tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post5230503084382473206..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: Donald Trump as a Republican CandidateClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-87688547435544544442011-05-02T17:21:48.077-04:002011-05-02T17:21:48.077-04:00Hmm, at first you argument that Trump will not be ...Hmm, at first you argument that Trump will not be able to sell himself as religious zealot because he is realistically way beyond that and will thus not be able to lead the US with all the fanatics behind him.<br /><br />But then you go on to explain that exactly those fanatics are people who don't accept reality and instead paint their own world with a box of crayons.<br /><br />If that is true, then I think your hope is forlorn.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977858312650409731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-67806455369864446522011-05-02T16:51:13.962-04:002011-05-02T16:51:13.962-04:00I think GWB was definitely a fanatic. I know that ...I think GWB was definitely a fanatic. I know that many people would disagree, but i believe he genuinely believed he had a mission that God entrusted him to complete. And that's terrifying.<br /><br />A putz is the right definition for Trump. :-)Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-85934453933138897902011-05-02T16:37:57.816-04:002011-05-02T16:37:57.816-04:00But...would he manipulate the existing reality to ...But...would he manipulate the existing reality to the nation's advantage, or to his own?<br /><br />I suspect the latter.<br /><br />I would not vote for him, mostly for that reason. I don't think GWB was a religious fanatic, I think he (or Cheney, more likely) used the fanatacism of a few to manipulate the existing reality into something that would just give him more power. And I think Trump manipulated the birther hysteria for the same reason.<br /><br />I think Trump is a putz, actually. Another reason not to vote for him, though not a very scientific one.J.http://www.chickwithastick.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-52201602981089361712011-05-02T13:00:06.647-04:002011-05-02T13:00:06.647-04:00I disagree.
Trump went from "random blowhar...I disagree. <br /> Trump went from "random blowhard billionaire" for me to "lying racist dipshit propped by multiple bankruptcy filings" with all of his birtherism. I neither know nor care what's in his heart, but anybody who espouses birtherism is personally dangerous to me and mine. <br /><br /> Birtherism, while not religious in nature, is an indication of an inability accept contemporary reality -- the reality that there is a 14th amendment, that people can get citizenship from their mother, and that a black person is qualified to run for President, and that citizens who are not white are an increasing percentage of the population that votes. A birther is someone who hears/knows all of that and sticks their fingers in their ears, screaming, "La la la la la."<br /><br />If my choices are between Obama, the Republican candidate, and some other third party, I'm probably voting for a third party I like. It literally won't matter, since I'm in a solidly Republican state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-84951437328001824582011-05-02T12:33:29.284-04:002011-05-02T12:33:29.284-04:00Which is why I didn't say it was religious fan...Which is why I didn't say it was religious fanaticism, you'll notice. I said it is hysterical fanaticism, and specified that it has been taken out of religious instituons.Rimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04344200811838569151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-51623222731573284362011-05-02T12:20:22.911-04:002011-05-02T12:20:22.911-04:00Did God tell him to do whatever it is he does? If ...Did God tell him to do whatever it is he does? If not, then it isn't religious fanaticism. You can't argue with God, but you can with everything else.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-54504691845984673492011-05-02T12:18:56.735-04:002011-05-02T12:18:56.735-04:00As an economic anthropologist, I'm compelled t...As an economic anthropologist, I'm compelled to say that Trump's favoured libertarian position of no regulations *is* hysterical fanaticism. Here merely takes it outside the churches, mosques, temples and synagogues.Rimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04344200811838569151noreply@blogger.com