Kennortonjr wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:28 pm
Yeah, it’s frustrating. Alcatraz! What a brain dead idea from a deranged mind. Can you even imagine?!
Another irony is that the success of our society over the last 75 years provides safety nets (in all sorts of ways) which indirectly allow these people to pontificate and intellectualize about removing all these programs. It’s one thing to talk about, they will find it’s another to actually remove these programs. Many programs that indirectly keep us safe or otherwise provide for a stable society are being removed. There is a reason people who lived through the hard times of the Great Depression voted for Democrats for 20 straight years.
It’s one thing to act all gleeful about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, it’s another to live under a dictatorship. The people cheering this on are “too comfortable” with no concept of how bad things can be. Just look at the majority of countries throughout history. They don’t realize how good we have it and how precious it is.
So much of the Trump agenda comes from self-indulgent Conservative think tanks. Ideas that will not work in practice. It’s interesting how far back a lot of this goes: Much of the Conservative movement is obviously a response to the New Deal. This fascinating book does a great overview of how a lot of the conservative agenda “buckled down” in the 70s (with big money behind it):
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674027589
Trump is making a lot of these long-term billionaire laid plans come true. A lot of the “talking points” we are subjected to were first plotted by conservative intellectuals over 50 years ago.
If you don’t read much, a good way to learn about the 60s/70s conservative movement is any of Rick Perlstein’s books. They are really fun general reads. If you get a library card (while you still can lol) you can usually find an audiobook version to download. Great for a day of fishing! Anyways, it’s just interesting how Trump is really an extension of what the elites have been trying to accomplish for over 50 years. They finally found somebody who could fool much of the masses.
Please. Are you that far gone ?
You say society’s success over the last 75 years
is thanks to these government programs? Really? That’s libtard asshole nonsense. The explosion of prosperity in post-WWII America came despite not because of expanding entitlements. It was built on hard work, free enterprise, personal responsibility, and yes capitalism. You know, the stuff the New Deal almost strangled with red tape and top-down control.
And now? These safety nets have become hammocks for career dependency, financed by the shrinking number of working taxpayers. We’re trillions in debt, inflation is crushing the middle class, and you want to pretend it’s all sunshine because of FDR and LBJ?
You try to wave off conservative think tanks as self-indulgent and not workable in practice yet somehow, the Left’s endless parade of bloated bureaucracies, failing public schools, open borders, and defund the police insanity is the beacon of stability?
What part of that is working exactly?
Let’s be real when conservative principles are tried without being gutted by leftist judges union lobbyists or activist bureaucrats they work. Look at economic booms under Reagan and Trump. Look at states like Florida and Texas growing like crazy while progressiverun states like California and Illinois bleed people and businesses.
The claim that Trump represents “authoritarianism” is absurd when you look at the actual authoritarian creep of the administrative state under Democrat rule. During COVID it wasn’t Trump kicking down church doors or forcing small businesses to close. That was your side. It wasn’t Trump weaponizing the DOJ to silence parents at school board meetings that was Biden’s DOJ. The surveillance state censorship and political lawfare are not imaginary they’re real, and they’re coming from the people who say “trust the experts.”
Asshole
You accuse Trump of being a tool of the elite? That’s rich. The real elites Big TechWall Street, legacy media, academia they’re overwhelmingly in the pocket of the Left. They’re the ones shaping narratives, banning dissent, and trying to engineer society from their sanitized safe zones. Trump isn’t their puppet he’s the one they’re all trying to destroy. That alone should tell you who’s really afraid of democracy.
Hello??
The real irony? You mock people for being “too comfortable” while clinging to the very systems that have grown lazy, bloated, corrupt, and broken. You accuse others of being brainwashed while swallowing 50 years of progressive dogma without question.
Trump didn’t fool the masses. He woke them up. And it scares the hell out of you.
Spare us the fearmongering about Trump you are ignoring the current tyranny because it fits your worldview.
Seriously. Have you been dependent on social services for decades or are you working at an unnecessary government job getting paid to not even show up?