How Donald Trump could become the best President ever

[ChaseN]

Yes arresting half the legislators freely elected by American voters is the one true path to becoming the greatest president ever.

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[SteyrAUG]

That's interesting and I imagine correct now that I recall what I was taught in history. I just wasn't alive to have felt the explosive atmosphere then in the air like I can currently.

This is probably the worst time you remember in your experience. That is a common POV.

But the 60s had the SLA actually kidnapping people like Hearst, taking down banks and having a BFD shootout with the LAPD live on the news where the house was eventually just burned down. We call Obama and Pelosi "radicals" when they are actually very much "establishment."

Radicals were the Weather Underground and a dozen other communist inspired terrorists groups whose aspirations made the KKK look like the local Rotary Club. In the 60s they were blowing shit up and killing people on a scale that few on the left are willing to engage in today, it's easy to say stupid shit on Twitter, it hard to come up with a large scale, cohesive plan to wage war on the establishment government and it's representatives. In 1968 the DNC in Chicago turned into full scale anarchy.

We had actual race wars, political wars, economic wars, generation wars and it was done with sticks, rocks, pipe bombs, tear gas, fire and live ammo on the streets of most major cities and broadcast on the news. Most of these events were at least peripherally related to the communist revolution in the United States, fortunately we won. Most today don't even understand it was an actual war.

There was a second civil war, we had it, it was 1969. Things are bad now, but they aren't 1969 bad. Not yet.

[SteyrAUG]

Yes arresting half the legislators freely elected by American voters is the one true path to becoming the greatest president ever.

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No kidding. He couldn't even get the GOP to get their shit together to push through their "long promised" better version of the ACA, and people think Trump will be able to orchestrate the mass round of of members of Congress who aren't toeing the line and actually have them arrested?

Christ if anything close to that was even possible Obama would have the entire GOP doing life and Hillary would be President.

[Grand58742]

There was a second civil war, we had it, it was 1969. Things are bad now, but they aren't 1969 bad. Not yet.

I'm not quite so sure...

1969, people still trusted the media to give unbiased and objective reporting. If Walter Cronkite said it, you know it was true and not spun. You didn't have hyper-partisan "reporting" from the major news networks (both sides of the equation). Plus, any twit with a cell phone and a Twitter account these days is a "reporter" and can inflame a situation very quickly by only showing what they want to be seen. Hell, this stupidity in D.C. over the last week is a good example of that. Control the narrative, control the population...

While no, we haven't reached the violence they had in 68-69, the potential is there for it to quickly get out of hand. Back then, protests were planned days and weeks in advance. Now? A single Facebook post or Tweet causes a flash mob to erupt with the same violence we saw in the 60s (Ferguson). Add in agitators to that mix and you end up with a situation to turn ugly real fast.

The other problem is, you lost a Presidential election back then? They said "well, better luck in four years..." and got to work. They certainly didn't publicly cry about it, screaming at the top of their lungs and objecting to everything that happened. You didn't have this childish BS talk of impeachment or never ending "investigations" or the political tit for tat we're seeing these days. And whether the general public at large knows and considers it childish, it emboldens enough people to take that one step further in crossing the line between peaceful discourse and throwing down the gauntlet. Eventually, that gauntlet will be picked up if you push someone long enough and it'll turn ugly real quick.

No, we aren't at 1968-69 levels of violence yet. But we are a pressure cooker at the moment.

[austinN4]

fixed it for you

At least highlight what you changed.

[Sry0fcr]

Some of the comments in this thread remind me why I have rifles... and that I have a few mags that aren't filled. I'm not going to live under a totalitarian government even if it's one I might agree with on occasion.

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[prdubi]

Good perspectives and thank you for writing this stuff guys.



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[Firefly]

Having a lot of buyers remorse over Trump. Just not living up to the memes nor the dreams.

Better than Hillary is not much salve for the ointment.

I feel like a guy who just got told “well you don’t have cancer but you got a raging case lf diabetes”

Oof

[lowprone]

The ability to detect sarcasm and satire is a sign of mental acuity.