A tweet from Donald Trump shows him feasting on Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Like many Jewish survivors of Germany’s Nazi period, my father didn’t like to talk about his experiences back then. But from a couple of conversations I had with him before he died in 1997, I extracted this story: In 1933, shortly after Adolph Hitler assumed power, my dad was rounded up and arrested. He’s not sure exactly how it happened, whether it was because he was Jewish, or at a gathering somehow identified as subversive or communist, but he was thrown into jail.
He didn’t sleep that night. Instead, he agonized about his plight, and concluded that the political situation in Germany would only worsen under Hitler, that the German people were becoming mesmerized by a maniac. There was no future for an ambitious 19-year-old Jew in this country.
Right then and there, in a dank jail cell, he decided he would depart his homeland, and leave his family behind. When he was released the next day, he followed through on his decision, and before 1933 was out, he was on his way to Palestine. He lived there until 1935, when he was able to gain admission to the U.S. under the strict immigration quotas of the time, to join his older brother, who had made a similar decision, and moved straight to the U.S. in 1934.
My father and uncle were anomalies of sorts, leaving Germany so early in Hitler’s reign. Most Jews, and many other thoughtful Germans as well, didn’t take Hitler seriously. They thought he was a passing fad, a bad joke, who would fade from the scene. Hitler would eventually implode and savvy Germans would come to their senses, and make this lunatic go away.
Other members of my family, among them my father’s parents and grandparents and my mother’s entire family (my parents’ families didn’t know each other in Germany), were among those hoping Hitler would go away. Of course, Germans didn’t come to their senses and Hitler did not go away. Many of these relatives just barely escaped, in the mid and late 1930s, but a few didn’t, as Hitler became ever more deranged and full of himself, and sucked the whole world into a war that killed more than 60 million people, including about six million Jews murdered by the Germans. (I researched the experiences of my mother’s family, in a book, Inge: A Girl’s Journey Through Nazi Europe.)
What most of our country doesn’t appreciate is that the dye for the Holocaust and World War II was cast during those early years of the 1930s, when Hitler was going around saying the most outrageous and dishonest things about Germany’s politicians and judges and journalists and university professors and Jews. Even a prominent critic, like NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who laments in a column that American high school students have begun bullying Hispanic students, in Trump’s name, hedges: “We need not be apocalyptic about it. This is not Kristallnacht.” But Kristallnacht, the arrests and beatings of German Jews and the burning of Jewish businesses, happened nearly six years after Hitler maneuvered himself into power as Germany’s chancellor in early 1933.
What few appreciated, even at the time, is that Hitler didn’t play by the rules of tradition and constitutions and compromise in a democratic society. He not only had no respect for Germany’s established institutions and rules of governing, he was actually contemptuous of all of it.
Now, I’m not suggesting that Trump would unleash another Holocaust, or anything close to it. History doesn’t repeat itself literally. But similar themes do repeat themselves.
As our presidential race unfolds, I find myself increasingly obsessed with comparisons between Donald Trump’s 2015-16 rise to prominence and Hitler’s 1930-33 rise to power.
I may be one of the only bloggers around who hasn’t written something about Trump, probably because I have been spellbound by what has been unfolding. I have come to understand much better what my relatives in early 1930s Germany experienced, the anxiety they felt, as I wait for Trump to implode, and go away, and for this political nightmare to end.
I watch him speak, and hear the contempt for our Constitution, for our judiciary, for war heroes, even for prominent members of his own party. More troubling, I see and hear my countrymen, thousands of them gathered together, cheering him on with calls of “Hang the bitch!” Even after he expresses admiration for the thug who runs Russia, and after he threatens assassination of his main opponent, they cheer him on.
A few weeks ago, I thought I might write something about how Trump, despite all his vitriol, at least respected healthy and organic food. Natural News has repeatedly highlighted this as a big reason it loves his bullying style. In 2015, even before he began racking up primary wins, there was this: “”The Donald’, as NaturalNews has reported is a consumer of organic food. His daughter, Ivanka, has said that the whole family consumes mostly fresh, organic meals which she often prepares herself. In addition, Trump’s children help oversee foods served at the family hotels – meals that include vegan, organic and gluten-free in-room dining choices. And when it can, the hotel chain obtains locally-grown organic foods as a way of giving back to the communities they serve. The family’s diet even has a name: The Trump Wellness Plan, which fits with Trump’s overall health and fitness lifestyle.”
But like so much of the Trump fairytale, Trump-as-supporter-of-real-food turns out to be a lie as well. Trump is a big lover of fast food—it’s not even something he tries to conceal, but rather is something he has long bragged about, according to a recent New York Times report. (The photo of Trump on this page is from one of his own tweets.) The reason? “Mr. Trump, who frets about germs and prizes cleanliness, also loves fast food because of its consistency and the promise, at least, of a basic level of hygiene. ‘One bad hamburger, you can destroy McDonald’s. One bad hamburger, you take Wendy’s and all these other places and they’re out of business,’ Mr. Trump told Mr. Cooper of CNN. “I’m a very clean person. I like cleanliness, and I think you’re better off going there than maybe someplace that you have no idea where the food’s coming from. It’s a certain standard.’ “
Yes, you sure know where the food is coming from at McDonald’s. Love those CAFOs. Whew!
Natural News, like so many other alienated parties, sees Trump through rose-colored glasses. Because he’s against the establishment, he must be great. Being against the establishment is one thing—Bernie Sanders railed against the establishment in rational terms, all the while being respectful of America’s Constitution and institutions.
No, Trump’s modus operandi is drawn straight from Hitler’s playbook—the bigger the lie, the more people will believe you. The Trump phenomenon has gotten me re-reading histories of that period, like the classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and newspaper assessments of Hitler. The NY Times in 1945 published an obituary of Hitler after he finally killed himself in a bunker to avoid being captured by the Allies, and here is the “playbook” it described:
*Portraying his country as being victimized by other countries:
“He went about making speeches bewailing the wrongs done to Germany….”
*Making grand promises to restore his country’s economic prominence:
“To the middle classes he promised relief from what he called the tyranny of big business, particularly the department stores, with which small tradesmen found it difficult to compete. He promised them that when in power he would dissolve the department stores and abolish all interest. To the workers he promised dissolution of the trusts. Neither of these promises was kept.”
*Zeroing in on scapegoats:
“Added to his economic program, designed to appeal to the ruined middle-class elements, he put forward his slogans of extreme nationalism and racism–the union of all Germans on the basis of self-determination in a greater Germany.”
*Creating an aura of violence among his backers:
“These (storm) troops acted as the Hitler police at public meetings and demonstrations, attacked Jews in the streets of Munich, broke up meetings of the opposition, staged street brawls with Communists and republicans, beat up leaders of other parties and, in general, conducted a reign of terror with which the authorities found it increasingly difficult to cope, in proportion as the political aspect of the Nazi movement gathered strength.”
*Treat the current rulers as fools and traitors:
“With increased support from the army and industrialists, a gigantic propaganda machine was set up, which, backed by millions of throats, blared wild accusations in an unending stream against the Government and leaders of other parties. Men like Gustav Stresemann, to say nothing of Socialists and Democrats, were denounced as traitors and held up to public ignominy.”
*And, of course, the unending lies:
“ ‘By shrewd and constant application of propaganda, heaven can be presented to the people as hell and, vice versa, the wretchedest existence as a paradise,’ he wrote in ‘Mein Kampf.’ This contempt for the people and his unbounded capacity for hatred, which found expression in his merciless treatment of opponents and persecution of the Jews….”
Sound familiar?
What’s going on here?
Yes, there is lots of economic and political alienation in this country, and I have expressed my share on these pages. But it has been in the context of an assumption that our political and economic system remains flexible enough to shift and change, in the food arena and other areas.
The main reason I can think of that so many Americans have become infatuated by an authoritarian politician so at odds with American values and history is that we have had it too good politically for too long. We’ve so long been free to say what we wish about our leaders and their policies and have access to a reasonably free media and to go to court to get unjust laws reversed and have free elections for so long, we don’t know what it’s like to live in a country that has lost these rights.
It’s easy to argue that some of our rights have been under attack, or diluted, in the U.S. But compared with many other countries, they are very much intact. As just one example, we’ve seen just recently a number of federal courts reverse state actions to dilute voting rights.
Just as in early 1930s Germany, we are witness to prominent politicians and other leaders allying themselves with the bully—the governors of New Jersey (Chris Christie) and Indiana (Mike Pence), the former Speaker of the House (Newt Gingrich), and the former mayor of New York (Rudy Giuliani)—presumably in hopes of being appointed to powerful positions in a Trump administration. I never thought I’d say this, but the heroes thus far, to my mind, are the Republicans who have stood tall in condemnation of Trump’s racism and bullying. Mitt Romney, whom I considered an empty suit when he ran for president in 2012, has stood up to Trump, accurately labeled him a “fraud.” More recently, Susan Collins of Maine has condemned him, refused to endorse him.
But the ultimate “deciders” will be the American people. The polls thus far suggest a clear majority turning from Trump. But there is considerable time to go, incidents for him to concoct and exploit. Moreover, a two or three percentage point win for Hillary Clinton may not make Trump go away, as it would any other traditional candidate. He spoke in advance of the Republican convention, when it looked like he might lose, of “riots” should he not be selected. He has spoken during the national election of the election being “rigged.”
It’s not difficult to see him challenging a loss in the courts, leading demonstrations, for years, hoping the threat of unending chaos gets him invited into government, or gets the military to help him. No, I’m afraid it will take an overwhelming loss, one so humiliating that he wouldn’t dare challenge the situation. Are Americans up to the task at hand? Or will they continue to be hypnotized by the promise of nirvana by a demented real estate developer?
Very well written David. Trump is scary and even scarier are the people who love him.
Its encouraging to see that there are some things that was CAN agree on at TCP. ? #nevertrump
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Hmmm, maybe when I get back to the Boston area. Right now, in rural NH, these would not go over well.
We have disagreed on much over the years, but on this we are together my friend.
Please do not take this as defending Trump. However, look what we’ve got on the other side of the spectrum. One of the most corrupt, lying, treasonous hags who has ever run for public office and who thinks she is “entitled” to be the president. Why won’t the Clintons just go away? She just released her tax documents and it turns out about 10 percent of her “earnings” went to “charitable” organizations. Well, if you read the fine print, you find that 96 percent of her “charitable” donations went to the Clinton Foundation. What a hoax.
If she’s elected, she will likely be in a position to appoint two to three supreme court justices. If that happens, we will likely see the end of any hope for a constitutional republic being restored as she will appoint one or more “progressive” judges who will take what’s left of the Bill of Rights and cast them into the fireplace.
At the end of the day, if Mr. Gumpert is correct, here is our choice; An Adolf Hitler wannabe on one side and a proven Joseph Stalinist on the other.
The moral to this story is clear. We must return to local control. Local food, local government, local business, local, local, local. We need to take our communities back, cast the federal government’s tentacles out of our communities (by way of federal “grants”, etc.) and we need to stand against this federal leviathan that is grinding us down like a glacier.
I disagree with a few statements made in this article. First, Trump is not anti-constitutional. Some of his different plans he has such as his plans to raise tariffs on international imports, lower income taxes (which are not constitutional to begin with), having illegals deported from this country, etc. are all very constitutional. Second, when I look at someone like Hillary Clinton, I see someone who is much more dangerous than Donald Trump. I could easily see her putting more restrictions on freedom of speech, growing the FDA to be more powerful (which would lead to more restrictions on raw milk, make organic food more difficult to distribute, etc.), raising taxes which would make it more difficult on small family farms, etc. I see that Trump may have some issues, but he certainly doesn’t have the same kind of threat that Hillary Clinton has. When I think of what this blog stands for regarding raw milk and organic whole foods, I’m very surprised to see a post coming against Trump like this (and speaking well of Bernie, who basically has communist principles he follows) and not dealing with Hillary Clinton, who I see as our main threat right now. David is certainly welcome to share his opinions, but this is an area I would have to respectfully disagree on.
Just as Napoleon, Trotsky/Lenin, and Hitler are a product of discontent with the rulers of the time…so is Trump. As I stated earlier, “I do not envy the American public’s choices for president. Having to choose between Hillary and Donald is inconceivable!” I agree with Ron Paul that all three parties represent “Poor Choices” — “We Really Do Not Have Democracy… Unless You’re A Billionaire”
Despite our perceived freedoms, Politicians and the establishment in the US (and Canada) have demonstrated the utmost of contempt and disdain for the constitution, human rights/dignity and the economy. The American people are becoming increasingly fed up with that very contempt and disdain that Hilary Clinton so clearly epitomizes. Peter Kropotkin (1842-1941), Russian activist, scientist, and philosopher states that, “America” is an example of “how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society”.
Is it indeed a surprise to see longstanding members of the conservative party lining up to support Hillary? It just goes to show, when it comes to the establishment, it doesn’t matter what ones political stripes are, the important thing is to have control over the ruling party and the country.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/285969-bush-world-goes-for-clinton-but-will-a-former-president
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/republicans-who-support-hillary-clinton/494636/
Donald Trump may be a megalomaniac, he’s certainly not a conservative in the traditional sense… In fact, I’m growing increasingly suspicious that this current election campaign for president is staged event perpetrated by the establishment with a purpose to maintain the status quo or worse.
Ken: I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. We all thought our votes were counted locally, by public officials, but in truth, they haven’t the capacity. Vote tallying is farmed out to private firms; it is vanishingly easy to write vote-counting software capable of shifting an election (see blackboxvoting and the GEMS software), leaving not a trace behind. In 2004 the Ohio Secretary of State vowed he would see that Dubya won his state. The tabulation of the votes for the entire state was farmed out to a private firm. The “establishment,” or deep state candidate in this election is Hillary. The Clintons are very close to these folks (Kissinger, the Council on Foreign Relations). I suspect that, in some states, the Bernie vote was shifted to Hillary. I may, like I did in 1972, vote for nobody for president this year.
There are more than 2 choices for president. Gary Johnson is an option. You have two men who have been successful governors.
Gary Johnson is who I’ll be voting for, and despite popular perception about votes being “wasted” on 3rd party candidates, he actually does have a chance at winning.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/how-presidential-candidate-gary-johnson-could-ignite-a-constitutional-crisis-in-november/comments/#disqus
Where is there ANY EVIDENCE of Trump being a Nazi? George Soros (who began his lucrative career of currency manipulation to destroy countries had humble beginnings by leading actual Nazis to the homes of Jewish families in hiding. George Soros, ( a Hillary supporter) is the Nazi who has paid to start the violent protests against Trump as well as the lying smear campaigns. Hillary is the chosen candidate because she supports the whole Globalist agenda and is a total advocate of the Trans Pacific Partnership which will override the Constitution and force this country to accept GMO food and every other toxic mandate that is justified by the bankers aims. She will appoint judges that will put an end to the First and Second Amendment at the very least and who will end any illusion of rights to choose healthy food or home school your children or make any medical decisions on their behalf. Gary Johnson supports compulsory vaccination. Bernie Sanders is Not going to be president and he totally caved and folded.and did not fight for the principles he advocated. Trump has the guts to fight the efforts to eradicate our Bill of Rights and our freedom of choice and once again, there is NO evidence that this man is a racist and no basis to characterize his supporters as being “white supremacists”. It is ironic how ignorant, unfounded and fear and ignorance based this slander is. It is such hypocrisy to generalize and call someone a racist and or white supremacist with no evidence. This unfounded charge of “racism” is a horrific cheap shot intended to silence good people who are not and have never been racist or anything resembling it. It is meant to silence and prevent actual political discussion and debate.
Laurie, I never accused Trump of being a Nazi. I said he is using a number of the same political tactics as Hitler to achieve power. That’s pretty much it. The matter of George Soros and his possible collaboration with the Nazis is unrelated to what I was writing about. Same with Hillary Clinton–I wasn’t writing about which of the two major party candidates is preferable or better.
Gary Johnson is for forced vaccinations. No thanks.
I could not even read all of this article. I would like to share my thoughts, but I won’t. Here’s why. Many years ago I went through a powerful three day immersive simulation that was intended to help build community in the presence strong differences. The single, most captivating, most enlightening lesson from this mentally and emotionally grueling experience was this: Each of us has a trigger that, once its pushed, there is no ability to reason or rationally discuss the topic that triggered it.
The part of your story that talked about your family’s experience during the worst of times was heartbreaking. I cannot imagine having that as a part of my family history. The part of your story where you draw parallels between Trump and Hitler is interesting on an intellectual level. The part where you present Trump’s positions and proclamations is more interpretative than factual. Unfortunately, this is often and unintended consequences when a person is careless with his tongue, lacks emotional intelligence, and often goes rogue, as Trump does. In my world, even carelessness, emotional volatility, and going rogue do not justify projecting our own thoughts, words or imagined intentions and onto another.
As I said, I won’t go through this post and argue the details. I am not a Trump fan, and I don’t want or need to defend him. I am responding to this post only to say that many who are Trump haters, much like those who despise Clinton, use other’s interpretations, exaggerations and out-of-context examples as fact. When we present our arguments this way, especially when discussing something so horrendous as the Holocaust, I think we create issues with credibility and also propagate a false narrative to those who don’t take the time to look beyond the surface for their facts. I can imagine that many people who read your work look to you as a voice of authority. A DEPENDABLE voice that can be trusted. Because of this, I am not happy to see so many non-facts being presented as facts in order to “connect the dots”.
Julie, thanks for your input. Just to clarify, the research on Trump is based entirely on fact. He is easy to research–he says everything on TV, in interviews, debates, speeches. It then gets replayed on various news shows. Lots of people, like you, say, “Well, he doesn’t really mean what he says. He’s immature, a narcissist, just trying for shock effect.” I’ve learned from studying history to take very seriously the seemingly crazy promises of would-be dictators. Hitler promised much of what he delivered in his book, “Mein Kampf”, published in 1925, eight years before he assumed power. People laughed that off, as well. When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he reminded those people of how they had laughed at him. He said he would remain in power forever, and he did (at least his version of forever).
I made the connections of Trump to Hitler based on considerable research I have done about his rule. I know it’s tempting for me to view politics in general through that prism. For that reason, I try not to draw on it too much in my writing. I think if you look through my three books on food politics and my blog posts, the Holocaust/WWII don’t get much attention, just for the reason you suggest, that it could color my views of so many things. I held off on writing this blog post for that reason. As Trump has become ever more incendiary, though, I could see the connections to Hitler ever more clearly. Most American media don’t have the historical background about the Hitler period that I have, so I thought I could add something to the debate. As I said in my post, few Americans understand the dangers a would-be dictator poses to our system, since they haven’t ever lived under authoritarian rule. We think that dictators and coups and mass arrests are events that happen only in other countries. It’s easy to assume our freedoms are a given. As anyone who has lived under authoritarian rule will tell you, it’s very difficult to get your freedoms back once they are taken from you.
David,
I hate to get sucked in, but here are a couple things that stood out to me:
“he threatens assassination of his main opponent” (is that a fact or an interpretation?)
“contempt for war heroes” (does he have contempt for all war heroes, or did he choose to verbally (and tastelessly, IMO) attack a couple of war heroes who he had a bone to pick with?
(Please send me your audio or video source on this: “Hang the bitch!” I did not hear this phrase in anything I have watched. Did it come from the masses, or a random few, sort of like the “random few” BLM people who call for cop killing or “pigs in a blanket”?)
“He expresses admiration for the thug who runs Russia” (did he say he admired the ‘thug from Russia’, or did he say that in his opinion the Putin was a better leader than Obama?)
Like I said earlier, I didn’t want to go tit for tat on this. I just noticed that some of the statements sounded more like interpretations than factual statements. For me, as for you, that a substantive distinction. Certainly it is good to use discretion lest others repeat a credible sources interpretation or assessment as a fact.
Here’s one more statement that reads differently than what I saw happen: ‘”He spoke in advance of the Republican convention, when it looked like he might lose, of “riots” should he not be selected. He has spoken during the national election of the election being “rigged.” This was an observation he made about the energy behind his followers during the primaries when there was much talk about ignoring the voice of the people and forcing a contested convention. He was simply stating that a lot of people had energized around, and voted for, him. He predicted strong reactions from his followers should those who did not like him CHANGE THE RULES after the primaries. To extrapolate or imply that the would foster riots for any reason could not be considered a “fact” in my book.
Kind of feels like people who pick Bible verses out of context to suit their agenda.
Julie, I’ll respect your wish not to get sucked into a back-and-forth. I now understand your point about interpretation vs fact. I guess I take it for granted that others appreciate that politicians usually talk in “code,” and sometimes the code is clearer than other times. So when a serious candidate for the presidency says there could be “riots” if he isn’t nominated, that is clear code for a threat. When he says the election is “rigged” when he falls behind in the polls, he is accusing all the thousands of localities around the country that manage our voting process of conspiring against him–a criminal conspiracy–which presumably requires criminality in return. He’s never going to say, “If I lose the nomination, I’ll encourage my supporters to riot.”
Similarly, Trump will never say, “I idolize Putin.” He’ll say, like you indicated, that Putin is a better leader than Obama. But he’ll keep adding other statements of code, like approving of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and he’ll express ignorance about Putin’s incursions into Ukraine after it toppled a Putin ally, knowing full well the Russian incursion happened. It’s all code for, “I support Putin in his violence against independent neighboring countries.”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-russia-problem-putin-hayden/
On the violent tendencies of Trump supporters at his rallies, here is some uncut video the NY Times put together from his rallies. It’s difficult to hear everything in all the noise, but the accompanying text includes the statements from his supporters, including the one I quoted. Now, you can say that these incendiary statements are from just a few people, but they are loud and clear enough in a number of cases for Trump to hear them, as well as to learn about them from aides. Never once that I am aware of, has he cautioned his supporters at rallies to tone it down. Once again, the silence is political code for approval from him.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/3/1556508/-Real-Voices-From-Trump-Supporters-Uncensored
Finally, just be aware that even Hitler never spoke about the “Final Solution,” as German officials referred to the Holocaust internally at the time. He spoke in code, about how Jews were responsible for Germany’s economic problems, that getting rid of them was essential to his vision of a pure “Aryan” race. In fact, he tried to make out that he wasn’t murdering Jews, but rather imprisoning them under decent conditions, not unlike what the U.S. did to many Japanese Americans. When the Red Cross wanted to see what was happening, he had one camp in Czechoslovakia, Theresienstadt, cleaned up and had Red Cross reps taken there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp#Use_as_propaganda_tool
The Syrian dictator, Assad, always refers to rebels he is murdering, including women and children, as “terrorists.” More code.
So, we are free to interpret the code as we wish. Usually it is of relatively minor consequence. But not this time around in the U.S., in my judgment.
Thank you Julie for being so diplomatic and pointing out those statements are not facts. What they are is propaganda that corporations have paid the media to produce (so they can sell more pharmaceuticals at the same time).
I don’t see how a proclaimed socialist can have a deep love for the US Constitution. Those two just do not go together. I agree that Trump is a frightening possibility, but I truly believe he is LESS frightening than Hillary (see other comments). And he is also less frightening than a socialist. You cannot be a socialist and uphold the values in our Constitution. Please take note of all the other countries ruled by socialism …. Please show me the prosperous ones. It was not socialist values or ideologies that made America the great nation that helped win WWII, or that declared independence from England. And btw, I would love to see a review here of Joel Salatin’s impressive and relevant “hit-the-nail-on-the-head” new book, “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs.”
I like what Julian Assange said… “choosing between Trump and Clinton is the same as choosing between Cholera or syphilis ….” Not an exact quote but definitely the way I feel.
My family on both sides came out of Europe during the first German persecutions and mass assassinations that wiped out the vast majority of the populations in the slavic countries. I will grant you, they continued under Hitler, but they started long before he did.
David, I am glad your family was awake enough to get out and start over here, but I must say – we’ve been waiting for the Evil Dictator here since Shrub senior.
Sooner or later that just might happen, that just might have to be what it takes to get the American people (not that we are even a majority here anymore – much thanks to Dem policy) to wake the hell up.
There is no candidate in the presidential election (caps will return when respect for the office does).
Neither prospect will speak truth. Neither will heal what has been broken. Neither will improve the country in any way. Both would profit personally on the already broken backs of the people – just as has every one of them since the first. Both lie. Both cheat. Both are thieves.
That said, Trump may have indirectly caused a few deaths in his day, but never directly murdered people – as yet – and certainly not thousands. Trump can make a decision, and doesn’t get on national TV saying ‘But it was just such a horrible surprise I was caught off guard” while acting as Secretary of State (with personal immunity, I might add), and Trump would not have our border agents thrown into federal prison (a different democrat, but directly and legally related to the would be “she-if”-executive) for a fully justified action.
People also forget that 1) executive orders are administrative and only have the effect of law if we choose to allow that. 2) 440 people (all 5 territories have representatives in the House) who supposedly act on OUR behalf must approve.
In order for any real change to happen (which it must or else don’t lose your pitchforks!) we must rid ourselves of 440 members of Congress as well as the two criminals vying for the top office. Tall order, but then for one to achieve the impossible, they must attempt the absurd.
Of course we ask this of the same voting populace that put Saladin in the executive mansion not once, but twice! How IS that change working for ya???
Neither deserves a single vote. Neither one is worth the wasted gas to get to a polling place. But – Trump will get mine ONLY because to not vote at all is to not be American.
PS: For those conspiracy theorists out there who believe in Bohemian Grove – remember – Hillary is supposedly the ONLY WOMAN EVER to have set foot on that stage during a ceremony. Pagans Delight!! Though personally, I’ve never seen her on a broom, owls are much better mousers than cats are (but not as good as a snake) and I never heard her chant much of anything except denials of sharing certain emails. Yet we know what country she was born in! At least I think we do….
Read about half way through thinking the author was talking about Obama and Hillary. Then the author said he’d heard Trump treating our military badly. OMG what a liar Mr. Gumpert is! Trump loves our military and has said nothing but wonderful things about the military.
Meanwhile, Hillary is well known for despising our military. So does Obama.
The article is shameful.
Always dicey to write about national politics. Why I don’t do much of it.
Some weeks ago, Trump said that he knows more about ISIS than the generals. Maybe his bone spurs were bothering him again.
David,
I was beginning to wonder if this was click-bait, due to Trump and Nazi being in the same sentence. When your article was first published, I didn’t have time to read it, so I’m a little late to the party.
Hildahag is the real criminal here, and there is much more at stake than the lesser of two evils, so why the hell would you, or anyone else even think of wanting her??? That Hag is the scary one to me. Bernie the Commie/Socialist, no thank you. I don’t think we’ll ever have an ‘ideal’ candidate, especially if you are one of those who believe that people aren’t elected, they are installed (HRC is one of those elites, whether you agree with it or not). I don’t know about you, but I do not favor a globalist agenda. Those people are THE control freaks on steroids. And, in case you haven’t seen it, Clinton Cash–the movie, is free on YouTube. Most of what is in there is something I’ve known about for a long time. That’s where you can follow the money, and it isn’t just the Clintons who were involved.
I had to shake my head when I read your comment about Trump supporters being the violent ones. Have you been to a Trump rally? I have, and at that particular event (not sure what time it occurred), the protesters were the ones who charged across the street at the supporters. One of the protesters was interviewed, and when asked why they wanted to challenge the supporters, this guy said “They were taunting us”. Oh please, give me a break. Why? Because they were going to a rally for someone you disagreed with? Some of those supposed ‘supporters’ were actually paid protesters–in other words, they were rent-a-mob. Citing The Daily Kos was a joke. I trust those lefty loony toons to tell the truth about as far as I can throw them (and any other lefty rag/news outlet).
Here’s another little bit of info for you: both of my parents went to the rally too, and they are in their 80s. My Dad was shocked at how many people came up to him and said, “Thank you for your service”. He’s a Korea war vet, and was wearing his hat. Nobody was rude, no pushing and shoving, everyone was real polite, and despite what the mainstream media wants to report, there were people of all different ages, colors, etc. I was surprised there were no protesters in attendance. We had conversations with people waiting in line outside, and also inside.
I don’t know if I’ve brought it up before, but I was born and raised in a city, county, and family that was diehard Dummocrat. My family has since seen the light, and so have I, but the county and city where I grew up have not. I’ve seen both sides of the coin, and my awakening occurred in the early 90s. And just for the record, Trump was never someone I would have even considered as a candidate, much less someone to vote for. It is what it is. Us being ruled by the favored few has got to go. If Trump is the one who will be able to bring them down, so be it. He’s not perfect, but it’s Never Hillary for me.
Mitt Romney called Trump a fraud, now that’s the pot calling the kettle black. Him, Susan Collins (I didn’t see John McCain’s name, but I think it was implied) are nothing but RINOs. If they changed that ‘R’ to a ‘D’, no one would know the difference. Oh, and not voting, or opting for an alternative party will just give it to the Hag (who knows, it may go to her no matter what the vote tally is, and I’ve been hearing that one for quite some time now).
I’m not a writer, so I’m totally aware that my comments bounce from one thing to another. I know that Trump got ridiculed for eating his KFC with a fork, but guess what? So do I. John Kasich faced a similar thing when it brought to attention that he eats pizza with a fork, but guess what? So do I. Wanna know why? I really despise finger food. I can be covered head to toe in manure, and it won’t bother me. But pick up my food to eat it? Uh, no, not appealing to me. If Trump would have had an elaborate meal set before him, he would have gotten hammered with being out of touch with what average people eat. It was a no win situation. Just keep in mind, up until this election cycle, he was a business man, and not a politician, so I’m not too sure that ‘code’ necessarily applies, especially to Trump. I also don’t use: NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, etc., and their ilk (including print media) for research. They’re pro-Hildahag, and their bias is sickening.
Oh, the “Hang the bitch” is more like “LOCK HER UP!”, which has been chanted frequently, from rallies, to even the convention, and I couldn’t agree more!
Thanks, Dairy Duchess. I am not a Hillary fan, by any means. But as I indicated in my post, for me this isn’t a matter of one candidate’s policies versus another’s. This is a matter of a potentially mortal threat to our liberties as we know them. I don’t think many Americans can imagine what that means. I was speaking recently with a good friend who knows Russia well, and we were commiserating about this reality, and he suggested that perhaps Americans need to lose their liberties to appreciate how good they have had it. I told him that the problem with that thinking is that once you lose your liberties, it’s very difficult to get them back. For me, the echoes of Germany, early 1930s, are too loud in Trump’s campaign to ignore.
On August 23rd, the Washington Post will publish its book, “Trump Revealed.” While many dislike the Post’s leftist leanings, its integrity depends on the accuracy of its investigative reporting. The book’s research predates Trump’s near-daily, news-cycle trash talk; it thus provides much-needed depth by which to consider Trump’s character as revealed in his life’s work.
I am voting for Gary Johnson, because his stances are in line with supporting freedom of choice and minimizing federal government interference… something that is important to all of us here. Clinton is a fan of GMO, Pharma, and forced vaccination. For that reason alone I would hope that you aren’t planning on voting her into office. It would be a real nightmare for the health / food rights community if she gets into office.
Amanda, Gary Johnson is on record supporting FORCED vaccinations. Please look into that before you vote for him. He is fully co-opted to the globalist agenda.
My only argument with your ideas on Trump is that they also apply to most of the political leaders these days. They are all very authoritarian both left and right. For a great book on that idea look here https://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797
The author talks about Bush/Cheney and how many of their actions mirror actions of histories dictators.
The main reason that I am a Trump supporter is because I look at who hates him. The media hates him and for that reason I am willing to vote for him. The media is a corrupt propaganda arm of the government and need to be destroyed. This has been the most enjoyable election in my lifetime, watching Trump play the media like a fiddle and they can’t resist reporting on him. This article details why most people are supporting Trump http://takimag.com/article/donald_you_ignorant_slut_joe_bob_briggs/print#axzz4Gffh64qT
You are dillusional, you must be talking about HC asking the Chinese and Saudis for money through the Clinton Global initiative, the Clinton family fund and the new muslim extremist who will be her chief of staff. China is threatening the US in the south China sea over their created islands from dumped sand. Over 75% of Asian trading goes through the sea. Get a Clue!
Well done David…..
The list of words I could use to describe Trump is long and well….it is very long. Narcissistic, bully, arrogant, violent, traitor, ego centric, racist, greedy, uber nationalist, self centered capitalistic opportunist, “word whore” ( words and or the truth mean nothing to him….and he can’t speak in full sentences ) ….need I go on.
Scariest of all is that any American would listen to one word from this Hitlerish ass….or that the media would give him one minute of time. He is truly the worst of this world that somehow has appealed to the lowest levels of angry poorly educated inhumanity found in America.
Mark McAffee = have you ever met Donald Trump, in person? I thought not. Then your impression of him is composed of half-truths and outright fabrications, funnelled-through the very same media outfalls, as have given REAL MILK such a bad rap. Consider the source : The apparatchik swine-class hates Trump because they realize what he says resonates with the core values of white Christian America. First and last, he’s a nationalist, while his opponents do their damnedest to deliver this nation over to one-world government. Which side of that equation are you on? He may be a demagogue, but he’s our demagogue. George Wallace was on his way to being President. It took a bullet to stop him. Is that what you prefer in this election? The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree : Hilary Rodham sat at the feet of communist Saul Alinsky. Socialists like Alinsky and her are just communists without the guns
You know, Gordon, the media have made Trump who he is, not by reporting half-truths, but by giving us Trump whole and uncensored. We don’t have to read what others say about him because he’s there in living color, on Fox News, CNN, and all the other outlets. He seeks out these interviews–they created the Trump craze. His problem is that the American presidential campaign goes on forever, which has given people time to get to know him, and to realize he’s a one-trick pony. He’s like the guy who’s the life of the party, at a party that goes on long enough for guests to realize he’s repeating his jokes and gag lines. I sense people are realizing there is no there, there. Maybe that’s why Hitler didn’t give interviews.
I go back so far, I remember the campaign of 1964 = Barry Goldwater’s quip “politics is like duck hunting … you go where the ducks ( voters ) are”. Trump is reaching white Christian America because his meetings are being opened by local pastors who call on the Name of Jesus Christ. The press-titutes – who, by actual studies, are mostly anti-christ – don’t honestly report what’s going on in “Fly-over” states” because the success of Donald Trump insults their self-image, i.e.. that they know it all. >>> In 1943/44, My old man fought the Herman Goering Division all the way up the Italian peninsula, so I’m no apologist for der Fuerher, one, A. Schnickelgrubber / Hitler. Nevertheless, I’ve learned that he was not the megalomaniac portrayed in victors’ propaganda. The German people loved him because he gave utterance to their their racial character. In the US of A, the pendulum is swinging ALL the way back to the moral conservative end of the spectrum = Trump will prevail because he is seen as the Great White Hope … a relief from the greatest Embarrassment to hold the office of President, in living memory, Barry Soetoro. >>>> Trump’s strength is that he has good people around him. Electors are instinctively picking the better leader to see them through the crisis. He is the right guy to be in the Oval Office as the Red Ponzi ends = the Chinese economy imploding as did the Soviet Union. The consequent world crisis – for which 2008 was just a dry run – will require a big character. Trump’s opponent has demonstrated nothing better than that she’s a Whore of the first order. America reaps what she has sown : the tsunami of debt returns upon the head of its maker. Better get yourself a share in a couple of cows and some chickens. when the currency fails you’re going to need them . Don’t say it can’t happen here. It happened in Weimar Germany, and it happened to our own people, here, still within living memory
I am a white Christian American who lives in a fly over state and want to say emphatically that Donald Trump does not voice my views or enact my values. I also go back far enough to remember Barry Goldwater’s campaign of 1964.
Gordy…..just tellin the truth as I see it, hear it and smell it.
Another reason why I do not speak of religion, gun rights, or anything political when I speak about or teach about raw milk….gonna piss somebody off.
Love all, serve all and feed all is my motto. However….when it comes to Trump, I consider it my patriotic duty to assure that he does not get anywhere near the nuclear codes.
Speaking of milk where were we? no pasteur plesse
I would suggest viewing the 60 minutes episode from August 13 on the Catholic Priest who is searching for mass graves in Eastern Europe from the Holocaust. We all have the capacity for
peace and to live peacefully together. I personally think that the United States is great. I have
freedom of speech (as I write). I have been able to pursue a new career later in life. I have the
hard won right to vote in an election ( as a woman). We have affordable health care. I can continue
for many words. I urge careful thought.
Diana Gumpert Douglas ? perhaps you meant to say the mass graves of the Ukrainians who were genocided in the Holomordr of 1932- 1933, as part of the genocide perpetrated by Stalin and his pals, liquidating their “class enemies” = the kulaks = White Christians who resisted collectivization? At the time, those atrocities were carefully hidden from the English-speaking countries, but, the Germans … only a couple hundred miles away = heard the rumours and took the threat of invasion by the Red Army, very seriously. Who can blame the government of the Third Reich for incarcerating anyone who sided with the enemy? We did it here in Canada/ the US. No doubt David Gumpert’s Dad – then 19 in Germany and a communist – had the sense to get out while he still could. >>>> For your further edification on this ( utmost controversial) topic – I recommend you read the record of the Zundel trial in the Supreme Court of Canada, 1985. My friend, lawyer Douglas Christie, cross-examined some of the experts on this topic. Put to the test in a court of law, the Zionists could not produce hard evidence of such “mass graves”. Perhaps they’ll be found now, with advanced technology. >>>> There was one such mass grave that was found ; in the Katyn forest. At the time, the murder of 15,000 of the intelligensia of Poland, was imputed to the Nazis. A generation later, it’s admitted that that crime was committed by the Red Army. A small detail known to the Allied intelligence community all along, yet kept from the masses. Many other similar revelations are unfolding, as revisionist historians David Irving, Professor Faurisson, my friend Arthur Topham et al. present the facts so people can make up their own minds.
Ah, Gordon….In addition to being a white supremacist, you’re also a Holocaust denier. It all begins to fit.
Now I understand why that 60 Minutes report rankles so much–it suggests that many more than the estimated 6 million Jews might have been murdered by the Germans. Here it is:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-hidden-holocaust/
And by the way, I highly doubt my dad was involved in a communist event of any sort. He was never very political. He was a big FDR fan, but then so was most of America–so much so that he was elected to four terms, by overwhelming majorities. In Hitler’s Germany, you didn’t have to do much to be labeled a communist.
you’re jumping to conclusions, Again, Mr Gumpert. first of all, when we went ’round this the last time, you had to admit that there is not a syllable of evidence, in all my contributions to your forum, nor the rest of the internet over the last 2 decades, of me being a “white supremacist”. My position is the same as that of the Great Emancipator : go read what Lincoln had to say about racial parity. I’m disappointed to see you stoop to the level of the SPLCentre : and the way they use that slogan to demonize anyone who calls their bluff. >>>> I don’t argue about the numbers of victims of the Third Reich. Other than pointing out the fact that the international socialists ( Red fascists) murdered many times more people than the national socialists ( Black fascist Nazis) I am NOT interested in the controversy about the actual numbers … I use the official Red Cross number, ’til I see hard evidence otherwise. The kind of evidence that can stand scrutiny in Court. Such as was lacking in the Zundel trials. >>>> I highly recommend anyone who cares about these topics, take a good look at the work of Dr Henry Makow = one of the leading compilers of research on revisionist history. He has a PhD in English, he’s tribesman of yours from Winnipeg, whose relatives also disappeared in the dark night of the Third Reich. You – of all people – would do well to investigate what he has to say, rather than blow me (and him) off with the knee-jerk perforative. That’s so trite … beneath your calibre of journalistic credentials. Although = comically ! = it does prove my point as to why you-all there in the Eastern Liberal chattering-class, are so woefully out of touch with the phenomenal success of Donald Trump. >>> since you mentioned FDR as somehow vindicating your father’s political opinion, make sure you study how Senator Joseph McCarthy was ultimately vindicated in his accusations that FDR was surrounded by commies
Sen. Joseph McCarthy was vindicated? He was completely repudiated and humiliated when he was finally exposed as a bullying blowhard after he destroyed the careers of many decent and honorable Americans. (“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”) In fact, he can be seen as kind of a precursor to our current bullying blowhard, Mr. Trump. You need to find other ways to keep busy than revising history.
Mr Gumpert : your response proves how bamboozled you are by the pundits who “drink each others’ bathwater” : You don’t even know what you don’t know … a goldfish doesn’t realize it’s in water. I used to accept all that stuff, too, til I got the facts and started thinking for myself. Best place to start would be ; exposes about what went on in the McCarthy era, written by people who were there eg. the genius, Eustace Mullins first and foremost. Get the facts about Alger Hiss / Whitaker Chambers and the ring of communist spies which had infiltrated the US govt. to the very top. I didn’t make that up : it was proven in Courts of law. >>> After the housecleaning of Reds, in the election of 1952, the American people voted for men – imperfect as they were – who were genuine patriots. Same thing is happening now = after being humiliated for 2 generations, the soul of the Saxon is coming to our senses, shaking-off the nightmares of policies imposed on us by race traitors in high places. Entranced in the mindset of the New Yorker magazine – out of touch with the fundamental character of the nation – anti-christ Morris Dees and his ilk tremble, perceiving Donald Trump as Hitler re-incarnate. Donald Trump will be elected President because Americans project on to him their longing for restoration of authentic white national-ism … they’ll be out in droves to vote for him on Nov. 8. >>> David Gumpert you are doing a valuable thing, by conducting this website / writing books about the Campaign for REAL MILK. I do agree with you that The Donald is a classic Demagogue … but that’s what we get when the pendulum swings from blithering socialism, back to the hard right of the political spectrum.
The McCarthy era was one of America’s darkest periods. You neglected to mention all the writers and actors blacklisted, who couldn’t get work, because they were judged to be “communist sympathizers”….people like Charlie Chaplin, Harry Belafonte, Lloyd Bridges….the list is pretty long. It also spawned one of our most notorious presidents, Richard Nixon (the only one to resign while in office), who won election to Congress and the Senate during that period by painting his Democratic opponents as being “soft on communism.” McCarthy, and Nixon, used that period right after World War II, in the early 1950s, to foment fears that the Soviet Union was somehow sending out agents to undermine and destroy the U.S. Trump is using “radical Islamic terrorism” in much the same way.
Trump has a darker vision in mind than McCarthy, or Nixon. They at least abided by the rules of the game. Nixon, when he was about to be impeached, never said the electoral system was “rigged.” I sense that Nixon will come to look like George Washington reincarnated in comparison to Trump, should he be elected.
One other thing: Another “graduate” of the McCarthy era was Bobby Kennedy. He was a key aide to McCarthy, very close to him, and it was always a blotch on his resume–fortunately, he showed himself to have the fortitude and inner strength to shift, and become a great advocate for the poor and for civil rights.
I think that, to understand history, all one has to do is take the opposite view from you.
Ever notice milk is white?
Excuse me but it’s my birthday today so I’m going out to dinner wish me next year
I think that, to understand history, all one has to do is take the opposite view from you.
Black is black, I want my baby back. If grey is grey
David Gumpert, I appreciate the important work you do in the Campaign for REAL MILK. I am not going to waste any more time on this forum going round the bushes about machinations 3/4 of a century ago. Your comments substantiate that the slogan “The McCarthy era” is an emotional touchstone which puts you into a trance ; you think you know it all, thus ‘say no more”. All too obviously, you still have on the blinders perched astride our noses as we were institutionalized for 12 years in the public fool system. Once you read the works of Eustace Mullins – who was there, in the midst of all that and was one of the players in the game – you’ll have to admit = as I have = that we were lied-to. The work of Dr Henry Makow is especially important for appreciating how communism became normalized in America. >>> Culminating in the point that that’s what we’re dealing with in the raw milk thing : government by commerce : communism with a benign face. The best I can say about D. Trump, is : he’s the lesser of two evils.
Hilary Clinton supports the TPP, an evil scheme which completely undermines democracy, giving Communist China the right to sue our government to overturn our own democratically-implemented laws if these laws dare to threaten the profit-making of Chinese State-Owned-Enterprises.
‘nough said.
Before anyone can claim I have a “love affair” for Trump, I do not. I say that because many years ago, on this blog I was accused of having a love “affair” with Mark McAffee because I was speaking out. I have never met him or Trump.
It appears that many are leaning toward Trump, not because they like him, because he appears to be the lessor of the two evils.
Anyone else do what she did with Top Secret, Secret or even Confidential government information, they would be rotting in prison somewhere. She had been a horrid risk to National Security. Too much criminal blood has run under that bridge. There are many in prison who have done far less than her in regards to TS,S & C carelessness.
I’ve read some of the WIKI Leaks emails. There was one where she pointed out where the US Libyan Ambassador would be, time and place and even the lack of security. Think about it…she’s using unsecured servers. Anyone can intercept them. She had the gall to lie to the family member of the 4 dead about a movie causing their deaths. She is a hateful hateful person.
Anyone who laughs about getting a child rapist off and laughs about making the 12-14 year old (I don’t recall the exact age) laughs about making the child out to be a slut needs to be tarred and feathered and then some.
Comparing Trump to Hitler is no different than many other politicians, I recall the media comparing Dubya, and others to Hitler and Stalin. Hitler had a years of long history to get to where he got and the Germans, seemed to ignore it, for whatever reason. Sorta of in the same way the many American ignored the passing of the “Patriot Act”.
Your friend,” he suggested that perhaps Americans need to lose their liberties to appreciate how good they have had it. he suggested that perhaps Americans need to lose their liberties to appreciate how good they have had it. ”
Many of us old farts do appreciate our liberties and it wouldn’t be pretty if they required defending on our turf.
Of the two major candidates for office only one has:
a long trail of dead bodies in the wake of their rise to power
started multiple unnecessary wars, killing millions
wants to continue the policies that are fomenting a race war
wants to import even more Jew hating Jihad waging Muslims
You might want to reevaluate which candidate is really Hitler.
The one you accuse of Hitler has not only done none of that, but two of his kids married Jews.
fortunately … from now to Nov. 8th, the Electorate doesn’t have to choose whether Trumpf or Bill-ary is the lesser of 2 evils. The face-plant by ‘illary into her van, last Sunday, was the end of the campaign trail for that old warhorse. Her stumbling off-stage into the van, and the excuses following, make the departure of Richard Nixon look like an act of genuine patriotism, by comparison. Mrs Clinton will never recover from the photo of her printed on the front page of the latest National Enquirer. For her = it’s all over but the crying.
How anyone can vote for a broken down over exposed “warhorse” is incomprehensible but so that is politics in general. All you need to remember is, if they’re still in the game they are bought and paid for else they’d be gone long ago. The best thing if not good at all about Trump is, he doesn’t need the money from political influence sources he’s a true capitalist and learned to play the game on its own terms, or us.
My basic question is, why is jewishness seemingly always in the crosshairs? In my personal experience they are just regular people like the rest of us. I often wonder about being designated as an “American” since that’s recently become such a stigma due to a few bad polititical fraudsters or the war machine gangster billionairers. That’s a question for you Gordon.
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Bora : the work of Dr Henry Makow, over the last decade, answers your question. The God of Israel said “I will make Jerusalem a stumbling block”. What Dr Makow has compiled at his website, is a most important resource for those interested in geo-political principles playing-out here and now. His genius is : writing succinct explanations of big ideas. Especially regarding the controversy of Zion. He reviews explain how the US of A + the Dominion of Canada became communist countries in 3 generations. The keystone, being : the currency racket entitled the Federal Reserve System. >>>> with a PhD in English – a tenured professor who was fired by the U. of Manitoba for challenging the femi-nazis – Henry Makow now gets away with addressing the question of “Jewish-ness” because his pedigree is similar to David Gumpert’s. Whereas Arthur Topham – a Christian, merely the editor of a little backwoods newspaper – got prosecuted and now faces 2 years in gaol, for publishing material which challenges the Court historian version of events. >>>> The dairy supply quota scheme was formulated as part of the Progressive Economic Plan of the 1920s, which, in the form of the National Recovery Act, was ruled by the Supreme Court of the US, as un-constitutional. My (un-learned! ) opinion is that the Fabians authored the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion ; they are using political Zion-ism to frame-up Jewry as the “patsy / villain” in their generations-long plan for one-world government. There’s lots of hard evidence to substantiate some “conspiracy theories”
Perhaps this article will answer you question Bora,
“When the creation/gospel message that we are all closely-related descendants of Adam in need of a Saviour is rejected, there is, it seems, no limit to the evil that results.” http://creation.com/herero-genocide
Mr. Petski, the issue may not be jewishness but rather jewish-power. I am including a link to an article that is a free download PDF. in depth examination of an effort by organized-jewry over a few generations that may serve as an example of jewish power that is pleasing to most jews but might reasonably be much less so to others directly affected. Is one side objectively bad? Not from the author’s evolutionary-psychology view. http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/immigration.pdf
I’m so disappointed to see this article from you. Here I was thrilled to find your blog and jumping for joy that you are defending the Millers. You have fallen for the corporate owned and government controlled media’s false narrative about Mr. Trump. Protecting a nation’s sovereignty does not automatically equate with a maniacal dictator. If anyone will protect our individual liberties, our national sovereignty against globalist domination, our rights to be free of forcible vaccinations and to have access to the foods we desire it is Donald J. Trump. He doesn’t have to eat those foods to protect our right to choose them. He was the only candidate during the primaries (or EVER) to even raise the issue that vaccines are harming our children. His son is a vaccine victim. Given enough time and the continued willful ignorance of the masses, Hillary and the globalists she has always been beholden to will continue to strip away every freedom we have with their onerous legislation and agency rulemaking (YOU ARE FIGHTING THAT NOW!).They are the real fascists. They are advancing corporate control of every resource and control of every individual life . Lives that are considered expendable after having gouged them out of every cent and every of their ounce of labor or using them for cannon fodder in endless wars for power and gain. What candidate is against starting a war with Russia? Think about it. I urge you to reconsider your position. Respectfully and still in harmony with your cause for food freedom. – Joan
You’re not alone, Joan, in your disappointment about my Trump assessment. I’m afraid my worries about him have only increased with the disclosures about his abuse of women, and his rantings about how the incidents/accusations are all part of a grand conspiracy. Hitler was like that, depraved and a deviant. Hitler maneuvered himself into power before too much was widely known, and once in power, he was impossible to dislodge. The advantage we’ve had is that we’ve had lots of time to get to know Trump. Depressing as that experience has been, getting to know him so well will hopefully wake up Americans sufficiently that we won’t have to endure the tragedy of his tyranny.
This is a pretty good recap of Trump’s misogyny, from The Guardian–“A Lifetime of Misogyny Catches Up with Trump”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/donald-trump-women-misogyny-lifetime?CMP=share_btn_fb
people are saying that the fate of the nation turns on how this election for President of the Republic turns out. Mister Gumpert tossed “the fat in the fire” and received feedback contrary to his political opinion … more than a bit odd, then, that on this usually lively forum, now 3 days later, there’s nary a line of text following up? >>> The ad hominem attacks on Donald Trump – to a scurrilous degree NEVER seen in this generation! – were his own ‘trial by ordeal’. Not only did he pass the test, he’s entered the “golden zone”, in which every attack by the Establishment’s press~titutes, lifts the authentic Populist higher in the eyes of the people. >>>> As for the notion that ‘there is no evidence that H. Clinton has every told a lie = read the ( readily available ) comments she made in private speeches to the Uber-Bankers, telling them that she ‘had to say the opposite of what she believed, in her public statements’. It all comes down to : the Clintons having worked hard to deliver Ham-merica over to a global government, read : “communist”, Contrasted with Donald Trump articulating the disgust of white Christians who finally awakened to the tidal wave of illegal immigrants from the 3rd world. Mrs Clinton and her running dogs are for MORE micro-management of the individual’s life. Donald Trump is for LESS intrusion of the state into one’s private life. See the difference? apply that to the issue of REAL MILK. This is a test
Is it a pass / fail type test or can we get a B+ and move on? I’m afraid you are somewhat right I’ve never cared much or wanted to be involved in politics, but in this case it’s a lose/lose proposition. HC has enough of a political record so you already know where she stands and is paid for, but Donald shifts a lot which do you want
The problem isn’t their policies. The problem is that Trump is an unstable tyrant, with no respect for the U.S. Constitution, which is based on checks and balances, and respect for democratic processes. His ranting about the election being “rigged” is designed to undermine democratic processes. The American system is imperfect, but like any democratically-based system, depends on public trust and confidence. Take that away, and you create the instability that Trump seeks, in a last-ditch hope he can bully himself into the government via ongoing court actions, violent street demonstrations, etc. (a la Hitler). Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what the “policies.” America has serious problems of all sorts, but tyranny hasn’t been one of them. It trumps all other problems.