This Political Theorist Predicted The Rise Of Trumpism. His Name Is Hunter S. Thompson
In Hell’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation.” Sound familiar?
Excerpt: "Trumpism is about something far more serious than Trump, something that has been brewing and building for generations. Let us take (Hunter S.) Thompson's cautions seriously, then, so that this time we (trusting liberals) are not naive about what we face. Otherwise, we're all liable (like Thompson) to get stomped." https://www.thenation.com/
In Their Heart Of Hearts, Trump Cultists Want Liberals Dead. On The Other Side Of The Aisle, Liberals Want Conservatives To Just Leave Them Alone (And To Leave Religion Out Of Policy- Making)
Billionaire Nick Hanauer's TED Talk: "Capitalism's Dirty Little Secret"
Capitalists with piggish appetites are REALLY this crazy.
You can spot them because they oppose "regulation" "on principle."
Never underestimate them.
Their only measure is profitability.
The biosphere be damned.
Bannon and Trump are typical of the breed.
"The merely rich are not rich enough to rule the modern market. The things that change modern history, the big national and international loans, the big educational and philanthropic foundations, the purchase of numberless newspapers, the big prices paid for peerages, the big expenses often incurred in elections - these are getting too big for everybody except the misers; the men with the largest of earthly fortunes and the smallest of earthly aims. There are two other odd and rather important things to be said about them. The first is this: that with this aristocracy we do not have the chance of a lucky variety in types which belongs to larger and looser aristocracies. The moderately rich include all kinds of people even good people. Even priests are sometimes saints; and even soldiers are sometimes heroes. Some doctors have really grown wealthy by curing their patients and not by flattering them; some brewers have been known to sell beer. But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."
G. K. Chesterton
Alan: And then there are the dumb-f*ck racist mofos - the D-FRM's... cruel, heartless homo sapien shells, people who can be sweet as sugar to personal favorites and members of their tribe, but people who would rather see YOU dead.
These human husks - these hollow men -- are gung-ho for fascism because that's the system most likely to scorn law, despise learning and feel themselves oddly threatened by open-hearted laughter, as if anyone speaking this unintelligible language is an alien.
These cold-hearted people warm to the construction of walls, prisons, crematoria, concentration camps where you can warehouse those who don't belong to your tribe - like Trump did with the families he broke at the border.
And he did not lack for gofers, fixers, perps.
And the good Christians cheered.
The bad people were getting what they deserved.
With a click of their fascist fingers, the inconvenient people are gone.
They didn't even bother keeping track of the kids.
Dumbf*ck racist mofos cannot tolerate the thought of a "free lunch"
or people with heart - kind people wired with reflexes for mercy, compassion, commiseration, people who have a built-in hand out for "others," for the "forastero."
That said, D-FRM's just want to be right, absolutely right and totally confident that they're going to heaven and that anyone radically unlike them is going to hell.
They want "infidels" dead (... infidel defined as anyone from another tribe).
And since God has already ordained Eternal Damnation for unbelievers, why shouldn't "The Good People" who adhere to the One, True Religion get an early start and give the infidels a taste of "what they've got coming?"
Why "Absolutists" Prefer To See "Relativists" Dead... Whereas "Relativists" Prefer That "Absolutists" Just Mind Their Own Business
Consider this Inconvenient Truth:
Jesus was crucified for being so good that just be being he reminded the D-FRMs just how bad they were.
And it galled them...
... like Trump realizing he's a tinhorn loser, not a pretty boy idol worthy of worship...
a pompous "emperor with no clothes" a flatulent embodiment of bluster, bombast and bravado.
"There is no there, there."
Just puffery, trumpery and passed gas.
With the exception of Trump himself, these people have sold their soul at the altar of exceedingly subtle self-apotheosis, making themselves the absolute arbiters of what is good and what is bad; who deserves to die and who deserves to live; who deserves heaven and who deserves hell.
We expect goodness of them at our personal peril, and at our collective political peril.
Sure, we can honestly say "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
But they are hostile to truth. And they are hostile to learning.
They are aggressively ignorant - self-preeningly ignorant - boastfully ignorant - evangelically ignorant.
Trump cultists (and their allies around the world) are as inescapably trapped in carefully cultivated ignorance as Lucifer himself.
They are not trustworthy.
And those legions who are "professed" Christians are to Christianity what Judas was.
In Their Heart Of Hearts, Trump Cultists Want Liberals Dead. On The Other Side Of The Aisle, Liberals Want Conservatives To Just Leave Them Alone (And To Leave Religion Out Of Policy- Making)
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