What’s more, when such leftist policies are implemented by a Trump administration, they will amount to a double whammy against capitalism and in favor of statism. Because Trump is widely seen as a wealthy businessman—and is mistakenly regarded as a capitalist—the economic problems caused by his administration will be blamed on capitalism. Recall that the 2007–2008 financial crisis was and is widely blamed on capitalism because it resulted from policies of the allegedly capitalist Bush administration. Capitalism will continue to be blamed for crises caused by statists so long as Americans permit leftists to be called “rightists” or anything of the sort.
Making matters worse, President Obama paved the way for a President Trump to be much more dictatorial than he otherwise could have been. Obama’s unprecedented use of executive orders, executive memoranda, and executive actions to get around checks and balances, separation of powers—and all that principled stuff the American founders put in place to maintain the rule of law—has created an environment in which President Trump will be supremely situated to do the same. “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” explained Obama, and I can use them “to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.” Soon President-elect Trump will have that same pen and phone. Think he might use them?
https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2016/11/americas-next-leftist-president-donald-trump/
Another leftist has won the White House.
Yes, President-elect Donald Trump is a leftist. He advocates policies that violate individual rights. That’s what it means to be a leftist.
Granted, Trump may not be as far left as Hillary Clinton on certain issues. But, then, neither is President Obama. As Marc Thiessen points out, Trump’s presidency will be in many ways “a third Obama term.”
Consider the evidence:
Trump promises to spend “at least double” what Hillary would have spent on new infrastructure projects. How will government pay for these projects? It will forcibly seize funds from citizens (via taxation or inflation), thus violating their rights.
Trump aims to increase the federal minimum wage by “some magnitude” so “the people” will have more money. This, of course, will increase rights violations by increasing the extent to which government forbids employers and employees to contract by mutual consent to mutual benefit. It will also increase unemployment by making more would-be employees unaffordable to employers. Wage control is a staple of the left.
So too is maintenance of entitlement programs. Here Trump promises to stop Republicans from tampering with Social Security, Medicare, or even Medicaid. He will “save” these coercive Ponzi schemes and unfunded liabilities from those who seek to wind them down. In regard to Social Security, for instance, Trump says that whereas “other people want to cut the hell out of it, I’m not going to cut it at all. I’m going to bring money in, and we’re going to save it.” Thus he aims to maintain the status quo in which government forces some Americans to pay for the retirement and health care of other Americans. In addition to perpetuating this massive violation of rights, Trump’s leftist approach to entitlements will drive today’s Americans and future generations ever deeper into debt.
As for Obamacare, Trump says he will replace it with a new scheme in which “Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now”—and “The government’s gonna pay for it.” In other words, he aims to replace Obamacare with government-funded universal health care. Whereas Obama’s gang of statists could not make socialized health care work, Trump’s gang “somehow” will. Move over Barrack—The Donald’s got this.
Trump embraces the left’s MO with regard to freedom of speech, as well. Free speech is fine, according to Trump—so long as it doesn’t involve writing “a hit piece” or saying something “mean” about him or his policies. Recall his threat to use antitrust laws against Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com to silence the Washington Post; and his desire to “open up the libel laws” so he can sue the press when they say things he dislikes.
Trump aims also to curb international free trade—as only a leftist would. For instance, he vows to “rip up” international trade agreements and to impose massive (up to 45 percent) tariffs on imports. This, of course, will violate rights and throttle producers. But leftists don’t care about rights or producers. They care about the “collective,” the “community,” the “common good,” the “nation.” Just as President George W. Bush “abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” so too a President Trump will abandon free-market principles to “make America great again.”
What’s more, when such leftist policies are implemented by a Trump administration, they will amount to a double whammy against capitalism and in favor of statism. Because Trump is widely seen as a wealthy businessman—and is mistakenly regarded as a capitalist—the economic problems caused by his administration will be blamed on capitalism. Recall that the 2007–2008 financial crisis was and is widely blamed on capitalism because it resulted from policies of the allegedly capitalist Bush administration. Capitalism will continue to be blamed for crises caused by statists so long as Americans permit leftists to be called “rightists” or anything of the sort.
Making matters worse, President Obama paved the way for a President Trump to be much more dictatorial than he otherwise could have been. Obama’s unprecedented use of executive orders, executive memoranda, and executive actions to get around checks and balances, separation of powers—and all that principled stuff the American founders put in place to maintain the rule of law—has created an environment in which President Trump will be supremely situated to do the same. “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” explained Obama, and I can use them “to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.” Soon President-elect Trump will have that same pen and phone. Think he might use them?
https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2016/11/americas-next-leftist-president-donald-trump/
Why? Are you embarrassed at being outed as a leftard? Does it bother you to be in the same company as Flossy? Enquiring minds want to know
It will be most definitely interesting to watch how Trump manages to govern on an international stage, without any concern for his business interests.
As a neocon libtard leftard myself, I can say that the minimum wage and protectionism are not necessarily left policies. Some leftards oppose an officially-mandated minimum-wage but support a wealth tax, a guaranteed minimum income, more funding for universal compulsory education and trades and professional training, or other policies to help the destitute.
Free trade vs. protectionism is more a question if nationalism vs. universalism than one if left vs. right.
Deficit spending is also not a left or right matter but more specifically a fiscally conservative or liberal matter. Some social democrats can be fiscally conservative while social conservatives can be fiscally liberal, and vice versa.
Free trade vs. protectionism is more a question if nationalism vs. universalism than one if left vs. right.
Deficit spending is also not a left or right matter but more specifically a fiscally conservative or liberal matter. Some social democrats can be fiscally conservative while social conservatives can be fiscally liberal, and vice versa.
no, your hallucinations are becoming boring for everyone else
and flossie is your sockpuppet self we all see that for sure
again though just more bs wanking off on your part
