How's the culture war going to play out?

[Loki]

@Doctor-Phibes said in How's the culture war going to play out?:

Being all over the place doesn't make one a centrist.

Nor a fascist, right????

[Klaus]

Being "left" or "conservative" or "centrist" or even "fascist" requires one to have a certain model of how the world and humans work.

Trump has no such model. His goal is to be admired, and he acts out his impulses to achieve that.

[Loki]

@Klaus said in How's the culture war going to play out?:

Being "left" or "conservative" or "centrist" or even "fascist" requires one to have a certain model of how the world and humans work.

Trump has no such model. His goal is to be admired, and he acts out his impulses to achieve that.

I think populist was a designation at one time but that was before the me, me, me. I would edit your comment for his need to be right, society’s protocols be damned.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Loki said in How's the culture war going to play out?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in How's the culture war going to play out?:

Being all over the place doesn't make one a centrist.

Nor a fascist, right????

I never said he was a fascist. If I remember correctly I said he was an annoying pillock. Possibly a pandering, annoying pillock.

[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes You've often said he was a twat, too.

Cats, in helpful mode

[Copper]

Mr. Trump has been a patriot since the beginning.

He likes the USA.

Solid, right down the middle, no wavering, immovable patriot

This is the gift he gave us.

The rest is just noise.

[Horace]

I would agree that that is an important distinction. The left tries to make a deep shame for the country work into a framework of a love for the country but it doesn't really pass the sniff test. In an honest moment they'd say that they don't love the country but are trying to turn it into one they could love. That's fine. But let's not pretend they love the country as it is.

[Doctor Phibes]

I like sausages, but I don't fucking go on about it all the time and wear a hat with 'Sausages' written on it.

In fact, I'd be a little suspicious of anybody who never stopped telling me about how his sausage was the greatest sausage in history, and how he was going to make sausage great again, and sold all these fucking hats. I'd think he was up to something, and quite possibly a bit of a twat, and might even be lying about the size of his sausage.

I'd also question whether or not he disliked black pudding, and why he was never seen eating any.

[Horace]

I'm commenting less about Trump's shenanigans and more about the underlying shame for one's country that the left's politics and messaging is based on.

[Larry]

I have said for years that modern liberalism was a mental disease. Now that modern liberalism has fallen to its disease and the fungus it created has taken over, it has left a few victims who can't bring themselves to fully embrace their Marxist future but haven't quite figured out where their fellow liberals went. You can spot them easily - they've all congregated around the Bash Trump Pole. They can't quite go hard Left, they forgot where Center is, and to find some sense of safety of a group they try to imitate the sounds they hear the others around the pole making. One can only feel sorry for them, they just don't know where else to turn for comfort.

[Copper]

@Doctor-Phibes said in How's the culture war going to play out?:

I like sausages, but I don't fucking go on about it all the time and wear a hat with 'Sausages' written on it.

Then we aren't going to elect you to promote sausages, forget it.

[Jolly]

@Renauda said in How's the culture war going to play out?:

@Jolly

Trump governs according to his reactive impulses of the moment. Nothing centrist, left or right about him.

Study to show thyself approved.

Look at Trump's statements and political leanings before the presidential campaign, and look at what he has tried to do while in office.