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Slavery IS racial but ALSO (and more so, today) based on CLASS.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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Slavery IS racial but ALSO (and more so, today) based on CLASS. True, that. 
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Welcome to Trumperica! These are the actions that can be expected over the next two years: North Carolina Governor Signs Bill Limiting His Successor’s Power. It's about naked power, now. Just as the GOP Senate baldly blocked a valid and qualified Supreme Court nominee, they will follow the North Carolina GOP's lead in usurping legitimate government to further their ends without compunction. Meanwhile, China will be emboldened to take more actions like this: China seizes U.S. underwater drone in South China Sea. Trump is so ill prepared to lead, he will be dragged all around by those more brazen than he - China, Russia, Iran, the GOP, and other enemies of the United States.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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those more brazen than he brazen is the wrong word to associate with Mr Trump. unpredictable is more like it, however the caveat is he has extremists as advisors, and it would depend on who last talked to him. He is just as likely to attack Iran because China took a drone as he is to grab another vagina because he can. I have to laugh at commentators who continue to analyze Mr Trump as if he is rational and everything he would do would be the result of a rational analysis. He is unpredictable. Think illogically.
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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I have to disagree, my friend. Donald Trump is entirely predictable, he is just not rational. Putin has played him like a fiddle. Flatter him and you are "great, the best." Oppose or criticise him, you're "a loser." He is a classic narcissist, which makes him easy to manipulate, And that is very dangerous.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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sorry i really misspoke and used the wrong word he is as you say very predictable in that he will respond to the many buttons he has on his chest. what is unpredictable is what the responses would be (irrational).
ignorance is the enemy
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Donald Trump is entirely predictable He may be predictable but I'm still not making many predictions. It's a sad day when we wind up depending on Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to rein in the worst of his predations. They are also entirely predictable and I'm afraid what we are going to see a game of tit for tat between the legislative and executive branches...He will sign the worst of their legislation while they carry out the worst of his agenda with some reservations. Donald Trump's agenda will require enormous amounts of money and Republicans, at least for a while, are going to remain tight fisted with spending allocations. But deals will be struck behind closed doors and deficit spending will rise as cuts to basic services are negotiated. But that's an easy prediction that would hold solid under any Republican administration. The careful, pragmatic, and somewhat boring management of government we've enjoyed over the last eight years is already being thrown under the bus in favor of wild eyed schemes. The number I intend to watch closely is the current 83 months of steady job growth. When those wheels start to wobble is when things are going to get really interesting.
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I have a prediction: if there is a worse option, he will choose that one.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy? - NYT. Democratic institutions must be reinforced by strong informal norms. Like a pickup basketball game without a referee, democracies work best when unwritten rules of the game, known and respected by all players, ensure a minimum of civility and cooperation. Norms serve as the soft guardrails of democracy, preventing political competition from spiraling into a chaotic, no-holds-barred conflict.
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Unlike his predecessors, Mr. Trump is a serial norm-breaker. There are signs that Mr. Trump seeks to diminish the news media’s traditional role by using Twitter, video messages and public rallies to circumvent the White House press corps and communicate directly with voters — taking a page out of the playbook of populist leaders like Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey.
An even more basic norm under threat today is the idea of legitimate opposition. In a democracy, partisan rivals must fully accept one another’s right to exist, to compete and to govern. Democrats and Republicans may disagree intensely, but they must view one another as loyal Americans and accept that the other side will occasionally win elections and lead the country. Without such mutual acceptance, democracy is imperiled. Governments throughout history have used the claim that their opponents are disloyal or criminal or a threat to the nation’s way of life to justify acts of authoritarianism.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Welcome to Trumperica! These are the actions that can be expected over the next two years: North Carolina Governor Signs Bill Limiting His Successor’s Power. It's about naked power, now. Just as the GOP Senate baldly blocked a valid and qualified Supreme Court nominee, they will follow the North Carolina GOP's lead in usurping legitimate government to further their ends without compunction. Meanwhile, China will be emboldened to take more actions like this: China seizes U.S. underwater drone in South China Sea. Trump is so ill prepared to lead, he will be dragged all around by those more brazen than he - China, Russia, Iran, the GOP, and other enemies of the United States. Things should never have gotten to this point. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her DNC cronies saw fit to have an extremely job qualified candidate be nominated - a nominee who is also extremely disliked by nearly half of America for a myriad of reasons, in lieu of another candidate who unified much of the progressive base and had likability ratings even higher than that of the GOP nominee. Never was with her. In fact, I didn't vote this election - first time in my life. 
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