Oddball
Unobtanium Member
Your low opinion of your neighbor is your undoing.That's the nature of populism. Herding the dummies. Maybe you don't think of that as tricking them - but if we resort to Trumpster tactics, do you really think we'll be winning hearts and minds? Or will we just be stirring up the mob?
Yes. When it comes to Trumpster populism, I'm an uber-snob.
Yup. And it's not a possibility, it's the obvious truth. That's why I'm not running for office. But that's exactly what we need in a leader. We need someone who can make the case for liberty, who can and will explain to people that free shit isn't free, that using the law to force your preferences on others will bite you in the ass (when it's turned against you), that to have the freedom to do what you want, you must accept others' rights to do what they want.
Despite my ranting about idiots, I don't believe Americans are too stupid to understand this. But the people who fall for the populist spin are. Which is why I think adopting their tactics would be a terrible idea. Even if it produced a nominal "win".
I believe you sputtered something earlier about becoming that which you hate?...Your attitude is exactly that of the uniparty fascists, who believe that the populace is too stupid to understand how wonderful and brilliant that they are.
It is you who has become what you profess to hate, not me.....I pity you.