Man Mountain Molehill left a link to this New York Times story: More Than 400 Writers Sign Petition Protesting Donald Trump. Which leads to this.
Because the history of dictatorship is the history of manipulation and division, demagoguery and lies
And to avoid the divisions that flow from dictatorship we need what? A one Party State? Two parties with one owner? What?
And these are our “Top” writers? Well they certainly aren’t our top thinkers.
You now have a list of authors to avoid. Should you choose to do so.
I predict another Trump rise of 3%. Take that you pointy heads.
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Leftists and fundamentally ignorant types such as NY Times readers like to throw around the word “fascist” with abandon. I doubt 1 in 10 could give you a coherent explanation of what Italian Fascism actually was. Hillary comes closest. Except former anarchist, former communist, writer and editor Benito Mussolini was a vastly better public speaker and all around nicer person. Just substitute Libya for Ethiopia.
Sanders is just another pig-ignorant Marxist-Leninist, I doubt he’s read much of either.
Meanwhile, Trump is a populist/nationalist/showman. Strip away the bombast and he’s mostly pretty much middle of the road.
You can take this entire manifesto, replace the name Donald J. Trump with B. Hussein Obama, and have a rather honest statement.
As it stands, however, it is just one more work of fiction.
How many walls did Backpack Aroma build?
Wow! Trump took tax deductions! Lots of them! I’m shocked, I tell yez, shocked! When will the horror end?
Resolved: Donald Trump, evil incarnate or Satan himself?
Peel back the layers and Trump’s success is fundamentally conservative. It reminds me of what I’ve read about 1950s presidential politics:
More Than 400 Writers Sign Petition Protesting Donald Trump.
I am reminded of a locker room conversation from high school days.”My father signed a petition against the Vietnam War, along with a bunch of Ivy League professors.”
That was my first introduction to Virtue Signalling. Instead of Ivy League professors, we have 400 writers.
What are the length and link limits for posting? I just submitted a posting that got sent to the spam bin.
Ignoramus:
What are the length and link limits for posting? I just submitted a posting that got sent to the spam bin.
I have no idea. You probably used a “bad” word. In any case here it is:
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For another example of authors and virtue signaling involving the mass signing of a letter, consider the Open Letter of the 400 [August 14,1939] As Published in Soviet Russia Today, Sept 1939. The Non Aggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union was signed on August 23,1939, and the invasion of Poland began on September 1,1939.
The Poles, Lithuanians, Letts, and Estonians subjected to Soviet invasion as a result of the signing of the Non Aggression Pact would undoubtedly have agreed with you.
And the Soviet Union didn’t censor?
Very transitional.
Summation: shortly before the signing of the Non Aggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, a group of 400 prominent American intellectuals beclowned themselves. Among the 400 signer, mostly writers and academics, we find the following writers.
Different people, different cause, but the same idiotic virtue signaling 77 years later. Moral: any time you see a horde of authors sign an open letter, run away as fast as you can.
I think they should qualify the term “writer.” And just where were all these “smart” people when Barry Sotero was being fawned over for his “Gee, for a black guy, he sure can talk good” crap. Made me want to puke!
As expected, no one on the list that I read. Just who are these guys anyway?
Writers are basically people who sit around in their underwear all day staring at a keyboard. Other than a certain amount of verbal acuity and imagination they don’t get out much or know much beyond their own social circle, or NPR and the NY Times.
Writers? So what? Get to the important people. What do the 3rd graders of East Podunk say?