Least fit to rule?

Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 3 months ago to Politics
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  • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    imo, Trump's "managerial" ability is 99% con-man ability. He is a playground bully with a desire to spread his rule across all of the "lower classes."
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Here is my personal point of view on that.
    The current Obamanation is not my fault. Why?
    I did not voting day twice sit on my hands.
    A caustic continuation of White House socialism, albeit Bolshevik BS Bernie or a Bungling Bloody Billary, will not be my fault either.
    This "old dino" will vote AGAINST such wanton wreckage of what used to look like the America I thought I was growing up in..
    One may view my voting as an exercise in futility since my Birmingham area is a blue speck in a red state.
    Nevertheless, I have always viewed voting as my patriotic duty even if the choice sucks.
    I have myself to live with. So for me there it is. Call me old-fashioned if you will.
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I used to hire people, the first question was, Can they do the job? Assuming Trump is elected, I doubt he would let his drive for management success become too subverted to the phony "political rules of success."
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  • Posted by GaryL 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    These are NOT my rules Michael! It is just the way we have our system designed and we all must live with the end results. Staying home only does you good!
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I like Trump's demonstrated competence and managerial ability, too, but there is a lot not to like about being ruled.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's your choice as a self confessed supporter of evil. Don't believe for a second I'm not in the game I'm not however playing your sides game by your rules. Since you just made a public confession of being an active member I can say that without rancor but as a valid observation. It's your responsibility and your ethics to support evil..Sorry to hear you joined the secular devil's congregation. That's my view of the picture you presented. Again with out rancor....we each make our own decisions.

    I'm neck deep in the game. but the veersion I play is for larger stakes is not rigged, and does not offer an easy out. However that's not your playing field any more so enough of that. .
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Freedom, I agree that power corrupts, but I am also convinced that not everyone wants power over other people's lives. I would venture to say that few if any Gulchers crave power. I have often wondered why some people need and want to control others through force. I would welcome your thoughts.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Americans, in general, are looking to be ruled. They're ready. They want it.

    They are outa their heads...
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  • Posted by GaryL 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am happy to disagree with you Michael. Not so much that you are wrong but more because if you refuse to play the game then you, by your definition, will not be affected by the outcome. We all know that is not the case.
    I would much prefer to always cast my vote for the one I believe is the "Lesser Evil" because a refusal to vote at all or as you call it "Play the Game" is a vote for the "More Evil" as I see it. In American politics we will have a choice between 2 possible candidates on election day who could possibly win. The outcome will in fact affect us all.
    I cast my vote not for the one I wish to win but against the one I refuse to accept as a political leader. I am "Ruled" by no man or woman but I must live by the rules these jerks put in place. If my choice on election day comes down to Clinton against Mickey Mouse then you can be sure I will vote against Hillary but I will vote so it goes to the next viable candidate that has a chance to win and not to any third party guaranteed looser. That's my plan and I am sticking to it!
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Disagree with the "authoritarians" concept. I think Trump supporters like competence and demonstrated managerial ability. Consider, the Hildebeast and Obama's competence is climbing slimy political ladders.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Definitely agree without reservation on both of those comments. The second half should be engraved on Mount Rushmore.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you feel they "can't possibly win" it's because you believe the statist "lesser evil" propaganda and waste your vote on evil. Conservative voters can change this but they choose sacrifice principles and to vote for evil
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I maintain you are not being forced unless you let your self be forced. You absolutely will vote for evil if you are a supporter of evil. Evil is by your own definition. You will or you won't but I submit by calling something evil you have, independently, made the definition.

    As for voting for someone who cannot possibly win that means you knowingly and willingly voted for the other side under the winner take all rules. Still your choice.

    The next option is joining the 44 - 46% and try to help raise that figures of those who chose not to support evil or show any support whatsoever to the side of what I personally call preordained rigged elections by a one party system . My definition. A percentage I might add that is steadily growing.as people adhere to the adage the only way to win is not play their game.

    One thing I will not do is absolve you. That is your decision and your choice and no it is not easy. It takes strict adherence to the third rule of Objectivity. It allows no excuses and then application of moral values. Your choice even if it's choosing to adopt the ethics or lack of set forth or dictated by others. If you knowingly adopt there rules and then define them as evil you have defined yourself. No one else did that you did it/

    I use 'you' in general terms not directed at ir1776wg specifically. just to make that plain.

    However after the election you can proclaim I voted for evil, I chose to enable evil, I chose to compromise with evil. I chose not to support evil. No where in that range of choices is the word We.

    And remember the individual choice you made and take responsibility for it.

    The side bet this time is someone I thoroughly despise Donald Trump. He is, to me, a different form of evil but evil none the less. I shall not make that choice. Others see it as a way to judo evil or exchange it for another form. My individual choice is not to play that game.

    It's a secular way of saying 'get behind me.' For you religious folks its a repudiation of the devil in which ever religion you profess.

    Your choice, your responsibility you absolve yourself. No one else can do it for you.

    Consciouos conscience the results are to your credit or your shame but it's your verdict. One man or woman jury.

    That's Ayn Rands third law
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 3 months ago
    So once again we are being forced to choose between the lesser of evils or not voting or voting for someone who cannot possibly win. It's not pleasant living during the decline and fall of America.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Much closer I found most of the therms are over defined to the point of being useless so we 20 years or more when most dictionaries agreed meaning before PC and chucked all the rest of it. It was like a miracle with proper definitions the most complex questions became immediately clear. Starting with why to Republicans always cave to Democrats? Because they are both members of the same party. etc.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Perhaps so, with those definitions. The definition of conservative for most US residents would involve conservation of the ideals of the US founders, which were not authoritarian. In fact, Jefferson was referred to as a Jeffersonian liberal, and by his times, he was.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Why? Conservatices are by non pc meaning real definition those in power whose goal is protecting their turf by any means necessary. Liberal are those outside of power those out of power willinig to do anything to get it back..I see nothing contradictory when proper definitions are applied instead of leftist PC (Political Crap) Ditto on the rejection.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 3 months ago
    Does anybody know the real reason the U.S. Intervened in Libya?
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