The_Walrus wrote:
They're largely not biased, they're actually accurate. It is those who criticise the media and support Trump who have the heavy bias. Trump is a horrible, horrible man, with terrible policies, who has done immense damage to the United States and the world at large.
Obama rightly got criticised when he made mistakes, but overall he was a great man who helped America recover its former glory and turned it into a respectable country. He'll go down in history as one of the great presidents. It seems almost certain that Trump will go down even below William Henry Harrison. It isn't out of the question that he could turn his presidency around and achieve something, but it seems unlikely as he is incredibly unsuitable to the office. He's stupid, he has no vision, he is bigoted, he has no political nous, and he doesn't even realise how bad he is.
People right across the political spectrum agree that Trump is not a suitable president. Some people support him because they'd rather have a bad Republican than any Democrat (and before any Democrats sneer, I'm sure there are many in the Democrats who would rather have Bernie Sanders than George H.W. Bush). The only people who seriously support him are far-right. That suggests that it is the far-right who are not making a fair assessment.
First, on political left and right.
Political left means :
Goverment takes care of the people
state owned companies
Socialism - 'everybody is equal' myth
closed to outsiders
Political right means,
People are responsible for their own actions and welfare
State believes in free market and only very few companies are owned by the goverment
capitalism - everybody is not equal
open society
This is the only correct description of left and right
And this is where it gets confusing, because the media has portayed anyone conservative as extreme right.
Extreme right is commonly associated with neo nazi groups.
Hitler was an socialist and thus extreme left.
But wowowhoooww? how can someone on the extreme left exterminate all jews? Well, first the hate for the jews was already part of the collective beliefweb he grew up in. Second, the backstab myth after the first world war and the dire economic situation created an extremely toxic situation that lead to a very similar process i described in my previous post.
Hitler's beliefweb has NOTHING to do with POLITICAL left or right.
After the second world war, most countries had political left-minded parties controlling the goverment. They were SHOCKED a socialistic mindset could lead to millions of death, thus they branded Hitler as extreme right.
I am not an trump supporter. Infact, i dont really care at all - i just observe patterns in society which i find fascinating.
My observation thus far ; there has NEVER been an extreme right movement, since extreme right would mean pro capitalism and a complete open society. Instead of that, all movements you currently see can be categorised as extreme left, since they all strife for a monopoly on the truth (goverment controls people) and try to normalise society by exterminating others who disagree with them. The only difference between those groups is their beliefweb.
Remember, this only works if you are honest with yourself
But those two options are not what we have had. We have had government and big business often allied for their common good at the expense of most of the population, "fascism" if you want to label it. The communists and fellow travelers have taken advantage of this to destabilize things. Part of this destabilization is the Trump phenomenon blowback which has accelerated the destabilization and given views that were on the fringe currency. The illiberal left probably could never in their wildest dreams imagined such a beneficial event as the Trump presidency. You have the optics of a fascist takeover combined with the inability to do much actually rolling back the left on policy and especially the culture.
20 Nov 2017, 7:37 pm
