Protip: if you want to actually win people over, calling them sheep and generally mocking them, followed by lies and hyperbole is not the way to do it.
On the other hand, if you just want the satisfaction of being Obviously Right, and lording it over those Deluded Idiots who foolishly have different ideas than yourself and may even have the temerity of gainsaying you by pointing out your claims are rubbish and no amount of Significant Capital Letters will make them true, this will do nicely.
Also, if you are a troll (independent or pro-Putin) just trying to stir shit up, refight the 2016 Democratic primary, and split the leftist vote with your BernieBro bullshit, that works too, I guess.
Looks like youâve only been with us about a year or so. If youâd been here during the election, youâd have seen that many of us were (and are) Sanders voters, and very inclined toward the Democratic Socialists.
The other day, I was at my local farmers market, and was pulling out of the parking lot, as I drove by the two booths set up for the political propaganda agents for the Democrats and Republicans, where they hand out yard signs to people who want them. Thereâs a real right-wing nutjob running for Congress in my district this year. One of the signs that they had on display read âThe Democrats are the party of MOB RULE. Live FREE. Vote Republican.â
I have to admit, it made me want to punch somebody in the nose.
about 15 percent of the Loyalists (65,000â70,000 people) fled to other parts of the British Empire, to Britain itself, or to British North America (now Canada)⌠Northern Loyalists largely migrated to Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. They called themselves United Empire Loyalists. Most were compensated with Canadian land or British cash distributed through formal claims procedures.
Itâd be a beautiful thing for Canada to extend invitations to asylum-seekers from the
U.S. There isnât much of an empire these days, but Canadaâs soliciting international tech help, and people should be able to escape mob (including mafiya, Mafiia) rule if they have reason to fear oppression.
I have hope, but no actual assurance, enough awakened and aware American citizens will correct their nationâs history trajectory. But I have a place to move to if they donât. Citizens must vote as if they have no place to flee to should the Mob rule continue.
"âI believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a âtemporary license to existâ - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesnât own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the âpursuitâ is in progress.â
â Frank Zappa
My point was more that itâs silly and hypocritical for a supposed âpopulist movementâ like Trump supporters using the term mob rule as a slur against Democrats and others.
That term has always been the slur by the wealthy landowners against anything that might jeopardize their position.
Itâs a telling sign that the alt-rightâs slogans are being written by privileged elites in Republican âthink tanksâ.
I thought nowadays Mob Rule is the Mafiya or oligarchic possession and manipulation of federal legislators whose actual employers are the American people (cf. Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Dana Rohrabacher, Devin Nunes, Lindsey Graham and 100+ others), and everything those owned by the Mob say about Mob rule is projection.
Hmm. I wonder who could be the Dem version of Trump? Not odious and nasty like Trump, but in a sort of âwho woulda thunk THAT person would win the nomination?!â way?
And Cory Booker?? Only if heâs changed his corporate-loving ways; I havenât kept up with him. Wasnât he pushing charter schools a while back?
