georgephillip
Diamond Member
Clearly, you are confused. MAGA poses zero threat to democracy.More likely you are a tireless semi-literate anti Trump troll bot fanning the flames of ignorance and hate.Maybe she's just one more of Trump's many semi-literate trolls fanning the flames of hate?Maybe so.More likely you are a tireless semi-literate anti Trump troll bot fanning the flames of ignorance and hate.
But I'm not confused about MAGA or the threat it poses to democracy:
Wealth and Politics in the United States, Wealth, Money-Culture, Ethics, and Corruption excerpted from the book Wealth and Democracy a political history of the American rich by Kevin Phillips
"Wealth and politics have a long history of intense interaction in the United States.
"From the 1780s on, foreign visitors remarked about Americans being money-fixated.
"John Stuart Mill, the English political economist, suggested in 1860 that in America, 'the life of the whole of one sex is devoted to dollar-hunting, and the other to breeding dollar hunters.'
"A generation earlier, Alexis de Tocqueville had observed that, 'Whenever the reverence which belonged to what is old has vanished, birth, condition, and profession no longer distinguish men, or scarcely distinguish them, hardly anything but money remains.... Among aristocratic nations, money reaches only to a few points on the vast circle of man's desires; in democracies, it seems to lead all.'"
Trump is the living embodiment of a dollar-hunter.
His scale of corruption and narcissism is unmatched among former presidents.
Anyone who apologizes for his ignorance and hate isn't qualified to judge others.
That depends when Trump and his supporters believe America was "great."Clearly, you are confused. MAGA poses zero threat to democracy.
Wealth and Politics in the United States, Wealth, Money-Culture, Ethics, and Corruption excerpted from the book Wealth and Democracy a political history of the American rich by Kevin Phillips
"In 1890 the Populist firebrand Mary Ellen Lease, she who had urged Kansans to 'raise less corn and more hell,' told her audiences that 'Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street.'
"Two years later Populist presidential nominee James B. Weaver deplored how 'Wall Street has become the Western extension of Threadneedle and Lombard streets,' the London location of the Bank of England.
"Eastern finance had grown into what would become an enduring symbol."
Was American"great" in the 1890s?
If so, for whom was it "great?"