The Expansionist: World's Largest Six-Year-Old

Saturday, April 28, 2018

World's Largest Six-Year-Old

Donald Trump is a six-year-old in a 71-year-old's body. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 239 pounds. So, folks, we have a new world's record, the biggest six-year-old ever on planet Earth! Whoop-tee-DU!
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That Trump's mental age is 65 years retarded from his physical age should not matter. A lot of our "leaders" are highly deficient human beings. Democracy is not supposed to bring out the worst in people. At least that's not what we thought would happen. But, because the human race is, in large part, slime, and aggressively self-vaunting scum run roughshod over their moral and intellectual betters, we end up with one mental defective after another after another, from Donald Trump to Bashar al-Assad to Kim Jong-Un, regardless of the ostensible form of government. Democracy does not keep the unfit from taking over from their betters.
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The working theory behind popular democracy is that the larger the number of people involved in making a decision, the more likely they will decide wisely. One person's perceptions will be balanced out by another person's, and one person's prejudices will balance out another's. That often works, but the process can be thwarted, as by our idiotic Electoral College, which all too often NULLIFIES the electoral result, substituting the judgment of the minority for the judgment of the majority. It is urgent that the Electoral College be ABOLISHED, but the losers of unfair Electoral College outcomes PERMIT this unfairness. Why? Why would the winner of the popular vote accept the defeat of the people? Why is there no DEMAND that the Electoral College be abolished. Why are there no mass rallies, no demonstrations shutting down the center of major cities, no chanting, no ANYthing? Accepting anti-democratic results to elections is criminally irresponsible behavior, an assault upon democracy, co-conspiracy in injustice. It is incomprehensible that any political party would co-conspires in its own victimization.
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The greater good of the greater number is a reasonable standard. But it needs qualification. How much greater the good, to how much greater the number? And WHICH people are disfavored? as against which people are favored? What if the people disfavored start out worse off than the people favored? That is, what if the richest 1% or 2% of the population benefit hugely from tax reform, while the 98% disfavored are only slightly harmed? But what if 30% of the people injured by the new taxation regime are pushed over the edge into catastrophic poverty? They lose their houses, cars, and all economic security in old age? Would the Trump reform of the income-tax system have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the Presidency, not just the popular vote? Of course not. So the Democratic Party has co-conspired in the passage of a tax reform that will definitely increase gross disparities in wealth. In combination with changes in the funding of campaigns, this tax system ensures that American society will become more and more unfair, and the rich will become more and more callous to their fellow-citizens. We are in essence suffering an American Counterrevolution, the substitution of plutocracy for our progress toward a just society, which has at times suffered jerks and reverses but has, despite setbacks, later resumed the march toward universal fairness.
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I am not confident that we are going to resume this march now, because the institutions have been fundamentally altered to rig the system against social fairness. It will take a monumental effort to reverse recent anti-democratic laws and institutions — either that or a series of assassinations that will scare the rich, would-be tyrants into yielding rather than dying.

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 3:47 AM

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