tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post3344048651659851021..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond reverts to conservative tradition and spends quality time with the major Mitchell Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-6788445409394789512016-11-14T19:46:19.918+11:002016-11-14T19:46:19.918+11:00Ah yes... when Trump voters believed America was l...Ah yes... when Trump voters believed America was last 'great':<br /><br />https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-supporters-were-asked-when-america-was-last-great-their-answers-were-terrifying--Zyw9dryw8W<br /><br />http://www.salon.com/2016/10/25/a-majority-of-donald-trump-supporters-think-everything-has-been-terrible-since-the-1950s/<br /><br />http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/make-the-sixties-great-again/481167/<br /><br />All depends who you ask, doesn't it?<br /><br />So should we completely regress social progress back to the 50's to keep the baby boomers happy? <br />It wins elections, don't it?<br /><br />As for those 'deplorables' with their 'unfashionable opinions', it's time to bring them into the fold, cabinet if you will, so that the new economic policies and decisions will pass the magistrates court test (formerly known as the pub test).<br /><br />While those filthy rich Wall St elite types (such wording not being used a term of abuse in this instance) who keep on getting richer should be allowed to continue to do so as it is up to governments to stimulate growth and reform taxation and welfare to pull up the less skilled. <br /><br />And this will be done by CUTTING taxes for the rich and DECREASING welfare support.<br /><br />Yeah, that'll stop those leftists from protesting after the election result (as if the Trump fans wouldn't have done the same if Trump lost following the 'rigging' accusations).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-80312828799230048252016-11-14T18:04:43.847+11:002016-11-14T18:04:43.847+11:00Been asking the same question of everyone. When di...Been asking the same question of everyone. When did free trade become leftism? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48104583038254799322016-11-14T16:47:14.667+11:002016-11-14T16:47:14.667+11:00"He didn't look all that Trumpish when he..."He didn't look all that Trumpish when he was in the white house."<br /><br />Trump will need support from Democrat votes in the house, and senate, and Wall St support. So it's nice Obomber, nice Killiary, nice Clintons, the wall now a fence, 45% tariffs a misquote, racism bad, violence bad, and on and on. Bearing in mind all that Bob Hawke did for the conservatives, it's not beyond possibility Trump may actually achieve something worthwhile for the 99%.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-53136493205397475982016-11-14T11:27:58.228+11:002016-11-14T11:27:58.228+11:00Do you think Trump will be able to cope with the r...Do you think Trump will be able to cope with the requirements of the presidential office though? He won't like having to do all that boring stuff involved in being prez and not having an audience and the pay would be lousy no? So I'm thinking we need to worry about Pence more than that man with his tiny hands and his beady little eyes. <br /><br />He didn't look all that Trumpish when he was in the white house. Perhaps he was bothered by the blandness of the decor and was planning to get Invanka in to do a make over? <br /><br />And very interesting to hear from Abbort Tony that people do not elect "role models They elect leaders". Well fmd there is another of my fondly held illusions gone cos I had somehow gotten the idea in my head that in our civilized western way of life a leader was a role model. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-32507627416602518242016-11-14T10:31:56.303+11:002016-11-14T10:31:56.303+11:00You have missed plenty, Anony. The "rising t...You have missed plenty, Anony. The "rising tide" idea metamorphosed into - in Bertrand Russell's words - a "Sunday truth" during the time of Ronnie Raygun.<br /><br />Russell was proclaiming how people could be induced to believe in such "truths", and how they then actually behave. So, proposing that people could be induced to believe that water boils when its frozen, he proclaimed:<br /><br />"That cold makes water boil would be a Sunday truth, sacred and mystical, to be professed in awed tones, but not to be acted on in daily life. What would happen would be that any verbal denial of the mystic doctrine would be made illegal, and obstinate heretics would be "frozen" at the stake."<br /><br />And so we can see, in this age of Trumpelstiltskin, how that has come to pass.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44465322595300335422016-11-14T09:34:03.919+11:002016-11-14T09:34:03.919+11:00So when did Capitalism and Globalisation stop bein...So when did Capitalism and Globalisation stop being the way that floats all our boats and the way that everyone gets to climb the ladder unless they choose the wrong choice? What happened to that ideology? Have I missed something?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com